General Knowledge Quiz

[backontrack]

The only viking explorer I can think of is Leif Erikson.

Leif Erikson is right, so you're on the eight track...

Clue: for the band's name, think European authority.

 

[Caboose Class]

Interpol?

 

[backontrack]

Interpol?

Yes! And I think that's enough to give the game away, so well done - you get the floor

The answer is Interpol's 2002 debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights. It's one of my absolute favourites. Excellent brooding bangers of the post-punk persuasion, with flashing guitars and melodic basslines nestled between the folds of a snare-heavy mix. (And if that pretentious description doesn't faze you, then maybe not even the indistinct art-school bizarreness of the lyrics will either. Although Paul Banks will try his best.)

Your go

 

[Caboose Class]

First question of 2022:-. What did David Bowie, Prince Philip and Sean Connery have in common?

 

[Calthrop]

Their names as at birth were not (quite) the same as those which they assumed, or were assigned, in their public careers? (Prince Philip started life as Filippos of Greece and Denmark.)

 

[Caboose Class]

Their names as at birth were not (quite) the same as those which they assumed, or were assigned, in their public careers? (Prince Philip started life as Filippos of Greece and Denmark.)

Sorry, no.

 

[DaleCooper]

First question of 2022:-. What did David Bowie, Prince Philip and Sean Connery have in common?

Eyes two different colours?

 

[Caboose Class]

Eyes two different colours?

Sorry, no.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Gordonstoun?

 

[Caboose Class]

Gordonstoun?

Correct - all three sent their sons to Gordonstoun School. The mortarboard is yours!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Correct - all three sent their sons to Gordonstoun School. The mortarboard is yours!

Didn't realise it was their sons! I knew Philip (and his sons) went there but thought Connery had too. Question shortly......

 

[Peterthegreat]

James Phipps was the first person in the world to receive what?

 

[DaleCooper]

James Phipps was the first person in the world to receive what?

email?

 

[Peterthegreat]

email?

Nope.

 

[MotCO]

To receive the George or Victoria Cross?

 

[Peterthegreat]

To receive the George or Victoria Cross?

Sorry not that either.

 

[DaleCooper]

James Phipps was the first person in the world to receive what?

A face transplant?

 

[MotCO]

A telegram?

 

[Peterthegreat]

A face transplant?

Nope

 

[Peterthegreat]

A telegram?

Nope

 

[444045]

He was the 1st person to be given the cowpox vaccination by Edward Jenner - he also gave it to his family and lived in Dorset.

 

[Peterthegreat]

He was the 1st person to be given the cowpox vaccination by Edward Jenner - he also gave it to his family and lived in Dorset.

He was indeed. Your floor!

 

[444045]

Thank you...

In the Tv programme 'The Vicar of Dibley' what was the full name of the vicar, revealed when she got married and who
played the vicar who married her please ?

 

[MotCO]

Geraldine Boudacia Granger.

 

[444045]

Geraldine Boudacia Granger.

Sorry not correct I'm afraid.

 

[MotCO]

Geraldine Boudacia Granger.

And Richard Griffiths?

Or was that Alice Tinker's wedding?

 

[444045]

And Richard Griffiths?

Or was that Alice Tinker's wedding?

Yes Richard Griffiths conducted Alice Tinker's wedding.

 

[Loppylugs]

I think the vicar was played by Hugh Bonneville. (Had a crush on Geraldine)

 

[MotCO]

Sorry not correct I'm afraid.

Boudacia Geraldine Granger then? This was the name given when Alice's child was Christened - and that episode has just been on tv when I switched it on! Spooky!

 

[444045]

I think the vicar was played by Hugh Bonneville. (Had a crush on Geraldine)

You are correct.