General Knowledge Quiz

[OhNoAPacer]

Germany?

Not Germany

 

[keyesey07]

India?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

India?

Not India

 

[DaleCooper]

Vietnam

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Bhutan.

 

[keyesey07]

Brazil?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Vietnam

Bhutan.

Brazil?

None of those

 

[yoyothehobo]

Mexico

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Mexico

Not Mexico

 

[Loppylugs]

Fin-land

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Fin-land

You have no idea how much I wish that was the correct answer

 

[DaleCooper]

Bowlivia

 

[D6130]

Bowlivia

A lady of ill-repute living in the East End of London?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Bowlivia

Not there, but full marks for groanability

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Indonesia?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunda Islands

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sunda Islands

Only if Sumatra and Bintan are part of those, in any case you were beaten to the right answer by

Indonesia?

Indonesia it is.

You may now swim towards the next question

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Wow. Total guess. No question prepared sorry. Open Floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which traditional folk song was used as the theme music for a British police series and what was the name of that series.

 

[D6130]

Johnny Todd....Z Cars.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Johnny Todd....Z Cars.

A most fully correct answer

Over now to you.

 

[D6130]

A most fully correct answer

Over now to you.

Thanks Sarge! Next up....another TV series theme music question:

"The Land of the Mountain and the Flood" by Hamish McCunn was the theme music for which 1970s BBC Scotland TV drama series?

 

[MotCO]

Monarch of the Glen?

 

[D6130]

Monarch of the Glen?

Afraid not....but you're in the correct geographical area - roughly. Think twenty years or so earlier.

 

[MotCO]

Take the High Road?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An advantage of being 80 is that I actually was able to watch TV programmes that now seem long forgotten and with Scotland being the area in question, I do recall Ian Cuthbertson playing the part of Procurator Fiscal in a TV series called "Sutherland's Law"

 

[D6130]

Take the High Road?

Afraid not, because....

An advantage of being 80 is that I actually was able to watch TV programmes that now seem long forgotten and with Scotland being the area in question, I do recall Ian Cuthbertson playing the part of Procurator Fiscal in a TV series called "Sutherland's Law"

....is correct. Your turn to take the next case!

The series was set in the fictional West Highland town of Glendoran - quite obviously based on and filmed in - Oban. Most, if not all of the episodes - filmed between 1973 and 1978 - are available to watch on YouTube. In one episode a man is seeing his wife off on a class 27-hauled train departing from Oban station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In which sea was the largest natural clam pearl found and how much did it weigh?

 

[yoyothehobo]

In which sea was the largest natural clam pearl found and how much did it weigh?

Probably a shallow carbonate rich sea like around the Philippines/Indonesia/Australia. Weight, maybe 10Kg?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Probably a shallow carbonate rich sea like around the Philippines/Indonesia/Australia. Weight, maybe 10Kg?

You are in the right geographical area. However the weight was larger.