General Knowledge Quiz

[Buttsy]

"The Eton Rifles" by The Jam

Correct

 

[Welshman]

Which contemporary crime-writer, born in Brighton, has set a number of his novels in the Brighton and surrounding areas of Sussex?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peter James ?

 

[Welshman]

Peter James is correct.
Over to you.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Once again, I declare Open Floor.

 

[DasLunatic]

The attached painting is by which artist?
(full name please)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am unsure, but will say the American artist Ad Reinhardt.

 

[Springs Branch]

It's always good to have questions which can't be solved by a simple Google search.

I'll take a guess this is in the style of Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky.
(OK, I did have to Google his christian name!)

 

[DasLunatic]

It's always good to have questions which can't be solved by a simple Google search.

I'll take a guess this is in the style of Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky.
(OK, I did have to Google his christian name!)

Correct. Your floor.

 

[Springs Branch]

Open Floor

 

[AndyPJG]

What do/did Gary Player (golfer), Lev Yashin (Russian goalkeeper) and Johnny Cash (singer) all have in common?

 

[Buttsy]

Men in black?

 

[AndyPJG]

Correct, their 'trademark' was wearing black.

Your floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

If a question is answered correctly and accepted by the question setter, but then no new question is set within three days by the successful contestant, on expiry of this three day (seventy-two hour) period, the floor will open for any member to set a new question.

I will set a new conundrum, since time is passing by without one being set.

A large organized grouping of merceneries in 10th century Byzantium who fought for that area for the ruling Emperor had their ancestry in lands that were a great distance from there.

What was the name given to them in Byzantium and what was their ancestry.

 

[DaleCooper]

Just a guess, were they the Knights Templar?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not so.

 

[Marton]

Varangian Guard ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Varangian Guard ?

That part is correct, but I also asked what was their ancestry in my conundrum.

 

[Marton]

Swedish / Scandinavian. ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swedish / Scandinavian. ?

l cannot now do anything but award you the win as you have answered both parts of my conundrum correctly.....The Vikings were indeed a bloodthirsty lot ...:roll:

(There was a TV programme about how the Varangian Guard were used by Emperor Basil II as his "special forces")

Over now to you.

 

[Buttsy]

I will set a new conundrum, since time is passing by without one being set.

A large organized grouping of merceneries in 10th century Byzantium who fought for that area for the ruling Emperor had their ancestry in lands that were a great distance from there.

What was the name given to them in Byzantium and what was their ancestry.

Oi! What about actually waiting 3 days before setting a new question? According to the rules I have until 15:32 on 18/05/15 to set a new question. 3 days from a Friday is Monday, not Sunday...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oi! What about actually waiting 3 days before setting a new question? According to the rules I have until 15:32 on 18/05/15 to set a new question. 3 days from a Friday is Monday, not Sunday...

We were just covering our options in case the rules may have been referring to an Old Norse calendrial event....:roll:

 

[Marton]

What is a Teeswater?

 

[Whistler40145]

A breed of sheep ?

 

[Marton]

Correct.

Yours.

 

[Whistler40145]

Nice simple one....

What's the longest river in the UK?

 

[DasLunatic]

The River Severn.

 

[Whistler40145]

Correct

Your turn or open floor

 

[DasLunatic]

Caerfyrddin is the Welsh name for which town?

 

[Whistler40145]

Carmarthen