General Knowledge Quiz

[OhNoAPacer]

For what reason was Alfred Worden listed in Guinness World Records?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I have forgotten the lunar mission but probably 15 or 16. He was in the Command Module for a long time. But I don’t think it is the record for most lunar orbits — but could be. I think it is something to do with the lunar orbital eccentricity so that for a while he was further from any other human being in recorded history.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I have forgotten the lunar mission but probably 15 or 16. He was in the Command Module for a long time. But I don’t think it is the record for most lunar orbits — but could be. I think it is something to do with the lunar orbital eccentricity so that for a while he was further from any other human being in recorded history.

Houston we have an answer. It was Apollo 15.

Control of the command module is now yours

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Open floor please

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor please

Here's a question:

Why might you see a crude river goose in an office?

 

[Neo9320]

Is it an item of stationary?

 

[Gloster]

An act of sexual harassment at Canary Wharf?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it an item of stationary?

Neither that nor an item of stationery.

An act of sexual harassment at Canary Wharf?

Interesting idea but no.

 

[Neo9320]

Neither that nor an item of stationery.

Interesting idea but no.

Damn autocorrect!

 

[Trackman]

Computer virus?

 

[DaleCooper]

Computer virus?

It's nothing to do with computers.

 

[xotGD]

It's what IT reset your password to after you've locked yourself out.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Is it one of the old paper sizes?

 

[DaleCooper]

It's what IT reset your password to after you've locked yourself out.

That's not it.

Is it one of the old paper sizes?

Like elephant? No, it's no that.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

How about when a particularly boring meeting has caused your brain to rebel and start hallucinating.

 

[Loppylugs]

Here's a question:

Why might you see a crude river goose in an office?

Too many G & T's at one of Boris's No. 10 parties ?

 

[DaleCooper]

How about when a particularly boring meeting has caused your brain to rebel and start hallucinating.

Too many G & T's at one of Boris's No. 10 parties ?

Although very imaginative neither of these are the answer.

I expected this to be guessed really quickly, perhaps this will help:

crude, river, goose - office

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Crude oil on a river getting all over a Canadian or other goose needing to go to an office or lab to be cleaned up?

 

[Caboose Class]

Brent crude, River Brent, Brent goose and David Brent (The Office).

 

[DaleCooper]

Crude oil on a river getting all over a Canadian or other goose needing to go to an office or lab to be cleaned up?

Good try but not the answer.

Brent crude, River Brent, Brent goose and David Brent (The Office).

That's it, your turn...

 

[Caboose Class]

Which country can’t join FIFA and why?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Which country can’t join FIFA and why?

Greenland because they can't grow grass pitches.

 

[xotGD]

Vatican City, because they've got nowhere to put a pitch?

 

[MotCO]

Antarctica, because there is no indiginous population.

 

[DaleCooper]

Which country can’t join FIFA and why?

England, among many others, because they're already members.

 

[Caboose Class]

Greenland because they can't grow grass pitches.

Correct answer! Your turn.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Change of subject.

Which (in)famous person possibly died from "a surfeit of peaches"?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Which (in)famous person possibly died from "a surfeit of peaches"?

Supposedly King John in 1116.

Possibly a polite euphemism for "severe dysentery".

 

[Peterthegreat]

Supposedly King John in 1116.

Possibly a polite euphemism for "severe dysentery".

Indeed it was. The fruit is yours!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

An easy one?!

In which county was the lowest ever recorded temperature in England measured (in modern times)?

(Bonus points for the year, also the recorded temperature to the nearest degree centigrade, but it's the county we're primarily looking for).