General Knowledge Quiz

[EM2]

Not basketball.

 

[Mvann]

Baseball?

 

[Buttsy]

Lacrosse?

 

[EM2]

Nope (to both).

 

[Seacook]

Tiddleywinks is full of strange and unlikely terms so I'll try that.

 

[Meridian richard]

Whilst I am not aware of the terms I have heard of winning a/the Sam relating to the Sam Maguire trophy in Gaelic football

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Australian Rules Football ?

 

[EM2]

Whilst I am not aware of the terms I have heard of winning a/the Sam relating to the Sam Maguire trophy in Gaelic football

Gaelic football is the correct answer.

A solo is to flick the ball to oneself, from hand to foot and back to hand, as it cannot be carried more than four steps.
The square is the area immediately in front of the goal, officially called the small parallelogram. An attacker can't enter the square before the ball.
A fetch is to catch the ball above the head.
A forty-five is a free-kick, taken from a line forty-five metres from goal, awarded to the attacker if the ball was last touched by a defender when it has gone over the end-line.
A tick is a warning given by the referee to a player. Two ticks means a yellow card.
Sam is indeed the Sam Maguire Cup, awarded to the winners of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, and is the top prize in Gaelic football.

 

[Meridian richard]

What linked the following in the early 1980s
Brian Clough
Ian Botham
Richard (Jaws) Kiel

 

[EM2]

Shredded Wheat adverts?

 

[Meridian richard]

Yes

And more specifically their inability to eat three of them

 

[EM2]

Must admit, that was a guess, based on the mention of Ian Botham!

There was a cartoon in the 1970s, originally produced in a foreign language, which was very popular when translated and shown in the UK.
The title character had a name which could be translated into English as 'candy floss'. What is this character's original name in that foreign language?

 

[Golghar]

I'll hazard a guess. "Barbe á papa" (Daddy's beard) is French for 'candy floss' and I seem to remember that there was a cartoon character with a similar sounding name.

 

[EM2]

That's the one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbapapa

 

[Golghar]

I just can't help setting philatelic questions. After all, I owe most of my general knowledge to stamp-collecting.
So here goes: When and where was the following postage stamp valid?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Looking at the franking on the stamp, I suspect it dates from just after WW1, when the former German colony of Kamerun was being administered by Britain and France. I think they split it, with the British bit eventually becoming Burkina Faso.

 

[Golghar]

Well, no! The lady in the the upper right corner wasn't even born in the period you are referring to. You are referring to stamps like this one:

This is a German colonial stamp overprinted C.E.F (Cameroons Expeditionary Force) and a halfpenny value.

And, by the way, Burkina Faso used to be called "Upper Volta" and was never under German control.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The 2d issue that you show in your clue was the Nigerian 1953-1957 issue (I remember this value being in black and orange, commemorating tin mining) and in the mid-1950's period for about a two year period, officially overprinted stamps of many values of this set (carrying the overprint type shown in your clue) were prepared for issue in the western British administered part of the Cameroons, which as you know also had French interests.

However, the word soon spread amongst the British philatelic cognoscenti and far more mint than used copies (in complete overprinted set form) became philatelic collectors items. Stanley Gibbons were none too pleased with the bulk importation of many of these sets, which rumour still states as being carried out by a Swiss agency of a French company.

 

[Golghar]

I'll give that to you, Paul, even though the correct answer for the period these stamps were in use is between Nigerian independence in 1960 and 1961 when the northern part of the British Trust Territory of Cameroon (Cameroons U.K.T.T.) became part of the Dominion of Nigeria and the southern part joined the newly independent Republic of Cameroon (former French Cameroun). Till Nigeria became independent Nigerian stamps without any overprint had been in use in the Cameroons T.T.

 

[Oswyntail]

.....
And, by the way, Burkina Faso used to be called "Upper Volta" and was never under German control.

I seem to remember the stamps carried the title "Haute Volta", suggesting they were for French letters.
As a digression, you mentioned the benefits of philately for increasing geographic knowledge. I recall, at the time of the Falklands War, there was a distinct split among my colleagues, with those under 30ish saying "Why should we go to war - no one even knows where they are" and the older folk being able to give historical, geopolitical and economic details almost entirely gleaned from stamp collecting. In much the same way, I find that train spotters from the 60s have a much better grasp of how the country fits together than most.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It is over 30 years since I was a philatelist, and my memory serves me false at times, with my mention of Guernsey in a previous question and in the overprint time period of this question, so whilst thanking you for passing the "quiz baton" over to me, I must be fair to other contestants and state that as my answer did not fully meet the requirements, I will have to declare OPEN FLOOR.

 

[EM2]

Seeing as I'm here, then

The Pet Shop Boys have released eleven studio albums, seven compilations and two live albums in the UK.
What do they all have in common?

NB - this doesn't include the series of 'Disco' remix albums.

 

[Meridian richard]

Do they all have single word titles.

 

[EM2]

Do they all have single word titles.

Correct again. The reason I specifically did not include Disco, is because there was Disco 2, 3 and 4.
There is also some argument regarding PopArt, but as it was deliberately spelled in that way, without a space, I believe that it counts.

 

[Meridian richard]

Which film from the Year 2000 was based on the comic strip feature "Billys Boots"

 

[Welshman]

"There's only one Jimmy Grimble"?

 

[Meridian richard]

Correct. There is only one Jimmy Grimble who could only play well in an old pair of boots belonging to an ex player

An oft overlooked film with a stellar cast. Ray Winstone Gina McKee and Robert Carlyle included

 

[Welshman]

What happened to a certain landmark in West Yorkshire in 1969?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Fred Trueman retired from first class cricket?

 

[Meridian richard]

Emley moor transmitting station collapsed (I'm not certain it was 1969 but I know it was around that time)