General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

With what record did a British national football team on its own achieve the highest chart position for a British team’s single?

"Back Home" by the England national football team in 1970?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

World Cup Willie 1966?

 

[Gloster]

"Back Home" by the England national football team in 1970?

Correct. The only time that a British team got to Number One without any assistance.

Your turn to hit the target.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

In which children's novel, written and published in the years immediately prior to WW1, are the three main characters namely Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, and Mary Lennox?

 

[DaleCooper]

In which children's novel, written and published in the years immediately prior to WW1, are the three main characters namely Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, and Mary Lennox?

The Secret Garden

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The Secret Garden

That's the one. Your turn to pen the next question...

 

[DaleCooper]

That's the one. Your turn to pen the next question...

Thank you, it was the only title I could think of so it was a shot in the dark rather than in-depth knowledge.

Next question:

What are muscae volitantes?

 

[Calthrop]

Bats, in Latin -- "flying mice" ???

 

[DaleCooper]

Bats, in Latin -- "flying mice" ???

No and I presume you failed Latin O Level.

 

[Calthrop]

Got a grade 3, if I remember rightly; but it was very many years ago.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

volitantes is pretty much certain nominative plural of flying

musca is fly - I am fairly certain first declension feminine so musca, musca, muscam, muscae, muscae musca, Muscaea Muscae Muscas Muscarum Muscis Muscis -- so must be the genitive single or Nominative plural

So flying flies but that does not make sense

 

[Peterthegreat]

I believe you find them in your eyes.

 

[John Griffiths]

Was it the Scottish team in 1978? "We're all off to Argentina" or something similar? One of the many glorious memories of that campaign.

Edit- sorry, bit of a glitch there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I believe you find them in your eyes.

Come to think of it, my late wife's eldest sister was treated at the Eye Hospital in Manchester, worried that it might have been the onset of cataracts, but after a number of tests that we carried out, it was not the case, but something that gave the impression of something in the retina being amiss.

 

[DaleCooper]

volitantes is pretty much certain nominative plural of flying

musca is fly - I am fairly certain first declension feminine so musca, musca, muscam, muscae, muscae musca, Muscaea Muscae Muscas Muscarum Muscis Muscis -- so must be the genitive single or Nominative plural

So flying flies but that does not make sense

Correct translation but, as you say, that makes no sense.

I believe you find them in your eyes.

Yes, they are the "floaters" in your eye. Your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Where would you find Keppel's Column?

 

[D6130]

Where would you find Keppel's Column?

At the Southern edge of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate above Chapeltown, South Yorkshire.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.
Where would you find Keppel's Column?

Between Wilson's Column and Betty's Column.

 

[Peterthegreat]

At the Southern edge of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate above Chapeltown, South Yorkshire.

Is correct. Please set the next question.

 

[D6130]

Thanks. Continuing on the same theme, name two of the other 'follies' which define the various extremities of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Two I name are the Bear Pit and the Needle's Eye.

This property should be in the hands of the National Trust.

 

[Spamcan81]

Between Wilson's Column and Betty's Column.

Very good.

 

[D6130]

Two I name are the Bear Pit and the Needle's Eye.

I'll give you those two. The most prominent one of course is Hoober Stand....the 100 feet-high triangular stone hilltop tower at the Northern extremity of the estate.

This property should be in the hands of the National Trust.

I wonder whether they would be able to afford to buy it? They're probably content to leave it in the hands of the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust.

Your turn to dot the landscape with eccentric structures .

 

[SuspectUsual]

I wonder whether they would be able to afford to buy it? They're probably content to leave it in the hands of the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust

The Trust and their volunteers seem to be doing a good job. My mum went to WW when it was a teacher training college in the 1960s and we took her back for a tour and afternoon tea for her 80th birthday this year and they were brilliant

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An old story tells of a member of the Turdus genus species of true thrush attacking a member of a Royal household in a small and very poor monarchy. Earlier, in the story, a considerable number of these were tortured by heat, but still survived. What is the normal name given to this story, which has also been sung.

 

[D6130]

The Trust and their volunteers seem to be doing a good job. My mum went to WW when it was a teacher training college in the 1960s and we took her back for a tour and afternoon tea for her 80th birthday this year and they were brilliant

Slightly off-topic, but my mum also did her teacher training at Wentworth Woodhouse back in the early-mid 1950s. This resulted in several weekend return visits for reunions over the years - often staying in our old touring caravan - and I was able to explore the surroundings as a child and as a teenager.

 

[DaleCooper]

An old story tells of a member of the Turdus genus species of true thrush attacking a member of a Royal household in a small and very poor monarchy. Earlier, in the story, a considerable number of these were tortured by heat, but still survived. What is the normal name given to this story, which has also been sung.

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

Indeed so, for even being subjected to the heat when being baked in the said pie, when it was opened, the birds began to sing..... The name is commonly referred to as "Sing a song of sixpence"

The mention of rye flour being carried in a pocket would suggest a country somewhere in the region of the Balkans, where rye flour was normally available.

The paucity of the small kingdom is reflected by the Queen eating bread and honey (not exactly royal food) and a maid of the household entering the small royal garden to hang out clothes.

Over to you.

 

[CarltonA]

The Trust and their volunteers seem to be doing a good job. My mum went to WW when it was a teacher training college in the 1960s and we took her back for a tour and afternoon tea for her 80th birthday this year and they were brilliant

I've got a friend who studied there, it was called Lady Mabel's and was a women's PE college for aspiring PE teachers. Sorry for the topic drift.

 

[DaleCooper]

Indeed so, for even being subjected to the heat when being baked in the said pie, when it was opened, the birds began to sing..... The name is commonly referred to as "Sing a song of sixpence"

The mention of rye flour being carried in a pocket would suggest a country somewhere in the region of the Balkans, where rye flour was normally available.

The paucity of the small kingdom is reflected by the Queen eating bread and honey (not exactly royal food) and a maid of the household entering the small royal garden to hang out clothes.

Over to you.

Thanks but I haven't got a question so open floor...