General Knowledge Quiz

[OhNoAPacer]

The King's Equerry?

Chief Mouser?

Neither of those are correct.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

His cupbearer?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

His cupbearer?

Not cupbearer, if such a thing exists.
It wouldn't surprise me if it did given some of the jobs that do or have existed.

 

[DaleCooper]

Witchfinder General

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Witchfinder General

James I and VI was famously concerned about witchcraft but it is not as far as I know an official position within the Royal Household.

 

[MotCO]

Comptroller of the Household?

 

[xotGD]

Press secretary.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Comptroller of the Household?

Press secretary.

Neither of those.

 

[Donny Dave]

Master of the College of Arms?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Master of the College of Arms?

Not this.

 

[DaleCooper]

Warden of the Swans

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Warden of the Swans

A nice try but incorrect I am afraid.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Chief Baker ( can anyone tell my wife read the Bible to me very recently? )

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Chief Baker ( can anyone tell my wife read the Bible to me very recently? )

Not Chief Baker, or even great chieftain of the pudding race.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thinking of the time when a monarch was so pleased with the beef served at a meal that he gave it the title of Sir Loin, so would it have anything to do with the host who carved the beef at that meal?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Thinking of the time when a monarch was so pleased with the beef served at a meal that he gave it the title of Sir Loin, so would it have anything to do with the host who carved the beef at that meal?

Good enough.

His title is Grand Carver of England.

He carves roasts at official Royal functions.

It is actually an inherited title, implying that the ability to carve joints of meat has a genetic component

Your turn to serve up a question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What is notable about Bryher?

 

[Calthrop]

A suggestion: of the inhabited Scilly Isles, it's the one with the smallest population; but I suspect the answer will be something weirder than that ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A suggestion: of the inhabited Scilly Isles, it's the one with the smallest population; but I suspect the answer will be something weirder than that ...

That may well be the case population-wise, but what I had in mind was a tad different.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Is this the island that is actually made up of a number of hills connected by sandbanks?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is this the island that is actually made up of a number of hills connected by sandbanks?

That is not the answer that I seek.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

As it is in the Scilly Isles I wonder, not knowing the arrangement of the islands in that archipelago, if it is the most westerly part of England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As it is in the Scilly Isles I wonder, not knowing the arrangement of the islands in that archipelago, if it is the most westerly part of England.

It is not a geographic location that I need.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

It's a trick question and there is nothing notable about Bryher

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It's a trick question and there is nothing notable about Bryher

It is not a trick question and seeing that it has been on long enough, the answer is that Bryher is the smallest of all the inhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly.

I declare "open floor".

 

[CarltonA]

In which county would you find the, now closed, Cambridge Military Hospital?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

If my memory serves me right, it could the hospital built in Victorian times that received casualties brought home during the First World War, that was in Aldershot, Hampshire.

 

[CarltonA]

Hampshire.

Correct, your floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An easy one this time...

Where was it where there was no decorum in the forum?

 

[Donny Dave]

Sounds like something from ancient times, so I'll hazard a guess at Rome.