General Knowledge Quiz

[EbbwJunction1]

Which reminds me, how come Glamorgan CCC sometimes play their home games at Colwyn Bay?

Because Glamorgan represent the whole of Wales in cricketing terms.

They've played at a lot of grounds outside the conventional counties of Glamorgan (i.e. South, West and Mid) over the years - Newport, Ebbw Vale and Abergavenny - the old county of Gwent; Llanelli (Carmarthenshire) being a few. There's also at least one in Pembrokeshire, although I can't remember the name for now.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Because Glamorgan represent the whole of Wales in cricketing terms.

I'm obliged sir.

Anyhoo, back to our regular quizzing.... Was it Marton who should now be carrying the bat?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Liverpool
Blackpool
Southport
Old Trafford

You were first with the correct answer. Over to you ( sorry weak pun)

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Sedbergh, Cumbria (formerly Yorkshire)? Are LCC and YCC planning to merge?

 

[Marton]

You were first with the correct answer. Over to you ( sorry weak pun)

More cricket:

Which Ground has been a home ground for two different First Class Counties?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Is it? Thought it was Cumbria these days. Certainly not traditional Lancashire, though. Suppose you could call it missionary work!

Which reminds me, how come Glamorgan CCC sometimes play their home games at Colwyn Bay?

Sedbergh is definitely in Cumbria now

In the old days (3 day county championship games and more fixtures per season) loads if not all counties used to have games at what they called outgrounds - basically club grounds used by the county in order to spread games around and enable county members who didn’t live near the county ground to get to see their team more easily.

Nowadays there’s a lot less, and quite a bit of what’s left is one day games, or the test ground counties needing to shift games. But Yorkshire still use North Marine Road in Scarbados a bit, as you say Glamorgan go to Colwyn Bay. My team Leicestershire used Oakham School for first class games until the 2000s and I saw them play a first class match at Hinckley when I was little

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

The Oval?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

More cricket:

Which Ground has been a home ground for two different First Class Counties?

Edgbaston?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

More cricket:

Which Ground has been a home ground for two different First Class Counties?

Old Deer Park, Richmond has hosted second team matches for both Middlesex and Surrey, but only first team matches for the former.

 

[perryman]

Bristol County Ground - Gloucestershire & Somerset.

 

[444045]

Arundel Castle in Sussex - used by Sussex and this year Hampshire because the Ageas Bowl was used as a covid bubble ?

 

[Marton]

The Oval?

Edgbaston?

Bristol County Ground - Gloucestershire & Somerset.

None of these to my knowledge and research

 

[Marton]

Old Deer Park, Richmond has hosted second team matches for both Middlesex and Surrey, but only first team matches for the former.

I did specify First Class

 

[Marton]

Arundel Castle in Sussex - used by Sussex and this year Hampshire because the Ageas Bowl was used as a covid bubble ?

I missed that - not the one I was looking for; it seems like a stumping

Your ball

i was looking for Abbeydale Park - used by Yorkshire after Bramall Lane was redeveloped for only football, and previously by Derbyshire, although actually after the County Boundaries were redrawn to include it in Yorkshire

 

[444045]

In which tv series would you find the following detectives please :

1/ Bacchus

2/ Boyd

3/ Forbes

4/ Hastings

5/ Hawkins

6/ Keating

7/ Perez

8/ Reid

9/ Standhope

10/ Tennison

Whoever gets the most right gets to ask the next question

 

[Peter Mugridge]

4 / Hastings - that would be Poirot.

10 / Tennison - will be Prime Suspect.

...and that's about the only two I can get.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I did specify First Class

I thought that you had .. no problems!

 

[EbbwJunction1]

2. Boyd - Silent Witness

9. Standhope - Vera

 

[444045]

4 / Hastings - that would be Poirot.

10 / Tennison - will be Prime Suspect.

...and that's about the only two I can get.

You are correct with Tenninson but this Hastings was a Captain in the army not a detective - sorry

 

[444045]

2. Boyd - Silent Witness

9. Standhope - Vera

You are correct with Vera but sadly its not Silent Witness although you're on the right lines

 

[SuspectUsual]

Bacchus is in George Gently

 

[444045]

Bacchus is in George Gently

You are correct

 

[EbbwJunction1]

You are correct with Vera but sadly its not Silent Witness although you're on the right lines

In that case, is it Waking the Dead - and is Keating in Murder in Paradise?

 

[444045]

In that case, is it Waking the Dead - and is Keating in Murder in Paradise?

You are correct with Waking the Dead but wrong with Murder in Paradise

 

[Liddesdale]

7/ Perez - Shetland

 

[Liddesdale]

D I Reid - Ripper Street

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Detective Inspector Reid was in "Taggart", wasn't she?

 

[444045]

7/ Perez - Shetland

You are correct

 

[444045]

D I Reid - Ripper Street

You are correct

 

[444045]

Detective Inspector Reid was in "Taggart", wasn't she?

You are correct - Also D I Reid was in Ripper Street which was correct