General Knowledge Quiz

[Marton]

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[Heinz57]

That'll do for me! Your turn...

 

[Marton]

The ramparts that surround which city are the only intact fortified city walls on the North American continent?

 

[fowler9]

The ramparts that surround which city are the only intact fortified city walls on the North American continent?

Boston? (Guess).

 

[Whistler40145]

St. Augustine, Florida?

 

[Spamcan81]

I think it's Quebec.

 

[Marton]

Quebec it is.

Over to you spamcan81

 

[Spamcan81]

What connects Ivor Cutler with Bad Manners?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Anything to do with Buster Bloodvessel?

 

[Spamcan81]

Would you care to elaborate?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Would you care to elaborate?

Did this personage sing a composition based on a poem by Ivor Cutler?

 

[Spamcan81]

Did this personage sing a composition based on a poem by Ivor Cutler?

No. Your answer of Buster Bloodvessel is correct so I should award you the points. For this who are interested, Ivor Cutler played the part of Buster Bloodvesel, the bus driver in the Beatle's Magical Mystery Tour and the lead singer of Bad Manners, Douglas Trendle, took his stage name from this film character.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You are too kind, but I really think that I had not submitted enough correct information, so I will declare....Open Floor.

 

[Marton]

Thank you.

Where, and specifically which building, connects the 1861 Derby and the gravitational centre of the mainland?

 

[AndyPJG]

Thank you.

Where, and specifically which building, connects the 1861 Derby and the gravitational centre of the mainland?

The Roman Catholic Church church of St. Hubert’s, Dunsop Bridge, Lancs.

From Wikipedia entry for Dunsop Bridge: "The Roman Catholic Church church of St. Hubert’s was built to the design of Edward Pugin, from, it is believed, the winnings of the racehorse Kettledrum owned by Colonel Charles Towneley of Towneley Hall, Burnley in the 1861 Epsom Derby."

 

[Marton]

Correct.

Your turn

 

[AndyPJG]

Correct.

Your turn

Feel a bit guilty as I just did a quick Google, and as I don't have a decent question to hand, I'll declare

Open Floor

 

[Spamcan81]

Of whom was it said "he was the only man who could have lost the war in an afternoon?"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think that comment was made by Winston Churchill after the Battle of Jutland in 1916 about the British Admiral of the Fleet, the Rt.Hon. John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB OM GVCO, as a rebuke for not pressing the attack further against the German Fleet when they took a 180 degree turn away from the battle.

The hope of the British Government was that a similar victory to the Battle of Trafalgar would have been gained had the attack had been fully pressed home.

 

[Spamcan81]

I will award that to you. I've also seen that remark made regarding AVM Sir Keith Park during the Battle of Britain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In which land are Gillkin Country and Winkie Country to be found?

 

[Marton]

Oz. As in wizard not antipodes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct...over to you.

 

[Marton]

What food did a discovery and invention by the clerics Lorenzo Langstroth and Jan Dzierżon make much more easy to harvest?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Both of these were highly respected and learned bee-keepers and there was a discussion on the development of the shape of beehives that led to better honey production.

 

[Marton]

All true, but they both made an important discovery that enabled the hive to be developed.

Can you identify that?

 

[AndyPJG]

It's related to 'bee-space', which determines whether the bees can make random comb if larger, or fill the gap with propolis if smaller...I think. Having to think back 50+ years to bee-keeping at primary school.

In effect, makes removable frames of honeycomb practical.

 

[Marton]

AndyPJG you have it.

Understanding bee space made the removable frame hive possible.

Over to you.

 

[AndyPJG]

Open Floor, as Paul S was as good as there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

At what number in 1911 was the number of members in the US House of Representatives fixed?