General Knowledge Quiz

[Peter Mugridge]

I am declaring @Mcr Warrior the winner as I think if anyone was going to come up with the other one they would have done so by now.

It was the Spire of Lloyd in Kells. Pictures in the link below; it's not even near any water at all...!!

spire of lloyd - Google Search

 

[Mcr Warrior]

What's the specific connection that links the following famous persons / personalities / recording artistes / authors...

• Tommy Cannon;
• Bobby Ball;
• Little Richard;
• Salman Rushdie;
• Barry Humphries;
• Fred Astaire;
• Desmond Tutu;
• Leslie Crowther;
• Jean Paul Sartre
and Jeffrey Archer!

 

[D6130]

They were all left-handed?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

They were all left-handed?

No, it's not that.

 

[MotCO]

Have they all got / had an alter ego?

 

[D6130]

They were all married to left-handed people?

 

[Donny Dave]

All served time in prison?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Have they all got / had an alter ego?

That's entirely possible, but not the specific connection that I had in mind.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

They were all married to left-handed people?

Could be. Were all of them married? Not the link I'm after, though.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

All served time in prison?

Jeffrey Archer certainly did, not sure about the others though. Like your thinking!

 

[Donny Dave]

Jeffrey Archer certainly did, not sure about the others though. Like your thinking!

That's why I gave that answer. Any I will now try they have all been arrested.

 

[SuspectUsual]

They're all in the lyrics of Hello by the Beloved, along with Vince Hilaire and assorted others

 

[Mcr Warrior]

They're all in the lyrics of Hello by the Beloved, along with Vince Hilaire and assorted others

They are indeed. Top twenty 'hit' in early 1990. Link below (and accompanying lyrics) for anyone that's not heard it before. Your turn to set the next question...

 

[SuspectUsual]

Open floor I'm afraid - not going to be online much in the next 48 hours

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor I'm afraid - not going to be online much in the next 48 hours

There's been an interesting variety of questions recently, I hope I won't buck the trend with this:

"Through a Glass, Darkly" is a poem written in 1922, by who?

 

[Gloster]

T.S.Eliot?

 

[MotCO]

Lewis Carroll?

 

[DaleCooper]

T.S.Eliot?

Every schoolboy's favourite anagrammatic poet? No, not him...

Lewis Carroll?

...nor Mr Dodgson

 

[Peterthegreat]

General Patton.

 

[DaleCooper]

General Patton.

You've seen the film. Yes, it was Major (later General) George S. Patton, your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you. The treaty of Utrecht was signed in Utrecht and which other town?

 

[D6130]

Brussels?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Brussels?

Not Brussels.

 

[Donny Dave]

Versailles?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Versailles?

Not Versailles.

 

[D6130]

Amsterdam?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Not Amsterdam.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Wouldn't be Strasbourg would it, given that the EU HQ decamps to there on a regular basis?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Wouldn't be Strasbourg would it, given that the EU HQ decamps to there on a regular basis?

It wouldn't I'm afraid.

 

[Calthrop]

Daft suggestion from "out of left field", which I'm sure is wrong: the only thing I know about the Treaty of Utrecht, is that it featured the transfer of Gibraltar from Spain to Britain. I suppose the other signing-place couldn't have been Gibraltar ?