General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Staying on sport but moving to cricket. Alec Stewart has scored 8,463 test runs for England. What is unusual about his total?

 

[Gloster]

Was he the one who was a wicket keeper, who aren’t usually expected to be good batsmen?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Lovely. Cricket / number trivia. I might play my joker.

He was born 8/4/63

 

[Peterthegreat]

Lovely. Cricket / number trivia. I might play my joker.

He was born 8/4/63

He was indeed. Your turn to bowl a googlie.

 

[Gloster]

Deleted.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Of what system of classification is 108 the lowest number that isn’t used?

 

[yoyothehobo]

shot in the dark...British Standards

 

[SuspectUsual]

shot in the dark...British Standards

Not that

 

[yoyothehobo]

British Road number scheme?

 

[Ediswan]

Of what system of classification is 108 the lowest number that isn’t used?

Dewey Decimal (libraries) ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Of what system of classification is 108 the lowest number that isn’t used?

Numbers that are not divisible by 108.

 

[xotGD]

Karma Sutra?

 

[SuspectUsual]

British Road number scheme?

....is the correct answer, or more specifically there is an A1 through to A107, but no A108. Your turn to devise the route

 

[yoyothehobo]

Holme Fen has the distinction of being what?

 

[DaleCooper]

Holme Fen has the distinction of being what?

The lowest point in the UK.

 

[yoyothehobo]

The lowest point in the UK.

Well that was quick, at 2.75m below sea level it is.

Your turn

 

[DaleCooper]

Well that was quick, at 2.75m below sea level it is.

Your turn

Easy one for me, I live about 5 miles from Holme Fen.

Next question:

What links the following?

Truss
Foot
Bailey
Wien
Rubber

 

[Peterthegreat]

Bridge(s)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Bridge(s)?

Truss bridge
Footbridge
Bailey bridge
Wien bridge (electrical circuit)
Rubber bridge (a form of contract bridge)

Your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.

Which former Premier League footballer is now the president of the country he was born in?

 

[yoyothehobo]

i believe George Weah is president of Liberia

 

[Peterthegreat]

i believe George Weah is president of Liberia

You believe correctly.
Your turn.

 

[yoyothehobo]

In what year was the last outbreak of Malaria recorded in the UK, and where (for a bonus point)

 

[Neo9320]

Was it this year? In London? (I could be thinking of something totally unrelated)

 

[xotGD]

2021. In the vicinity of Heathrow Airport - let's say Hounslow.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Nope, 20th Century

 

[Peterthegreat]

In or just after the first World War. Say 1918 or 1919.

 

[yoyothehobo]

In or just after the first World War. Say 1918 or 1919.

Correct, it was in 1918. On the Isle of Grain and was known as Marsh Fever.

Your marshy, muddy floor

 

[Peterthegreat]

Leaving the present incumbent aside who is the shortest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1900?

 

[Greenheart]

Iain Macleod?