General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

Concur that it's Wastwater in the Western Lakes but the depth is possibly more like 500 feet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wast water, but no idea of the depth.
Wild guess at 40 metres

Correct with the name of the lake, but its deepest depth is far deeper than 40 metres.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What is the deepest lake in England and its deepest depth point (plus or minus 10 metres)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Concur that it's Wastwater in the Western Lakes but the depth is possibly more like 500 feet.

Its recorded depth is a fair bit shallower than that.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

The depth is a little bit under 80 metres.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The depth is a little bit under 80 metres.

I am told 78 metres was a recorded depth, so over to you for the next one.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What is an Elvis Taxon?

 

[DaleCooper]

What is an Elvis Taxon?

A species thought to be extinct but reported to be seen.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

A species thought to be extinct but reported to be seen.

That doesn't quite cover it.

 

[randyrippley]

A group of clones of Elvis Presley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A species that disappears in taxonomy classification but reappears again with modifications to the original species.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

A group of clones of Elvis Presley

I wish that was the answer I really do.

A species that disappears in taxonomy classification but reappears again with modifications to the original species.

That is a Lazarus Taxon

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That is a Lazarus Taxon

The only other thought different to that I have had on the matter would be a similar re-emergence after a time period gap, but not of the original but of a completely different life form that is similar in evolutionary development.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

The only other thought different to that I have had on the matter would be a similar re-emergence after a time period gap, but not of the original but of a completely different life form that is similar in evolutionary development.

Is the answer.

Your question

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Where would a tomako likely to have been seen and what is it?

 

[MotCO]

You say "tomako", I say "tomayko"

In a tomako tetchup bottle?

 

[yoyothehobo]

In (well on the Sea)

In and around Melanesia

 

[randyrippley]

Is it a rare Japanese native species of tomato?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In (well on the Sea)

In and around Melanesia

You are right about being on the sea. What exactly is it?

HINT...the Soloman Islands had some of these.

You say "tomako", I say "tomayko"

In a tomako tetchup bottle?

Not that.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is it a rare Japanese native species of tomato?

Not either a fruit nor a vegetable.

 

[yoyothehobo]

In (well on the Sea)

Well you did just ask where i would see it, and not what it was!

Its a big war canoe

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well you did just ask where i would see it, and not what it was!

Its a big war canoe

Spot on. I think an image of one of these appeared on an issue of postage stamps bearing the image of the late queen, but I forget which country issued them.

Over to you.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Thanks,

Who was English Hammer throwing champion in 1969, apparently competed in the olympics in 1972 and then she then went onto a career in Education?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Spot on. I think an image of one of these appeared on an issue of postage stamps bearing the image of the late queen, but I forget which country issued them.

Possibly a stamp from the British Solomon Islands...

(Pic of British Solomon Islands 35c stamp from c. 1973 depicting a Tomoko war canoe and Queen Elizabeth II).

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Thanks,

Who was English Hammer throwing champion in 1969, apparently competed in the olympics in 1972 and then she then went onto a career in Education?

Mary Peters?

 

[D6130]

Mary Peters?

She is Irish/Northern Irish.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Who was English Hammer throwing champion in 1969, apparently competed in the olympics in 1972 and then she then went onto a career in Education?

Was hammer throwing something that women competed for back in the 1960s?

 

[DaleCooper]

Was hammer throwing something that women competed for back in the 1960s?

I think that's the point of the question.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Isn't it Miss Trunchbull (sp?) out of Matilda?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Isn't it Miss Trunchbull (sp?) out of Matilda?

It is. Very well done.

Now you may throw the hammer for youe country.