General Knowledge Quiz

[DasLunatic]

Plymouth

1. it is the only one on the coast
2. it is the only one whose football team won't be playing in League 1 next season

Correct. Your floor, good Sir.
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What led to the creation of the Kelston Toll Road?

 

[Gutfright]

Correct. Your floor, good Sir.
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What led to the creation of the Kelston Toll Road?

The invention of money in 1500 BCE and the invention of Tarmac in 1901?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I believe it was due to a section of the A431 road closed on 17 February 2014 due to a landslip - drivers would otherwise have to make a detour, so the guy built his own toll road

Tom Scott did a video on it

 

[DasLunatic]

I believe it was due to a section of the A431 road closed on 17 February 2014 due to a landslip - drivers would otherwise have to make a detour, so the guy built his own toll road

Tom Scott did a video on it

Absolutely correct. The road's now yours.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Absolutely correct. The road's now yours.

Thank you

In 2000, one episode of the gameshow Fifteen to One was not broadcast and the Grand Final was heavily edited - why was this?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you

In 2000, one episode of the gameshow Fifteen to One was not broadcast and the Grand Final was heavily edited - why was this?

Because it was crap?

 

[Gutfright]

One of the contestants was a murderer or something and was edited out of the show?

 

[DaleCooper]

One of the contestants was a murderer or something and was edited out of the show?

That didn't stop them broadcasting Eastenders with Leslie Grantham.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

One of the contestants was a murderer or something and was edited out of the show?

Close enough...

The man, and that's all we know, was involved in a murder case and could not be identified for legal reasons. To this day, Channel 4 retained ownership to all episodes and have never broadcast it or turned it over to Challenge for rebroadcast in full

Your floor

 

[Gutfright]

I knew one day one of my crazy guesses would come good!

Why is the number -1/12 significant in maths?

 

[DasLunatic]

It's the sum of all natural numbers?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I knew one day one of my crazy guesses would come good!

Why is the number -1/12 significant in maths?

Is it a standard measurement of scale?

 

[Springs Branch]

Maybe a bit specialised for a General Knowledge quiz, but the value of the Riemann Zeta function for the first negative integer, ζ(-1) = -1/12

 

[Gutfright]

It's the sum of all natural numbers?

Astonishingly, that's the right answer!

1+2+3+4+5+... all the way to infinity equals -1/12 hock:

The blackboard is yours...

 

[DasLunatic]

Where is the fourth-largest flagpole in the world?

 

[Gutfright]

Is that the one on, or near, the DMZ in North Korea?

 

[DasLunatic]

Is that the one on, or near, the DMZ in North Korea?

Close enough - it in the village of Kijŏng-dong, inside the DMZ. It's your floor again.

 

[Gutfright]

I hereby declare the floor...open!

 

[DaleCooper]

I hereby declare the floor...open!

As your last question has messed up my brain this is my revenge:

Why is the number 13,120,819 significant in maths?

 

[Gutfright]

Is it the biggest number known to science?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it the biggest number known to science?

I think Avogadro's number is a tad bigger, but he doesn't often lend it out.

 

[fowler9]

As your last question has messed up my brain this is my revenge:

Why is the number 13,120,819 significant in maths?

Wild stab in the dark, biggest Prime number?

 

[DaleCooper]

Wild stab in the dark, biggest Prime number?

I don't know if it is a prime number but I'm pretty sure there are bigger ones, in fact I don't think there's any limit on the size of prime numbers.

 

[90019]

It's a simple cipher - a=1, b=2, c=3, etc.

13 1 20 8 19 is significant in maths because it literally spells "maths".

 

[DaleCooper]

It's a simple cipher - a=1, b=2, c=3, etc.

13 1 20 8 19 is significant in maths because it literally spells "maths".

Yes, a simple question posed by a simple man. Your turn...

 

[90019]

What was the reason for Alfa Romeo calling their current small car the MiTo?

 

[t_star2001uk]

Is it an abbreviation of the cities Milano (Milan) & Torino (Turin) where it was designed and built.

Open floor if correct....

 

[90019]

Exactly right.

 

[backontrack]

I'll take it...

Who is the most recent MP to have been de-seated in a General Election while being leader of both their party (name the party) and the UK itself?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

James Gordon Brown, Labour