General Knowledge Quiz

[Calthrop]

Possible clue: one is "anatomy"; the other, "botany".

 

[Calthrop]

Looks like this is going nowhere; "quitting time", I think. "Putamen" is either a structure -- subcortical nucleus -- located at the base of the forebrain; or, a stone in a fruit, such as a peach.

Open floor.

 

[Ashley Hill]

When and where does Domoino’s claim it opened its first branch in the UK?

 

[SuspectUsual]

It was while I was still at school because I remember someone telling me they’d been. So perhaps 1984.

No idea where, presumably London is the QI klaxon answer so I’ll say Birmingham

 

[Greenheart]

1972, Aberdeen

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not too sure but remembering a certain lady, Lorraine Chase, singing a song about Luton Airport, possibly in the 1980s, I will venture Luton and 1985.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Not too sure but remembering a certain lady, Lorraine Chase, singing a song about Luton Airport, possibly in the 1980s, I will venture Luton and 1985.

Is the correct answer. I had pizza the other night and thought this would be a good question.

Your turn to order a question with extra pineapple.

 

[MotCO]

Not too sure but remembering a certain lady, Lorraine Chase, singing a song about Luton Airport, possibly in the 1980s, I will venture Luton and 1985.

Did she waft in from paradise? (Only people of a certain age would understand)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Open Floor

 

[SuspectUsual]

If I may…..

After the first four games of this season, the Denver Broncos had won two games and lost two. However, they never trailed at any point in the final quarter of any of the games, and none of them went to overtime.

What happened?

 

[xotGD]

Match abandoned so they took the result at the end of the third quarter?

 

[Greenheart]

Ineligible player?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Match abandoned so they took the result at the end of the third quarter?

Ineligible player?

Neither of those

 

[Trackman]

Were the scores level and the opposing team scored?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Were the scores level and the opposing team scored?

No

 

[D1511]

I watched a game on Sky when the Broncos lost to a field goal that was the last kick of the game......so I'm guessing they lost twice when the clock was already down to 0:00

 

[SuspectUsual]

I watched a game on Sky when the Broncos lost to a field goal that was the last kick of the game......so I'm guessing they lost twice when the clock was already down to 0:00

Is the right answer. In both of the games they lost, they went behind to a field goal scored on the last play of the match, and with the game clock at 0:00 as the ball went between the posts.

Your turn to kick off the next question

 

[D1511]

Is the right answer. In both of the games they lost, they went behind to a field goal scored on the last play of the match, and with the game clock at 0:00 as the ball went between the posts.

Your turn to kick off the next question

Ah, my sports channel zapping came in handy! The game I watched, the kick was missed initially but there was a penalty on the play so it was moved forward and the guy kicked the goal the 2nd time. I don't know much about the teams and the players but I quite enjoy watching it.

A very easy one, and staying on a sports theme, which international footballer was the surprise golf buggy driver for a European Ryder cup vice captain last week at Beth Page, New York state?
And for a bonus point, which of Luke Donald's vice captains was he driving around the course?

 

[D1511]

As it's been nearly a week, the answer was Gianfranco Zola, who was driving Eduardo Molinari's buggy round the course.

Open floor

 

[CarltonA]

Who accompanied Armstrong and Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission?

 

[D1511]

John Glenn?

EDIT: I've remembered who it is, and it's not John Glenn, but I'm not setting another question, so I'll not answer.
But he has the same name as someone shot in 1922......

 

[CarltonA]

John Glenn?

No, not him.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Michael Collins.

 

[CarltonA]

Michael Collins is correct. @Peterthegreat to set the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Angelo Perera and Arthur Fagg have what rare achievement in common?

 

[AndyPJG]

Shaking hands at the Channel Tunnel break through?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Shaking hands at the Channel Tunnel break through?

Nope. That was Graham Fagg (and Phillipe Cozette).

 

[AndyPJG]

Doh, I knew one surname was Fagg

 

[AndyPJG]

Michael Collins is correct. @Peterthegreat to set the next question.

Believe he died fairly recently.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Believe he died fairly recently.

2021.