General Knowledge Quiz

[MotCO]

Ok thanks.

Please name the actors who played husband and wife in two different UK comedy programmes in the 1970's/80's and name the programmes. Note - the programmes were completely different, i.e. not spin-offs etc.

Edit for clarity - NB (They are not married in real life, only in the shows)

 

[perryman]

I would take a guess at John Alderton and Pauline Collins, both very visual in the 1970s. However, the only show I can think where they both starred was 'No Honestly'.

 

[MotCO]

I would take a guess at John Alderton and Pauline Collins, both very visual in the 1970s. However, the only show I can think where they both starred was 'No Honestly'.

No, not them.

Sorry if I didn't make it clear - they are not married in real life, only in the shows.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Terry (Scott) and June (Whitfield)?

 

[MotCO]

Terry (Scott) and June (Whitfield)?

I thought that they only appeared in 'Terry and June' as the Medfords. But IMDb* (also quotes 'Happy Ever After' with the same actors as Terry and June Fletcher (somewhat lacking originality in choice of first names )

It wasn't the answer I was expecting, but it is a correct answer, so I ask you to set the next question.

The answer I had thought of was Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, who starred as husband and wife in 'To The Manor Born' and 'Executive Stress'.

(Interesting to know if there are any other correct answers!)

*IMDb (www.imdb.com) - International Movie Database

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Not in a position to pose a new question / monitor responses until a little later, so happy to allow anyone with the alternative answer that @MotCO was looking for, to jump in.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

O.k. Here we go...

In what year was the iconic iron bridge over the River Severn at the location in Shropshire now known as Ironbridge officially opened?

 

[AndyPJG]

1769 ish?

 

[TheEdge]

1773?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1769 ish?

Sorry, no.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1773?

Not that either.

 

[MotCO]

1786

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1786

No, not that year.

 

[43172]

1780?

 

[TheEdge]

1781? I'm sure it's late 1700s...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1780?

No, but close.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1781?

Is the right answer. Built 1779 and opened on New Year's Day 1781.

Cost some £6000 to build, and originally cost a halfpenny to cross on foot, I believe.

@TheEdge, your turn to step up as Quiz master.

 

[TheEdge]

Well go on then.

Which elected head of state is not elected by their people?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Well go on then.

Which elected head of state is not elected by their people?

The President of China? ‘Elected’ by the National People’s Congress.

 

[DaleCooper]

Well go on then.

Which elected head of state is not elected by their people?

The Pope - elected by cardinals (or a god), I think.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Bundespraesident of Germany is indirectly elected.
Surely there are others.

 

[xotGD]

President of the USA is elected by the electoral college. Voters only influence the make up of the college.

 

[perryman]

Monaco? I know when Prince Albert passes away his sone Jacques is assumed the role. I didn't think there were any other elected heads of state in the principality.

Scrap the above, I've just reread the question.

 

[Gloster]

Andorra?

 

[TheEdge]

Andorra?

Is the correct answer. I guess I could have worded the question slightly better. Their appointment is entirely independent of the democratic system of their state.

The two Co-Princes of Andorra are a Spanish Bishop and the (elected by the French people) President of France.

 

[Gloster]

An appropriate one for today. What made Florence Green (nee Patterson) notable?

 

[MotCO]

Did she design the Remembrance Day poppy?

 

[Gloster]

Did she design the Remembrance Day poppy?

No, sorry.

A first clue is that her male equivalent was Claude Choules.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

She was, I think, the first female to have an Australian Navy ship named after her. Claude Choules was the first man, hence being her male equivalent.

 

[Loppylugs]

Florence and Claude are relatively old names. Did they perhaps serve in both world wars in some capacity?