General Knowledge Quiz

[yoyothehobo]

Seeing currency mentioned has triggered a vague memory of a coin in hitchhikers guide to the universe that was hundreds of miles long. Is this perhaps the Ningi?

You are very correct.

A Ningi is indeed a unit of currency. It is a triangular rubber coin 6,800 miles in length on each side.

8 are required to make a Triganic Pu. No one has enough to get one Triganic Pu as banks consider the Ningi "small change".

This is indeed from Hitchhikers.

DON'T PANIC - The floor is yours

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What would you use a cyanometer to measure?

 

[SuspectUsual]

What would you use a cyanometer to measure?

I'm fearing a QI stylee buzzer here, but blue things? The sky?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I'm fearing a QI stylee buzzer here, but blue things? The sky?

No buzzer as that is the correct answer.

Your turn to set sail into the far blue yonder of the next question

 

[SuspectUsual]

This probably won't detain you all for long....

Who is the odd one out and why - Percy Bolton, Ross Seaton, Agnes Burton, Patrick Brompton, Roger Studley

 

[Peterthegreat]

Patrick Brompton. The others are reversed.

 

[MotCO]

Isn't a Brompton a bike, and Studley a set of bike gears. So I say Brompton is the odd one out being a complete bike and the others are bike parts.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Isn't a Brompton a bike, and Studley a set of bike gears. So I say Brompton is the odd one out being a complete bike and the others are bike parts.

No, but.....

Patrick Brompton. The others are reversed.

....is the correct answer. They're all places in Yorkshire, but Patrick Brompton is the only one where I've not reversed the words to make it sound like a person's name.

@Peterthegreat - your turn at the atlas

 

[Strat-tastic]

No, but.....





....is the correct answer. They're all places in Yorkshire, but Patrick Brompton is the only one where I've not reversed the words to make it sound like a person's name.

@Peterthegreat - your turn at the atlas

Maybe I'm a bit dim here but would you elaborate please?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Maybe I'm a bit dim here but would you elaborate please?

These aren't people's names, they're place names.

Patrick Brompton is a real place - its in between Bedale and Leyburn.

However there isn't a place called Percy Bolton, but there is one called Bolton Percy; there isn't a Ross Seaton but there is a Seaton Ross, and so on.

 

[Peterthegreat]

In 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody was knocked off the number one spot by a song which had it's title in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody. What was the title and who were the group?

 

[BigDog]

In 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody was knocked off the number one spot by a song which had it's title in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody. What was the title and who were the group?

Mamma Mia.

 

[Strat-tastic]

These aren't people's names, they're place names.

Patrick Brompton is a real place - its in between Bedale and Leyburn.

However there isn't a place called Percy Bolton, but there is one called Bolton Percy; there isn't a Ross Seaton but there is a Seaton Ross, and so on.

Right I'm with you now, thanks

In 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody was knocked off the number one spot by a song which had it's title in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody. What was the title and who were the group?

I believe it was no. 1 into 1976.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Mamma Mia.

Is half the answer.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I believe it was no. 1 into 1976.

Think you're right. ABBA, of course, were the group who went to number one in the UK Singles Charts at the very end of January 1976 with "Mamma Mia".

 

[Peterthegreat]

Think you're right. ABBA was the group who went number one in the UK Singles Charts at the end of January 1976.

Yes it was. ABBA knocked it off the top spot in January 1976.

 

[Peterthegreat]

So @BigDog and @Mcr Warrior got half the answer each. How do you wish to proceed?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

So @BigDog and @Mcr Warrior got half the answer each. How do you wish to proceed?

I'll happily defer to @BigDog. Coming up with ABBA (as the group) is trivially easy when "Mamma Mia" has been given as the answer to the first part of the question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I'll happily defer to @BigDog. Coming up with ABBA as the group is trivially easy when "Mamma Mia" has been given as the answer to the first part of the question.

Well that was my view too so up to you @BigDog .

 

[BigDog]

Aaron Kosminski is "better" known as?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

He is suspected of being Jack The Ripper.

Along with others it must be said.

 

[BigDog]

He is suspected of being Jack The Ripper.

Along with others it must be said.

Correct.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What happened to Dr Horace Worblehat?

 

[MotCO]

He changed his name?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

He changed his name?

Is not the correct answer.

 

[Donny Dave]

Sounds a bit like a character from Dickens, so on that basis, I'll guess that he moved to Paris in A Tale of 2 Cities.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sounds a bit like a character from Dickens, so on that basis, I'll guess that he moved to Paris in A Tale of 2 Cities.

He is not a Dickens character so obviously didn't move to Paris.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the Terry Pratchett Discworld scenario, would he be the one who was magically transformed into an orang-utan?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

In the Terry Pratchett Discworld scenario, would he be the one who was magically transformed into an orang-utan?

He would indeed.
He is the Librarian at Unseen University.

You can now navigate us through L-Space and magic up the next question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delving into my mathematical inner-self, if an enneadecagon is a 19-sided polygon, how many sides would there be in an enneacontamegagon?