General Knowledge Quiz

[Groningen]

I go for Jan Seelen (Ajax) with a hattrick in 2 minutes (42', 43', 44').

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Menisci.....I have used a different spelling

 

[Marton]

Paul. Your spelling is correct so you have it. The initial e is significant as it relates to mend the Greek for moon, not mini as in Latin small.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

How many vertebrae does a human have and I need the actual number in all of the named sections that go towards this grand total

 

[Spamcan81]

Now if I remember correctly what my old biology master taught me, I think it's 33 if you count the fused vertebrae as individuals.
7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral (fused) and 4 in the coccyx (also fused).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct on all counts

Over to you

 

[Spamcan81]

What world first was achieved on the night of the 22/23 July 1940 by Flying Officer G. Ashfield, Pilot Officer G.E. Morris and Sergeant R.H. Leyland?

 

[fowler9]

What world first was achieved on the night of the 22/23 July 1940 by Flying Officer G. Ashfield, Pilot Officer G.E. Morris and Sergeant R.H. Leyland?

First radar kill from a night fighter?

 

[Spamcan81]

First radar kill from a night fighter?

Correct. First confirmed kill using Airborne Interception radar. For the record they were flying a Bristol Blenheim Mk.1f of the Fighter Interception Unit. Their victim was a Dornier 17 of 2/KG3.

 

[fowler9]

Correct. First confirmed kill using Airborne Interception radar. For the record they were flying a Bristol Blenheim Mk.1f of the Fighter Interception Unit. Their victim was a Dornier 17 of 2/KG3.

Apologies for the late reply. Long hours in work and me being a scatterbrain. Does anyone know where you would be going if you were on a MIRSI or a ROSUN?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Does anyone know where you would be going if you were on a MIRSI or a ROSUN?

Going to use an infra-red spectrometer?

 

[fowler9]

Going to use an infra-red spectrometer?

Nope.

 

[AndyPJG]

Does anyone know where you would be going if you were on a MIRSI or a ROSUN?

Manchester International Airport?

 

[fowler9]

Manchester International Airport?

Indeed. The floor is yours. For a bonus point though what are they?

 

[AndyPJG]

Indeed. The floor is yours. For a bonus point though what are they?

Air navigation radio beacons I believe.

New question:-

Which is the largest National Park in the UK?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

A total guess - Dartmoor?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I was reading an article about "Wild Scotland" recently so I will submit my answer as .....The Cairngorms National Park.

 

[Buttsy]

I though it might be the Yorkshire Dales

 

[AndyPJG]

Paul is correct, the Cairngorms. (We had the question in our pub quiz last night, and no we didn't get it right albeit that was one we discussed.)

Over to Paul.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

By weight, which is the largest organ in the human body.

 

[Darren R]

Does the skin count as an 'organ'?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Does the skin count as an 'organ'?

Not for the sake of this conundrum, unfortunately.

The question posed referred to "in the body"

 

[Buttsy]

Liver

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not so.

 

[Buttsy]

Brain?

 

[Darren R]

Lungs?

(At this rate it won't take us long to name them all!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lungs?

(At this rate it won't take us long to name them all!)

That is the correct answer......Over to you

 

[Darren R]

Open Floor

(I'll forget I've set a question!)

 

[Buttsy]

Surely the lungs are 2 organs, a lung being one, as one can live with just one...

'Adrift without direction, eyes that hold despair, then as one they sign and they moan.' is a line from which song by whom?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Surely the lungs are 2 organs, a lung being one, as one can live with just one...

Normally referred to a "an organ", in the vast number of cases, humans are born with two of these as a matching set...
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'Adrift without direction, eyes that hold despair, then as one they sign and they moan.' is a line from which song by whom?

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