General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

The answer is quite colorful

Rainbow (colourful)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Blue?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Blue is the correct answer @Peterthegreat your turn

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you. Staying with blue. Blue is the colour reached number five in the charts in 1972. Who was the "artist"?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you. Staying with blue. Blue is the colour reached number five in the charts in 1972. Who was the "artist"?

Donovan

 

[D6130]

Thank you. Staying with blue. Blue is the colour reached number five in the charts in 1972. Who was the "artist"?

The Chelsea Football team.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Donovan

Don't think he played in the team.

 

[Peterthegreat]

The Chelsea Football team.

Is correct. Your turn to chart the next question.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Spurs have a record of crap football songs,could it be them?
Clearly not as it’s been answered

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spurs have a record of crap football songs,could it be them?
Clearly not as it’s been answered

The only Spurs song that I can recall was the one from a good number of years ago in which Ossie Ardiles used the word "Tottingham"

 

[xotGD]

Hoddle and Waddle singing "Diamond Lights" is a classic.

 

[CarltonA]

Deleted.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deleted

 

[D6130]

Is correct. Your turn to chart the next question.

Thanks. And now for something completely different:

How many different alphabets are there in the Japanese language? (Bonus points for naming them!)

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Is it 3, one is called kanji I believe but don't know the others

 

[D6130]

Is it 3, one is called kanji I believe but don't know the others

Correct. The other two are Hiragana and Katakana. Your turn to ride the Shinkansen.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Founded in 578 AD Kongo Gumi is regarded as the oldest company in the world still in existence.
What type of business is it?

 

[Donny Dave]

Bank?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Bank?

Not a bank

 

[Calthrop]

Founded in 578 AD Kongo Gumi is regarded as the oldest company in the world still in existence.
What type of business is it?

From the name -- its purpose, the extraction of rubber from tropical forests in the equatorial middle of Africa ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The name suggests a Japanese company to me and from the date in the conundrum, I will hazard a guess a builders of temples.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

From the name -- its purpose, the extraction of rubber from tropical forests in the equatorial middle of Africa ?

Not this

The name suggests a Japanese company to me and from the date in the conundrum, I will hazard a guess a builders of temples.

Construction is the correct answer

You may now build a new question

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Where was the area in which the Tompiro native peoples lived?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

The O at the end makes me think, probably incorrectly, of certain native north American peoples.

I will guess at New Mexico.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The O at the end makes me think, probably incorrectly, of certain native north American peoples.

I will guess at New Mexico.

You are most correct.

Over to you.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

That was unexpected. Wish I had been that lucky when I was in a lottery syndicate at work!

Anyway my question.

Played in London in 2024 between Billy Fellowes and Peter Lalic how many moves did the longest ever FIDE rated chess game last for?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Either incredibly low or high so I’ll try four moves.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Either incredibly low or high so I’ll try four moves.

Most games last a lot longer than 4 moves.

For information FIDE is the organisation that organises world championships and awards titles such as grandmaster.

 

[Donny Dave]

Random guess.... 375

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Random guess.... 375

Not that high a number