General Knowledge Quiz

[Strat-tastic]

Not there yet.

Sorry I haven't replied sooner, but my pet has been poorly...

 

[Strat-tastic]

Have I stumped you? Good job I'm giving one clue PER day.

 

[DaleCooper]

Varieties of pepper?

 

[sk688]

They've All driven in V6 Turbo engined F1 Cars ?

 

[Strat-tastic]

OK one more clue then I'll give the answer tomorrow.

I'm not name dropping but Jolyon Palmer is a friend.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Were they all at one time Test Drivers before becoming Race Drivers?

 

[ComUtoR]

Do they all play Guitar ?

 

[ComUtoR]

Did they all fail their driving tests ? I seem to remember that Lewis Hamilton had an F1 licence before a UK driving licence.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Are their initials also acronyms? Some are also IATA airline codes?

This is the closest yet in terms of lateral thinking.

I bet Hamilton enjoyed a nice meat sandwich after yesterday's win. Perhaps with mustard?

 

[DaleCooper]

From the clues given it appears to be something to do with the first letters of their surnames:

I bet Hamilton enjoyed a nice meat (ham) sandwich
I'm not name dropping but Jolyon Palmer is a friend (pal)
Good job I'm giving one clue PER (Perez) day
but my pet has been poorly - needs the Vet(tel)
Not cucumber... But(ton)...oo there's a cryptic clue indeed

That's as far as I've got, does it help anyone?

 

[gg1]

From the clues given it appears to be something to do with the first letters of their surnames:

I bet Hamilton enjoyed a nice meat (ham) sandwich
I'm not name dropping but Jolyon Palmer is a friend (pal)
Good job I'm giving one clue PER (Perez) day
but my pet has been poorly - needs the Vet(tel)
Not cucumber... But(ton)...oo there's a cryptic clue indeed

That's as far as I've got, does it help anyone?

I was thinking broadlly along those lines, you can extract at least one three letter word from each of the names..... at least all accept Pascal Wehrlein. Also there's no obvious link between the words

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Ah... do the names all contain railway station CRS codes...?

 

[Strat-tastic]

From the clues given it appears to be something to do with the first letters of their surnames:

I bet Hamilton enjoyed a nice meat (ham) sandwich
I'm not name dropping but Jolyon Palmer is a friend (pal)
Good job I'm giving one clue PER (Perez) day
but my pet has been poorly - needs the Vet(tel)
Not cucumber... But(ton)...oo there's a cryptic clue indeed

That's as far as I've got, does it help anyone?

You're on the right track Dale; you have identified the driver and the word. Or is it just a word? If you were watching the Grand Prix, where might you see them? And what differentiates these from other drivers?

Answer time this afternoon if no takers. It's time to move the quiz on methinks.

 

[ComUtoR]

You're on the right track Dale; you have identified the driver and the word. Or is it just a word? If you were watching the Grand Prix, where might you see them? And what differentiates these from other drivers?

Answer time this afternoon if no takers. It's time to move the quiz on methinks.

Is it the initials they use for the timings ? I kinda gave up on F1 a while back. Once Jordan went

 

[Strat-tastic]

Is it the initials they use for the timings ? I kinda gave up on F1 a while back. Once Jordan went

They are the 3-letter abbreviations used for each driver. What distinguishes these from other drivers is that they also spell words in English, at least according to Google definitions. Who knew RAI is a style of music fusing Arabic and Algerian folk elements with Western rock? Probably most of you actually come to think of it; you're clever bods on here

Well I don't know who to give it to. Dale cracked one part and you another. You're both on the podium so decide between you who sprays the champagne first.

 

[DaleCooper]

They are the 3-letter abbreviations used for each driver. What distinguishes these from other drivers is that they also spell words in English, at least according to Google definitions. Who knew RAI is a style of music fusing Arabic and Algerian folk elements with Western rock? Probably most of you actually come to think of it; you're clever bods on here

Well I don't know who to give it to. Dale cracked one part and you another. You're both on the podium so decide between you who sprays the champagne first.

Weh isn't an English word, if you use the first Google link it says:

weh. (yä′wā, -wĕ) also Yah·veh (-vā, -vĕ) or Jah·veh (yä′vā, -vĕ) or Jah·weh (yä′wā, -wĕ) n. A name for God thought to represent the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton among the ancient Hebrews.

However if you follow the link you find that is a truncated version of the full text:

Yah·weh

(yä′wā, -wĕ) also Yah·veh (-vā, -vĕ) or Jah·veh (yä′vā, -vĕ) or Jah·weh (yä′wā, -wĕ)n. A name for God thought to represent the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton among the ancient Hebrews.

I concede the floor to ComUtoR

 

[ComUtoR]

Thanks Dale.

Which Simpson regular 'sleeps with the fishes' ?

 

[TheEdge]

Troy McClure. Married Selma to rid himself of several rumours, including that one

 

[ComUtoR]

Troy McClure. Married Selma to rid himself of several rumours, including that one

Hi, I'm CorrectAnswer. You may have seen me in such quizes as Pointless and RailUK General Knowledge Quiz.

 

[TheEdge]

I'm currently sunning myself in Cyprus so not checking anything like enough.

Open floor

 

[theageofthetra]

In the early 70's film versions of many popular British tv series were made. Some were good- Sweeney, Steptoe & Son, Porridge etc and some were awful Are you being served? being right up there!

They often made very good box office sales during a period when cinemas were very run down and were losing audiences.

Which set of very British circumstances made them such a box office success?

 

[DaleCooper]

In the early 70's film versions of many popular British tv series were made. Some were good- Sweeney, Steptoe & Son, Porridge etc and some were awful Are you being served? being right up there!

They often made very good box office sales during a period when cinemas were very run down and were losing audiences.

Which set of very British circumstances made them such a box office success?

This has been unanswered for some time now, any chance of a clue?

 

[Cowley]

Were they shown especially between pub opening times or something like that?

 

[GusB]

I'm thinking it might have been the three-day week. From the Wikipedia page:

Television shut at 10:30 p.m. each night, and most pubs were closed.

 

[theageofthetra]

This is along the right lines- when were many of these films released?

 

[Cowley]

1973? I don't without looking it up but I think it was around then.
I'm just chipping in though because Gus got most of it right I reckon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Well, I have checked (apologies!), and this theory doesn't seem to be right - well, I think so, anyway.

The three day week was between 1st January and 7th March 1974, but none of these films were released during this period, nor had they been released at the end of (or, in fact, in) 1973.

I don't know whether this is right, but were all these films shown as part of a double bill with a much more high profile film being the other part?

if this isn't right, I don't know what the answer is!

 

[DaleCooper]

The films mentioned span the period 1972 to 1979, the only thing I can think of that applied for all or most of that period was high inflation. Were people spending their money at the cinema before it lost its value?

 

[GusB]

The only other event I can suggest is decimalisation, which happened a year before the period during which those films were released.

I wasn't released until the second half of 1974, so it's not an era I remember particularly well

 

[theageofthetra]

Its to do with the time of year...