General Knowledge Quiz

[TheEdge]

No.

As is becoming clear it's not an obvious one but when someone punts the right answer it'll be a "ah, yea, that make sense"

 

[Gloster]

Chile?

 

[DaleCooper]

Libya?

 

[Caboose Class]

No. This is a modern (20th century onwards) title

These are mass graves of people who were not buried during war time. It's that island off New York that has been used as a "dump" for all the John Doe's, etc. for the past 200 years or so. The name escapes me.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Russia just by its size, the number of deaths it suffered in WW2 and enemy soldiers killed and of course our nice butcher friend Stalin killing his own too.

 

[TheEdge]

No to those.

In the interests of moving it on, it's an oft forgotten dictatorship and only over the last few decades have the scales of the massacres carried out come to light.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

China then - by the same arguments as Russia but using Chairman Mao

Failing that something obscure like Burundi with all the Hutu and Tutsis etc

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Rwanda, from the ethnic cleansing of the Hutu population in the 1990s?

 

[peri]

Indonesia?

 

[DaleCooper]

Spain?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Ahhr -- April 2nd - 40th anniversary of Falklands war --- Argentina possibly from the dictatorships there?

 

[TheEdge]

Spain?

And there is correct answer. The scale of massacres and killings during the White Terror was shocking. And as Franco died in his bed rather than being toppled Spain just moved on and collectively forgot about it without facing it. It's only in the last 10/15 years there been some real investigation into their history. It's even been discovered an Algarve waterpark is built on a concentration camp.

Your depressing floor @DaleCooper

 

[GRALISTAIR]

And there is correct answer. The scale of massacres and killings during the White Terror was shocking. And as Franco died in his bed rather than being toppled Spain just moved on and collectively forgot about it without facing it. It's only in the last 10/15 years there been some real investigation into their history. It's even been discovered an Algarve waterpark is built on a concentration camp.

Your depressing floor @DaleCooper

Yikes is all I can say

 

[DaleCooper]

And there is correct answer. The scale of massacres and killings during the White Terror was shocking. And as Franco died in his bed rather than being toppled Spain just moved on and collectively forgot about it without facing it. It's only in the last 10/15 years there been some real investigation into their history. It's even been discovered an Algarve waterpark is built on a concentration camp.

Your depressing floor @DaleCooper

Good grief, I went on holiday there during Franco's reign!

Next question:

What is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust?

 

[TheEdge]

Iron?

 

[DaleCooper]

Iron?

No, that comes a distant fourth.

 

[TheEdge]

Hydrogen?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I have an unfair advantage as this is totally my field. The answer is oxygen by a long long way. Silicates, carbonates etc all have an abundance of oxygen in them. Even aluminium ores and deposits contain oxygen

 

[DaleCooper]

Hydrogen?

10th

 

[GRALISTAIR]

You would not believe how much oxygen is in clay even

 

[DaleCooper]

I have an unfair advantage as this is totally my field. The answer is oxygen by a long long way. Silicates, carbonates etc all have an abundance of oxygen in them.

Correct at about 466,000ppm, your turn...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I am sorry - can’t think of a question. Open floor please.

 

[TheEdge]

It's been quiet in here long enough.

What strange materials could you mine in the Oklo mines?

 

[DaleCooper]

It's been quiet in here long enough.

What strange materials could you mine in the Oklo mines?

Oklonite (Oklonium ore)

 

[TheEdge]

I wish that was correct

 

[Spamcan81]

Aluminium?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Treacle?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Fission products from a nuclear reaction, the oklo mine in Gabon is believed to be the only naturally occurred nuclear fission reaction on earth.

 

[martinsh]

Removed

 

[TheEdge]

Fission products from a nuclear reaction, the oklo mine in Gabon is believed to be the only naturally occurred nuclear fission reaction on earth.

Correct. Your self sustaining nuclear mine.