General Knowledge Quiz

[SuspectUsual]

Happy to let @DaleCooper man the phones, I’m going to be busy today and tomorrow

 

[DaleCooper]

Happy to let @DaleCooper man the phones, I’m going to be busy today and tomorrow

Thank you.

Next question:

What was a Nantucket sleighride?

 

[TheEdge]

Something only seen on specialist pay per view websites?

 

[DaleCooper]

Something only seen on specialist pay per view websites?

You've been there too? While that's a definite possibility it is not the original meaning which considerably predates the internet.

 

[Gloster]

Being hauled along by a whale after harpooning it?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Being hauled along by a whale after harpooning it?

Beat me to it. Nantucket Massachusetts was the center of the American whaling industry- also, iirc I think Jaws was set in Massachusetts.

 

[DaleCooper]

Being hauled along by a whale after harpooning it?

Correct, capitalised it's also a song. Your turn...

 

[Gloster]

That was a piece of pure lateral thinking.

A fairly simple question: Which British Prime Minister served the most British monarchs as PM?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

That was a piece of pure lateral thinking.

A fairly simple question: Which British Prime Minister served the most British monarchs as PM?

Stanley Baldwin might possibly be a contender. Would have served King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI, all in 1936.

 

[Gloster]

Stanley Baldwin might possibly be a contender. Would have served King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI, all in 1936.

Correct: he is the only PM to have served three monarchs.

Your turn.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Continuing the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the UK theme, who was the Prime Minister in the year that Queen Victoria died and was succeeded by King Edward VII?

 

[MotCO]

Lord Melbourne?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Lord Melbourne?

Erm, no. Not unless he was exceptionally long-lived, having been Prime Minister when Queen Victoria became Monarch in 1837.

 

[MotCO]

Let's try Disrailli then.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Let's try Disrailli then.

No, not Benjamin Disraeli, but that's a little closer timewise.

 

[MotCO]

How about Gladstone?

 

[43172]

Asquith perhaps?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

How about Gladstone?

No, not William Ewart Gladstone.

Asquith perhaps?

Nor Herbert Henry Asquith.

Getting much closer!

 

[xotGD]

Lloyd George?

 

[DaleCooper]

Lloyd George?

He knew my father.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Victoria reigned 64 years and died in 1901. So PM had to be Salisbury

 

[341o2]

He knew my father.

And your father knew Lloyd George.....

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Lloyd George?

No, not David Lloyd George.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Victoria reigned 64 years and died in 1901. So PM had to be Salisbury

Yes, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

@GRALISTAIR, it's your term back in office as the Prime Quizmaster!

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Sorry people. Am away for weekend so Open floor please.

 

[TheEdge]

Oh go on then.

Where would you find a plastron, scute and carapace?

 

[MotCO]

In a dictionary

 

[DaleCooper]

Oh go on then.

Where would you find a plastron, scute and carapace?

On a tortoise or turtle.

 

[TheEdge]

On a tortoise or turtle.

Yes, I was looking at the begging little face of my Hermann's tortoise when I was thinking about a question. Your pile of delicious dandelion leaves, I mean question.

 

[DaleCooper]

Yes, I was looking at the begging little face of my Hermann's tortoise when I was thinking about a question. Your pile of delicious dandelion leaves, I mean question.

Thank you.

Next question:

Which song features Louie Miller, Jenny Diver, Sukey Tawdry, Lotte Lenya and Lucy Brown.