General Knowledge Quiz

[yoyothehobo]

Thank you.

Next question:

Absurd, Primeval, Gypsum, Benefactor - what's the link?

Calcium Sulphate

 

[Gloster]

Sugar?

 

[DaleCooper]

I've got 2 guesses in mind. First one is the are books by Michael Chrichton.

I hope your other guess is better.

Calcium Sulphate

No

Sugar?

No

Hint:

Plush, Sinecure, Okapi

 

[yoyothehobo]

They all contain the excel formula for a mathematical function

or just some mathematical function. Prime. Sum. Factor. Plus. Sine. Pi. Dont know what the first one is. A surd but i dont know what a Surd is or could be.

 

[DaleCooper]

They all contain the excel formula for a mathematical function

I'm not sure that's true, it isn't for LibreOffice Calc which seems to have the same functions as Excel.

or just some mathematical function. Prime. Sum. Factor. Plus. Sine. Pi. Dont know what the first one is. A surd but i dont know what a Surd is or could be.

That's better, a surd is a number like √3 which can't be expressed exactly as a decimal. Your turn...

 

[yoyothehobo]

What is Bir Tawil and why does nobody want it

 

[Calthrop]

Think I've heard of this place -- an area geographically in between Egypt and Sudan: essentially, "howling wilderness" of no conceivable use -- so, neither country is keen to claim it?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Think I've heard of this place -- an area geographically in between Egypt and Sudan: essentially, "howling wilderness" of no conceivable use -- so, neither country is keen to claim it?

Close enough. Basically there are two different mapped borders between Egypt and Sudan, with 2 disputed areas. Bir Tawil and the Hala'ib triangle. Neither border has both the good Hala'ib triangle and worthless Bir Tawil.

Both parties claim the advantageous border arrangement to themselves which results in no one claiming Bir Tawil.

Your dispute to set

 

[DaleCooper]

Think I've heard of this place -- an area geographically in between Egypt and Sudan: essentially, "howling wilderness" of no conceivable use -- so, neither country is keen to claim it?

I believe that if either should claim it they would lose a more valuable area. Explained better above.

 

[Calthrop]

@yoyothehobo -- thank you.

What is a chiru?

 

[yoyothehobo]

@yoyothehobo -- thank you.

What is a chiru?

Isnt it a Tibetan Antelope? (Definitely wasnt watching Asia last night)

 

[Loppylugs]

What is a chiru?

It was a member of the endangered species of B1 class locomotives which regretfully became extinct in the 1960's.

 

[Calthrop]

Isnt it a Tibetan Antelope? (Definitely wasnt watching Asia last night)

It is, for sure. I'd never heard of the beast before, indeed, watching David Attenborough's Asia a couple of weeks ago.

O wise Lama, your turn to set us a philosophic conundrum.

It was a member of the endangered species of B1 class locomotives which regretfully became extinct in the 1960's.

I discovered only yesterday, by chance, that one of the antelope-named B1s bore this name. However, @yoyothehobo got in first with name's more conventional application !

 

[yoyothehobo]

Thank you, i shall run with it.

Edmond Albius (a slave from the island of Reunion) was an important figure in learning how to pollinate what plant?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you, i shall run with it.

Edmond Albius (a slave from the island of Reunion) was an important figure in learning how to pollinate what plant?

Cotton

 

[yoyothehobo]

Cotton

Nope

 

[CarltonA]

Banana possibly?

 

[DaleCooper]

Tobacco

 

[xotGD]

Coffee

 

[MotCO]

Coffee

Yes, please, if you're offering !

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Something in the very far reaches of my brain is partially vaguely and the unconvincingly remembering something about a slave turned botanist being involved with vanilla, so my attempt is:

Vanilla

 

[yoyothehobo]

Something in the very far reaches of my brain is partially vaguely and the unconvincingly remembering something about a slave turned botanist being involved with vanilla, so my attempt is:

Vanilla

Is the correct answer!

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Travelling today so open floor

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which was the village where little Willie 'Iggins poured whiskey in a tank and in where was that noted?

 

[Calthrop]

Rawtenstall, Lancashire; at said community's Annual Fair -- as told of in the comic song. (He does the "whisky" number, vis-vis the tank inhabited by a supposed mermaid; things go rapidly downhill from there.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rawtenstall, Lancashire; at said community's Annual Fair -- as told of in the comic song. (He does the "whisky" number, vis-vis the tank inhabited by a supposed mermaid; things go rapidly downhill from there.)

Full marks for a correct answer. One of the Lancashire folk songs I used to sing.

The final verse was....
"Roll up roll up, see the tattooed lady,
See the lovely lady with the pictures on her skin,
In went the lads, they began to cheer,
For tattooed on her back were all the towns of Lancashire,
There were Ordsall bottom, Manchester city,
With the town hall standing in the square,
There were Oldham, Bolton, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Coat pit up at Burnley it were looking mighty fine,
Till someone shouted "Daddy, don't go down the mine"
At the Rawtenstall Annual Fair".

Over now to you.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm a total non-football-fan: whenever I hear in context of that sport, the words "Manchester City" -- it has me immediately thinking of your abovementioned lass in that song.

Thank you, re hand-over.

There are a fair number of pubs in England, with the rather odd name of "The Case Is Altered". I'm aware of two -- decidedly different -- suggested derivations for the name. Please give one, or both, of those -- or more, if aware thereof !

 

[MotCO]

I'm a total non-football-fan: whenever I hear in context of that sport, the words "Manchester City" -- it has me immediately thinking of your abovementioned lass in that song.

Thank you, re hand-over.

There are a fair number of pubs in England, with the rather odd name of "The Case Is Altered". I'm aware of two -- decidedly different -- suggested derivations for the name. Please give one, or both, of those -- or more, if aware thereof !

The contents of a case of wine has been altered - the wine has been replaced by water!

 

[Calthrop]

The contents of a case of wine has been altered - the wine has been replaced by water!

Ten out of ten for inventiveness -- but alas, this answer doesn't qualify.

 

[DaleCooper]

There are a fair number of pubs in England, with the rather odd name of "The Case Is Altered". I'm aware of two -- decidedly different -- suggested derivations for the name. Please give one, or both, of those -- or more, if aware thereof !

There was a pub called Hecate's but superstitious locals objected to it being named after the goddess of magic and the underworld so the landlord, being keen on crosswords, decided to anagrammatise the name. "The Case" is altered = "Hecate's".