General Knowledge Quiz

[Jimbob52]

Jameson of the Jameson Raid?

I was looking for all three names together, rather than single names.

Hint: who was described as 'the Voice of Empire'?

 

[Gloster]

Edward Elgar?

 

[Jimbob52]

Edward Elgar?

A good suggestion, but he died in 1934.

Think of a contralto who sang at the Empire Day parades.

 

[yoyothehobo]

clara butt? She sang land of hope and glory didnt she?

 

[Jimbob52]

clara butt? She sang land of hope and glory didnt she?

Yes she did and died in the same week as King George V and Rudyard Kipling.

The floor is yours.

 

[yoyothehobo]

staying musical Camille Sant-Saens Danse Macabre was used at theme tune for which TV show.

 

[Neo9320]

Johnathan creek?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Johnathan creek?

Correct, well deduced.

Your mystery now.

 

[Neo9320]

Correct, well deduced.

Your mystery now.

Thought it rang a bell.

Open floor please

 

[MotCO]

What do the following have in common, and who is missing from the list?


Robert Walpole

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

H. H. Asquith

Stanley Baldwin

Winston Churchill

 

[Greenheart]

Not sure if this applies to them all, but was it they were all Prime Minister on the change of monarch, with Liz Truss being the missing one?

 

[MotCO]

Not sure if this applies to them all, but was it they were all Prime Minister on the change of monarch, with Liz Truss being the missing one?

They were indeed. Welcome to the Forum; please set the next question.

 

[Greenheart]

Thanks, I was going through different option, chancellor, home secretary, election losers etc.

What was unusual about Niall Quinn's inclusion in the Republic of Ireland's 1990 world cup squad?

 

[MotCO]

Thanks, I was going through different option, chancellor, home secretary, election losers etc.

What was unusual about Niall Quinn's inclusion in the Republic of Ireland's 1990 world cup squad?

He wasn't Irish?

 

[SuspectUsual]

He was the third choice goalkeeper

 

[43172]

Only called up to the squad once the team landed in Italy

 

[Greenheart]

He wasn't Irish?

No, he actually was, unlike say Tony Cascarino.

 

[Greenheart]

Only called up to the squad once the team landed in Italy

No sorry, not the answer I'm looking for.

 

[Greenheart]

He was the third choice goalkeeper

Yes, quite right, it was the days when squads were 22 rather than 23 and doing that meant Jack Charlton had another outfield player. Your turn.

 

[SuspectUsual]

What is Strong and Northern?

 

[Neo9320]

Newcastle brown ale?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Newcastle brown ale?

No, not that

 

[yoyothehobo]

Hendersons Relish!

 

[SuspectUsual]

Hendersons Relish!

Indeed it is. Your turn to concoct a recipe….

 

[yoyothehobo]

Indeed it is. Your turn to concoct a recipe….

What keeps you all aglow?

 

[Gloster]

Paraffin heaters?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Paraffin heaters?

Nope, thinking in the same vein as the previous question

 

[DaleCooper]

What keeps you all aglow?

Scott's Porage Oats?

 

[Trackman]

Uncle Joe's Mintballs.
You could actually see the slogan from a train at Wigan North Western, I suppose you can still do these days- didnt look last time I went through.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Uncle Joe's Mintballs.
You could actually see the slogan from a train at Wigan North Western, I suppose you can still do these days- didnt look last time I went through.

Is correct. I believe you still can. World famous in Wigan.

Your floor.