General Knowledge Quiz

[Gutfright]

Exploding sea shells? The CIA planned to get Fidel Castro to hold it up to his ear so he could hear the sea then they'd detonate it.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Exploding sea shells? The CIA planned to get Fidel Castro to hold it up to his ear so he could hear the sea then they'd detonate it.

No...

Try again

 

[DaleCooper]

Polaris missile? (They used come from the sea)

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Polaris missile? (They used come from the sea)

Nope...

Start listing Sea Life

 

[TheEdge]

Nope...

Start listing Sea Life

Eagle

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Eagle

No - try again

 

[DaleCooper]

Nope...

Start listing Sea Life

Plankton?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Plankton?

No - try again

 

[D6975]

They had been experimenting using dolphins to carry bombs to submarines, so I reckon they were looking at a retraining program for one of the dolphins.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

They had been experimenting using dolphins to carry bombs to submarines, so I reckon they were looking at a retraining program for one of the dolphins.

Yes...

Not just that, but the plan was to strap explosives to a Dolphin, get the creature to swim next to Castro whereupon the Dolphin would be remotely detonated by a submarine

Your beach, sir

 

[D6975]

A link question - what's the link between the following famous people?

Roddy McDowell
Leonard Nimoy
Faye Dunaway
Robert Vaughn
Billy Connolly
Johnny Cash
Dick van Dyke

 

[backontrack]

Columbo? With Peter Falk?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

A link question - what's the link between the following famous people?

Roddy McDowell
Leonard Nimoy
Faye Dunaway
Robert Vaughn
Billy Connolly
Johnny Cash
Dick van Dyke

Mission Impossible

 

[D6975]

Columbo? With Peter Falk?

That was quick.
Yes, they all played baddies on Columbo.

I left McGoohan off because I thought that he was a dead giveaway, being director for a while as well as repeat performances as a baddie.

Your floor sir.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

That was quick.
Yes, they all played baddies on Columbo.

I left McGoohan off because I thought that he was a dead giveaway, being director for a while as well as repeat performances as a baddie.

Your floor sir.

Columbo? Wasn't he the guy with the dirty mac that discovered America?

 

[Gutfright]

Once again I'm going to be an impatient jerk because the timer has elapsed.

What comes next in this list...

SC, GL, SC (again), RM, TD, PB, ??

 

[DaleCooper]

Once again I'm going to be an impatient jerk because the timer has elapsed.

What comes next in this list...

SC, GL, SC (again), RM, TD, PB, ??

DC (Daniel Craig)?

 

[Gutfright]

DC (Daniel Craig)?

DC is correct.

The list was of the initials of the actors to have portrayed James Bond (in an Eon production): Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.

The Licence to Kill is yours, DaleCooper...

 

[DaleCooper]

I was thinking of waiting until 20:59 to post a question but I don't want Gutfright's frayed nerves and chewed fingernails on my conscience so here goes:

Of which WW2 plane is this a part?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I was thinking of waiting until 20:59 to post a question but I don't want Gutfright's frayed nerves and chewed fingernails on my conscience so here goes:

Of which WW2 plane is this a part?

Is it a Lancaster III?

 

[Phil.]

That's the turret on a B.P. Defiant.

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it a Lancaster III?

Oh dear, I'm afraid it's not. Did you suggest that just to annoy me?

That's the turret on a B.P. Defiant.

It is indeed a Boulton Paul Defiant.

Your turn...

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Oh dear, I'm afraid it's not. Did you suggest that just to annoy me?

Not at all... I was just wondering if it was a behind cockpit turret as installed on a limited number of Lancaster IIIs

 

[Phil.]

Hmmm.
Which Irishman had an item of clothing, an item of food, an aeroplane and a school named after him?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Hmmm.
Which Irishman had an item of clothing, an item of food, an aeroplane and a school named after him?

Wellington

 

[Phil.]

Wellington

Correct.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Correct.

It had me flummoxed for a moment or two, thats for sure...

#

On Friday 11th of July 2014, for the first time in many years, the BBC did not play Sailing Away prior to the shipping forecast and instead broadcast what?

 

[Gutfright]

On Friday 11th of July 2014, for the first time in many years, the BBC did not play Sailing Away prior to the shipping forecast and instead broadcast what?

These are my best guesses. Surely one of them is right?

[youtube]JaAWdljhD5o[/youtube] [youtube]aoDivCGk14E[/youtube]

[youtube]InBXu-iY7cw[/youtube] [youtube]-0skjm-uJSs[/youtube]

[youtube]aUz3fLncTTs[/youtube]​

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

These are my best guesses. Surely one of them is right?

[youtube]JaAWdljhD5o[/youtube] [youtube]aoDivCGk14E[/youtube]

[youtube]InBXu-iY7cw[/youtube] [youtube]-0skjm-uJSs[/youtube]

[youtube]aUz3fLncTTs[/youtube]​

None of them are correct...

Try again

(Incidentally, in the village people video you linked, the guy in a officer's uniform at the start pipes aboard several seamen using a whistle call used for senior officers coming aboard and the forward 4.5in gun is trained inwards of the lubber's line and would appear to be aiming at the Port Admiral's Office)

 

[Gutfright]

(Incidentally, in the village people video you linked, the guy in a officer's uniform at the start pipes aboard several seamen using a whistle call used for senior officers coming aboard and the forward 4.5in gun is trained inwards of the lubber's line and would appear to be aiming at the Port Admiral's Office)

I am above making a puerile joke about the Village People and seamen.

Or Americans and friendly fire, for that matter.