General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

Charles and Camilla?

 

[DaleCooper]

Vicious? Of Sid and Nancy fame?

No, although Vicious Worm would be an appropriate name.

Heloise & Abelard?

Isn't that a brand of cigarettes? Anyway it's just a single surname we're after.

 

[DaleCooper]

Charles and Camilla?

No, that would make it the Saxe-Coburg Gotha worm, which it isn't.

 

[MotCO]

Canoe man?

 

[DaleCooper]

Canoe man?

No, not him. Here's a hint:

Their first names are John and Lorena.

 

[Peterthegreat]

No, not him. Here's a hint:

Their first names are John and Lorena.

Bobbit?

 

[DaleCooper]

Bobbit?

Yes, the Bobbit worm.

Your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

During World War Two only two men rose from Private to Brigadier in the British Army. One was Fitzroy Maclean. Who was the other?

 

[perryman]

No, although Vicious Worm would be an appropriate name.

Isn't that a brand of cigarettes? Anyway it's just a single surname we're after.

Not as far from the real answer as first thought. Long story short: Abelard was castrated as a result of having an affair with one of his students.

 

[Gloster]

Enoch Powell?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Enoch Powell?

Correct. Your turn!

 

[Gloster]

What did the Reverend Francis Gastrell have demolished in 1759 to the regret of many, then and now?

 

[peri]

A pub on the summit of Ingleborough?

 

[xotGD]

A public convenience?

 

[MotCO]

A prison?

 

[Gloster]

A pub on the summit of Ingleborough?

A public convenience?

A prison?

None of these, I am afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

What did the Reverend Francis Gastrell have demolished in 1759 to the regret of many, then and now?

A neolithic stone circle?

 

[Neo9320]

Some sore of important waypoint?

 

[Loppylugs]

A stately home ?

 

[Gloster]

A neolithic stone circle?

Some sore of important waypoint?

Neither of these.

A stately home ?

Still wrong, but moving a little bit closer.

 

[Neo9320]

A statue of Christ?

edit: just realised this is no where closer to a stately home whatsoever…

 

[DaleCooper]

A church?

 

[MotCO]

A bridge?

 

[SuspectUsual]

A royal palace?

 

[Calthrop]

Consumed with curiosity, I Googled it; so ... (realised that it was something I had, in the past, heard about; but the Rev.'s name had not stuck in memory).

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Wasn’t he the guy that uprooted and destroyed a tree that Shakespeare had planted?

 

[TheEdge]

Consumed with curiosity, I Googled it; so ... (realised that it was something I had, in the past, heard about; but the Rev.'s name had not stuck in memory).

I did the same out of curiosity. I image he's spoken of in hushed tones by English Heritage

 

[Gloster]

A statue of Christ?

edit: just realised this is no where closer to a stately home whatsoever…

A church?

A bridge?

A royal palace?

Sorry, none of these.

Wasn’t he the guy that uprooted and destroyed a tree that Shakespeare had planted?

You are so close that I will give it to you. He demolished Shakespeare’s last house and place of death, New Place, although reasons vary. Either he or his wife had a few years earlier cut down the tree that Shakespeare had sat under.

For you to wield the quill pen.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Can’t think of one sorry. Open floor

 

[MotCO]

What do you get if you mix Argon, Chromium, Erbium, Hassium, Iodine, Meitnerium,Samarium and Yttrium?