General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

I think I’ve just got it....from a video game of all places....is it termina???

Close enough, the correct answer is Terminus.

@Neo9320 , are you in a position to pose a question just now, could always be an easy(ish) one?!

 

[MotCO]

Terminus?

Edit - just beaten to it. I was just trying to think of words eding in -us!

 

[Neo9320]

Close enough, the correct answer is Terminus.

@Neo9320 , are you in a position to pose a question just now, could always be an easy(ish) one?!

I’ll pass this one to @MotCO as he got it correct and just about at the same time

 

[MotCO]

I’ll pass this one to @MotCO as he got it correct and just about at the same time

Thanks.

What is next in this sequence:

E O E R E X ?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Has to be the letter N. (Last letter when you spell out the numbers 1-6, then 7).

 

[MotCO]

Has to be the letter N. (Last letter when you spell out the numbers 1-6, then 7).

You're getting too good at this! (Or are we on the same wavelength?)

Your turn again.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Another Roman-themed question...

Which month of the year is/was named after the Roman festival of ritual purification?

 

[MotCO]

January? (after Janus) (I've got eleven other guesses!)

 

[43172]

May?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

January? (after Janus)

No, as you say, named after 'Janus', but he was the Roman god of doorways.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

May?

No, that month of the year was named after 'Maia', the Roman goddess of Spring.

 

[MotCO]

April - can't think what that could be named after, so here's hoping!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

April - can't think what that could be named after, so here's hoping!

April is named after the Latin word 'aperire' (which means to open, i.e. spring), but it's not the right answer.

 

[Calthrop]

Trying to "eliminate", via minimal knowledge of this stuff -- February?

 

[krus_aragon]

Discounting existing guesses, and months that I know are named for, I'm down to February and June.

As February reminds me of Febreeze(!) I'll jump the other way and plump for June.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Trying to "eliminate", via minimal knowledge of this stuff -- February?

Yes, that's the right answer.

'Februa' was the Roman festival of ritual purification. Or spring cleaning, if you prefer.

@Calthrop, you are now the 'Victor Ludorum'.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Discounting existing guesses, and months that I know are named for, I'm down to February and June.

As February reminds me of Febreeze(!) I'll jump the other way and plump for June.

No, you've jumped the wrong way! The month of June was actually named after 'Juno', the Roman goddess of marriage.

 

[Calthrop]

Yes, that's the right answer.

'Februa' was the Roman festival of ritual purification. Or spring cleaning, if you prefer.

@Calthrop, you are now the 'Victor Ludorum'.

Good luck, not knowledge; however, gratias vobis ago.


Which (comical) comic-strip heroes, still I think going strong -- same name, same basic though not identical idea -- made; via an almost spooky coincidence; their respective debuts, in two different countries at almost exactly the same date and time?

 

[John Griffiths]

Corned beef got its name from the process called corning, a form of preserving by salting. Could this be also behind the term 'corny' - something out of date, preserved from times past?

missed a few there...

 

[xotGD]

Andy Cap?

 

[MotCO]

Casper the friendly ghost?

 

[Calthrop]

Andy Cap?

Casper the friendly ghost?

Neither, I'm afraid -- @xotGD is nearer, in that the character is depicted as flesh-and-blood, rather than spectral...

 

[krus_aragon]

Is this Dennis?

I know that our Dennis the Menace has a blonde counterpart in North America. I seem to recall that he was more mischievous than menacing.

 

[Calthrop]

Is this Dennis?

I know that our Dennis the Menace has a blonde counterpart in North America. I seem to recall that he was more mischievous than menacing.

Spot-on ! British Dennis, a right scallywag, though of a non-vicious kind; the American one an altogether milder sort, often more thoughtless than actively mischievous. As you say, black-haired and fair-haired, respectively.

Most weirdly, the two comic strips were launched in a British comic, and a US one : within days of each other in March 1951 -- apparently no collusion whatever, just a remarkable coincidence.

Please whistle up your dog -- Gnasher or Ruff, according to choice -- and set something with which to baffle us !

 

[krus_aragon]

Here's a quickie:

What colourful object introduced in 1977, loved by adults and children, lost its studs around the turn of the millennium?

 

[MotCO]

Rubik cube?

 

[krus_aragon]

Rubik cube?

No, sorry. (I don't know of any changes it underwent around 2000.)

 

[444045]

Would that be the Moredig night light which projected different coloured beams of light ?

 

[Strat-tastic]

Space hopper.

 

[krus_aragon]

Would that be the Moredig night light which projected different coloured beams of light ?

Space hopper.

Neither of these, I'm afraid. (Are there many adult fans of space hoppers?)

The product in question is plastic, specifically ABS.