General Knowledge Quiz

[fowler9]

Air navigation radio beacons I believe.

New question:-

Which is the largest National Park in the UK?

Yeah, used for holding patterns when flying in to Manchester.

 

[Buttsy]

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Home by the sea

Genesis

Your musical knowledge is impressive Paul, correct again.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What is the correct medical name for skin that peels off after a bad sunburn?

 

[Springs Branch]

Desquamate? (as a resident of Australia I experienced a bit of this myself in younger years)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Desquamate? (as a resident of Australia I experienced a bit of this myself in younger years)

You are on the right track generally, but there is a specific word to describe what is referred to in the conundrum.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

One of the wife's medical TV programmes, unless the subtitles were playing up as per usual, has today used the word blype in connection with peeling sunburnt skin.

Is this the word you want?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blype is indeed the word.

Over to you.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

That was good fortune as I just happened to be bringing her a cup of tea at the right moment; I don't really bother with all these medical proggies...!!

OK... next question is:



With whom would you associate the telephone number 4291 and a Honda car?

 

[Springs Branch]

That would have to be my fellow grumpy old man - Victor Meldrew

 

[Peter Mugridge]

It only lasted one hour?! I don't belieeeve it.... Your go.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the past, in parts of the USA, there was a move to ban references to Robin Hood.

Why was this and when?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the past, in parts of the USA, there was a move to ban references to Robin Hood.

Why was this and when?

Was this to do with the McCarthy anti-Communist witchunt in the early 1950's when someone quoted Robin Hood as an example of a Communist?

 

[Springs Branch]

Correct - 1953 in Indiana.

Since Robin Hood robs the rich to give to the poor, he is obviously a communist.

The floor is yours.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

How many bones are there in the human wrist?

 

[Marton]

8 carpal bones

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct...Over to you

 

[Marton]

Open floor

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In mythology, the fountain called Aganippe was sacred to whom?

 

[Springs Branch]

Is it The Muses? (Greek goddesses of literature & poetry, if my classical education serves me correctly)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It is indeed so. Good to see a fellow Classics scholar on here, though mine was up to 1961/2 prior to attending Manchester University.

Over to you.

 

[Springs Branch]

Open floor for the next question .....

 

[Strat-tastic]

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

That was a better answer

 

[pne]

The language most closely related to Cornish is which one?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Breton?

 

[pne]

Breton?

Breton is correct. Next closest is Welsh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In Ancient Greece, what is a Petasus.

 

[AndyPJG]

An old greek sun hat.

( # You say 'pet-as-os', I say 'pe-ta-sos'? # )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct...over to you.

 

[AndyPJG]

Easy one (maybe), what is the most northerly point on mainland UK?

 

[pne]

Dunnet Head