General Knowledge Quiz

[theageofthetra]

That's correct, what on earth do you get up to in your spare time?

Your turn...

Off work with a broken hand!-can't do much.

During the so called British Invasion of the 60's US music scene many US artists struggled with records sales and were seen as old hat.

One however bucked the trend and in 1968 outsold all the Beatles sales in the US that year.

Who was it?

 

[DaleCooper]

Elvis?

 

[theageofthetra]

Elvis?

Not him. He was one of the artists most affected by the 'invasion'

 

[Calthrop]

Chuck Berry? (Blind guess -- I know nothing about this stuff.)

 

[DaleCooper]

Glen Campbell?

 

[theageofthetra]

Glen Campbell?

Correct. He became a massive star once he got a prime time slot on The Smothers Brothers show- at the time one of the biggest shows in the US. When the Smothers made one anti Vietnam comment too many CBS fired them and gave Glen his own show as he was seen as Republican and 'safe'

Your Lineman..

 

[DaleCooper]

I haven't got a question so it's open floor...

 

[Calthrop]

These New Zealand wildlife species do not all belong to the same zoological family. Which is the odd one out? (Please give as full details as possible.)


kakapo

kea

kokako

kaka

 

[TheEdge]

Its Kaka, the other three are endemic bird species of New Zealand, no idea what kaka is.

 

[Calthrop]

Its Kaka, the other three are endemic bird species of New Zealand, no idea what kaka is.

I disagree with you here, I'm afraid: Google "kaka -- bird". However, they are indeed all birds (as tends to be the way to bet with NZ fauna !).

 

[DaleCooper]

I suspect that three of them (including Kea and Kakapo) are flightless so one of the others can fly - but which one?

 

[Calthrop]

I suspect that three of them (including Kea and Kakapo) are flightless so one of the others can fly - but which one?

Good thinking; but it's not about ability or inability to fly.

 

[TheEdge]

You said I could google Kaka so I did.

So then my next guess is the kokako is the only one that isn't a parrot.

 

[Calthrop]

You said I could google Kaka so I did.

So then my next guess is the kokako is the only one that isn't a parrot.

Correct: the kokako or "New Zealand crow" belongs to the family Calleidae or wattlebirds. The other three are indeed types of parrot -- family Strigopidae. (Stephen Fry has observed that New Zealand's birds would seem to have been named by a rather rude ten-year-old.)

Your floor.

 

[TheEdge]

A well known international food chain got in trouble for using some, lets say interesting, characters in an advertising campaign. Which company was it and who did they use?

 

[fowler9]

I suspect that three of them (including Kea and Kakapo) are flightless so one of the others can fly - but which one?

The Kea is the worlds only Alpine parrot? And it eats bits of cars? Sorry, didn't read the whole thread.

 

[fowler9]

A well known international food chain got in trouble for using some, lets say interesting, characters in an advertising campaign. Which company was it and who did they use?

Was it the Company that made Kia Ora orange juice (Maori for Hello if you translate it simply)? The advert featured a little black boy with his dog being chased by crows after his drink.

 

[fowler9]

That or Robertsons and their Marmalade with the Golly in the adverts.

 

[TheEdge]

No, this is not a historic advert, it was first broadcast in 2011.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Was it the Company that made Kia Ora orange juice (Maori for Hello if you translate it simply)? The advert featured a little black boy with his dog being chased by crows after his drink.

"It's too orangey for crows; it's just for me and my dog."

Now there's lovely nostalgia

 

[fowler9]

"It's too orangey for crows; it's just for me and my dog."

Now there's lovely nostalgia

Yeah, ha ha, would love to know why they called it Kia Ora. Seems to have little to do with New Zealand. Apologies for going off subject. The question has me temporarily stumped, I have an itch in my brain which knows the answer though.

 

[TheEdge]

I'll say international fast food chain, although it was a single country chain that made the advert.

 

[fowler9]

Was it KFC in South Africa?

 

[TheEdge]

It was South Africa but it wasn't KFC

 

[A Challenge]

I've got an inkling it may have been McDonalds?

 

[theageofthetra]

This must be the one mocking that replusive dictator Mugabe. I can't remember which chain it was though but their staff in the former Rhodesia were attacked by his 'Hitler Youth' type hate group.

 

[TheEdge]

That'll do, it was Nandos South Africa with their Last Dictator Standing advert (available on YouTube). A sad Robert Mugabe laying a meal for Gaddafi, Mao, Hussein, Botha and Amin...

Your manicial floor

 

[theageofthetra]

Other than the better climate for filming outdoors what was the primary reason for the US film industry relocating from its existing East Coast (NY/NJ/Philly) location to a minor village on the outskirts of LA called Hollywood?

 

[Calthrop]

Other than the better climate for filming outdoors what was the primary reason for the US film industry relocating from its existing East Coast (NY/NJ/Philly) location to a minor village on the outskirts of LA called Hollywood?

Film-making in the east of the US had -- from the start -- been regulated and controlled with a heavy hand, and lawsuit-plagued, especially by the Motion Picture Patents Company. California was as far away distance-wise as it was possible to get from this stuff, in the same country -- things altogether freer-and-easier in California -- and Mexico was only a hundred miles away from Los Angeles, if a pursuit-proof "escape hatch" were required.

 

[theageofthetra]

Film-making in the east of the US had -- from the start -- been regulated and controlled with a heavy hand, and lawsuit-plagued, especially by the Motion Picture Patents Company. California was as far away distance-wise as it was possible to get from this stuff, in the same country -- things altogether freer-and-easier in California -- and Mexico was only a hundred miles away from Los Angeles, if a pursuit-proof "escape hatch" were required.

Spot on. The Edisson co in particular used to send agents out to filming locations and shut down shoots using their equipment without licence.

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