General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

Thank you.

Changing subject, approximately how hot is the centre of the earth?

 

[MotCO]

Very hot .

I'll kick of with a guess of 15,000 degrees centigrade.

 

[Strat-tastic]

8743C

 

[xotGD]

Sorry, neither answer close enough to what I'm looking for.

 

[43172]

250,000°c perhaps?

 

[xotGD]

250,000°c perhaps?

Getting colder. (In the metaphorical sense!)

 

[Neo9320]

About the same as a McDonalds apple pie??

 

[Trackman]

About the same as a McDonalds apple pie??

Or a BR microwaved cheese burger, I used to call them 'Watford Burgers' by the time you've reached Watford from Piccadilly they would have cooled down

Back to the question:
Heard this before.. guessing about 5000C

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I'll go 6000°C.

 

[Loppylugs]

I'll go old fashioned. 12,000 Fahrenheit.

 

[xotGD]

I'll go 6000°C.

Correct. At the upper end of estimates.

Your floor (with underfloor heating!)...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Where is the line? Name the first hundred clubs to win the FA cup?

Only been 43 different clubs, so far!

Of the 43 different clubs to have won the FA Challenge Cup since 1872, which of them have, thus far, only won the competition twice?

 

[Gloster]

Cardiff?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Cardiff?

Nope. Just the once, in 1927.

 

[Loppylugs]

The now defunct Bury

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The now defunct Bury

Yes, that indeed is one of the correct answers, in 1900 and 1903.

Five more clubs to get.

 

[444045]

Barnsley, Preston North End, Sunderland, West Ham & Portsmouth ?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Barnsley, Preston North End, Sunderland, West Ham & Portsmouth ?

Yes to Sunderland, Portsmouth and Preston North End.

West Ham have won three times and Barnsley just the once (1912).

Just two more clubs remaining.

 

[444045]

Well lets go for Old Etonians, Clapham, Wanderers or Royal Engineers ?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Well lets go for Old Etonians, Clapham, Wanderers or Royal Engineers ?

The OEs were indeed twice winners, in 1879 and in 1882.

The other twice winners of the FA Cup were Nottingham Forest, in 1898 and in 1959.

@444045 , I declare you the tournament winner, so over to you for the next question....

 

[444045]

Thank you,

1/ In what year was the 1st cash machine used and which celebrity performed it please ?

2/ In what year was Panorama 1st aired on TV ?

3/ In what year did daredevil John Noakes leave Blue Peter after 12 years on the programme ?

4/ In what year did Rachel Riley replace Carol Vorderman on Countdown ?

5/ In which year did both Oxford and Cambridge sink in the boat race ? (It was run 2 days later which Oxford won)

 

[Gloster]

1. I will say 1967 and Reg Varney. (Although you don’t often see Reg Varney and celebrity in the same context.)

2. 1958?

 

[444045]

1. I will say 1967 and Reg Varney. (Although you don’t often see Reg Varney and celebrity in the same context.)

2. 1958?

You are correct with no.1 but incorrect with no.2.

 

[Loppylugs]

5/ In which year did both Oxford and Cambridge sink in the boat race ? (It was run 2 days later which Oxford won)

Had this question in quiz time on a cruise ship a few years ago, which didn't reassure we passengers when told they managed to sink a matter of days before the Titanic. So 1912. No iceberg involved!

 

[444045]

Had this question in quiz time on a cruise ship a few years ago, which didn't reassure we passengers when told they managed to sink a matter of days before the Titanic. So 1912. No iceberg involved!

You are correct.

 

[xotGD]

3. 1980
4. 2012

 

[43172]

2. 1956
3. 1983
4. 2011

 

[444045]

3. 1980
4. 2012

Sorry neither answer is correct.

 

[444045]

2. 1956
3. 1983
4. 2011

Sorry none of your answers are correct.

 

[MotCO]

2 1959?
3 1975?
4 2008?