General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

Screaming Lord Sutch?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Nope. Sutch was his actual surname.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Vin Diesel

 

[Peterthegreat]

Vin Diesel

Correct.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Name the original 5 members of “New kids on the block”

 

[SuspectUsual]

Donnie Wahlberg and four others

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Donnie Wahlberg and four others

OK 1 correct so far.

 

[MotCO]

I had to ask my niece - is that allowed? - and she was a big fan back in the day:

Jordan Knight
Jonathan Knight
Joey McIntyre
Danny Wood
Donnie Wahlerg

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I had to ask my niece - is that allowed? - and she was a big fan back in the day:

Jordan Knight
Jonathan Knight
Joey McIntyre
Danny Wood
Donnie Wahlerg

Yes it is allowed and you get to form the next boy band and ask a question.

 

[MotCO]

Staying with a musical theme (albeit questionable ), what word is used more than any other as the first word in the title of UK Eurovision Song Contest entrants?

 

[DaleCooper]

Staying with a musical theme (albeit questionable ), what word is used more than any other as the first word in the title of UK Eurovision Song Contest entrants?

I

 

[MotCO]

I

If this was QI, you would get the buzzer! No, "I" is in second place with 5 entries.

 

[D6130]

You?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Love?

 

[DaleCooper]

The

 

[MotCO]

You?

"You" is down the bottom at only one entry - Joe and Jake in 2016 with "You're Not Alone". No, I don't remember it either.

 

[MotCO]

The

Also at the bottom with one - "The Bad Old Days" by Co-Co

 

[MotCO]

Love?

Heading the charts with six entries.

• 1980 Prima Donna - "Love Enough for Two"
• 1984 Belle and the Devotions - "Love Games"
• 1985 Vikki - "Love Is"
• 1995 Love City Groove - "Love City Groove"
• 1997 Katrina and the Waves - "Love Shine a Light"
• 2012 Engelbert Humperdinck - "Love Will Set You Free"

But you probably knew that . Please take the floor.

 

[Peterthegreat]

What do the characters

Dr Quincy
Lieutenant Columbo
and
Mr Bean

Have in common?

 

[DaleCooper]

What do the characters

Dr Quincy
Lieutenant Columbo
and
Mr Bean

Have in common?

Old cars

 

[Peterthegreat]

Old cars

They may do but it's not the answer I'm looking for.

 

[AndyPJG]

Unknown first names?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Unknown first names?

That is correct. At least no names were ever mentioned although it is believed both Columbo (Frank) and Mr Bean (Rowan!) showed some identification during the course of the programmes.

For you the next question.

 

[AndyPJG]

That is correct. At least no names were ever mentioned although it is believed both Columbo (Frank) and Mr Bean (Rowan!) showed some identification during the course of the programmes.

For you the next question.

Thank you. No decent question to hand so an anonymous Open Floor please.

 

[Calthrop]

What was scaring people witless in the Gevaudan region of south-central France (modern Lozere departement) in the 1760s?

 

[Peterthegreat]

La Bête.

 

[Calthrop]

La Bête.

That's it -- enormous, mysterious carnivorous mammal (maybe more than one) which reputedly killed some 100 (plus-or-minus) people in the area between 1764 and '67. Seemed more wolf-like than anything else, though never identified for certain -- numerous theories and suggestions; I believe that one highly-imaginative soul has suggested its being a (very) displaced thylacine or Tasmanian wolf ...

Your turn to mysteriously terrorise the peasantry.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Merci. To which fictional detective was "Dale the Whale" a major antagonist?

 

[DaleCooper]

Merci. To which fictional detective was "Dale the Whale" a major antagonist?

Monk

 

[Peterthegreat]

Monk

Is correct. Your turn.