General Knowledge Quiz

[Heinz57]

Spot on! I would have also accepted NFC (National Football Conference) to which they are (as you say) in the East Division.

Over to you...

 

[t_star2001uk]

Open Floor

 

[cjp]

Spelling Bee: adding a Bee to the mix what can you spell with 50, 1, 1,000 and 100?

Easy Peasy

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Climb.

50 = L
I = I
1000 = M
100 = C
....plus the Bee = B

 

[cjp]

Climb.

50 = L
I = I
1000 = M
100 = C
....plus the Bee = B

Correct

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which artist painted the church at Auvers ?

 

[johnnychips]

Without any recourse to the net, I'll guess Van Gogh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

And of course you are right.

Over to you now.

 

[Darren R]

Wasn't it Vincent van Gogh?

(Have I spelt that correctly? :?)

 

[johnnychips]

That really was a guess Paul!

So, topically, name any member of the Commonwealth that wasn't a British colony.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rwanda....was a Belgian colony, I think

 

[johnnychips]

Spot on Paul. You could also have had Mozambique, and more contentiously Cameroon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In which town did the Goblin arrive by mistake ?

 

[johnnychips]

Flushing (Vlissingen)

From Arthur Ransome's We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea. They should have stayed in the Orwell estuary, but didn't.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well done. I am surprised it lasted so long before a correct guess ensued.

Over to you.

 

[johnnychips]

What links chef Rick Stein to a very well-known painting by Francis Barraud in 1898?

 

[Whistler40145]

Rick Stein had a Jack Russell called Chalky & Francis Barraud painted the famous His Masters Voice painting with Nipper the Jack Russell.

 

[johnnychips]

Impressed! All yours.

 

[Whistler40145]

Where is the longest continuous road incline in England?

 

[deltic1989]

The B6138 Cragg Road, in Calderdale.
open Floor.

 

[Whistler40145]

Quite correct.

Someone please set another.

 

[Class172]

Which is the only Cambridge college not to have a respective sister college at Oxford?

 

[Buttsy]

Gonville & Caius?

 

[Class172]

Nope, that's with Brasenose.

 

[theageofthetra]

Lucy Cavendish.

 

[Class172]

Correct.

 

[theageofthetra]

In the 50's & 60's there was a job that no longer exists in the UK. This job was predominantly staffed by women but became very popular with gay men because they could meet without risk of arrest. What was the job and why did men take over from women?
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As no one has taken a guess it was working the night shifts at the old manual telephone exchanges. Women generally didn't/or weren't allowed to work these late shifts. When being gay was still clandestine this job became a popular meeting place as well as way of connecting like minded people via their exchanges. Open floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which artist painted Mariakerk, with Buurkerk, and the cathedral ?

 

[cjp]

My knowledge of Dutch painters is thin so as a wild guess I offer one of those known to me
Van Meer
although I do not think he did such scenes

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not that one. The artist in question is well known in the style of his works.