General Knowledge Quiz

[Loppylugs]

St James's Palace is the closest.

Well, I'll go for Buckingham Palace ?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Well, I'll go for Buckingham Palace ?

Correct!

He is Ern(e)st August, King of Hannover the fifth son of George 3rd of England. Born in Buckingham Palace in 1771 (before it became the official London resident of the monarch).

Over to you!

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank-you.

What, to the nearest one (only joking! make it two) is the population of Iceland and what percentage of that population live in Reykjavik?

 

[Gloster]

300,000. Fifty percent.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

333,333, 66%?

 

[xotGD]

250,000

80%

 

[perryman]

350,000

75%

 

[MotCO]

I remember when Iceland beat England at football, it was joked that, if you ignored all the women, the young and the old, that there were only 11 people left, and they were in the team! So, by reverse maths, that's about 400. Sounds a bit low, so I'll go for 25,000, and 90% in the capital.

 

[Loppylugs]

350,000

75%

You are pretty much there with the population @perryman, but too high with the percentage, as is everyone else.

I remember when Iceland beat England at football, it was joked that, if you ignored all the women, the young and the old, that there were only 11 people left, and they were in the team! So, by reverse maths, that's about 400. Sounds a bit low, so I'll go for 25,000, and 90% in the capital.

Believe me @MotCO, most young Icelandic women are hard to ignore !

 

[Gloster]

Believe me @MotCO, most young Icelandic women are hard to ignore !

Having had a lot to do with Scandinavians (stretching definitions a bit) I fully agree with that! But why would you want to ignore them.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

40%?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

30%

 

[Loppylugs]

40%?

Lower !

30%

Higher !

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

35%?

 

[Loppylugs]

35%?

Yup, that's about right. It would have been exact if Mrs. Eidfjersen hadn't given birth to twins last night !

The total population dropped during 2021 and is now around 345,000 (with thanks to Mrs. Eidfjersen).

Around 66% of Icelanders live in the South-West corner of the country.

I leave it to @perryman and @LSWR Cavalier to battle for the next poser.

 

[perryman]

Yup, that's about right. It would have been exact if Mrs. Eidfjersen hadn't given birth to twins last night !

The total population dropped during 2021 and is now around 345,000 (with thanks to Mrs. Eidfjersen).

Around 66% of Icelanders live in the South-West corner of the country.

I leave it to @perryman and @LSWR Cavalier to battle for the next poser.

@LSWR Cavalier, over to you, if you don't mind.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

@perryman
Thanks very much, I did have a question up my sleeve:

What method of preserving food was invented by Peter Durand in 1810?
What group of people especially benefitted from food thus preserved?
Why was the full benefit of the preserving method not realized for several decades?

 

[DaleCooper]

@perryman
Thanks very much, I did have a question up my sleeve:

What method of preserving food was invented by Peter Durand in 1810?
What group of people especially benefitted from food thus preserved?
Why was the full benefit of the preserving method not realized for several decades?

Here we go for yet another split decision!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Tin cans / sailors / inadvertent poisoning?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Tin cans / sailors / inadvertent poisoning?

Yes, no, no.

 

[DaleCooper]

.../Nuns/The tin opener wasn't invented until 1850

 

[Gloster]

.../soldiers/basic rations

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

.../Nuns/The tin opener wasn't invented until 1850

No, no, yes.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

.../soldiers/basic rations

No, yes, no.

Durand did not provide a suitable way to open the tins so soldiers used whatever was to hand (bayonets!) to open the tins. A familiar story, there might have been more trouble with injured soldiers than benefit from food-to-go.

Three people got one part-answer each, so here is a tie-breaker:
Veranstaltung is German for Event, but what does verunstalten or Verunstaltung mean?

 

[DaleCooper]

No, yes, no.

Durand did not provide a suitable way to open the tins so soldiers used whatever was to hand (bayonets!) to open the tins. A familiar story, there might have been more trouble with injured soldiers than benefit from food-to-go.

Three people got one part-answer each, so here is a tie-breaker:
Veranstaltung is German for Event, but what does verunstalten or Verunstaltung mean?

Evunt?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Evunt? What is that? No! ☺

Verunstalten is a verb. Verunstaltung is a noun that would be understood but perhaps not used in polite circles.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Evunt? What is that? No! ☺

Verunstalten is a verb. Verunstaltung is a noun that would be understood but perhaps not used in polite circles.

defacement?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

@Mcr Warrior and @Gloster are invited to answer the tiebreaker.

@Peterthegreat sorry, you did not get 1/3 of the answer about tins.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Sorry, no idea.

 

[Gloster]

Uninstall?