General Knowledge Quiz

[Spamcan81]

I'm sure it's Love Affair with Everlasting Love which by strange coincidence is playing on the pub jukebox as I type.

 

[martinsh]

Off the top of my head, The Monkees?

Not the one I'm thinking of. To clarify I mean UK No 1 single. The Monkees only UK no 1 was in early 1967.
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I'm sure it's Love Affair with Everlasting Love which by strange coincidence is playing on the pub jukebox as I type.

You got it !

 

[Spamcan81]

Much better known as a solo artist, who replaced Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys during 1964/65?

 

[johnnychips]

Glen Campbell?

 

[Spamcan81]

Give that man a ceegar. Glen it was.

 

[johnnychips]

If we're doing music, Roger Whittaker made a huge geographical blooper on one of his best known records. He should have been, 'Sitting on the...' where?

 

[Welshman]

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[Marton]

Banks of the river wear.


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[johnnychips]

Excellent. He said, 'River Tyne' to rhyme with mine.

 

[Marton]

Who sustained a fractured leg on the opera stage but sang on.


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kathleen Ferrier ?

 

[Marton]

Correct.


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

What is the tallest of all at the Hermitage ?

 

[Marton]

A tree?


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Can you be a little more precise as to which tree?

 

[Marton]

Douglass Fir tree?


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

That is the correct answer.

Over to you to set the next one.

 

[Marton]

Which eponymous village was founded by the inventor of a luxury material.


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[Spamcan81]

Bourneville?

 

[johnnychips]

Port Sunlight, if soap is a luxury?

 

[Marton]

Neither have the name of the founder.


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[Darren R]

Darcy Lever?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltaire ?

 

[Marton]

Correct. Salt hi vented alpaca cloth a lightweight suiting. Previously the wool had been used as a ballast on returning ships.

Yours.


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

In what town was Ryan's bridge too far ?

 

[Whistler40145]

Arnhem

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct. Over to you to set the next one.

 

[Whistler40145]

Where would you find Britain's tallest tree?

What type of tree is it?

How tall is it?

 

[Welshman]

I think it's a Douglas Fir tree in Reelig Glen, Inverness, at 66.4m.

 

[Whistler40145]

Too easy Welshman!

Please set another.