General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Both way off mark. This was in a racing situation!

The 18 x 1 metre relay?

 

[Caboose Class]

Fastest Formula 1 pit stop?

Correct answer. During a pit stop at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen had a full 4 tyre change in only 1.82 seconds. Your turn to burn rubber!!

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Correct answer. During a pit stop at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen had a full 4 tyre change in only 1.82 seconds. Your turn to burn rubber!!

That is actually unbelievable

 

[Gloster]

That was a pure guess as I know next to nothing about motor racing. However, I can put one question on the starting grid.

Graham Hill and his son Damon always wore the same helmet design. Why did Graham Hill chose the design?

 

[xotGD]

Was it based on his old school cap?

 

[DaleCooper]

That was a pure guess as I know next to nothing about motor racing. However, I can put one question on the starting grid.

Graham Hill and his son Damon always wore the same helmet design. Why did Graham Hill chose the design?

It represented his rowing club, I don't know the name of the club but I think it was on the Thames.

 

[Gloster]

It represented his rowing club, I don't know the name of the club but I think it was on the Thames.

Indeed, it was the London Rowing Club.

For you to set the next.

 

[DaleCooper]

Indeed, it was the London Rowing Club.

For you to set the next.

Thank you.

Next question:

What is unusual about the film director Alan Smithee?

 

[Gloster]

There ain’t any such person. It is the name used when a director wants his name removed from a film’s credits.

 

[DaleCooper]

There ain’t any such person. It is the name used when a director wants his name removed from a film’s credits.

Correct, your turn...

 

[Gloster]

Mel Brooks’ film Silent Movie is often listed as the film with the shortest dialogue, i.e. one where something is actually said. It contains only one three-letter word, but who said it?

 

[DaleCooper]

Mel Brooks’ film Silent Movie is often listed as the film with the shortest dialogue, i.e. one where something is actually said. It contains only one three-letter word, but who said it?

Was it Mel Brooks himself in a cameo?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

The word was Non spoken by Marcel Marceau, tge joke of course being that he was a mime artist.

 

[Gloster]

The word was Non spoken by Marcel Marceau, tge joke of course being that he was a mime artist.

Quite correct. I personally think it is a brillant joke.

Your turn to call, ’Action’.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Moving from the silver screen to the television screen

"That Sidney Potters a good actor" were the first words of which tv show?

 

[444045]

I believe that was 'Only fools and horses' - words spoken by Grandad.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I believe that was 'Only fools and horses' - words spoken by Grandad.

Correct on both counts

Your turn to write the script

 

[444045]

Staying with TV........

Which tv series ran for 8 years and featured Ian Carmichael & Wendy Craig as lead characters please ?

 

[xotGD]

The only series I know with Wendy Craig is "Butterflies".

 

[444045]

The only series I know with Wendy Craig is "Butterflies".

Sorry not correct.

 

[MotCO]

I remember Ian Carmichael in Lord Peter Whimsey, but can't recall if Wendy Craig was in it.

 

[Gloster]

The only programme with Wendy Craig that I can think of was Not in Front of the Children, but I thought that was Ronald Hines (a much underestimated actor). Although I have a faint feeling that he may have taken over from somebody else as the husband.

 

[444045]

I remember Ian Carmichael in Lord Peter Whimsey, but can't recall if Wendy Craig was in it.

No she wasnt and I'm you're not correct.

 

[444045]

The only programme with Wendy Craig that I can think of was Not in Front of the Children, but I thought that was Ronald Hines (a much underestimated actor). Although I have a faint feeling that he may have taken over from somebody else as the husband.

Yes Ronald Hines was Wendy Craigs husband in Not in Front of the Children.

This programme I'm looking for was on from 2003 till 2011.

 

[444045]

A clue : Although this programme was made between 2003 & 2011, it was set in the 1960's.

 

[341o2]

That would be the Royal, a spin off from Heartbeat (and had some of the Heartbeat characters making an appearance,) a medical drama. She was Matron

 

[444045]

That would be the Royal, a spin off from Heartbeat (and had some of the Heartbeat characters making an appearance,) a medical drama. She was Matron

You are correct with all your details.

Most of the cast of Heartbeat featured in The Royal as it was in the fictional town of Elsinby not far from Aidensfield, the hospital
was 'St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital' hence the title of the show.

The surgical baton is handed to you for the next question.....

 

[341o2]

Which species of UK butterfly was considered extinct in 1979, and what is unusual about its life cycle?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Which species of UK butterfly was considered extinct in 1979, and what is unusual about its life cycle?

The large blue?, based on its unusual life cycle

Doesnt it pretend to die as a caterpillar, get carried away by ants, then eat the ant larvae in the nest?

 

[341o2]

You are essentially right, in that the large blue caterpillar starts out eating leaves, then one day it falls to the ground and imitates an ant larva, with the aim of being carried into an ant's nest of one particular species where it feeds off ant pupae until it pupates itself. The ants are not always fooled, many caterpillars are identified as such and killed.

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