General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Staying with Popes.
Who was the last Pope to retain his birth name when becoming a Pope?

Alexander Pope

 

[D6130]

Paul VI?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Not Paul VI (nor any Paul for that matter).
His birth name was Giovanni.

 

[D6130]

John XXIII

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Some weird one from the 1400s?

 

[D1511]

Pope Hilarious?
(real pope btw!)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Some weird one from the 1400s?

Don't know if he was weird but he missed the 1400s by about 18 months.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Pope Hilarious?
(real pope btw!)

Not he. About a thousand years later.

 

[CarltonA]

Pope Adrian?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Pope Adrian?

Not Adrian.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Don't know if he was weird but he missed the 1400s by about 18 months.

So someone from the 1500s?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Would it be one of the Borgias? They were around about that time weren't they? I seem to remember some of them became Pope?

 

[Peterthegreat]

So someone from the 1500s?

He was born in 1501.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Would it be one of the Borgias? They were around about that time weren't they? I seem to remember some of them became Pope?

Not a Borgia.
A further clue.
He was Pope for 3 weeks.

 

[Acathater]

Pope Joan? (she rather than he, supposedly)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Pope Joan? (she rather than he, supposedly)

Interesting answer but not the one I'm looking for. (And probably incorrect too).

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Pope Joan? (she rather than he, supposedly)

Interesting answer but not the one I'm looking for. (And probably incorrect too).

She was in the u800s anyway and not 1500s.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I can't think of any further clues so if not answered today I will give the answer later and declare open floor.

 

[xotGD]

John I

 

[Peterthegreat]

John I

Nice guess but incorrect.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Marcellus?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Marcellus?

Which one?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Which one?

I think it was Marcellus II, though i dont know if II was his birthname!

 

[Peterthegreat]

I think it was Marcellus II, though i dont know if II was his birthname!

That's the one. His birth name was Marcello. I assume that was Italian with Marcellus being the Latin equivalent.

Anyway to you to pontificate the next question.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Thanks

Wat connects a Sporty Pirate called Steve, a sea faring chicken and a robot with emotions

 

[CarltonA]

Futurama?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Futurama?

Nope, not futurama

 

[D1511]

I am guessing that the actor who played I Robot, voiced the nautical chicken in Mwana and played a sporty pirate in a film I don't know, were all the same person, but I haven't a clue who......

 

[yoyothehobo]

I am guessing that the actor who played I Robot, voiced the nautical chicken in Mwana and played a sporty pirate in a film I don't know, were all the same person, but I haven't a clue who......

On the right lines, there is another clue in the question that you havent got...

 

[D1511]

On the right lines, there is another clue in the question that you havent got...

That must be the 'wat' in the question.....but I don't get it!