General Knowledge Quiz

[Greenheart]

All Quiet on the Western Front?

 

[MotCO]

All Quiet on the Western Front?

It was indeed. Wings was the first oscar winner in 1929 but a silent film; AQotWF was the winner in 1930.

Please give your acceptance speech (briefly please, and not political!) and set the next question.

 

[Efini92]

Time for a clue. A film of the same name was released in both 1979 and 2022; it was nominated for Best Picture in 2022.

Dune? Never mind, just seen the answer.

 

[Greenheart]

It was indeed. Wings was the first oscar winner in 1929 but a silent film; AQotWF was the winner in 1930.

Please give your acceptance speech (briefly please, and not political!) and set the next question.

In ww2, what was a Churchill Crocodile?

 

[millemille]

In ww2, what was a Churchill Crocodile?

A flamethrowing tank, one of Hobart's funnies?

 

[Efini92]

In ww2, what was a Churchill Crocodile?

Was that the fake planes and tanks they put at the coast?

 

[Greenheart]

A flamethrowing tank, one of Hobart's funnies?

Indeed it was, a tank pulling a bowser of potent liquid, a successful weapon used from D Day onwards, that was quite good at getting the enemy to surrender. Your turn to set up a pincer movement.

Was that the fake planes and tanks they put at the coast?

See above.

 

[millemille]

Ok, continuing the machines of war thread...

...what has been fitted to all British fighting vehicles since the 1940's and is considered, by the crews, as the singularly most important piece of equipment on board, despite the operation of which being entrusted to the most junior member of the crew, and which if declared u/s will take the vehicle out of service?

 

[DaleCooper]

Ok, continuing the machines of war thread...

...what has been fitted to all British fighting vehicles since the 1940's and is considered, by the crews, as the singularly most important piece of equipment on board, despite the operation of which being entrusted to the most junior member of the crew, and which if declared u/s will take the vehicle out of service?

Boiling vessel

 

[millemille]

Boiling vessel

THAT MAN THERE!

Correct.

Carry on....

 

[DaleCooper]

THAT MAN THERE!

Correct.

Carry on....

Thank you.

Next question:

Who were Percy "Thrills" Thrillington, Clint Harrigan, Apollo C. Vermouth, Paul Ramon and Bernard Webb?

 

[D6130]

Circus clowns?

 

[Gloster]

W.C.Fields?

 

[DaleCooper]

Circus clowns?

No, I thought they were all called Coco.

W.C.Fields?

No, isn't that when you have a wee behind a farmer's hedge?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Paul McCartney.

 

[DaleCooper]

Paul McCartney.

Your erudition is boundless, they are indeed pseudonyms used by Paul McCartney. Your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Where would you find a jejunum?

 

[DaleCooper]

Where would you find a jejunum?

In a Roman Bathhouse

 

[yoyothehobo]

after the duodenum, in your intestine (small)

 

[Peterthegreat]

after the duodenum, in your intestine (small)

You would indeed.
Your turn to set the question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

In a Roman Bathhouse

Yes but only if someone is in there.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Alaska was the 49th State, Hawaii the 50th.

But what was the 48th?

 

[Efini92]

Greenland?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Arizona

 

[DaleCooper]

New Mexico

 

[yoyothehobo]

Greenland?

Wrong on so many levels.

Arizona

Correct

New Mexico

See Above (New Mexico was 47 i believe)

@SteveM70 your turn to admit a new state to the union...

 

[SuspectUsual]

Open floor please

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor please

Next question:

Who said:
"They're always throwin' goodness at you;
But with a little bit of luck a man can duck!"?

 

[MotCO]

Mark Twain?

 

[Greenheart]

Groucho Marx?