General Knowledge Quiz

[RyanOPlasty]

What do the following cars have in common? Austin Maxi. Panther De Ville, Bentley Rangoon (proposal), Austin Kimberley (Australia)

 

[CarltonA]

Hydrogas suspension?

 

[RyanOPlasty]

Hydrogas suspension?

Nope

 

[D1511]

Transverse 6 cylinder engine?

 

[RyanOPlasty]

Transverse 6 cylinder engine?

No, The Panther had inline 6 or V12, and the maxi was never sold with the E6 ( but it would probably have fit)

 

[Acathater]

Square (aka "quartic") steering wheel

 

[D1511]

The ridiculous big front seat?

 

[MotCO]

The doors of the Austin Maxi also fitted the doors of the Austin 1800. So is it that parts of one car also fitted parts of another car?

 

[RyanOPlasty]

The doors of the Austin Maxi also fitted the doors of the Austin 1800. So is it that parts of one car also fitted parts of another car?

Yes MotCO, you are not quite there, but I'll give it to you. They all shared the same doors, as did the 1800 and Austin 3-litre.


Over to you

 

[MotCO]

Bentley using British Leyland car doors? - perish the thought!

Anyway, the next question. Everyone knows that John Logie Baird invented the television, but who invented the first colour television?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Was that also Baird?

 

[MotCO]

Was that also Baird?

So you didn't fall for the diversionary tactic! In 1928, Baird demonstrated a picture of a girl wearing three different coloured hats - that girl was Noele Gordon, of Crossroads fame.

Please produce the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Staying on a Scottish theme.
What is the southernmost point of Scotland?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thank you.
Staying on a Scottish theme.
What is the southernmost point of Scotland?

Carrick-Kee.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Carrick-Kee.

I'll give you that one although there does appear to be a number of claimants to the title.

Please set the next question.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I'll give you that one although there does appear to be a number of claimants to the title.

Please set the next question.

Carrick-Kee is on the Mull of Galloway, about twenty odd miles SSE of Stranraer, if anyone was wondering.

In a similar vein, where's the Easternmost point of mainland Scotland? I'll accept the fairly big nearby town as the correct answer.

 

[MotCO]

Inverness?

 

[Gloster]

Peterhead?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Inverness?

Sorry. No.

Peterhead?

Yes. That'll do nicely. The East side of 'Keith Inch' (now forming part of Peterhead Harbour) is the precise location.

Would you like to take us in a new direction with the next question?

 

[Gloster]

An incident, possibly largely fictional, during the loss of the French flagship at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 was the basis of a well-known poem. What was the name of the poem or its first line?

 

[Peterthegreat]

The boy stood on the burning deck?

 

[DaleCooper]

The boy stood on the burning deck?

His pocket full of crackers

 

[Gloster]

The boy stood on the burning deck?

Correct. The poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans is called Casabianca as Captain Casabianca of L’Orient was killed, but his son supposedly would not leave his post on deck and remained there until the burning ship exploded. It has been much parodied, the one I know is:

The boy stood on the burning deck
A bottle of whisky round his neck
His mother would not let him go
Because she loved the whisky so

To you to compose the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
A cricket question.
Who was the first player to take 200 wickets and score 2,000 runs in Test matches?

 

[xotGD]

Lance Cairns

 

[Peterthegreat]

Lance Cairns

Not Cairns

 

[SuspectUsual]

Sir Garfield Sobers

 

[Peterthegreat]

Not Sobers.

 

[D1511]

Ian Botham?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Not Botham.
So far no one has got the nationality right.