General Knowledge Quiz

[Calthrop]

Self-flagellation

No -- involves a kind of aggression directed at the world in general, not at oneself. I'm sure you'll end up being awarded "next question", for sheer persistence; at all events, I'm about to be out of computer-range for some hours.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Some way of venting frustration. Throwing things?

 

[Calthrop]

Not physical throwing of things...

 

[SuspectUsual]

Shouting and screaming?

 

[Calthrop]

You're getting very warm -- a particular kind thereof...

 

[SuspectUsual]

A particularly type of shouting? Or do you mean the vocabulary? Is it swearing unnecessarily or something like that?

 

[Rutland23]

crying?

Regards

Ian

 

[Calthrop]

A particularly type of shouting? Or do you mean the vocabulary? Is it swearing unnecessarily or something like that?

You've hit the target: lalochezia -- medico-psychological term meaning (combining a couple of definitions per Net) emotional discharge / release re stress / pain / frustration, gained by uttering (aloud) vulgar or foul language.

@SuspectUsual: one might reckon that the (un)necessary-ness of whatever degree of swearing, is a matter of individual taste / opinion -- however: you "got" the involvement of profanity; please set the next question.

(@DaleCooper -- you appeared to be the "favourite", looking to be on the way to triumphing by dint of sheer sticking-at-it; but an "outsider" in the shape of @SuspectUsual showed up late in the event, and unexpectedly overhauled you.)

crying?

I'm afraid not -- see above.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Thank you

What links the Cupar Corn Exchange Company and the Ashford Cattle Market Company?

 

[D6130]

They're both cooperatives?

 

[SuspectUsual]

They're both cooperatives?

To the best of my knowledge they're not, but its something that only links those two

 

[xotGD]

Owned by the King?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Owned by the King?

No

 

[Peterthegreat]

Oldest surviving registered companies.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Oldest surviving registered companies.

Spot on. The oldest surviving registered companies in Scotland and England/Wales respectively

Your turn to consult the register for the next question

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you. Which former MP won Oscars, Emmys and a Tony?

 

[Gloster]

Thank you. Which former Empire won Oscars, Emmys and a Tony?

Roman Polanski?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Roman Polanski?

Sorry. I've amended the original question due to spell check taking over. It should have read MP not empire.

 

[Gloster]

Glenda Jackson?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Glenda Jackson?

Is correct.
Please perform the next question.

 

[Gloster]

Who lives at Amalienborg?

 

[Calthrop]

The Danish monarch.

 

[Gloster]

The Danish monarch.

Correct. Your turn to rule on the next question.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you.

Which settlement in the British Isles is claimed in local folklore -- a claim which all informed people consider to be flagrantly impossible -- to have been the birthplace of that figure in the Gospels, Pontius Pilate?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Pontius of Ponteland, got to be

 

[D6130]

Fortingall in Perthshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Pontius of Ponteland, got to be

Apposite -- yes; but unfortunately, wrong.

Fortingall in Perthshire.

O @D6130, thou hast it rightfully -- albeit as per mine catechism, this thing must needs be a foolish superstition: citing the Book of Wikipedia -- P.P. was "born well before the Roman conquest, and became famous in the biblical account of Jesus's death 30 years before the Romans first reached this part of Scotland". It goes on to say, "A number of other localities, including villages in Spain and Germany, make similar claims."

Verily I say unto thee, prithee settest thou the succeeding conundrum.

 

[D6130]

I thank you good Sir and offer the following:

For what feature - not entirely unconnected with the subject of the previous question - is Fortingall well known?

 

[Gloster]

Dunsinane Castle?

 

[Calthrop]

I thank you good Sir and offer the following:

For what feature - not entirely unconnected with the subject of the previous question - is Fortingall well known?

The Fortingall Yew tree, in the village churchyard -- one of the oldest trees in Britain: estimates of its age vary from 1,500 to 9,000 years -- it thus very likely dates back at least to New Testament times.