General Knowledge Quiz

[cjp]

Well they all involve air apart from the hammer one.

Sorry not to have logged on and answered - thanks for the nudge Paul.

I am afraid the answer is a No.

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Final clue . .. .


The singers' names hold the answer.

 

[Whistler40145]

They're all Saints

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

They are all of the same circle that Jesus was involved with that led to Christianity being established.

 

[cjp]

Both good answers but remember you are looking for Christmas connection
(in their names)

 

[Buttsy]

Christmas is a bad surname if your name is Mary?

 

[cjp]

Christmas is a bad surname if your name is Mary?

Droll.


Come boys and girls, men and women, lords and ladies, just look at the names of the singers in the group
:roll:

 

[Welshman]

"Paul" was Noel Paul Stookey.

"Noel" is the French from the Latin "natalis" = birth.

Applied particularly to the Birth of Jesus Christ, therefore an alternative name for Christmas.

 

[cjp]

"Paul" was Noel Paul Stookey.

"Noel" is the French from the Latin "natalis" = birth.

Applied particularly to the Birth of Jesus Christ, therefore an alternative name for Christmas.

At last! - The First Noel

Well done and over to you.

The other members were Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow.

 

[Seacook]

Christmas is a bad surname if your name is Mary?

The host and hostess of the pub closest to my office 30 years ago in the 80s were Geoff and Mary Christmas. (They divorced later but I don't think the surname was the reason.)

 

[Welshman]

Which Yorkshire village boasts an octagonal-shaped Methodist Church, plus the ruins of an earlier Parish church and one built more recently in its environs?

 

[Whistler40145]

Heptonstall


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[Welshman]

Heptonstall is correct.

Your turn.

 

[Whistler40145]

Who is "The Beast of Bolsover"?


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[martinsh]

Dennis Skinner MP

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dennis Skinner ?

 

[Whistler40145]

Both correct

Either of you set another please


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Since he posted first, I have sent a PM to martinsh asking him to set the next one.

 

[martinsh]

What are the names of the first three "Moomin" books (in order please).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What are the names of the first three "Moomin" books (in order please).

The Moomins and the Great Floor (1945)
Comet in Moominland (1946)
Finn Family Moomintroll (1948)

 

[martinsh]

The Moomins and the Great Floor (1945)
Comet in Moominland (1946)
Finn Family Moomintroll (1948)

Correct. And what language were they originally written in ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct. And what language were they originally written in ?

Swedish ?....if you are looking for the ORIGINAL language.

 

[Buttsy]

Finnish

 

[martinsh]

Sorry, I didn't make it clear. Paul answered the main question correctly, and so should be setting the next question.

The supplementary question (which he also got right) was just for fun.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Giuseppe Sarto received a special name to mark an occasion. What was this name ?

 

[cjp]

Pope John?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pope John?

There has been a good number of Popes, but this one had a different name with that title, so what would he be referred to, noting the required suffix ?

 

[cjp]

There has been a good number of Popes, but this one had a different name with that title, so what would he be referred to, noting the required suffix ?

I would have to guess so leave it for someone who knows
but taking a guess Pope John the second, Pope John II

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I would have to guess so leave it for someone who knows
but taking a guess Pope John the second, Pope John II

Not this one.

 

[cjp]

drat

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

drat

Having a forum username as mine, it behoves me to answer your query on that point....... Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla in Wodwice, Poland