General Knowledge Quiz

[Calthrop]

Greece

Spain

Portugal

Reading your answers as "respectively":


No

No

Yes -- epic poetic work by Luis Vaz de Camoes (1525? -- 1580), celebrating Portugal's voyages of discovery in that era.


One down, two to go.

 

[MotCO]

The following, are generally considered the greatest / "defining" / most beloved works of literature, of their respective European countries. (Two shown here in their English forms, to avoid "dead giveaways"; the third is untranslatable.


Master Thaddeus

The Kalevala

The Lusiads


Which are the respective countries concerned? (Correct country for each, is all that is asked for; any extra info -- the authors, or whatever -- welcome, but "just for fun".)

Denmark
Greece
(Portugal)

 

[Calthrop]

Denmark
Greece
(Portugal)

Afraid not. Paring things down a little bit (in part, re imaginable "wrong order" situations): the two which are still to get, are not Denmark, Greece, or -- per @xotGD -- Spain.

 

[xotGD]

Sweden and Finland?

 

[Calthrop]

Sweden and Finland?

Respectively for first and second entries:

Master Thaddeus -- not Sweden.

The Kalevala -- Finland is correct. Quoting Wiki: "A 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lonnrot, from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology."


There remains just "M.T." to get !

 

[444045]

I believe thats Lithunia

 

[Calthrop]

I believe thats Lithunia

You're very warm there...

 

[444045]

Lets try Poland then as I think Lithuania was part of the title of the poem

 

[xotGD]

If Lithuania is close, I'll try Latvia.

 

[Calthrop]

Lets try Poland then as I think Lithuania was part of the title of the poem

Poland is correct: the grand-scale epic poem (date 1834), in Polish, by Adam Mickiewicz: "Pan Tadeusz = Master Thaddeus -- Or, the last Foray in Lithuania" -- reckoned as Poland's national epic. (Lithuanian territory does indeed play a part in the work -- and a couple of centuries ago, Poland and Lithuania were not such sharply-distinguished different nations, as is the case nowadays -- but Mickiewicz and the poem are, essentially, Polish through and through.)

If Lithuania is close, I'll try Latvia.

Wrong direction gone in -- bad luck !

Final score: @xotGD gets two (Finland, Portugal); @444045 one (Poland). @xotGD has the floor.

 

[xotGD]

Sport:

As well as being a bird, an albatross is a term used in a sporting context. In which sport and what does it signify?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Sport:

As well as being a bird, an albatross is a term used in a sporting context. In which sport and what does it signify?

Golf - a birdie is one under par, an eagle two under par and an ALBATROSS is 3 under par - very rare indeed.

 

[xotGD]

Golf - a birdie is one under par, an eagle two under par and an ALBATROSS is 3 under par - very rare indeed.

Totally correct. Your turn to tee-off...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Anther easy sports question. Who was the bowler and county he played for when Sir Garfield Sobers hit him for 6 sixes in one over?

 

[xotGD]

County I think was Glamorgan. Not sure of the bowler's name - Nash?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

County I think was Glamorgan. Not sure of the bowler's name - Nash?

Correct. Your turn at the crease

 

[xotGD]

Change of topic - which UK airport has the three letter code MME?

 

[John Griffiths]

Teesside?

 

[xotGD]

Teesside?

That's the one!

You're cleared for takeoff...

 

[John Griffiths]

Ha! Who's "wasting his time" watching hours of Flightradar24 now! Thank you.

The men of which port severely hacked off the Grimsbarians with their commercial tactics, but ended up settling by the River Hull?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Ha! Who's "wasting his time" watching hours of Flightradar24 now! Thank you.

The men of which port severely hacked off the Grimsbarians with their commercial tactics, but ended up settling by the River Hull?

Immingham? More probably Beverly?

 

[John Griffiths]

Not Beverley, sorry.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'll try the crossed out attempt at Immingham then!

 

[John Griffiths]

Not Immingham, either, I'm afraid.

Hint: what might have happened to this port?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Oh.... settled as in washed away?

That has to be Ravenser?

 

[John Griffiths]

Well done, Peter: it is Ravenser, or Ravenser Odd, or Ravenserodd according to taste. Your floor!

The settled bit was literal - refugee merchants from Ravenser settled at the East side of the River Hull at Hull.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Well done, Peter: it is Ravenser, or Ravenser Odd, or Ravenserodd according to taste. Your floor!

The settled bit was literal - refugee merchants from Ravenser settled at the East side of the River Hull at Hull.

Thank you, yes - I got it as soon as you gave the clue suggesting that it wasn't "settled" as in "starting to live there"...

Anyway... this is hopefully an easy one:

Two very popular but very different American crime series on TV, both which were also shown in the UK, once did a combined special series in which the stars of both shows were involved as their regular characters.

Which two series were they?

 

[444045]

I can recall an episode of Charlies Angels in Las Vegas with Dan Tanna of Vegas fame together

 

[Peter Mugridge]

That's not the one in question; the one I am thinking of was a special series of at least three episodes.

 

[MotCO]

I'm assuming that both programmes were set in the same state. For that reason I'm going for Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI.