General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Accumulator

Another strange name for a chocolate bar, perhaps suggesting it causes weight gain.

These additions might help:

What word links the following?

An Australian $10 banknote
A chocolate bar (no longer available)
A component of hydraulic and pneumatic systems
A musical instrument

 

[MotCO]

Trumpet?

 

[DaleCooper]

Trumpet?

That's certainly a musical instrument and a description of Ivanka but I don't see any connection to the other things.

 

[Ashley Hill]

How about this?

 

[DaleCooper]

How about this?

Banjo is the answer;

An Australian $10 banknote - features Australian poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
A component of hydraulic and pneumatic systems - a type of pipe fitting

Your turn...

 

[Ashley Hill]

In which TV show would you have found Hoppy,Sooty and Bullet?

 

[DaleCooper]

In which TV show would you have found Hoppy,Sooty and Bullet?

Songs of Praise?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Grange Hill.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Grange Hill.

Indeed,it’s the nicknames given to Mr Hopwood,Mr Sutcliffe and Mr Baxter.
The blackboard is yours…. Mind that sausage on the fork!!!

 

[Strat-tastic]

It's perhaps strange how the sausage on a fork has become so iconic. I certainly can't think of Grange Hill without remembering it. Great image.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I think it is @Peterthegreat ’s turn to set a question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Apologies. Have spent most of the afternoon failing to get into a Tesla (legitimately). Open floor please.

 

[DaleCooper]

Apologies. Have spent most of the afternoon failing to get into a Tesla (legitimately). Open floor please.

Perhaps you need a Tesla valve.

Next question:

What is a Tesla valve?

 

[xotGD]

A device facilitating time travel?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

A valve with no moving parts?

 

[DaleCooper]

A device facilitating time travel?

No

A valve with no moving parts?

Correct, specifically one which allows flow in one direction but restricts flow in the reverse direction. Your turn...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Open floor please

 

[htafc]

Who is the current editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?

 

[MotCO]

Boycott?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Mike Atherton?

 

[htafc]

Boycott?

Mike Atherton?

I'm afraid it's neither. It's not an ex-player. Probably one for the cricket tragics like myself...

 

[xotGD]

Bill Frindall?

 

[htafc]

Bill Frindall?

Nope, I'm afraid the Bearded Wonder died 13 years ago.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Lawrence Booth.

 

[htafc]

Lawrence Booth.

Is the correct answer, you know your stuff. Your floor!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Is the correct answer, you know your stuff. Your floor!

OK. Let's stay on cricket.
In the 1977 Headingley test Geoff Boycott scored his one hundreth 100 with a four off Greg Chappel. But who was the batsman at the other end?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I was there. The batsman had the same first name as me - Graham. His surname being Roope. Botham scored a duck by the way.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I was there. The batsman had the same first name as me - Graham. His surname being Roope. Botham scored a duck by the way.

Roope it was.
Your turn at the crease.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I am thinking of two fairly high scoring opening batsmen. One played for England the other played for West Indies. I won’t give the counties as that would make it too easy. All 4 of Their first initials and last initials are identical. Who am I thinking of?

 

[xotGD]

Graham Gooch and Gordon Greenwich