• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

General Knowledge Quiz

Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

S

SuspectUsual

Established Member
Joined
11 Jul 2018
Messages
6,681
A horse had a name that was similar to a profanity and the commentator got mixed up and said something rude?
 
G

Gloster

Veteran Member
Joined
4 Sep 2020
Messages
12,942
Location
Up the creek
LSWR Cavalier said:
Must have been a Dimbleby? Or Prince Philip?
Click to expand...
Sorry, no.

I will give it another couple of hours before declaring race over.

The question about the 100/1 winners is still open, but I will give a peculiar mathematical clue. If you divide the number of jumps needed to complete the National by the number one greater than the required answer, you get the answer.

I can’t go much further with the 1952 question other than to say that extreme ineptitude was widely heard.
 
S

SuspectUsual

Established Member
Joined
11 Jul 2018
Messages
6,681
Commentator got the wrong winner?

And there are 30 jumps on the course so presumably 5 x 100/1 winners?
 
xotGD

xotGD

Established Member
Joined
4 Feb 2017
Messages
7,813
Did the commentator get over excited because they were the owner of the winner?
 
G

Gloster

Veteran Member
Joined
4 Sep 2020
Messages
12,942
Location
Up the creek
xotGD said:
Did the commentator get over excited because they were the owner of the winner?
Click to expand...
No. Sorry.

The answer is that in 1952 Mirabel Topham, the owner of Aintree, got into dispute with the BBC. She arranged for friends to give the commentary which the BBC, probably reluctantly and possibly under pressure from above, broadcast to the nation. The commentary was quite extraordinarily inept, with the commentators being confused, garbled and wrong. Most famously they gave out that Teal fell at the first fence, when it got through and won. It used to be broadcast occasionally, at least in part, and was a joy to listen to.

It was in 1956 that Devon Loch, the Queen Mother’s horse, spreadeagled itself just short of the winning post when well ahead of the field and failed to finish. The jockey was a chap called Dick Francis. I wonder what happened to him?

The tic-tac man tells me that Steve M70 has three correct and should set the next question.
 
S

SuspectUsual

Established Member
Joined
11 Jul 2018
Messages
6,681
Some questions about Monopoly:

1 - why were the four stations in the game chosen?

2 - which two of the coloured properties (ie excluding water works and electric company) are mis-named?

3 - which is the only property south of the Thames?

4 - what three elements of the original US board persist on the UK version?

5 - there’s apparently (in normal times) a “Monopoly pub crawl”. Which property needs a substitute because it has no pubs in real life, being less than 70 feet long?
 
M

MotCO

Established Member
Joined
25 Aug 2014
Messages
6,083
4) Go, Go to Jail, Just Visiting

2) The Angel, Islington?

5) Vine Street?
 
Last edited:
M

MotCO

Established Member
Joined
25 Aug 2014
Messages
6,083
SteveM70 said:
Two of those are the right squares, but I need something more specific
Click to expand...

Pass Go?
Three of the corner squares - the other is a Parking Lot?

PS - I've updated my earlier answer due to forum amalgamation rules
 
S

SuspectUsual

Established Member
Joined
11 Jul 2018
Messages
6,681
MotCO said:
4) Go, Go to Jail, Just Visiting

2) The Angel, Islington?

5) Vine Street?
Click to expand...

5 is correct

Re 2 - whilst Angel Islington isn’t a thoroughfare (similarly Mayfair), it is though correctly named for what it was at the time. The two I’m looking for are thoroughfares, but they’re mis-named

LSWR Cavalier said:
1 points of the compass? Or one for each of the Big Four?
Click to expand...

No. But it is to do with the big four
 
C

Calthrop

Established Member
Joined
6 Dec 2015
Messages
3,689
LSWR Cavalier said:
1 points of the compass? Or one for each of the Big Four?
Click to expand...

(My bolding) -- in fact, the four stations are all LNER: Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, and Marylebone. (I've always felt that one for each of the Big Four, would have been far more appropriate !) My understanding is that Waddingtons Games, who in the 1930s launched the (originally US-devised) game in Britain: were based in Leeds, and had in more than one way, links and associations with the LNER; that company therefore, particularly "on their radar".
@SteveM70: (you posted as I was composing this one) -- to do with the Big Four: viz. as above, one particular one thereof.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top