General Knowledge Quiz

HMS Ark Royal · 7 Jul 2016

DaleCooper said:
A game of golf on the deck of a cruise ship?

Not golf, no... Although not exactly a cruise ship, I will confirm that is close

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Cowley · 7 Jul 2016

Racing something around the Ark Royal planey landy bit? I'm not sure if it's called that?

HMS Ark Royal · 7 Jul 2016

Cowley said:
Racing something around the Ark Royal planey landy bit? I'm not sure if it's called that?

You mean the Flight deck - no, not her

Think of Queens

Cowley · 7 Jul 2016

The QE2 on the way back from the Falklands? I don't think that was her last trip though. A race on the deck maybe? That's my last attempt.

HMS Ark Royal · 7 Jul 2016

Cowley said:
The QE2 on the way back from the Falklands? I don't think that was her last trip though. A race on the deck maybe? That's my last attempt.

No - right company though, but an earlier ship

Try again

(this might be one for the elders of the parish)

DaleCooper · 7 Jul 2016

A whist drive (or even a beetle drive) on the Queen Mary?

HMS Ark Royal · 7 Jul 2016

DaleCooper said:
A whist drive (or even a beetle drive) on the Queen Mary?

Right ship, but not the occasion

Gutfright · 8 Jul 2016

If people were driving but not going anywhere, was there some sort of exhibition on the ship where they were demonstrating the soon-to-be-built M25?

HMS Ark Royal · 8 Jul 2016

Gutfright said:
If people were driving but not going anywhere, was there some sort of exhibition on the ship where they were demonstrating the soon-to-be-built M25?

No...

The next clue is:

The ship exists in the USA but was a famous British Queen

Gutfright · 8 Jul 2016

I thought we had already established that the ship was the Queen Mary?

HMS Ark Royal · 8 Jul 2016

Gutfright said:
I thought we had already established that the ship was the Queen Mary?

Good point... Whoops!

What was the occasion?

Gutfright · 8 Jul 2016

Someone would probably have got it by now if this were the case, but did the QM have a miniature railway on board as it sailed round Cape Horn?

DaleCooper · 8 Jul 2016

Did they have fairground rides (carousel, dodgems or something) on the ship?

HMS Ark Royal · 9 Jul 2016

Gutfright said:
Someone would probably have got it by now if this were the case, but did the QM have a miniature railway on board as it sailed round Cape Horn?

Not a railway, no - try bigger

DaleCooper said:
Did they have fairground rides (carousel, dodgems or something) on the ship?

Nope
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Think, people, what the QM might have taken with her on her last trip

Gutfright · 9 Jul 2016

HMS Ark Royal said:
Not a railway, no - try bigger

The world's first Maglev system?

DaleCooper · 9 Jul 2016

I was wondering; did all the doors on that ship have Queen Mary Hinges?

Darren R · 9 Jul 2016

Given the change to HMS Ark Royal's status, I think we may be in for a long wait to find out the answer he was looking for.....

DaleCooper · 9 Jul 2016

Darren R said:
Given the change to HMS Ark Royal's status, I think we may be in for a long wait to find out the answer he was looking for.....

The chances are the answer would have been some misinformation from Fifteen to One so it's no great loss.

It had better be open floor, anybody got a question?

backontrack · 9 Jul 2016

Rich men want this, poor men have this, and if you eat this, you will die.

This has a mouth but never eats, runs but never walks, and has a bed but never sleeps.

This gets wetter as it dries.

This travels around the world but always stays in the corner.

Now, in the words of Yoda: 'Solve these riddles all, you must'.

Cowley · 9 Jul 2016

Nothing?
A river.
A towel.
A stamp.

Gutfright · 9 Jul 2016

Darren R said:
Given the change to HMS Ark Royal's status, I think we may be in for a long wait to find out the answer he was looking for.....

Does anyone know what happened to HMS Ark Royal?

I checked on Google, seems the answer he was looking for was that RMS Queen Mary carried two London buses for her final trip which passengers boarded so they could say that they had traveled round the Cape in a London Bus.

Cowley · 9 Jul 2016

I think it may have been a comment about the French on the football discussion. Not really sure though.

backontrack · 10 Jul 2016

Cowley said:
Nothing?
A river.
A towel.
A stamp.

Well, I assumed that would last longer! Your floor.

Cowley · 10 Jul 2016

Thanks. The question is: Where was the last person executed in Western Europe? What was the method? And what was the year?

DasLunatic · 10 Jul 2016

Is this the French execution of Hamida Djandoubi in 1977, using a guillotine?

If you're being picky however, it was in Marseille.

deltic1989 · 10 Jul 2016

Don't know if it was the last in Western Europe but certainly more recent than the uks final execution (which was 1964).

Hamida Djandoubi, was executed by guillotine for murder (among other things) in France in 1977.

Cowley · 10 Jul 2016

Spot on Mr Lunatic, your turn. Sorry Mr Deltic, he got there first.

DasLunatic · 10 Jul 2016

Many thanks.

Complete the sequence:
C, B, L, M, F, C, S, ?

Gutfright · 11 Jul 2016

I'll get the ball rolling...

D?

DasLunatic · 11 Jul 2016

You're a few yards offside.

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