General Knowledge Quiz

[444045]

Does it have anything to do with Paul setting up Wings at all ?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Does it have anything to do with Paul setting up Wings at all ?

....is the correct answer to part 2. McCartney announced the formation of Wings on 3/8/71

 

[444045]

Re 3rd Aug 63 - was that the last performance by the Beatles at the Cavern club ?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Re 3rd Aug 63 - was that the last performance by the Beatles at the Cavern club ?

It was indeed. The stage is yours. Just don’t perform Mull Of Kintyre

 

[444045]

I can't sing for toffee so no worries there!

What were introduced as an experiment in Norwich in 1959 ?

 

[Calthrop]

Post-codes for addresses, by the Royal Mail?

 

[444045]

Post-codes for addresses, by the Royal Mail?

You're spot on - that didn't last long - the floor is yours

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you !

General-knowledge question with something of a rail flavour: --

In which -- in a broad sense -- work of imaginative art, by whom: is it decreed that perpetrators of vandalism on railway property, should travel by rail -- if at all -- from Stockport to Stalybridge, say, in highly rugged conditions? ("Bonus points" for naming the character in the work, who ordains that this is to happen.)

 

[Jimbob52]

Thank you !

General-knowledge question with something of a rail flavour: --

In which -- in a broad sense -- work of imaginative art, by whom: is it decreed that perpetrators of vandalism on railway property, should travel by rail -- if at all -- from Stockport to Stalybridge, say, in highly rugged conditions? ("Bonus points" for naming the character in the work, who ordains that this is to happen.)

Could this be

‘The idiot who, in railway carriages, scribbles on window panes,

We only suffer to ride on a buffer in Parliamentary trains’

as sung by the Mikado in the operetta of the same name by Gilbert and Sullivan?

 

[Calthrop]

@Jimbob52 -- you're absolutely correct ! Your crime-fitting punishment to promulgate...

 

[Jimbob52]

Thank you.

How well do you know your US Presidents? For full marks, please name:

• The President who was ambidextrous. It was said he could write with both hands simultaneously.
• The President who filed a patent for increasing the buoyancy of boats.
• The only President to have a PhD.

For a bonus, which President was reputed to have become stuck in a White House bathtub (though the story doesn’t hold water)?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Thank you.

How well do you know your US Presidents? For full marks, please name:

• The President who was ambidextrous. It was said he could write with both hands simultaneously.
• The President who filed a patent for increasing the buoyancy of boats.
• The only President to have a PhD.

For a bonus, which President was reputed to have become stuck in a White House bathtub (though the story doesn’t hold water)?

That is quite easy as they are a passion of mine

Swung both left and right -- Mr James Garfield
Patent --- That would be Honest ABE aka Abraham Lincoln
and Dr Woodrow Wilson

 

[Jimbob52]

I had a feeling Gralistair would know the answers!

President Taft was reputed to have got stuck in the bathtub.

Gralistair, the Presidential Chain of Office is yours.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Hopefully this is an easy one for you. It is related to Fleet Street. What was the name of the columnist who wrote for the Express Group who made frequent trips home (and wrote about it ) to Auchtermuchty (and I know wear the fox hat ) ?

 

[MotCO]

John Junor?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

B----y H--- that was quick and the correct answer. Fleet Street is yours.

 

[MotCO]

B----y H--- that was quick and the correct answer. Fleet Street is yours.

I somehow dredged that up from the back of my memory. I used to like reading his column in the Sunday Express.

Where was Marble Arch originally located, and what function did it have when it was moved to its present site?

 

[xotGD]

I somehow dredged that up from the back of my memory. I used to like reading his column in the Sunday Express.

Where was Marble Arch originally located, and what function did it have when it was moved to its present site?

Don't know where it was previously, but wasn't it a site for public executions?

 

[Trackman]

Don't know where it was previously, but wasn't it a site for public executions?

Yes Tyburn Tree is nearby to the left of it I think (which actually wasn't a tree)
They moved executions to Newgate as posh neighbours got upset about the hangings.

I should know the answer, I think it's something to do with Queen Victoria.
I think it was on the Mall.
Function? Some sort of gateway

 

[SuspectUsual]

Where was Marble Arch originally located, and what function did it have when it was moved to its present site?

No idea where it was originally located, but a guess at the other half. I know it was designed by John Nash, and he was active in the early 19th century, so perhaps a memorial to the dead of and/or a celebration of the victory in the Napoleonic Wars?

 

[MotCO]

No idea where it was originally located, but a guess at the other half. I know it was designed by John Nash, and he was active in the early 19th century, so perhaps a memorial to the dead of and/or a celebration of the victory in the Napoleonic Wars?

Sorry, not a memorial.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Was it something to do with royalty - like a grand entrance to the various palaces?

 

[Jimbob52]

I somehow dredged that up from the back of my memory. I used to like reading his column in the Sunday Express.

Where was Marble Arch originally located, and what function did it have when it was moved to its present site?

I think it was originally designed to be an entrance to Buckingham Palace, possibly before The Mall was laid out.

On its current site it was used as a police station.

 

[MotCO]

I think it was originally designed to be an entrance to Buckingham Palace, possibly before The Mall was laid out.

On its current site it was used as a police station.

Correct on both counts. Please take the floor.

 

[Jimbob52]

Thank you.

Most pop songs in the ‘sixties had a standard format of two verses, a chorus and a third verse but there was one that had a unique structure.
A mega hit, it was an operatic ballad with seven seamless movements, none of which is repeated. Two decades later it was used in a dark thriller film.

What is the song and who wrote and performed it?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

House of the Rising Sun - performed by the Animals - written by unknown ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

And if that is wrong may I have a second guess? Knights in White Satin - performed by the Moody Blues and written by Justin Hayward .

 

[Jimbob52]

Two of my favourites but, so far as I am aware, neither featured in a 'dark thriller' film. A third guess?

 

[444045]

Was it "Bits and Pieces" by Dusty Springfield -

 

[martinsh]

Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harum ?