General Knowledge Quiz

[fowler9]

In 1422 in a charter of Monk Bretton Priory, it was said to be in the lands between Wrangbrook and Skelbrook.

Blimey mate there is obviously more than one. Not the answer I was looking for but you are completely correct. Over to you.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The ELO system is used to rank players in which game?

 

[Marton]

Association football.


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not that one.

 

[Whistler40145]

Chess?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct...over to you.

 

[Whistler40145]

Which guitarist built and plays a guitar nicknamed the 'Red Special'?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brian May.

 

[Whistler40145]

Correct Paul

Over to you, set another.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which poem was sparked by the premature death of Arthur Henry Hallam and wrote it?

 

[Welshman]

In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Most correct....Over to you.

 

[Welshman]

The names of which Welsh headlands have been etymologically linked to the old Norse, meaning sea-serpent?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I confess to only knowing of one such sea serpent from the days when Old Norse was spoken, JORMUNGANDR, being the sea serpent who encircles the globe under the oceans, so that one must be incorrect with regard to the name of the required headlands,

 

[Welshman]

Fascinating reply, but, I'm afraid, not correct in this case.
If it helps, it wasn't the Proper Name I'm looking-for, but the common noun.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not thinking laterally, so now knowing Llandudno quite well I will venture Great Orme and Little Orme.

 

[Welshman]

Correct.
From the Viking "urm" meaning "sea-serpent"
Your turn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whose 1942 painting "Nighthawks" is unusual for this painter as it features four people, as this artist's works usually feature fewer than that?

 

[theageofthetra]

Edward Hopper.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct...over to you.

 

[theageofthetra]

I the Rev Awdrey's railway series why did Henry the Green engine change from a Greenly Atlantic to a 4-6-0? Ok its a bit railway but more to do with the history of the author & his books!

 

[deltic1989]

Because he was a poor steamer, owing to his small firebox. The Welsh coal needed to make his fire hot enough was not cost effective to the North Western Railway.
So Henry was sent off to Crewe to be re-built.

 

[theageofthetra]

Awdrey had to write that to explain the change but that was not what caused the change.

 

[D6975]

Was this the one that was down to the illustrators making a mistake, drawing him with the incorrect wheel arrangement?

 

[theageofthetra]

Thats close enough. Awdrey had many heated discussions with his first illustrator Dalby over his lack of railway accuracy. Awdrey always made sure that his books were in accordance with railway practice & refused to treat children as fools. However bizarre some of the stories were they all happened on a real railway somewhere in the world. Your floor.

 

[D6975]

Busy at work at the moment so
Open Floor

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Who was the Prime Minister when the Second Reform Act was passed in1867?

 

[Buttsy]

There wasn't one. The term Prime Minister only became an official term when Campbell-Bannerman used it in the early 1900s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

There wasn't one. The term Prime Minister only became an official term when Campbell-Bannerman used it in the early 1900s.

The term of Prime Minister is reported to having being used in the House of Commons as long ago as 1805, so I will still ask who was the incumbent of that type of official office in the period of 1867 referred to in my conundrum.

 

[Buttsy]

The term of Prime Minister is reported to having being used in the House of Commons as long ago as 1805, so I will still ask who was the incumbent of that type of official office in the period of 1867 referred to in my conundrum.

Was being pedantic Paul - saw the Campbell-Bannerman fact on a QI re-run recently.
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