General Knowledge Quiz

[Calthrop]

Looks like we're at "end of track" -- Matthew Hawkwood's creator and writer-of, is James McGee.

@Neo9320 and @Peterthegreat: you've each got one. For who's to set the next question: do you fancy a tie-breaker question; or pistols at ten paces at dawn in St. James' Park; or...?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Looks like we're at "end of track" -- Matthew Hawkwood's creator and writer-of, is James McGee.

@Neo9320 and @Peterthegreat: you've each got one. For who's to set the next question: do you fancy a tie-breaker question; or pistols at ten paces at dawn in St. James' Park; or...?

Don't fancy a trip to the frozen North and I'm tied up for the next couple of days so happy to stand down.

 

[Neo9320]

I have no questions to mind and a very long & busy day at work tomorrow so I guess it’s an open floor!

 

[Calthrop]

I'll do another, if I may -- quick and simple; prompted by a minor Internet occurrence of mine the other day.

What is the capital of Myanmar (Burma)?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Naypyidaw

 

[Calthrop]

Quite right. I reckon myself fairly interested in the country concerned -- not least because of its railways -- but am certain I'd never heard of Naypyidaw (apparently, the new capital since 2006 !) till recently stumbling upon it in a "quiz" situation elsewhere. I put "Yangon" for the capital, and was initially baffled to be told that that was wrong.

@yoyothehobo -- your floor.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Aneto is the highest mountain in which range?

 

[Spamcan81]

The Dolomites?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The Pennines?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Henry VIII 1st wife would have known. The Pyrenees

 

[yoyothehobo]

Henry VIII 1st wife would have known. The Pyrenees

Correct amundo.

Your floor/mountainside

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Open Floor please

 

[DaleCooper]

Open Floor please

Next question:

What was unusual and ingenious about the British 108 gallon drop tanks used on WW2 aircraft?

 

[millemille]

Next question:

What was unusual and ingenious about the British 108 gallon drop tanks used on WW2 aircraft?

Made of paper

 

[DaleCooper]

Made of paper

Yes they were, your turn...
Compressed paper 108 gallon drop-tank

 

[millemille]

Who was the triple ace, at one time married to a Hollywood pin up and renowned for his moustache?

 

[444045]

Daley Thompson ?

 

[millemille]

Daley Thompson ?

10/10 for LOLZ.
0/10 for correctness.

 

[xotGD]

Biggles

 

[Ashley Hill]

Groucho Marx?

 

[millemille]

Biggles

Right field, but the answer is a real person not fictional.

 

[millemille]

Groucho Marx?

I never forget an answer, but in your case I'd be prepared to make an exception...

 

[Neo9320]

Chaplin? (Wild guess)

 

[millemille]

Chaplin? (Wild guess)

That's a negative ghost rider, the pattern is full...

 

[MotCO]

Howard Hughes?

 

[Gloster]

Tony Bartley?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Tom Selleck?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Douglas Fairbanks Junior?

 

[millemille]

Howard Hughes?

I fear you have misread "moustache" as "bottles of of his own pee". An easy and understandable mistake to make...

 

[millemille]

Tony Bartley?

I profess ignorance as to who Mr. Bartley is but isn't him...