General Knowledge Quiz

[backontrack]

Cadburys Creme [sic] Egg?

Sadly, that doesn't begin with D. I wish it did, but alas.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Dairy Milk

 

[backontrack]

Dairy Milk

Afraid not, sorry.

Clue: it was a white chocolate bar.

 

[DaleCooper]

Afraid not, sorry.

Clue: it was a white chocolate bar.

Dairy Cream?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Has to be Dream

 

[backontrack]

Has to be Dream

It is

Ahh, the short-lived Cadbury Dream bar, a special part of my childhood...

The floor is yours.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What was the name of the series based on Gerry Andersons puppets based on a character who had guns that could fire magically without human hands?

 

[Peterthegreat]

What was the name of the series based on Gerry Andersons puppets based on a character who had guns that could fire magically without human hands?

Four Feather Falls

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Four Feather Falls

Wow that was quick - correct

 

[Peterthegreat]

Wow that was quick - correct

It is one of the first tv programmes I remember watching as a kid.
My question coming up shortly.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Back to the golden days of the cinema.
Which Tasmanian born actor was reportedly buried with six bottles of whisky?

 

[Calthrop]

Errol Flynn? (The only Tasmanian-born actor whom I've heard of -- and it sounds like the sort of life-style that was attributed to him !)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Errol Flynn? (The only Tasmanian-born actor whom I've heard of -- and it sounds like the sort of life-style that was attributed to him !)

Correct. Well done. Over to you!

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks. With Tasmania having come up -- it's a place that fascinates me: I propose to annoy people with one of the dreaded multi-part questions (plentiful hints promised, if necessary), about things Tasmanian.

(1) "Who and what" was the historical figure after whom the island is named?

(2) There is a coastal location in Tasmania, of "ill repute" -- a couple of centuries ago, was a penal settlement where hideous stuff happened; and where a very tragic event took place a couple of decades ago. Please name this location.

(3) Tasmania has had, unique to the island, two different species of carnivorous marsupial mammals. One is reckoned (with not quite 100% certainty) to be extinct, as from most of a century ago; the other is still alive and kicking, though undergoing a rather bad time at present. Please name both -- ordinary everyday names, fine: naturalists' Latin names not demanded !

(4) Please name two towns in Tasmania -- other than the capital Hobart; and the place featured in question (2).

 

[DaleCooper]

3. Tasmanian Wolf and Tasmanian Devil

 

[Gloster]

1 Abel Tasman.
4 Devonport and Launceston.

 

[Calthrop]

3. Tasmanian Wolf and Tasmanian Devil

Correct. Terrible pity about the Wolf -- would like to think it survives in the remotest places, but that seems vanishingly unlikely.

 

[Calthrop]

1 Abel Tasman.
4 Devonport and Launceston.

1. Named correctly --17th-century Dutch voyager / explorer: first European to sight Tasmania, though he called in only very briefly.

4. Right ! Two questions to you -- we now need just #2.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Port Arthur

 

[Calthrop]

Port Arthur

Correct.

@Gloster: you're the winner, with two correct answers. After celebrating with a Boag's beer -- the island's favourite tipple, I gather -- please take the floor.

 

[Gloster]

Keeping to the Antipodean theme. A Hampshire born writer was the author of a series of detective novels set in Australia. What was the distinctive name of his detective?

 

[444045]

Would that be Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ? The writer being Arthur W. Upfield from Gosport. I used to live in Hampshire.

 

[Gloster]

Would that be Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ? The writer being Arthur W. Upfield from Gosport. I used to live in Hampshire.

You are correct on all points.

Your turn to set the next question.

 

[444045]

Thank you..

Which singers or bands had hits with these mismeshed up songs please :

1/ I'm still waiting for an old piano ?

2/ Was the view from a bridge in Cambodia ?

3/ Did the silver lady eat black bean soup ?

4/ Was the voice, hymn ?

5/ Was she crying at the discotechque after seeing a murder on the dancefloor ?

 

[Caboose Class]

Deleted

 

[SuspectUsual]

2 Kim Wilde

5 I assume is Sophie Ellis Bextor

 

[444045]

2 Kim Wilde

5 I assume is Sophie Ellis Bextor

You are correct with both answers.

 

[DaleCooper]

1. Diana Ross

 

[MotCO]

4. John Farnham?

 

[444045]

1. Diana Ross

You are correct.