General Knowledge Quiz

[MotCO]

How about good old London? Always worth a punt.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Good deduction but incorrect I'm afraid.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Well... if it involves Gibraltar, it presumably involves Spain as well, so what about Madrid?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

My brain is half remembering this my attempt at an answer is

Rabstat

 

[Peterthegreat]

My brain is half remembering this my attempt at an answer is

Rabstat

Your brain has nearly remembered it.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Your brain has nearly remembered it.

The problem is my brain keeps sending me Rabat, which is definitely not the answer

 

[Calthrop]

Prompted by the few posts above -- have Googled, and thus disqualified self.

 

[Calthrop]

@Peterthegreat -- please, could you "put us out of our misery"?

 

[Peterthegreat]

@Peterthegreat -- please, could you "put us out of our misery"?

Sorry I have no power over Northern cancellations.
But in the quiz the town is Rastatt in Baden Würrtemburg.
Open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Please name the only-ever -- completely English, founded in England -- monastic order.

 

[D6130]

Augustinian?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I'll try Benedictine

 

[Calthrop]

Neither of the above, I'm afraid. (One of my favourite light-fiction series, has as hero a 12th-century Benedictine monk, Welsh but dwelling in an abbey in England: who is "in his spare time", a "detective before detectives were invented"; but the Benedictine order originated in Italy.)

 

[xotGD]

Cistertian?

 

[Calthrop]

O filius, me paenitet -- non.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Can't remember their proper name but there is an order known as The White Canons

 

[Calthrop]

Those guys came from France -- sorry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brother Cadfael was of the Welsh Benedictine order.

 

[Calthrop]

Brother Cadfael was of the Welsh Benedictine order.

Not the outfit re which I'm asking -- they were not Benedictine, but of, fully, another name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the 12th century, Gilbert of Sempringham founded the Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular.

 

[Calthrop]

In the 12th century, Gilbert of Sempringham founded the Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular.

That's the one ! O Xenophon, quaestio proximus tuum est.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the words of the song what happened to Matt Casey and what was the title of the song.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Doesn't a Casey dance with a strawberry blonde in The Band Played On?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doesn't a Casey dance with a strawberry blonde in The Band Played On?

Well, you have most of it. What he did was "he married the girl with the strawberry curls".

One of the 1892 period songs that were very popular.. One of my twin sons made the comment that what is general knowledge to me at 79 might be different to someone aged 25.

Over to you now.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What would you expect a dissectologist to be doing?

 

[xotGD]

Dissing people?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What would you expect a dissectologist to be doing?

To me the "dissect" part of the word would suggest something cut into pieces.

 

[Gloster]

Studying the schisms in religious groups?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Dissing people?

Studying the schisms in religious groups?

Incorrect I am afraid.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

To me the "dissect" part of the word would suggest something cut into pieces.

Maybe