General Knowledge Quiz

[Buttsy]

There was a further Beatles song/film shown after it?
To stop a mass exodus after the main feature?

 

[theageofthetra]

So close you can have it. In those days & up to the 80's if you bought a cinema ticket you stayed in there as long as you wanted. To make more money & to stop hoards of kids & teenagers buying one ticket and staying in all day & watching HDN several times they put on this dreadful, dull and long film on between showings of HDN. Many lovestruck young girls endured this film to see their mop topped heroes again & again. I can vaguely remember something similar being done when Grease came out.

Your floor.

 

[Buttsy]

In which years did Worcestershire CCC win the county championship?

 

[Strathclyder]

in which years did worcestershire ccc win the county championship?

1964, 1965, 1974, 1988 & 1989. 2003 as well, if you're counting the 2nd Division.

 

[Buttsy]

1964, 1965, 1974, 1988 & 1989.

Correct

 

[Strathclyder]

What was (and still is) the highest rated episode of The Simpsons and on what date did it originally air?

 

[Whistler40145]

I'll go for "Bart gets an F", originally aired on 11th October 1990.


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[Strathclyder]

I'll go for "Bart gets an F", originally aired on 11th October 1990.

That is correct.

 

[Whistler40145]

Where is the highest Motorway in the UK?


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[fowler9]

Where is the highest Motorway in the UK?


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M62 near Saddleworth Moor? Well between Manchester and Hudderfield? Sorry Huddersfield.

 

[theageofthetra]

Windy Hill on the M62?

 

[Whistler40145]

Yes, please set another theageofthetra.


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[theageofthetra]

Not including studios which is the only UK location to appear in any of the 6 Star Wars films.

 

[Strathclyder]

Whippendell Woods, Cassiobury Park, Watford. Used as a meeting point for Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi with Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

 

[theageofthetra]

Correct, I presume it was chosen because they were using some nearby studios. Your floor.

 

[Strathclyder]

What sci-fi movie, referred to as 'a monumentally unimaginative movie' by one critic at the time of it's release, is now widely considered as one of the greatest movies of all time?

 

[fowler9]

What sci-fi movie, referred to as 'a monumentally unimaginative movie' at the time of it's release, is now widely considered as one of the greatest movies of all time?

Blade Runner?

 

[Buttsy]

Casablanca?

 

[cjp]

2001?

 

[martinsh]

Casablanca?

I didn't realise Casablanca was Science Fiction ?! [ Maybe Humphrey Bogart was really a zombie ! ]

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My guess is Star Wars

 

[theageofthetra]

Metropolis?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I, Robot ?

 

[Strathclyder]

2001?

That's the one. Your floor.

 

[cjp]

An artist with a hearing problem who is thought to have put an end to it.

 

[Buttsy]

I didn't realise Casablanca was Science Fiction ?! [ Maybe Humphrey Bogart was really a zombie ! ]

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My guess is Star Wars

Mis-read question

 

[cjp]

Mis-read question

And I thought you had already answered my question (as I know I am not good at setting such problems )

 

[Welshman]

An artist with a hearing problem who is thought to have put an end to it.

Vincent Van Gogh?

 

[cjp]

Indeed.
Having cut off an ear I guess his hearing was affected.
The gunshot wounds that caused his death were thought to be self inflicted (he had a history of mental illness) although why the gun was not found in this case I have no idea.

Over to you.

 

[Welshman]

Which Welsh poet was inspired by the people and communities of deeply rural Wales, where he served for 40 years as parish priest?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ronald Stuart Thomas ?