General Knowledge Quiz

[Acathater]

Danny Blanchflower?
I've got half a memory it was a footballer

 

[Peterthegreat]

Bob Hope?

Bob Hope has been on twice.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Michael Parkinson?

Michael Parkinson has been on once

 

[Peterthegreat]

Danny Blanchflower?
I've got half a memory it was a footballer

Danny Blanchflower refused to be on.

 

[D6130]

Geoffrey Boycott?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Time for a clue.
The person is known as a singer and actor and is still active.
They appeared on the show in 1964, 1975 and 1996.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Geoffrey Boycott?

Sir Geoffrey has not appeared.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Petula Clark?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Petula Clark?

Is correct.
Please go Downtown to set the next question.

 

[DaleCooper]

Julie Andrews

 

[yoyothehobo]

What links the following?

An (in)famous American Car
The former owners of Vauxhaul
An event in the UK in 1926
This website
A hospital in Leeds

 

[Gloster]

General?

 

[341o2]

I was in the process of saying the same as in General Motors and General Strike

 

[yoyothehobo]

General?

Correct. It is the word "General"

I once did a quiz with a General Knowledge round, with a similar theme. People werent entirely impressed.

Your floor.
The answers were General Lee, General Strike, General Motors, General Knowledge Quiz and Leeds General Infirmary

 

[SuspectUsual]

Correct. It is the word "General"

I once did a quiz with a General Knowledge round, with a similar theme. People werent entirely impressed.

Your floor.
The answers were General Lee, General Strike, General Motors, General Knowledge Quiz and Leeds General Infirmary

Ha, I did something similar once, with similar results I suspect. General Accident made an appearance too

 

[Gloster]

How has the 26th Baron de Clifford been, to a certain extent, notorious since 1936?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Was he known (properly or at one time) as Sir Oswald Moseley?

 

[341o2]

Ha, I did something similar once, with similar results I suspect. General Accident made an appearance too

after WW2 ended, and the US were reaching out to Japan ,the reply was that General Motors and General Electric would be welcome in the Land of the Rising Sun.

 

[Gloster]

Was he known (properly or at one time) as Sir Oswald Moseley?

No.

 

[Acathater]

How has the 26th Baron de Clifford been, to a certain extent, notorious since 1936?

Lord Hawhaw?

 

[Gloster]

Lord Hawhaw?

No. Lord Haw-Haw, none of them, was ever a genuine lord.

 

[DaleCooper]

How has the 26th Baron de Clifford been, to a certain extent, notorious since 1936?

Did he cheat at the Berlin Olympics?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

How has the 26th Baron de Clifford been, to a certain extent, notorious since 1936?

He gave the Nazi salute or instructed the British athletes that they should do so if they were on the winner's podium?

 

[Gloster]

Did he cheat at the Berlin Olympics?

He gave the Nazi salute or instructed the British athletes that they should do so if they were on the winner's podium?

Nothing to do with the Olympics: it was entirely a British matter.

 

[DaleCooper]

He introduced Wallis Simpson to Edward VIII.

 

[Gloster]

He introduced Wallis Simpson to Edward VIII.

No, that was Gromit, sorry, Lady Furness, who was at the time, but not for much longer, Edward’s mistress.

 

[DaleCooper]

Was he in the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious?

 

[Gloster]

Was he in the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious?

No.

A clue: the fact that he was a peer is of great relevance.

 

[xotGD]

First person to be kicked out of the House of Lords?

 

[D1511]

First Lord to be tried for treason?