General Knowledge Quiz

[341o2]

Staying with a birding theme, which species, popular with falconers, has caused concern following reports of escapees mating with a native British species and producing hybrid chicks?
Maybe not so much as escaping as deciding to fly off and not return to the falconer.

 

[xotGD]

Gyrfalcon?

 

[Acathater]

Red tailed hawk breeding with buzzards?

 

[341o2]

It is a species of hawk, but neither of the above

 

[Acathater]

It is a species of hawk, but neither of the above

Harris hawk?

 

[341o2]

Harris hawk?

That's the one. Cancerns have been raised regarding Harris Hawks going AWOL and breeding with common Buzzards.
The Harris ()or Harris's) Hawk is native to the Americas
The lure is yours.

 

[Acathater]

That's the one. Cancerns have been raised regarding Harris Hawks going AWOL and breeding with common Buzzards.
The Harris ()or Harris's) Hawk is native to the Americas
The lure is yours.

What - from a British point of view - is wrong with the name "Harris (or Harris's) Hawk"?

 

[xotGD]

You don't get any on the Isle of Harris.

 

[Acathater]

You don't get any on the Isle of Harris.

Probably true but not what I'm after.

 

[xotGD]

In British English it should be Harris' Hawk.

 

[Acathater]

In British English it should be Harris' Hawk.

No there is something fundamentally wrong in the name

 

[SuspectUsual]

It isn’t actually a hawk at all?

 

[Acathater]

It isn’t actually a hawk at all?

Correct its a species of buzzard.
Though Americans would argue that vultures are Buzzards....

Your turn

 

[SuspectUsual]

A quick question for a Friday night:

Who was the first United States president born an American citizen?

 

[xotGD]

Ulysses S. Grant

 

[Peterthegreat]

Despite Dutch being his first language i think it was Martin van Buren.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Ulysses S. Grant

No, because……

Despite Dutch being his first language i think it was Martin van Buren.

…..yes

@Peterthegreat your turn

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
What is the better known name of the man born Herbert Frahm?

 

[xotGD]

Herbie Hancock

 

[Peterthegreat]

Herbie Hancock

Sorry not Hancock.
A clue - he was born in 1913.

 

[CarltonA]

Herb Alpert?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Herb Alpert?

Herp Alpert is still alive so not him.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Assuming we are now running through a whole list of deceased Herberts in the hope of hitting the right target...?

Herbert Lom?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Can I guess that the person we are seeking isn’t best known as a Herbert?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Assuming we are now running through a whole list of deceased Herberts in the hope of hitting the right target...?

Herbert Lom?

Not Herbert Lom

 

[Peterthegreat]

Can I guess that the person we are seeking isn’t best known as a Herbert?

You guess rightly.

 

[Peterthegreat]

The person concerned was a politician/statesman.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The person concerned was a politician/statesman.

That almost certainly means one of the Chancellors... so again on the scattershot principle, with the one(s) I can remember the names of... I'll start with:

Helmut Kohl?

 

[Peterthegreat]

That almost certainly means one of the Chancellors... so again on the scattershot principle, with the one(s) I can remember the names of... I'll start with:

Helmut Kohl?

Not Kohl.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The only other one I can remember offhand is Brandt. Forgotten his first name, but I don't think it began with an H.