General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

River Arno

Correct!

Your turn to dip your toe in the water...

 

[MotCO]

Thank you.

Returning to the theme of JM Barrie, who owns the royalties of the book, Peter Pan?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Thank you.

Returning to the theme of JM Barrie, who owns the royalties of the book, Peter Pan?

Great Ormond Street Hospital isn’t it?

 

[MotCO]

Great Ormond Street Hospital isn’t it?

Correct, but to be pedantic, it is the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity; the hospital is NHS funded through exchequer monies, and as such is not allowed to receive donations. All donations are received by the charitable arm of the hospital (as is the case with all NHS hospitals) and a Board of Trustees oversee their use in line with the aims of the charity.

Your turn to wave the magic wand.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Who went, amongst other things, off in a caravan, off to camp, on a hike, and down to the sea?

 

[xotGD]

Who went, amongst other things, off in a caravan, off to camp, on a hike, and down to the sea?

Famous Five?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Famous Five?

Indeed they did. Smugglers’ Cove is all yours.....

 

[Strat-tastic]

Correct!

Your turn to dip your toe in the water...

Arno? Sounds wrong to me

 

[xotGD]

In 1937, at the University of Palermo in Sicily, Emilio Segrè and Carlo Perrier officially discovered what?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

In 1937, at the University of Palermo in Sicily, Emilio Segrè and Carlo Perrier officially discovered what?

Never ask a chemist such as myself and who knows the periodic table off by heart questions like this. They discovered an element which in theory had been predicted by Mendeleev - but officially discovered by our good friends in the question. It is element 43 Technetium. Btw Promethium element 61 had a similar outcome - predicted but not discovered until later. They Did NOT get the Nobel for this. They got it for discovery of the anti-proton I think.

 

[xotGD]

Never ask a chemist such as myself and who knows the periodic table off by heart questions like this. They discovered an element which in theory had been predicted by Mendeleev - but officially discovered by our good friends in the question. It is element 43 Technetium. Btw Promethium element 61 had a similar outcome - predicted but not discovered until later. They Did NOT get the Nobel for this. They got it for discovery of the anti-proton I think.

100 bonus points for answering questions that I didn't even ask!

Your turn to enter the laboratory of knowledge...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Let’s stick with the periodic table. No googling and no Wikipedia. Elements 103 and 116 combine ( not literally of course) to make the name of a famous and prestigious American Institution/college. What is the institution and bonus points for the elements?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Let’s stick with the periodic table. No googling and no Wikipedia. Elements 103 and 116 combine ( not literally of course) to make the name of a famous and prestigious American Institution/college. What is the institution and bonus pints for the elements?

I’ve no idea, which is a real shame as bonus pints sounds a great idea

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I’ve no idea, which is a real shame as bonus pints sounds a great idea

Hey if I was back in the UK I would be delighted to buy you a pint or three !

 

[MotCO]

Yale?

 

[xotGD]

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

103 Lawrencium
116 I'm assuming Livermorium?

 

[MotCO]

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

103 Lawrencium
116 I'm assuming Livermorium?

Thanks - I'll say that Yale begins with something which has a chemical symbol beginning with Ya (Yarminium?) and ends with Lawrencium

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Ignoring irrelevant thoughts that, depending on the isotope, Lawrencium should be either Dh or Te...

I think 116 is Moscovium (Mc). Lawrencium is I think Lr.

Therefore Laura Rockefeller Medical College might be a reasonable, if wrong, guess?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

103 Lawrencium
116 I'm assuming Livermorium?

Is the correct answer

 

[xotGD]

Moving away from the periodic table, which cricketer was nicknamed 'King of Spain'?

Bonus points if you know why.

 

[MotCO]

I can claim the bonus points, but can't recall the guy. A commemorative mug was produced for this guy with the slogan ‘King of Spin’, but the pottery messed up and wrote ‘King of Spain’.

 

[SuspectUsual]

I can claim the bonus points, but can't recall the guy. A commemorative mug was produced for this guy with the slogan ‘King of Spin’, but the pottery messed up and wrote ‘King of Spain’.

It was Ashley Giles

 

[xotGD]

I can claim the bonus points, but can't recall the guy. A commemorative mug was produced for this guy with the slogan ‘King of Spin’, but the pottery messed up and wrote ‘King of Spain’.

That is indeed how he got the nickname

It was Ashley Giles

It certainly was! Your turn to bowl from the pavilion end...

 

[SuspectUsual]

Sticking with cricket, ten grounds have hosted home England test matches. One of them only hosted one test. Which ground?

 

[MotCO]

Durham, Chester-le-Street (also known as Riverside)

 

[SuspectUsual]

Durham, Chester-le-Street (also known as Riverside)

No, they’ve staged 5 tests

 

[perryman]

I think would be Sheffield, a long way back in time, possible the late 1800s.

 

[martinsh]

Bramall Lane, Sheffield - 1902 ?

 

[SuspectUsual]

I think would be Sheffield, a long way back in time, possible the late 1800s.

Bramall Lane, Sheffield - 1902 ?

The first answer broadly correct, the second spot on. So martinsh, a gallon of Magnet and a good pinch of snuff is all yours.....

 

[martinsh]

Thanks. 1902 was just a guess !

Staying with sport. The originator of which sport was born in Salford ?