General Knowledge Quiz

[Cowley]

Robbie Fowler?

 

[TheEdge]

No. There is no joke or humour in this one. This person genuinely had to declare themselves as human not deity.

 

[DaleCooper]

Was it the Japanese emperor at the end of WW2 as part of the surrender?

 

[TheEdge]

Correct, as part of the reconstruction of Japan after WW2 Hirohito made the Humanity Declaration declaring the Emperor of Japan as human and not a living god.

Your throne.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct, as part of the reconstruction of Japan after WW2 Hirohito made the Humanity Declaration declaring the Emperor of Japan as human and not a living god.

Your throne.

Next question:

Two words of five letters, identical but for the letters shown. They are both feminine nouns but with very different, some might say incompatible or even opposite, meanings. What are the words?

***e*
***a*

 

[Calthrop]

Next question:

Two words of five letters, identical but for the letters shown. They are both feminine nouns but with very different, some might say incompatible or even opposite, meanings. What are the words?

***e*
***a*

"Queen" (stylish and part of polite society, if nothing else) and "quean" (bygone days' "chavette" equivalent, probably no better than she ought to be).

 

[DaleCooper]

"Queen" (stylish and part of polite society, if nothing else) and "quean" (bygone days' "chavette" equivalent, probably no better than she ought to be).

Well done, I thought some hints would be needed but you got the answer without them.

Your turn...

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks DC.

You are reading a historical novel set in the 3rd century BC, in what will later become southern England. The tribal chieftain is dining on roast wild boar and venison, with side-dishes of onions and leeks, cabbage, and turnips. What's wrong here?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Thanks DC.

You are reading a historical novel set in the 3rd century BC, in what will later become southern England. The tribal chieftain is dining on roast wild boar and venison, with side-dishes of onions and leeks, cabbage, and turnips. What's wrong here?

Not all of it was available in that time period in England?

 

[Phil.]

Thanks DC.

You are reading a historical novel set in the 3rd century BC, in what will later become southern England. The tribal chieftain is dining on roast wild boar and venison, with side-dishes of onions and leeks, cabbage, and turnips. What's wrong here?

How did someone in a BC age know that they were in a BC age?

 

[Calthrop]

Not all of it was available in that time period in England?

That's the basic idea -- can you be more specific?

How did someone in a BC age know that they were in a BC age?

Or -- if someone tries to sell you a "Roman" coin with a BC date on it, you can be sure that it's a fake... (sorry -- seriously, that isn't the stumbling-block: one takes it that the author finds some way of conveying to the reader, when in history this stuff is taking place).

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm sure one of the vegetables isn't native to the British Isles so I'll go for cabbage.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm sure one of the vegetables isn't native to the British Isles so I'll go for cabbage.

Including cabbage, but very definitely more than one...

 

[Cowley]

It sounds like a diet from many centuries later. May I make a guess at none of them being available at that time apart from perhaps Venison?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

That's the basic idea -- can you be more specific?

I'm heading towards the leeks

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm heading towards the leeks

Don't forget to wash your hands.

 

[Calthrop]

It sounds like a diet from many centuries later. May I make a guess at none of them being available at that time apart from perhaps Venison?

It was maybe a bit of a trick question – anyway, to avoid prolonged nitpickery-type dragging-on: Cowley, you’ve basically got the target – though wild boar, and deer, were both abundant in Britain at that time. However – none of the four vegetables mentioned, were then known in Britain. They were all introduced thereto by the Romans; and the same applies to garlic, shallots, peas, celery, radishes and asparagus.

I only recently learned this information, at the excavated Roman villa at Brading, Isle of Wight: was amazed by it. It would seem that the original Ancient British diet must have been decidedly on the dull side.

Solum vestrum est, o Cowleye.

 

[TheEdge]

I only recently learned this information, at the excavated Roman villa at Brading, Isle of Wight: was amazed by it. It would seem that the original Ancient British diet must have been decidedly on the dull side..

Maybe they had some sort of proto-curry, Chickus Tikkas Masalus perhaps...

 

[Calthrop]

Maybe they had some sort of proto-curry, Chickus Tikkas Masalus perhaps...

Or perhaps the Druids did some clever stuff -- now forever lost to human knowledge -- with mistletoe...

 

[Cowley]

Thanks Mr C.
I'm a bit busy at the moment and can't think of anything worth asking so I'd better say open floor folks.

 

[ComUtoR]

ANATO
ADATR
AKOM
FG

What are they, what links them, who am I...

I'll take any of those answers.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

All are Queen albums

A Night At The Opera

A Day At The Races

A Kind of Magic

Flash Gordon

 

[ComUtoR]

That was quick. There can be only one winner....

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

That was quick. There can be only one winner....

Thank you...

#

What was Churchill's reaction to a policeman finding one of his MPs in a bush with a Guardsman?

 

[AlterEgo]

Thank you...

#

What was Churchill's reaction to a policeman finding one of his MPs in a bush with a Guardsman?

Nothing, because it never happened.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you...

#

What was Churchill's reaction to a policeman finding one of his MPs in a bush with a Guardsman?

Nothing, because it never happened.

Or for those who opine that it did happen -- with it having been the coldest night of the winter, he remarked, "Makes you proud to be British".

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Or for those who opine that it did happen -- with it having been the coldest night of the winter, he remarked, "Makes you proud to be British".

Yep... I was watching an old episode of QI last night and couldn't resist putting that in... Oddly, I thought Dale would have got it

Your floor, Calthrop

 

[Calthrop]

Yep... I was watching an old episode of QI last night and couldn't resist putting that in... Oddly, I thought Dale would have got it

Your floor, Calthrop

Thanks.

William Shakespeare, and Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) -- widely reckoned the greatest writers to date, in the English and Spanish languages respectively -- died in April 1616, effectively simultaneously. True or false?

 

[DaleCooper]

Well it's a 50/50 chance so - False.

 

[TheEdge]

I guess avocado.
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Also, true.