General Knowledge Quiz

[Caboose Class]

4/ Edgbaston Warwickshire

No sorry - Edgbaston has the Pavilion End and Birmingham End (previously City End)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

17. This sounds Scottish, so let's go for The Grange, Edinburgh (which is the only Scottish ground that I know of!). Alternatively, it could be Dunedin in New Zealand ... ?

 

[Caboose Class]

17. This sounds Scottish, so let's go for The Grange, Edinburgh (which is the only Scottish ground that I know of!). Alternatively, it could be Dunedin in New Zealand ... ?

No, neither.

 

[Caboose Class]

Looks like rain stopped play yesterday so I shall reveal all the answers so that we can move on.

1 Paddington End & Randwick End Sydney Cricket Ground EbbwJunction1
2 Dominion Road End & Sandringham Road End Eden Park, Auckland perryman
3 Airport End & Bequia End The Playing Fields, Kingstown, St. Vincent
4 Pavilion End & University End National Stadium, Karachi
5 Duckpond End & Park Drive End Sahara Oval, Port Elizabeth, S.A.
6 Tennis Courts End & South End Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo, Sri Lanka
7 River End & D'arbeau End National Station, Grenada
8 Malcolm Marshall End & Joel Garner End Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados perryman
9 City End & Airport End Queen's Club, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
10 Hospital End & The Hill Exhibition Ground, Brisbane
11 Pedrollo End & Ispahani End Aziz Stadium, Chittagong,Bangladesh
12 Finchale End & Lumley End Riverside, Durham EbbwJunction1
13 City End & Club House End Harare Sports Club, Zimbabwe
14 Mill Pavilion End & Hostel End Green Park Stadium, Kanpur, India
15 Centennial Stand End & Embankment End McLean Park, Napier, NZ SteveM70
16 Pavilion End & Golf Course End Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, Pakistan
17 Loch Logan End & Willows End Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein, S.A.
18 City End & Fort End Galle, Sri Lanka perryman
19 Pavilion End & Sharjah Club End Sharjah, UAE perryman
20 Blue Mountains End & Headley Stand End Sabina Park, Jamaica perryman

Best bowling performance was perryman who took 5 for 20. Congratulations - perryman to bowl, right arm over the wicket.

 

[perryman]

Thank you but I’ve been implicated in a worldwide betting scam due to the amount of no balls bowled so may I offer an open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

One about books, for a change (all honour and more power to sport-lovers; but that's a subject about which -- as they say in America -- I don't know thing one).

Several novels: not in the very top flight of revered literary works of genius; but, I'd like to think, not total trash either. All, in the first place, English-language; published in the "mid-ish" 20th century. A clue for each; please give title and author.


(1) The ups and downs, basically in the 19th century, of a family big in the West Riding of Yorkshire wool / weaving trade.

(2) Large-scale disaster strikes pioneer farming family; in the interests of survival, they migrate -- in a harrowing odyssey -- to a far-off part of the country.

(3) A (partly) English-speaking country where there long obtained a situation of division and inequality along racial lines. The author, an English-speaker from the ruling minority, was opposed to this set-up; his novel -- chiefly from the point of view of the oppressed majority -- tells of a young man therefrom moving to the big city to try to better his lot: ultimately with tragic results, though with a glimmer of future hope.

(4) The humorous doings of a family of lovable and basically harmless rogues, in countryside in south-east England: something like a presaging of Only Fools and Horses, but in a rural setting (and the book was adapted for television).

(5) The nuclear apocalypse, version "everybody dies": World War Three happens, with copious nuclear exchanges; Australia, the novel's setting, not directly involved -- but because of the way in which the planet works, climatically etc., "cops it" anyway.

 

[MotCO]

4 - The Larkins / Darling Buds of May - H E Bates

Edited to add. 3. White Mischief?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ! DBOM and Bates, it is.

 

[DaleCooper]

5. On the Beach - Neville Shute

 

[Calthrop]

Too right, cobber .. one to you.

 

[MotCO]

3. White Mischief? Don't know the author.

 

[Calthrop]

3. White Mischief? Don't know the author.

Afraid not -- right continent, but wrong country (and the author was not the one of WM).

 

[Gloster]

2 The Emigrants by Wilhelm Moberg? (If that is the correct title in English: I have only read in in Swedish. Pretentious, moi?)

 

[Caboose Class]

1) Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley?

 

[Calthrop]

2 The Emigrants by Wilhelm Moberg? (If that is the correct title in English: I have only read in in Swedish. Pretentious, moi?)

1) Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley?

