General Knowledge Quiz

[MotCO]

What about Gordon Brown? He was Kirkcaldy

Completely forgot about him - easily done

 

[SuspectUsual]

Callaghan was MP for somewhere in South Wales but I’ve no idea what seat

 

[SuspectUsual]

Completely forgot about him - easily done

Well yes

 

[444045]

Callaghan - Cardiff

 

[MotCO]

Callaghan - Cardiff

Cardiff South and Penarth to be precise. This moves your score on to 29 points and no passes. I declare you the winner and ask you to take the floor.

 

[444045]

What or who is the connection between The Brothers & UFO & Crossroads please ?

 

[xotGD]

Birmingham?

 

[perryman]

Is it Sutton Coldfield?

 

[444045]

Is it Sutton Coldfield?

Sorry not the right answer

 

[444045]

Birmingham?

Sorry not the right answer

 

[444045]

Clue: Its a person you're looking for not a location

 

[MotCO]

Benny?

(For person, do you mean character or actor?)

 

[444045]

Benny?

(For person, do you mean character or actor?)

An actor please

 

[MotCO]

Ronald Allen?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Eleanor Rigby was surely one of the songs?

 

[MotCO]

Gabrielle Drake?

 

[444045]

Eleanor Rigby was surely one of the songs?

Sorry it wasn't

 

[444045]

Gabrielle Drake?

Spot on it was Gabrielle Drake - the floor is all yours

 

[MotCO]

What did Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert famously design?

 

[Romsey]

What did Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert famously design?

The standard typeface for current UK roadsigns?

 

[Strat-tastic]

Spot on it was Gabrielle Drake - the floor is all yours

Please explain

 

[444045]

Please explain

Sorry I will do that for you - Gabrielle played Lieutanant Gay Ellis in UFO - Nicola Free=an in Crossroads and Gill Ha==ond in The Brothers

Unfortunately the laptop won't allow the letter between L and N or full stop so substuited it with a =

Apologises for this

 

[MotCO]

The standard typeface for current UK roadsigns?

Definitely in the right ball park. I was thinking of the signs themselves, but they did also design the typeface. Thus the triangle with a girl and boy holding hands with 'Patrol' beneath was designed as a warning for a school patrol. These were introduced from January 1965.

I think that they were also responsible for consistency in direction signs. Thus the same towns appear on the road direction signs at junctions and roundabouts until you get to said town, whereupon a new distant town appears. (Can anyone confirm?)

The floor is yours.

 

[Romsey]

Thanks. I think they also helped to create the policy for different background colours, brown for tourist sites, green for trunk roads and blue for motorways.

Where is "Brazen Bottom"? It is does appear on bus route and destination blinds.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Oooooh, I know this. On the Imber bus

 

[Romsey]

Oooooh, I know this. On the Imber bus

Spot on, on the route to Market Lavington.

All yours, two bells....

PS Imber Bus 2020 is cancelled along with everything else, but Imber Bus 2021 could be good as no private vehicles are going to be allowed to use the road to Imber.

 

[SuspectUsual]

If Stevenage was first, where was tenth and last

 

[MotCO]

With thanks to Mrs MotCO, I know what the series is, but I do not know the specific answer. Can I gues Milton Keynes?

 

[SuspectUsual]

With thanks to Mrs MotCO, I know what the series is, but I do not know the specific answer. Can I gues Milton Keynes?

You can guess, but you’ve guessed wrong I’m afraid

 

[perryman]

Bracknell, sometime in the mid-60s?