General Knowledge Quiz

[D6975]

Brazil nut.

Brazil nuts are found in clusters inside the outer husk the others are all found singularly.

Or


Hazelnut

Because it is a nut and the others are technically seeds.


My guess is the second one

Correct, the Hazlenut is the only true nut on the list.
Over to you...

 

[ComUtoR]

Gonna set an easy one...

Who shoe's Deaths horse ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Gonna set an easy one...

Who shoe's Deaths horse ?

Mort?

 

[ComUtoR]

Incorrect

 

[Buttsy]

Jason Ogg

 

[Strat-tastic]

Ysabell

 

[dzug2]

Jason Ogg - but Buttsy got there first

 

[ComUtoR]

Yep. Jason Ogg

 

[Buttsy]

Found a little stone on a harbour wall, sea-spray-soaked and very small is a lyric from which song by whom?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

These words appear to be the first two lines of "Tied-up House"

It was written by Jackie Leven, but was it him who first sang it?

He spent a number of years in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the New Wave band "Doll By Doll"

 

[Buttsy]

These words appear to be the first two lines of "Tied-up House"

It was written by Jackie Leven, but was it him who first sang it?

He spent a number of years in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the New Wave band "Doll By Doll"

Correct on both counts - it wasn't a Doll By Doll track.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In 1978, a lead singer of a band sang about an event that had been on-going for twenty-four years.

What was the name of the singer, which band was he in and what was the situation that was he singing about?

 

[Buttsy]

For a moment I thought it was Jerry Dammers of the Special AKA about Nelson Mandela, but then remembered the lyrics '21 years in captivity'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not that one.

 

[Welshman]

The I.R.A. "Troubles" re-started in 1954, so I'm thinking your 1978 song [24 years after] refers to this.
Many songs were written about Northern Ireland at this time, but particularly in 1978, Sham 69 released the song Ulster with lead singer Jimmy Pursey.

 

[Buttsy]

I'll take a punt on Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers and Alternative Ulster referring to the troubles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not those last two posting submissions.

HINT : The time period in the song was very personal to the storyline that had been written rather than a nationally known matter.

 

[Buttsy]

Chris Norman of Smokie - 24 years of 'Living Next Door To Alice'?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chris Norman of Smokie - 24 years of 'Living Next Door To Alice'?

I had Alan Barton as featuring on the 1978 version that I saw, but you are most correct with your answer.

I heard this song being played last week and it has "stuck in my mind" since then. 1978...heavens above, I would only have been a young gossoon of 34 years of age then..

Over now to you.

 

[Buttsy]

Which footballer raised the Milk Cup in 1986 as the captain of the winning team?

 

[DasLunatic]

Steve Bruce, at the time team captain of Norwich.

 

[Buttsy]

Steve Bruce, at the time team captain of Norwich.

Nope, sorry

 

[DasLunatic]

Dave Watson, then. Bruce was the captain from the '87 cup.

 

[Buttsy]

Dave Watson, then. Bruce was the captain from the '87 cup.

Nope, still wrong... Norwich weren't in the 1986 final...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malcolm Shotton of Oxford United?

 

[Buttsy]

Malcolm Shotton of Oxford United?

Correct - I was there...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which British overseas colony used the postage stamps of Great Britain from 1888 to 1893 that were overprinted with the name of the colony then had the following issue of 1894 to 1898 with a new design that incorporated the name of the colony, then never issued any further postage stamps after 1898

 

[DasLunatic]

I feel like the answer would be Gibraltar, but I'm probably wrong...

 

[Whistler40145]

Was it the "Morocco Agencies" operated by Gibraltar and later the British Post Office?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I feel like the answer would be Gibraltar, but I'm probably wrong...

Afraid so. Think of somewhere further south than Gibraltar.