General Knowledge Quiz

[Gloster]

Because you will have crossed the border into Canada, or possibly Mexico?

 

[Donny Dave]

Correct. Over to you to keep us on the right track.

 

[Gloster]

What is very unusual about the Alaskan town of Whittier? There are two unusual features, but one is effectively unique.

 

[Peterthegreat]

You will be crossing the border between Canada and the USA.

 

[Gloster]

You will be crossing the border between Canada and the USA.

If that is the answer to #37,293, the answer is no. If it is to#37,290, then that has already been answered.

 

[xotGD]

Is it the other side of the International Date Line to the rest of the country?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Is it the town where the whole town consists of one big building that has everything in it? Or is that in Russia?

 

[Gloster]

Is it the town where the whole town consists of one big building that has everything in it? Or is that in Russia?

That is the other unusual feature and gives it the nickname of ‘city under one roof’, but it isn’t quite true as there are one or two other inhabited buildings, although most of the population live in one block. However, you have the correct town, but what is the other feature?

 

[DaleCooper]

What is very unusual about the Alaskan town of Whittier? There are two unusual features, but one is effectively unique.

Is it twinned with Phunnier?

 

[xotGD]

No roads?

 

[Gloster]

No roads?

Would you expand on this.

 

[D6130]

Only accessable by rail?

 

[Gloster]

Only accessable by rail?

Close enough. The town is on the coast, but until 1942 the only land access was over the mountains. In 1942 a single-track rail tunnel was built and this became the only land access until 2000, when the tunnel was converted to a road and rail tunnel. This means that it is the only town to which the only land access is through a lengthy (2 1/2 mile) tunnel.

To you to open the way to the next question.

 

[D6130]

Close enough. The town is on the coast, but until 1942 the only land access was over the mountains. In 1942 a single-track rail tunnel was built and this became the only land access until 2000, when the tunnel was converted to a road and rail tunnel. This means that it is the only town to which the only land access is through a lengthy (2 1/2 mile) tunnel.

To you to open the way to the next question.

Thanks. Staying on an Alaskan theme:

In which year was the major earthquake in and around Anchorage?

 

[MotCO]

1912?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

My wife and I visited the memorial in Anchorage. Definitely 1960s and I seem to recall 1964 - the year of the Tokyo Olympics.

 

[D1511]

My wife and I visited the memorial in Anchorage. Definitely 1960s and I seem to recall 1964 - the year of the Tokyo Olympics.

On Good Friday, I believe

 

[D6130]

My wife and I visited the memorial in Anchorage. Definitely 1960s and I seem to recall 1964 - the year of the Tokyo Olympics.

Correct. Your turn.

On Good Friday, I believe

Also correct, but @GRALISTAIR beat you to the correct date.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Open floor please.

 

[Donny Dave]

In England and Wales, if you have been convucted for 'Embracery', what crime have you committed?

 

[D6130]

Hugging a random person without their consent?

 

[Acathater]

Is it when differing christian churches amalgamate?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Attempting to bribe a jury?

 

[Gloster]

Fraudulently acquiring another’s property (i.e, land or buildings) by altering deeds?

 

[Donny Dave]

Attempting to bribe a jury?

I'll pocket that £100 you gave me and allow you to set the next question.

For thos interested, Embracery is an obsolete law, last used in the 1970s, and has been superseded with Perverting the Course of Justice.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you.

Now... another one that requires a bit of out of the box thinking:

What is the connection between the Gestapo and Winston Churchill's funeral?

 

[DerekC]

The actor who played the Gestapo agent Herr Otto Flick in the BBC sitcom "Allo, Allo" attended Winston Churchill's funeral. I guessed (or maybe remembered) that much, but now I confess to looking up his name because I couldn't remember it - Richard Gibson, and he attended the funeral as a St Paul's Cathedral chorister.

 

[D1511]

Great question, and answer, if correct!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The actor who played the Gestapo agent Herr Otto Flick in the BBC sitcom "Allo, Allo" attended Winston Churchill's funeral. I guessed (or maybe remembered) that much, but now I confess to looking up his name because I couldn't remember it - Richard Gibson, and he attended the funeral as a St Paul's Cathedral chorister.

That's exactly it - he told the story in a TV interview a couple of years ago and I made a note, thinking that it would be a good puzzle on here at some point.

You may handle the next interrogation.

 

[DerekC]

OK. Which motor company first fitted a model with disc brakes? (and a bonus point if you can get the year right).