General Knowledge Quiz

[Springs Branch]

Open Floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the human body, where is the only bone to be found that is not connected to another bone and what is its function?

 

[fowler9]

In the human body, where is the only bone to be found that is not connected to another bone and what is its function?

Is it the one in your ear that enables you to hear things?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is it the one in your ear that enables you to hear things?

It is not that one. However, since setting this conundrum, I have been in receipt of a PM stating there may be other bones in addition to that which I had in mind which is the horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone, also known as the lingual bone, that is situated in the throat at the back of the tongue, which proves a support for the tongue and its muscles. This said bone takes its anchor by ligaments affixed from the base of the skull.

Therefore I am closing this conundrum and declaring Open Floor.

 

[DasLunatic]

Open floor, eh...?

The Simister Interchange links three motorways. Name them.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

M60
m62
m66

 

[DasLunatic]

Correct.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Who was defeated at the Battle of Salamis?

 

[Welshman]

The fleet of the Persian King Xerxes?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Most correct.

Over now to you.

 

[Welshman]

Name three of Noah's grandsons through Japheth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Can I offer up the names of seven possibilities, should these include three of those you seek...
Gomer
Magog
Tiras
Javan
Methech
Jubal
Madai

 

[Welshman]

Wow - the whole quiverful!
Brilliant!
Over to you.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Who was defeated at the Battle of Salamis?

The king of the sausage people

 

[DasLunatic]

The Achaemenid Empire, I believe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wow - the whole quiverful!
Brilliant!
Over to you.

I will declare Open Floor, as there may be times this week when I will be away from this website for long periods of time.

 

[DasLunatic]

A group of herons is known as a what?

 

[Marton]

A siege?

 

[DasLunatic]

Correct.

 

[Marton]

Thank you.

A previous posting suggested this.

How many were in Mr Quiverfull's quiver and where did he find preferment?

 

[Springs Branch]

Would that be Quiverfull, the clergyman in the Chronicles of Barsetshire (also known as the Barchester Chronicles) who had 14 children to support?
And was appointed as warden of St. Hiram's Hospital IIRC.

 

[Marton]

Would that be Quiverfull, the clergyman in the Chronicles of Barsetshire (also known as the Barchester Chronicles) who had 14 children to support?

And was appointed as warden of St. Hiram's Hospital IIRC.

It would.

Your floor.

 

[Springs Branch]

This highly radioactive isotope is produced inside nuclear reactors and during atomic explosions.
It is also present as the key component in an item regularly sold to the public via hardware shops and supermarkets.
In fact, in many places you are legally obliged to have a small amount of this material in your home.

What is the name of this chemical element?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Flouride?

 

[Springs Branch]

Flouride?

Not that one.

 

[dzug2]

Americium 241 as found in smoke detectors?

 

[Springs Branch]

Americium 241 as found in smoke detectors?

...... is the correct answer.

Your floor.

For the record, the quantity of Am-241 used in smoke detectors is miniscule, cannot be extracted (accidentally or deliberately) and at worst gives off a small fraction of the dose received from natural background radiation.

 

[dzug2]

open floor

 

[Buttsy]

'Composed a revolutionary symphony, then went to bed with a charming young thing' are lines from which song by whom?

 

[Welshman]

"The Eton Rifles" by The Jam