Both: sorry, no. (As per my question: all the authors are Anglophones, writing their originals in English.) Confess to having never hitherto heard of Mr. Moberg or Ms. Bentley -- not being snooty: "my ignorance, not their deserved obscurity".

To the best of my knowledge, I know exactly two words of Swedish: one of which -- learnt from Eric Newby's (non-fiction) The Last Grain Race -- belongs in the current thread on "General Discussion", about unfortunate (nick)names !

 

[MotCO]

1. South Riding? Don't know the author.

 

[Calthrop]

1. South Riding? Don't know the author.

Sorry, but no -- though the author of the correct-answer book was a Yorkshire person, from the (truly existing) West Riding.

South Riding (which I've read -- good stuff) is by Winifred Holtby. Irrelevant but rather poignant trivia item: Winifred Holtby's literary-productive but rather short life, coincided almost exactly with that of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway. Line opened 11/5/1898; WH born 13/6/1898. WH died on the very day of the L&B's closing, 29/9/1935. It would be nice to imagine that at some time in her life, Winifred might have taken a holiday in North Devon and travelled on the L&B.

 

[DaleCooper]

2. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

 

[Calthrop]

Right on, buddy !

 

[DaleCooper]

3. Empire of the Sun - J.G.Ballard

 

[Calthrop]

3. Empire of the Sun - J.G.Ballard

Sorry, no. The relevant continent, pointed-at upthread -- not Asia.

 

[xotGD]

1. The Crowthers of Bankdam

I'm actually 3/4 way through reading it at the moment!

Edit - but I don't know the name of the author without looking...

 

[Calthrop]

1. The Crowthers of Bankdam

I'm actually 3/4 way through reading it at the moment!

Edit - but I don't know the name of the author without looking...

The Crowthers of Bankdam it is -- author Thomas Armstrong. Deeming this, a fully correct answer.

Thus, four answered; one (#3) still to go. A -- might be helpful ! -- hint: this novel features in a minor role, a 2ft. gauge rail line -- clearly known and loved by the author in real life -- now, alas, abandoned; but in the book's time-period, one of a number of such which acted as feeders to their country's main-line system (of a wider, but still sub-standard, gauge).

 

[MotCO]

The Crowthers of Bankdam it is -- author Thomas Armstrong. Deeming this, a fully correct answer.

Thus, four answered; one (#3) still to go. A -- might be helpful ! -- hint: this novel features in a minor role, a 2ft. gauge rail line -- clearly known and loved by the author in real life -- now, alas, abandoned; but in the book's time-period, one of a number of such which acted as feeders to their country's main-line system (of a wider, but still sub-standard, gauge).

It's not King Solomon's Mines, is it?

 

[Calthrop]

It's not King Solomon's Mines, is it?

I fear not; but starting from your (resourceful but incorrect) suggestion for #3 yesterday; whose venue is however, on the right continent -- you're going in the correct direction on that continent: in so far as King Solomon's Mines's fictional location can be guessed at, it would seem to be in or adjacent to the country, in which the answer-novel is set. The time in history of the answer-novel's setting, is a fairly long while ago vis-a-vis 2021; but still a goodish bit more recent than that of KSM.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm a bit surprised, that #3 seems intractable. It's perhaps less of a "household word" now, than when the great problematic issue involving its-and-the-author's country -- which is its central theme -- was such: as of about a quarter-century ago, that issue there has been to a large extent rectified; though the country is still beset by great problems in other spheres.

The author -- who wrote a number of books (fiction, and non-) on this and other subjects, and died three-plus decades ago -- was greatly concerned about his country's then No. 1 problem, as were many people worldwide. Attempting to address the issue, he founded a political party in his country; which sadly, made little headway.

 

[Caboose Class]

I'm a bit surprised, that #3 seems intractable. It's perhaps less of a "household word" now, than when the great problematic issue involving its-and-the-author's country -- which is its central theme -- was such: as of about a quarter-century ago, that issue there has been to a large extent rectified; though the country is still beset by great problems in other spheres.

The author -- who wrote a number of books (fiction, and non-) on this and other subjects, and died three-plus decades ago -- was greatly concerned about his country's then No. 1 problem, as were many people worldwide. Attempting to address the issue, he founded a political party in his country; which sadly, made little headway.

Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton?

 

[Calthrop]

Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton?

That's the one -- well done !


Out of the five questions: @DaleCooper got two correct; three other participants, one each. @DaleCooper: floor is, thus, yours -- please crack on with the writing of your Great Novel...

 

[DaleCooper]

Next a nice simple question with just one answer...

Where would you find Demodex brevis?

 

[MotCO]

In a zoo?