General Knowledge Quiz

[Loppylugs]

Thank you.

Next question:

What connects the following? (Honi soit qui mal y pense)

Crack
Prick
Pussy

Numquam transiit animo !

 

[Strat-tastic]

Blummin' chicken tikka.

 

[Gloster]

Willow?

 

[DaleCooper]

Willow?

Crack Willow (tree)
Prickwillow (village in Cambridgeshire)
Pussy Willow (tree)

Your turn...

 

[Gloster]

What connects

Scotty
A state capital
Samantha Stephens

and something best left well alone.

 

[Peterthegreat]

What connects

Scotty
A state capital
Samantha Stephens

and something best left well alone.

Montgomery?

 

[Gloster]

Montgomery?

Correct

The full name of the character Scotty in Star Trek was Montgomery Scott.
Montgomery is the state capital of Alabama.
Elizabeth Montgomery played Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. (Be still my fluttering heart.)

And the SS Richard Montgomery is that sunken ship full of explosives off Southend.

Your go.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.

What do the following have in common?
Isaac Newton
Humphrey Bogart
Justin Trudeau

 

[43172]

Born on the same day (but obviously different years)?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Born on the same day (but obviously different years)?

A little more precise please.

 

[AndyPJG]

Leap Year (29th Feb) ?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Leap Year (29th Feb) ?

Sorry not that.

 

[DaleCooper]

A little more precise please.

25 December

 

[Peterthegreat]

25 December

Christmas Day it is.
Your turn.

 

[DaleCooper]

Christmas Day it is.
Your turn.

Thank you.

Next question:

What is the Integratron?

 

[Spamcan81]

Thank you.

Next question:

What is the Integratron?

Sounds like something out of Blake's Seven.

 

[DaleCooper]

Sounds like something out of Blake's Seven.

Servalan's boudoir perhaps? I wish that was the answer.

 

[MotCO]

The new Lancia car?

 

[DaleCooper]

The new Lancia car?

Not the answer but Lancia might be interested in your suggestion.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Next question:

What is the Integratron?

Hint:

It's in California where things tend to get a bit weird.

 

[43172]

A linear particle accelerator?

 

[xotGD]

The first computer to be able to perform integration calculations?

 

[DaleCooper]

A linear particle accelerator?

The first computer to be able to perform integration calculations?

Both imaginative guesses however...

Hint:

It's in California where things tend to get a bit weird.

...when I say weird think of things like "New Age" and "pseudo science".

 

[SuspectUsual]

Both imaginative guesses however...

...when I say weird think of things like "New Age" and "pseudo science".

Some sort of hippie colony promoting spiritual healing and the like?

 

[DaleCooper]

Some sort of hippie colony promoting spiritual healing and the like?

Getting closer.

 

[xotGD]

A portal to another dimension?

 

[DaleCooper]

A portal to another dimension?

In a sense that is getting near the answer (not an actual portal of course).

 

[DaleCooper]

In a sense that is getting near the answer (not an actual portal of course).

Hint:

Apart from interdimensional portals what are other common sci-fi themes?

 

[Neo9320]

A spaceship?

 

[DaleCooper]

A spaceship?

Not that, try some others, it was claimed to have three main capabilities.