General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

Is it something to do with Queen’s Park Rangers?

Think they are the names of the roads on the four sides of the Queens Park Rangers ground. (Blomfontein = Bloemfontein?)

 

[Bradford PA]

Think they are the names of the roads on the four sides of the Queens Park Rangers ground. (Blomfontein = Bloemfontein?)

Yes, correct. Apologies for the misspelling. The ground has been known at different times as Ellerslie Road and then Loftus Road and the official office address is, I believe, South Africa Road.
Over to you...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

As I'm out for the afternoon, happy to let @Gloster kick off with the next question, and I wouldn't have got the answer otherwise.

 

[Gloster]

I don‘t usually get sports questions, but this was dragged up from something that I read about to do with maps.

What would Latin scholars find interesting in the year 1666?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

MDCLXVI

So represented by all the latin numbers for 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, 5 anspd 1 in descending order.

Edited to correct 100to 1000.

 

[Gloster]

MDCLXVI

So represented by all the latin numbers for 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, 5 anspd 1 in descending order.

Edited to correct 100to 1000.

Quite correct. To you to fire up a new question.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Apologies for huge delay in question setting.

When Audley Harrison won olympic gold he was the first boxer representing UKo do so since who?

 

[Donny Dave]

Lennox Lewis?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Lennox Lewis?

He won his olympic gold representing Canada.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Chris Finnegan in 1968?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Chris Finnegan in 1968?

Is the correct answer.

You may punch your way to another question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Who is missing from this list?
Karl Sharpless
John Bardeen
Linus Pauling
Fred Sanger

 

[SuspectUsual]

Is it Marie Curie, missing from a list of people who've won more than one Nobel Prize all by themselves?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Is it Marie Curie, missing from a list of people who've won more than one Nobel Prize all by themselves?

It is indeed.
Please be awarded the prize for quiz excellence and set the next question.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Where, predominantly between 1979 and 1983, would you have seen Walt Jabsco?

 

[Trackman]

Where, predominantly between 1979 and 1983, would you have seen Walt Jabsco?

Two Tone records

 

[SuspectUsual]

Two Tone records

Spot on. Walt Jabsco was the name Jerry Dammers and Horace Panter gave to the male character they invented for the 2 Tone logo

Your turn to design the next question

 

[Trackman]

*Open floor*

 

[Calthrop]

Will a question part plain "general knowledge"; and part with a railway element; be acceptable?

What is the connection between the Tamworth Two; and the very early years of the 3ft gauge Tralee & Dingle Railway?

 

[Gloster]

Was the Tralee & Dingle’s main source of traffic to be pigs?

 

[Calthrop]

You're basically "on the money" there; but the connection which one can envisage, is a bit more pig-situational-and-incident-related, if that makes sense. Can you give us more along those lines?

 

[Gloster]

Was there an incident when pigs escaped from a consignment?

 

[Calthrop]

Kind- of; and as with the Tamworths, were sympathised with. Reckon you're pretty "near the gold" -- if I might be forgiven for piling on the agony: am about to go out for a good few hours, out of computer-range. Will log on here again, as soon as I'm back.

 

[Calthrop]

@Gloster: you've essentially got it -- and you've been the only responder to the question. The happening concerned, on the T & D; was on May 22nd 1893 (exactly 132 years ago, as of my setting the question yesterday !) -- a Dingle -- Tralee special, mixed goods and passenger stock carrying "pigs and pig buyers" to Tralee for commercial doings there, ran away and became derailed near Glenagalt: three people were killed, as were almost all of the large number of pigs being conveyed. A very few pigs (few enough to be counted on the fingers of one hand) survived unharmed. The prompt (if a little delayed) taking-off of these, for slaughter as planned, caused quite widespread bad feelings in the locality -- many people felt that with these animals' miraculous survival, they ought anyway to have been granted a longer lease of life: a kind of kinship here, with the "Tamworth Two" -- escaping from outside abattoir, and what happened thereafter -- business of 1998. (I find -- with respect -- such sentiments on the part of the rural poor in Ireland some century-and-a-quarter ago, a bit surprising; but "you never know, with people".)

@Gloster -- please set the next question.

 

[Gloster]

In 1879 the University of Breslau decided to award Johannes Brahms an honorary doctorate in music. Brahms replied by postcard to a friend who was the director of the orchestra society in Breslau asking him to thank the university. The friend advised Brahms that something more substantial, such as a piece of music, was due. So Brahms composed the Academic Festival Overture, but what joke did he have when doing so?

 

[MotCO]

In 1879 the University of Breslau decided to award Johannes Brahms an honorary doctorate in music. Brahms replied by postcard to a friend who was the director of the orchestra society in Breslau asking him to thank the university. The friend advised Brahms that something more substantial, such as a piece of music, was due. So Brahms composed the Academic Festival Overture, but what joke did he have when doing so?

It was only scored for a piano, and not a full orchestra?

 

[Strat-tastic]

Knock knock!

 

[DaleCooper]

In 1879 the University of Breslau decided to award Johannes Brahms an honorary doctorate in music. Brahms replied by postcard to a friend who was the director of the orchestra society in Breslau asking him to thank the university. The friend advised Brahms that something more substantial, such as a piece of music, was due. So Brahms composed the Academic Festival Overture, but what joke did he have when doing so?

He was Brahms and Liszt when he composed it.

 

[Calthrop]

Trying to add to the comedy -- Brahms was endowed with the gift of prophecy: whereby he was aware that sixty-six years "down the line", German Breslau would become Polish Wroclaw. He therefore dedicated his Academic Festival Overture to the University of Wroclaw. Nobody knew what the hell he was on about; but they figured, "the chap's a genius -- allowances must be made for him..."

 

[Greenheart]

He put in gaps so that members of the audience who were not paying attention would start clapping prematurely.