General Knowledge Quiz

[GRALISTAIR]

No connotations of any sort of cruelty or nastiness -- mental processes following a totally different track.

I was going to ask if it was anything to do with Hells Angels but I think the no nastiness rules that out.

 

[444045]

Is it used by Blacksmiths ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Is it to do with Vikings? I was thinking Thor’s hammer and peen is a Norse name or something?

 

[Calthrop]

Indeed, no Hells Angels; or blacksmiths, or Vikings. It concerns something trans-lingual (no Scandinavian language involved !).

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Is it the name or close derivation in another language of the inventor?

 

[Calthrop]

Is it the name or close derivation in another language of the inventor?

It is indeed. Can you be more specific?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Something like Pignon prounced peeenyyonn so I suppose French or Flemish Belgium.

 

[Calthrop]

Something like Pignon prounced peeenyyonn so I suppose French or Flemish Belgium.

The "foreign" connection is less complicated than that: this kind of hammer is supposedly called after its alleged inventor, a French metal-worker named Jacques Balpien. Wiki gives this derivation, alongside the stodgy-in-comparison everyday definition: a double-headed hammer with its smaller, rounded (hence "ball") head used for peening, i.e. bending, shaping, or flattening stuff. The "Jacques Balpien" thing strikes me as having a strong urban-legend-ish feel -- but as more fun than the straight, practical explanation.

Nobody came up with Monsieur Balpien; and @GRALISTAIR, you got the "called after the inventor" element; so, the floor is yours.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Until very recently if at all on the periodic table elements 1-92 (not the trans -uranics) only 2 elements are not(so far) found in nature. Which ones are they?

 

[MotCO]

Can I kick off with a guess of Neon?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Are we talking here of unstable elements with ultra short half lives?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Are we talking here of unstable elements with ultra short half lives?

Absolutely not. Between The numbers 1-92 so not artificially made. And names.

Can I kick off with a guess of Neon?

Neon is found naturally sorry.

 

[martinsh]

Element 43 Tc - Technetium is one of them

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Element 43 Tc - Technetium is one of them

It most certainly is - well done. And 1 more - clue it is a Lanthanide.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The 2nd element name and symbol begins with P - last clue

 

[xotGD]

Polonium

 

[MotCO]

Plutonium?

 

[341o2]

I thought of that, but t is no 94

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Polonium

Plutonium?

Sorry neither are correct - between 44 and 80 atomic number

 

[DerekC]

Is it cheating to listen to Tom Lehrer's "The Elements"? I think it must be Promethium.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Promethium is the correct answer. So @martinsh and yourself share the electrons in a covalent bond. Fight it out amongst yourselves

 

[DerekC]

I am happy to defer to @martinsh since I cheated a bit.

 

[martinsh]

What unwanted sporting record is held by the city / region of Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Lowest score of any side in 1st Class Cricket?

 

[martinsh]

Lowest score of any side in 1st Class Cricket?

No, not lowest score, but you're very close

 

[GRALISTAIR]

No, not lowest score, but you're very close

Most runs conceded by any side in 1st class cricket?

 

[444045]

Didn't they lose their 1st match to Pakistan Railways by an innings and 851 runs and then didn't play a game for 20 years ?

 

[MotCO]

Were all players out for 0, and possibly the only runs scored were extras?

 

[martinsh]

Didn't they lose their 1st match to Pakistan Railways by an innings and 851 runs and then didn't play a game for 20 years ?

Correct ! Your embarrassingly large defeat

Full scorecard available here
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/545574/scorecard/545575/pakistan-railways-vs-dera-ismail-khan-

 

[GRALISTAIR]

1 for 279 bowling vs 16 wickets for 21 - wow just wow