General Knowledge Quiz

[backontrack]

Aww, that sounds like a serious answer and now our fun is ruined

Scroll up on the page before this one - we still reached some dizzying heights. I for one will never look at boats the same way again.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

A Radio 4 appeal?

Now that is close to the actual answer... However, it was not an appeal for a charity

 

[TheEdge]

Missing person appeal?

Crimewatch-esque appeal?

 

[backontrack]

A Party Political Broadcast?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Missing person appeal?

Sort of... Not just a missing person

A Party Political Broadcast?

Nope...

 

[DaleCooper]

This?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7GOMK50zbg

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

This?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7GOMK50zbg

Nope... But downloading this for the tablet

 

[backontrack]

An appeal for a missing ship?

 

[TheEdge]

Sort of... Not just a missing person

Not an appeal for any mariners who might have seen debris from MH370, given that had gone down a few months earlier. Maybe.

 

[DaleCooper]

Was it a list of names of those who had died in some tragedy?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Not an appeal for any mariners who might have seen debris from MH370, given that had gone down a few months earlier. Maybe.

No - not in the North Sea

Was it a list of names of those who had died in some tragedy?

No

An appeal for a missing ship?

Surprisingly, you got it... A yacht called the Equinox was reported Overdue and Unaccounted For. The family tried calling the yachtsman on his mobile but that did not work. Attempts to contact him via radio proved not to be a success, so HM Coastguard asked Radio 4 to put out an appeal prior to the shipping forecast on both FM and LW frequencies for all ships on passage in the North Sea to be on the look out for the yacht - giving out its sail number. Luckily, the yachtsman was found safe and well...

The floor belongs to backontrack if he wants it

 

[DaleCooper]

They cancelled Sailing By for that, have the BBC no sense of priorities? I wonder if they received an angry letter from "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells".

 

[ComUtoR]

I wasn't being serious I'm rarely serious for an Arky Mc Arkface question .

 

[backontrack]

Name every person in the video for Spitting Image's Every Bomb You Make. You've got to do it by watching the video and recognising each puppet.

However, I'll allow you to miss 4 out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDP-PYpPRY

[YOUTUBE]SmDP-PYpPRY[/YOUTUBE]

 

[TheEdge]

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, John Smith, ?, ?, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet, ?, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Old Hitler, Muammer Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, PW Botha, ?, Death

 

[backontrack]

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, John Smith, ?, ?, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet, ?, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Old Hitler, Muammer Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, PW Botha, ?, Death

...two of the above are incorrect, and two others are wrongly placed. But a fine effort indeed.

CLUE: Three of them have been leaders of the USSR.

 

[TheEdge]

Right, second question mark then is Konstantin Chernenko, possibly Erich Honecker between Pinochet and Amin. Not sure which are wrong, possibly Brezhnev and Scargill maybe

 

[backontrack]

Brehznev and Scargill are correct. Chernenko is in it but not there. Honecker is in it; Pinochet is not.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

...two of the above are incorrect, and two others are wrongly placed. But a fine effort indeed.

CLUE: Three of them have been Presidents of the USSR.

Actually, there was only one President of the Soviet Union...

 

[TheEdge]

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, John Smith, ?, Erich Honecker, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Leopoldo Galtieri, Konstantin Chernenko, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Old Hitler, Muammer Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, PW Botha, ?, Death

 

[theageofthetra]

Andropov the missing Soviet?

 

[backontrack]

Andropov the missing Soviet?

Mm-hmm.

I'm still surprised that nobody's mentioned the 5th puppet/4th line yet.

 

[DaleCooper]

Mm-hmm.

I'm still surprised that nobody's mentioned the 5th puppet/4th line yet.

Ian Paisley's in there, is that who you mean?

 

[backontrack]

Ian Paisley's in there, is that who you mean?

Correct!

 

[DaleCooper]

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, John Smith, ?, Erich Honecker, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Leopoldo Galtieri, Konstantin Chernenko, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Old Hitler, Muammer Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, PW Botha, ?, Death

Was TheEdge correct? You haven't replied to his attempt.

 

[backontrack]

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, John Smith, ?, Erich Honecker, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Leopoldo Galtieri, Konstantin Chernenko, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Old Hitler, Muammer Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, PW Botha, ?, Death

Galtieri is incorrect, as is John Smith. Indira Gandhi is one of the missing ones.

 

[DaleCooper]

Galtieri is incorrect, as is John Smith. Brehznev and Honecker are in the wrong places, as are Gaddafi and Chernenko. Indira Gandhi is also missing.

Be careful that you don't make people lose interest by being too picky.

 

[TheEdge]

Do you have a definite list for the answer? The one I've identified as Pinochet/Galtierri looks an awful lot like both of them and is of the right time period for Splitting Image to be doing

 

[backontrack]

Do you have a definite list for the answer? The one I've identified as Pinochet/Galtierri looks an awful lot like both of them and is of the right time period for Splitting Image to be doing

I do indeed have a definite list, and I'm afraid that neither of those two appear.

Don't worry about the name placements - you just have to get the names right.

Be careful that you don't make people lose interest by being too picky.

OK - but all the names do have to be right.

 

[DaleCooper]

OK - but all the names do have to be right.

Not if you choose to say "That's near enough, let's move on".