General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Cliff Richard

Congratulations Cliff Richard is correct.
Your turn.

 

[MotCO]

Sticking with Cliff Richard, in the film Summer Holiday, Una Stubbs appeared as part of a dance troupe. What was the name of that troupe? Clue - there is a link between this name and The Sound of Music.

 

[DaleCooper]

Sticking with Cliff Richard, in the film Summer Holiday, Una Stubbs appeared as part of a dance troupe. What was the name of that troupe? Clue - there is a link between this name and The Sound of Music.

Edelweiss?

 

[MotCO]

Edelweiss?

No, but you're thinking along the right lines

 

[D6130]

The Cowbells?

 

[Gloster]

The Trapp Dancers.

 

[Spamcan81]

The Christopher Plummer Terpsichorean Troupe?

 

[DaleCooper]

No, but you're thinking along the right lines

Probably not The Lonely Goatherd so what about Sixteen Going on Seventeen?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Doh - a deer?

 

[DaleCooper]

Doh - a deer?

I didn't know Homer Simpson was on this forum.

 

[Acathater]

the DoRayMees?

 

[MotCO]

the DoRayMees?

Is the right answer. Glad to see a lot of knowledge on The Sound of Music on this forum

Please take the baton and set the next question

 

[Acathater]

Is the right answer. Glad to see a lot of knowledge on The Sound of Music on this forum

Please take the baton and set the next question

Open house

I've just got out of a Hawkwind concert and my brain is too scrambled to think

 

[Purple Train]

If I may...

What connects the cricketers Mitchell Santner, Imam-ul-Haq, Jack Leach, and Daniel Vettori?

 

[SuspectUsual]

They all bat wearing glasses

 

[Purple Train]

They all bat wearing glasses

Indeed. Your go.

 

[SuspectUsual]

What proportion of the eligible electorate of Clacton voted for Nigel Farage in the 2024 general election?

Answers rounded to whole numbers please, and I'll accept one either side of the correct answer as well

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I'll start off with a guesstimate of 35%.

 

[DaleCooper]

16%

 

[Acathater]

42?

 

[SuspectUsual]

None of those are close enough

 

[xotGD]

27%

 

[SuspectUsual]

27%

Perfecto!

46.2% of the votes cast on a 58.7% turnout

Your turn to resign in a huff seek the mandate of the people

 

[xotGD]

Maintaining the theme, how many candidates are standing in the forthcoming Clacton by-election?

 

[Purple Train]

34?

 

[D6130]

38?

 

[Acathater]

42

 

[xotGD]

34?

As the acting returning officer, I duly declare that you may set the next question...

 

[Purple Train]

Thank you.

Which playwright, whose works include Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, was born Tomas Sträussler in 1937?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Which playwright, whose works include Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, was born Tomas Sträussler in 1937?

Tom Stoppard