General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Lincolnshire?

 

[Gloster]

The Wash?

 

[SuspectUsual]

The fens

 

[DaleCooper]

In N. Yorkshire? Fairly sure there's an "Adventurers' Hall" in York.

No

Lincolnshire?

Close

The Wash?

Close

The fens

Yes, the Adventurers were investors in the draining of the fens and received reclaimed land. There is also a SSSI called Adventurers' Land near March. Your turn...

 

[SuspectUsual]

How many non British or Irish (both Northern and Republic) players started for their clubs in the first ever round of premier league matches in August 1992?

 

[Donny Dave]

11?

 

[xotGD]

1?

 

[SuspectUsual]

11 is the right answer (plus a further two who were substitutes). A far cry from today's squads packed with overseas players

To @Donny Dave to kick off the next question

 

[Donny Dave]

What is a Fartlek?

 

[Gloster]

It is one of those Nordic sports and involves, I think, a couple of disciplines. Although it may be more of an exercise that anything else. (Never tried it when I lived in Scandinavia as I am averse to exercise.)

 

[Donny Dave]

It's not a sport, but your thinking along the right lines.

 

[Gloster]

Well, some sort of training programme by doing a variety of things. (Even less likely to interest me.)

 

[DaleCooper]

What is a Fartlek?

I seem to remember that a lek is a group of wildfowl so maybe it's a bird hunt.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Fartlek is a Swedish training method much beloved of our school cross country coach. Basically a continuous run with varying pace

 

[Donny Dave]

Well, some sort of training programme by doing a variety of things. (Even less likely to interest me.)

Close enough. It's a training program mainly for distance runners to help build both speed and endurance.

 

[Gloster]

I had vague memories of it but started by translating: Fart=speed and Lek=play.

So:

What is situs inversus?

 

[D6130]

An ancient Roman website written backwards?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

It is where the location of the bodies organs are a mirror image of the normal position.

 

[Gloster]

It is where the location of the bodies organs are a mirror image of the normal position.

This is correct. For you to pose the next question.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What is a tree, no longer existing, in the grounds of Boscobel House famous for?

 

[Gloster]

Was it the one that dropped an apple on Newton’s head?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Was it the one that dropped an apple on Newton’s head?

It wasn't the anecdotal apple tree

 

[DaleCooper]

King Charles hiding place.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

King Charles hiding place.

It was indeed the Oak tree in which the future Charles II had to escape parliamentarian forces following the battle of Worcester.

You may now move to the restoration and set a new question.

 

[DaleCooper]

It was indeed the Oak tree in which the future Charles II had to escape parliamentarian forces following the battle of Worcester.

You may now move to the restoration and set a new question.

Thank you.

Next question:

Who couldn't sing, wasn't pretty and had thin legs?

 

[Gloster]

Cilla Black?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Oh Well, I guess the answer is Fleetwood Mac

 

[SuspectUsual]

Ernie Wise

 

[DaleCooper]

Cilla Black?

That's not nice.

Ernie Wise

I thought he had short, fat, hairy legs.

Oh Well, I guess the answer is Fleetwood Mac

Yes, specifically Peter Green. Your turn...

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Walter Bowman was the first foreign player to play professional football in England.

Which team did he play for?

To clarify by foreign I mean non- British.