General Knowledge Quiz

[Welshman]

Correct.
[You're slow this morning - that took you all of 12 minutes! ]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Who was the pioneer who devised a system of raised point writing at the Institute des Jeurnes Aveugles ?

 

[theageofthetra]

Louis Braille?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct.

Please set a new one.

 

[theageofthetra]

Sorry open floor.

 

[fowler9]

Which country does the recipe for San Miguel lager come from?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Phillippines ?

 

[higthomas]

Indonesia?

 

[Buttsy]

Mexico?

 

[martinsh]

Which country does the recipe for San Miguel lager come from?

You don't need a recipe to make gnat's p*ss !

 

[fowler9]

Ha ha, Paul was correct and the floor is his.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What bleeds at St Brynach's ?

 

[Welshman]

His wounds caused by the spear hurled at him by a woman who's advances he'd rejected?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That was not what I had in mind, but something still to do with a living organism.

 

[Welshman]

OK - is it a case of a statue of Brynach bleeding from the heart for love of his people and a desperate desire for their conversion?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

He said "living organism" so might it be one of those trees from which sap leaks out like blood?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You are on the right track, but I need the name of the actual item involved.

 

[Whistler40145]

Is it the bleeding Yew Tree?


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is it the bleeding Yew Tree?


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Indeed it is...the one in Nevern, Pembrokeshire.

Your turn to set the next one.

 

[Whistler40145]

What's the worlds longest road tunnel?


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Laerdal Tunnel in Norway on European route E16 ?

 

[Whistler40145]

Correct Paul

Set another please!


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

What culinary delicacy misleadingly suggests Maharashtrian poultry ?

 

[Marton]

Bombay duck


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct. It was one of my easier ones...

Please set the next conundrum, please.

 

[Marton]

Thanks

What did Dorset and the West Riding of Yorkshire, unlike other counties, display at junctions.


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[deltic1989]

oh oh.......teacher I know this one!!!
They were the only authorities to display a grid reference on their finger post style sign posts.

 

[Marton]

Correct.


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[deltic1989]

Who was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London?

I will personally hand a virtual cookie to the person who can also tell me their nationality, crime and the manner and year of their execution.

 

[fowler9]

Who was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London?

I will personally hand a virtual cookie to the person who can also tell me their nationality, crime and the manner and year of their execution.

He was shot as a German spy but was not born there. Can't remember the rest of the info. Gah.