General Knowledge Quiz

[D6130]

Where was Italian revolutionary leader Guiseppe Garibaldi born?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Guessing the answer isn't Italy!

 

[D6130]

Correct....although it was then (sort of!)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Nice.

 

[D6130]

Correct. Your turn to pass round the biscuits!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Remaining on birth places. Where was Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) born?

 

[D6130]

Paris?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Paris?

Sorry not Paris.

 

[D6130]

Rome?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Rome?

Indeed. The candle is with you.

 

[D6130]

Which English romantic poet died in Rome in 1821 at the age of 25?

 

[MotCO]

Shelley?

 

[Calthrop]

Percy Bysshe Shelley?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Keats

 

[D6130]

Keats

Correct.....your turn to write an ode!

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Thinking of language

Dzongkha is the official language of which country?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Wales?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Wales?

No, not Wales.

 

[Calthrop]

Bhutan?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Bhutan?

Correct. Your turn to Dzongkha question down

 

[Calthrop]

Blind guess -- I'd hitherto thought that the language of Bhutan was Bhutanese ...

In recent months we've had a number of "multiple" ones, involving US towns / cities -- hope that my coming out with another such, will be tolerable.

A few centuries ago: with the austere-Protestant religious tendency of many people in the eastern parts of England, there was a considerable amount of migration from those areas, to settle in the New England region -- north-east of New York -- of what is now the USA (Pilgrim Fathers and all that). There are consequently a fair number of settlements in New England, which bear the names of towns in eastern England -- sometimes with variations on the original spelling.

Please name four such New England settlements.

As regards defining "eastern parts of England", I intend not to be too nitpicky -- basically the east of the country, north of the Thames, and northward up to the approximate level of Wash-meets-North-Sea. And, in America, "just" original names, please -- funny spellings OK, but not names prefixed with "New".

 

[DaleCooper]

Blind guess -- I'd hitherto thought that the language of Bhutan was Bhutanese ...

In recent months we've had a number of "multiple" ones, involving US towns / cities -- hope that my coming out with another such, will be tolerable.

A few centuries ago: with the austere-Protestant religious tendency of many people in the eastern parts of England, there was a considerable amount of migration from those areas, to settle in the New England region -- north-east of New York -- of what is now the USA (Pilgrim Fathers and all that). There are consequently a fair number of settlements in New England, which bear the names of towns in eastern England -- sometimes with variations on the original spelling.

Please name four such New England settlements.

As regards defining "eastern parts of England", I intend not to be too nitpicky -- basically the east of the country, north of the Thames, and northward up to the approximate level of Wash-meets-North-Sea. And, in America, "just" original names, please -- funny spellings OK, but not names prefixed with "New".

Boston
Lincoln
Cambridge
Newark

 

[Calthrop]

Boston
Lincoln
Cambridge
Newark

We have a winner ! You had me wondering for a while, with Newark: but, we have Newark, Caledonia County, Vermont (population 584).

Bother Dale, prithee settest thou the next question as the Lord leadeth thee thereto.

 

[DaleCooper]

We have a winner ! You had me wondering for a while, with Newark: but, we have Newark, Caledonia County, Vermont (population 584).

Bother Dale, prithee settest thou the next question as the Lord leadeth thee thereto.

Thank you, apart from Boston that was complete guesswork. Now for something completely different.

Next question:

What is the significance of this selection of words?

BECK
DEED
MUTT
OHIO
WAVY

 

[Mcr Warrior]

BECK, DEED and OHIO still read the same if a mirror is placed lengthways in a horizontal orientation halfway across the word(s).

Something like that?

 

[DaleCooper]

BECK, DEED and OHIO still read the same if a mirror is placed lengthways in a horizontal orientation halfway across the word(s).

Something like that?

Something like that but more.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Words composed entirely of letters that have either all horizontal or all vertical symmetry?

 

[DaleCooper]

Words composed entirely of letters that have either all horizontal or all vertical symmetry?

...or both in the case of OHIO.

Well done, your turn...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

An easy one... In which town (or city) did the first ever (Rugby League) Super League fixture take place in 1996?

 

[DaleCooper]

An easy one... In which town (or city) did the first ever (Rugby League) Super League fixture take place in 1996?

St Helens?