General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

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

Brandt is correct. His first name was Willy.
He changed his name when fleeing from the Nazis.
Bitte die nächste Frage.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you, so we finally got there.

I think I will stick with the political theme:

What comes next in this list; what is the list anyway?

David
Fitzgerald
Bains
Milhous
Rudolf
Earl

 

[Donny Dave]

Ronald Reagon, middle names of US presidents.

 

[D1511]

As Milhous would have said "expletive deleted you beat me to it!"

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Ronald Reagon, middle names of US presidents.

...but what was Reagan's middle name?

The question is asking for the middle names.................

 

[Donny Dave]

...but what was Reagan's middle name?

That bit I don't know without looking it up.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

That bit I don't know without looking it up.

Well, you did get the correct president so I can't really not give you the floor... It was Wilson. Please take the oath for question setting.

 

[Donny Dave]

Thank you. Anyway, moving away from politics....

In South Korea, what is the Hangul?

 

[Acathater]

Thank you. Anyway, moving away from politics....

In South Korea, what is the Hangul?

one of the alphabet symbol systems?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you. Anyway, moving away from politics....

In South Korea, what is the Hangul?

It's the measurement of the Dangul.

 

[Donny Dave]

one of the alphabet symbol systems?

You are thinking along the right lines, and are quite close.

 

[Acathater]

You are thinking along the right lines, and are quite close.

OK I'll rephrase it
It's the principal character set in the Korean alphabet

 

[Donny Dave]

The answer i was looking for was simply 'the Korean alphabet'.

Over to you to spell out a new conundrum for us to decipher.

 

[Acathater]

What kind of animal is the blood-eating Simulium posticatum?

 

[Gloster]

Leech?

 

[Acathater]

Leech?

nope

 

[DaleCooper]

Bat

 

[Acathater]

Bat

no

 

[D1511]

Tick?

 

[Gloster]

Midge?

 

[DaleCooper]

Bird

 

[D1511]

Bed bug

 

[Acathater]

no ones got it so far

clue: it's common name comes from a town on the River Stour in Dorset

 

[Gloster]

Blandford fly?

 

[Acathater]

Blandford fly?

Someone knows his entomology. Exactly so - it's a river dwelling biting fly

your turn

 

[Gloster]

Alex Kitson, who was the Deputy General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers’ Union and a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, had worked a milk round when he was younger. One of his assistants became rather better known. Who was the assistant?

 

[xotGD]

Sean Connery

 

[MotCO]

William Hague?

 

[D1511]

Sean Connery

He used to deliver milk from the Co-Op dairy in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to my Auntie Nan and Uncle Matt! They never mentioned Alex Kitson though!

 

[Gloster]

Sean Connery

Indeed it was Thomas ‘Big Tam’ Connery, as he was then known, who delivered milk in Morningside for St Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society of Fountainbridge. Alex Kitson may have had a respectable career, but he wasn’t world famous.

To you to deliver the next question.