General Knowledge Quiz

[Trainfan344]

Three

Correct

 

[Buttsy]

Name the participants in the pilot of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' including the piano player (first broadcast 11/04/72).

 

[Welshman]

Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie & Jo Kendall.

Colin Sell was the piano-player.

Humphrey Littleton was the Chairman.

 

[Buttsy]

Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie & Jo Kendall.

Colin Sell was the piano-player.

Humphrey Littleton was the Chairman.

Almost right, Colin Sell, or Lles Niloc to those who play Ciryl, was not the piano player on the first show.

 

[Welshman]

Almost right, Colin Sell, or Lles Niloc to those who play Ciryl, was not the piano player on the first show.

I have no idea who the piano player was, then.

Are you waiting for someone to answer this part, or do you intend me to post my question?

 

[Buttsy]

I have no idea who the piano player was, then.

Are you waiting for someone to answer this part, or do you intend me to post my question?

I was going to give it until tonight to see if anyone came up with the right answer for that before giving you the chance to move things on.
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I was going to give it until tonight to see if anyone came up with the right answer for that before giving you the chance to move things on.

As no-one has come up with the fully correct answer (the pianist was Dave Lee), it's over to Welshman for the next question.

 

[Welshman]

Which contemporary British author has written a series of novels, set in the Welsh borderlands, concerning supernatural events, and what is the name and occupation of his main protagonist?
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Perhaps a clue is needed:-

The protagonist works from an office in Hereford, but lives in a fictional village which is very similar-sounding to Leintwardine.


Time to put this question out of its misery, I think!

If anyone's interested, the novelist is Phil Rickman; his protagonist is the Revd Merrily Watkins; she is Diocesan Deliverance Officer and lives in the fictional village of Ledwardine.

Open floor.

 

[Heinz57]

I'll take up the floor...

In geography, what is the name given to the errosion process where air in a crack in the rock is compressed and de-compressed by a wave forcing water into it; causing the crack to expand and ultimatly shatter from a 'mini explosion'?

 

[TheEdge]

Hydraulic Action (Geography degree!)

 

[Heinz57]

Spot on! Over to you sir

 

[TheEdge]

Auckland (NZ) has a curious link to a small town in the south of Spain, what is it?

 

[Golghar]

The exact antipode of Auckland must lie somewhere in the South of Spain. Am I on the right track?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I now very rarely post upon this thread, as certain medical matters can mean that I may be away for long-ish periods of time, which would be unfair to other contestants who may be kept waiting.

However, Auckland (NZ) is 36 degrees South whereas on 36 degrees North, the area of Spain called Punta de Tarifa is to be found, this being the most southerly point of the European mainland.

Open floor if correct.

 

[TheEdge]

The exact antipode of Auckland must lie somewhere in the South of Spain. Am I on the right track?

As I didn't specifically ask for the town I shall give you that. The actual town is Setenil de las Bodegas.

 

[Golghar]

A numismatic question:

In which year was a coin carrying the effigy of a British monarch minted for the first time in India?

The name of the monarch would suffice as an answer. Hint: it wasn't Queen Victoria.

 

[theageofthetra]

Royal mint are producing Sovs again this year in India to cash in on the Indian wedding market. The last time they did this was for the end of WWI so I will guess at King George V?

 

[Golghar]

Coins minted in India during Queen Victoria's reign all carried her effigy so I am obviously asking for a predecessor. A further hint: this monarch had a short reign.

 

[theageofthetra]

Ok lets go with William IV

 

[Golghar]

William IV is the right answer. Here is an image of one of the coins issued in 1835:

The reverse has "East India company", "1835" and the value in English and Persian. The obverse has "William IIII King" inscribed on it. At that time the East India Company administered India on behalf of the Mughal Emperor and previous coins had borne the name of the current Emperor. William IV was King of the UK and of Hanover but had no title pertaining to India.

In 1695 the EIC did mint a coin in Bombay that bore the names "William" and "Mary" in Persian script but did not carry any effigy.

Over to you now, theageofthetra

 

[theageofthetra]

12 men have landed on another planetary body ( our moon) but how many have left earth orbit and gone into space?

 

[TheEdge]

None, only things to have left Earth Orbit are probes, I think.

Scratch that, think that's a silly mistake.

All Apollo missions that went towards the moon left Earth Orbit and entered a Solar Orbit to get there. So Apollo 8, 10 and 13 although not landing left orbit, 3 men each, that's 9 and then Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 all landed, that's another 18.

So that's 27 men out of Earth Orbit.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Less than that as some were on more than one of those missions weren't they?

A total guess, without looking it up anywhere, 22 men.

 

[theageofthetra]

Some did go out of earth orbit to the moon more than once, though no one walked on the moon twice. Only one went to the moon twice but didn't ever land on it. I have not included the possible Russians who may have left orbit and their deaths were hidden. Sadly it is more likely than not that some were lost in their aborted moon programme and are still out there somewhere. The answer is between the 2 already given, though you will need to explain how you got the number to be truly correct!

 

[TheEdge]

Right, I now have 24 men. 3 of them went up twice (Lovell (of 13 fame), Young, Cernan) and the rest only once.

 

[theageofthetra]

You are correct. Your floor

 

[TheEdge]

Which British state secret was publically revealed under parliamentary privilege in the early 1990s?

 

[theageofthetra]

Was it over the Zircon affair? (Though that may have been late 80's)

 

[TheEdge]

Nope.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Why Prince Harry is a redhead?

 

[The Barlow Boy]

Something about admitting that UFOs were being taken seriously?