General Knowledge Quiz

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snowstorms?

 

[Calthrop]

Right enough: a fear of snow or snowy weather. Your turn to flee from the Snow Fiend.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What is the actual location name given to deepest oceanic depth and in what depression does it lie.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Challenger Deep in Marianas Trench

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totally correct.

Over to you.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What did Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria believe she had swallowed as a child?

 

[Spamcan81]

What did Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria believe she had swallowed as a child?

An elephant?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

An elephant?

Not an elephant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A musical instrument?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

A musical instrument?

Yes, but what musical instrument and what else was there about it?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yes, but what musical instrument and what else was there about it?

Just a "stab in the dark" with a lack of knowledge. Since we have had an elephant put forward, a large musical instrument is a grand piano, but I know nothing else.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Just a "stab in the dark" with a lack of knowledge. Since we have had an elephant put forward, a large musical instrument is a grand piano, but I know nothing else.

Yes to piano, but for full points I need it's composition.

 

[xotGD]

Chocolate?

 

[randyrippley]

A whistle?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crystal ? (Thinking of what made good chandeliers were made of and would be known to royalty)

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Chocolate?

A whistle?

Neither are correct

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Crystal ? (Thinking of what made good chandeliers were made of and would be known to royalty)

I will give you that.

It was a glass piano.

She believed it was still inside her and was worried that it might shatter and cause injuries.

So let us tinkle carefully and await your question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In a song, it was said that her little baby sister could do it with ease.

Who was the singer and what was the song?

 

[Calthrop]

In a song, it was said that her little baby sister could do it with ease.

Who was the singer and what was the song?

Although my knowledge of / liking for "popular music" is only fractionally above zero; with no other answers so far -- the song is, I believe, The Locomotion (name of some variety of dance, one gathers). The singer -- as mentioned, this kind of stuff, very much not an area of expertise of mine: the name Little Eva comes faintly to mind; but I don't think that is correct.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct on both counts.

Over to you.

 

[Calthrop]

Good heavens ! Likely the only occasion in my life, of my managing to answer a "pop-related" question correctly. At all events, thank you.

In Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, a gentleman is getting into a carriage in the East End of London; he remarks to the driver about the large number of stalls selling food X. The driver (Sam Weller, if I have it rightly) replies, "It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir, that poverty and X always seem to go together."

What is X?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thinking of items that are viewed more of a delicacy these days, but were in common availability in the times of The Pickwick Papers, I shall hazard a guess at oysters.

 

[D6130]

Deleted.

 

[D6130]

Deleted.

 

[D6130]

Jellied eels?

 

[xotGD]

Tripe

 

[Calthrop]

Thinking of items that are viewed more of a delicacy these days, but were in common availability in the times of The Pickwick Papers, I shall hazard a guess at oysters.

Oysters, indeed the answer. As you remark -- a far cry from today's situation !

Jellied eels?

Tripe

As per above -- definitely "non-swanky" foods; but here, "the oyster has it".

@Xenophon PCDGS : be pleased, sir, to set the next question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

How many countries in Europe have a border region adjoining the European Alps?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Eight.

 

[Donny Dave]

By my crude calculations, I think it is 7