General Knowledge Quiz

[OhNoAPacer]

I saw esau sitting on a seesaw.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

See Saw Margery daw?

Not that one. I very much doubt if Isaac would have called his son Margery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I saw esau sitting on a seesaw.

Is the correct answer.

Song recorded by The Ames Brothers in 1956, but I still cannot understand how anyone can have a merry whirl on a see saw.

Over to you.

 

[xotGD]

To close out the previous question, having looked it up "camisas nuevas" does relate to the Falange. "New shirts" relating to the influx of new members - after many of the original members had been killed in the civil war. So I was on the right lines.

 

[Calthrop]

To close out the previous question, having looked it up "camisas nuevas" does relate to the Falange. "New shirts" relating to the influx of new members - after many of the original members had been killed in the civil war. So I was on the right lines.

And -- Googling "Maerzveilchen" -- all I can find, is stuff about literal violets, the flower -- and music inspired by them. Ah well, the thing's dead and done anyway !

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Who were the first winners of the Football League Division 1?

 

[MotCO]

Royal Engineers?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Royal Engineers?

To my knowledge Royal Engineers have never played in the football league.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Everton ?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Everton ?

Not Everton.

 

[Cowley]

Notts County?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Notts County?

Not them.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Preston North End were the original winners of the football league.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Preston North End were the original winners of the football league.

They were indeed but they were not the first Division 1 winners.

 

[Bradford PA]

Sunderland ?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sunderland ?

Is the correct answer. They were also the champions in the preceding season before the addition of the second tier.

Your turn to lift the trophy and set the next question.

 

[Bradford PA]

Of which sportsman was it suggested that he be referred to as "King Charles III" ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Of which sportsman was it suggested that he be referred to as "King Charles III" ?

John Charles

 

[Bradford PA]

John Charles

Not him.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Charles Barkley the basketball player?

 

[DaleCooper]

Charles Dumas (high jumper, first to clear 7ft)

 

[Bradford PA]

Charles Dumas (high jumper, first to clear 7ft)

Neither of the above.

Charles Dumas (high jumper, first to clear 7ft)

Neither of the above but he did equal the World long jump record.

 

[DaleCooper]

Neither of the above but he did equal the World long jump record.

I have been unable to find any evidence of this.

 

[DaleCooper]

Neither of the above.

Neither of the above but he did equal the World long jump record.

I have been unable to find any evidence of this.

Looking at this again I think I might have misunderstood that. Was it a clue?

 

[DaleCooper]

Neither of the above but he did equal the World long jump record.

Carl Lewis

 

[Bradford PA]

Looking at this again I think I might have misunderstood that. Was it a clue?

Sorry, was a further clue.

 

[Bradford PA]

Carl Lewis

Not Carl Lewis, but he was another multi-disciplinary sportsman.

 

[MotCO]

Daley Thompson?

 

[Greenheart]

C B Fry?

 

[Bradford PA]

C B Fry?

Correct, if rumours are true, he was once offered the throne of Albania. Cricket, football and athletics blue for Oxford, he missed getting a rugby blue due to injury. Double international for England at football and cricket, he also played in an FA Cup Final. Vanity Fair magazine proposed the title of "King Charles III" when Fry was but 21 years of age.