General Knowledge Quiz

[CarltonA]

I am wondering if the tune referred to was the one that gave the impression of being a modernised version of a classical piece for piano.

I'm no musician, but a piano does feature in this theme.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks.

Which TV series had the theme tune "Sleepy Shores"?

The Interlude

 

[CarltonA]

The Interlude

No, the series I am asking about was a spin off from an earlier drama.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Going back to the early 1970s, I remember a programme in which Nigel Stock (the one who played the part of Dr Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films/programmes) appeared but cannot recall the name of that programme, but it was not Emergency Ward 10.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Going back to the early 1970s, I remember a programme in which Nigel Stock (the one who played the part of Dr Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films/programmes) appeared but cannot recall the name of that programme, but it was not Emergency Ward 10.

That would be Owen M.D.

 

[CarltonA]

That would be Owen M.D.

That's correct, the character Dr Owens appeared in The Doctors. Owen MD was the follow on with a slight name change. Nigel Stock also played Cavendish in The Great Escape. Sleepy Shores did very well in the music charts at the time. @Peterthegreat to prescribe the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you. In 1990 a British Airways plane flying from Birmingham to Malaga suffered a catastrophic failure in the cockpit with the pilot almost sucked out of the plane only to be held in by members of the flight crew.
What was the name of the plane involved?

 

[xotGD]

Boeing 737

 

[Peterthegreat]

Boeing 737

That's a type of plane. Not a name..

 

[AndyPJG]

Thank you. In 1990 a British Airways plane flying from Birmingham to Malaga suffered a catastrophic failure in the cockpit with the pilot almost sucked out of the plane only to be held in by members of the flight crew.
What was the name of the plane involved?

City of Edinburgh?

 

[Peterthegreat]

City of Edinburgh?

You're on the right lines but not a city.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

This has been all over Twitter in the past couple of days ( not sure why it's suddenly resurfaced like that? )...

It was G-BJRT "County of South Glamorgan".

 

[Peterthegreat]

This has been all over Twitter in the past couple of days ( not sure why it's suddenly resurfaced like that? )...

It was G-BJRT "County of South Glamorgan".

It was indeed. I remember it well as I flew out of Munich on it a few weeks later!
Please fly another question.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you - and I will stick with an aviation theme for the next one:

In the early 1970s there was a large air crash; unusually much of the internal equipment of the aircraft was recoverable and was fitted to other aircraft in the same fleet. Shortly after that was done there were, famously, reputedly a number of sightings of ghosts of the crew from the crashed aircraft on the aircraft that had been fitted with the recovered items.

What was the flight number of the crash?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you - and I will stick with an aviation theme for the next one:

In the early 1970s there was a large air crash; unusually much of the internal equipment of the aircraft was recoverable and was fitted to other aircraft in the same fleet. Shortly after that was done there were, famously, reputedly a number of sightings of ghosts of the crew from the crashed aircraft on the aircraft that had been fitted with the recovered items.

What was the flight number of the crash?

I'm pretty sure that's apocryphal, no parts were fitted to other planes and definitely no ghosts were seen. It was debunked on https://skeptoid.com/

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'm pretty sure that's apocryphal, no parts were fitted to other planes and definitely no ghosts were seen. It was debunked on https://skeptoid.com/

I said reputedly...

...and that story is the best clue to the answer to the question, so the debunking is irrelevant...

 

[xotGD]

Flight 666?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Flight 666?

No, although that would certainly be a good number for the circumstances!!

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Eastern 401

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Eastern 401

Spot on.

You are cleared to take off with the next question.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

TWA 847 was famously hijacked in June 1985. The captain is buried in Richmond MO where I lived for 10 years. What was his name?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

JT were his initials if that helps

 

[DaleCooper]

JT were his initials if that helps

John Thomas

 

[GRALISTAIR]

John Thomas

No - first name was John though

 

[GRALISTAIR]

It was John Testrake

Open Floor

 

[Ashley Hill]

The TV cartoon character Eleanor Abernathy is better known as who?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Crazy Cat Lady on The Simpsons

 

[Ashley Hill]

@OhNoAPacer Well that went quick!!! Your turn to throw at cat at someone…..

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Only knew that due to the crazy cat ladies issue in the us presidential election.

How old was Richard of Shrewsbury, the younger of the two princes in the tower, when he married?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Only knew that due to the crazy cat ladies issue in the us presidential election.

How old was Richard of Shrewsbury, the younger of the two princes in the tower, when he married?

Total guess but basically at birth?