General Knowledge Quiz

[TheEdge]

Well take my last list then. You've confirmed Indira Grand and Ian Paisley (Who I assume are my question marks), add them and I think that puts me in under the 4 missing rule from the question

 

[backontrack]

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

*sighs*

Well, someone else is obviously keen to move this on, and I guess I don't have much of a choice in it.

I'll give it to Stanier TheEdge. Here's the actual line up.

1. Ronald Reagan
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Arthur Scargill & Ian McGregor
4. Ian Paisley
5. Leonid Brehznev
6. Robert Mugabe
7. Fidel Castro
8. Muammar Gaddafi
9. Yuri Andropov
10. Idi Amin
11. Erich Honecker
12. Old Hitler
13. Indira Gandhi
14. Ayatollah Khomeini
15. P. W. Botha
16. Konstantin Chernenko
17. Death

It's an amazingly powerful and moving statement, and it's incredibly emotive. After all the choked-up hatred and sadness, depression and angst following the miners' strike and dictatorships in other countries, Cuba and the Cold War... it's an amazing sentiment, and it's really well done too. They approached Sting to see if he would let them use the tune - and he offered to sing it too.

And the thing is, it's still relevant today. Just change the names. It's still the same. We have world leaders taking jobs and making bombs. There are fewer 'Irish wakes' nowadays, but there are migrant wakes. And think of the thousands and thousands of hearts that have been broken.

For anyone who hasn't watched the video yet, whether guest or member, I recommend that you do. It is incredibly powerful and, for anyone who was watching in the 1980s when this came on, it must have left an indelible memory with them.

TheEdge has the floor.
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Well take my last list then. You've confirmed Indira Grand and Ian Paisley (Who I assume are my question marks), add them and I think that puts me in under the 4 missing rule from the question

Beat you to it I'm afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

Well, someone else is obviously keen to move this on, and I guess I don't have much of a choice in it.

I didn't mean to sound pushy and I wasn't criticising it's just that these sorts of questions can lead to stagnation and we wouldn't want you turning into an aircraft carrier would we?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I didn't mean to sound pushy and I wasn't criticising it's just that these sorts of questions can lead to stagnation and we wouldn't want you turning into an aircraft carrier would we?

*raises hand*

I never answered this quiz round - except to point out an error made by backontrack. I am afraid it was rather difficult for me to get the faces

 

[backontrack]

I didn't mean to sound pushy and I wasn't criticising it's just that these sorts of questions can lead to stagnation and we wouldn't want you turning into an aircraft carrier would we?

Don't worry about it, I get your point.

At least it's better than:

1. Newhaven Marine
2. Newhaven Marine
3. Newhaven Marine
4. Newhaven Marine
5. Newhaven Marine
6. Newhaven Marine

...and so on and so forth.

 

[DaleCooper]

*raises hand*

Yes, you may leave the room but in future go to the toilet before the quiz starts.

 

[TheEdge]

I'll start semi-cryptically and give clues if wanted.

When did the British attack an American when looking for another Brit?

 

[DaleCooper]

Anything to do with Dr Livingstone?

 

[TheEdge]

No, not at all.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I'll start semi-cryptically and give clues if wanted.

When did the British attack an American when looking for another Brit?

Last time the yankies came over and started a bar fight?

 

[DaleCooper]

I'll start semi-cryptically and give clues if wanted.

When did the British attack an American when looking for another Brit?

Peter Sellers had a fight with a Yank who'd run off with his wife Britt Ekland.

 

[TheEdge]

No to all. I'm not necessarily thinking about people.

 

[DaleCooper]

Was it the American owned but British chatered SS Torrey Canyon which was bombed by the FAA and RAF?

 

[TheEdge]

Was it the American owned but British chatered SS Torrey Canyon which was bombed by the FAA and RAF?

Not but you are in the right county.
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Clue o'clock.

Identities may have been altered in the answer

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Request clarification:- Are we talking about a situation in wartime or during a period of armed combat operations?

 

[TheEdge]

We are.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Are we looking at the time the Americans (with french help) invaded the Cornish and Welsh area?

 

[TheEdge]

Nope. I'm surprised it has gone on this long...

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Nope. I'm surprised it has gone on this long...

So am I... Trying to think what else it could be

 

[TheEdge]

Again, the identities may be a bit of a red herring about the answer.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Again, the identities may be a bit of a red herring about the answer.

Indeed...

I call out and say it - The Battle of Newhaven Marine

 

[TheEdge]

Shock horror, no.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Shock horror, no.

It was worth a shot...


Could it be the firing of depth charges at an American submarine during the 2nd World War?

 

[TheEdge]

No, everything was intentional, it wasn't a friendly fire incident.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Anything to do with Exercise Tiger?

 

[TheEdge]

No, not training either

 

[DaleCooper]

Is the "American" an invasive species of plant or animal?

 

[TheEdge]

No. Last clue for a while. I'm thinking of a combat event that occurred after 1945. And, again, the nationalities might be a red herring to the answer. Think a bit laterally.
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Next clue. Despite searching the second "Brit" was never found.

 

[DaleCooper]

Was this an Argentinian Class 42 destroyer looking for a British aircraft carrier during the Falklands war?

 

[TheEdge]

Not but very very close. Remember my nationality red herring clue. Lateral thinking...