General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

I was just giving a daft answer!

Anyhow...

Paying by BACS is a regular thing, but what does "BACS" stand for?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Bankers Automated Clearing System.

 

[DaleCooper]

I was just giving a daft answer!

Well it was a daft question.

 

[xotGD]

Bankers Automated Clearing System.

Is the correct answer. Over to you to cash in on your success...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Apologies for the delay.
He was born in 1958 and named after a Scottish Mountain. He found fame in North West England in 1967 and succumbed to colic in 1971.
Who was he?

 

[SteveM70]

Foinavon I presume

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Foinavon I presume

100-1 odds that you've got that right!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Foinavon I presume

You presume correctly. Please start the next race.

 

[Peterthegreat]

100-1 odds that you've got that right!

Not bad odds!

 

[SteveM70]

What was unique about the squad numbers Charlton Athletic used in the 1993/94 premier league season?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

What was unique about the squad numbers Charlton Athletic used in the 1993/94 premier league season?

Allocated alphabetically by surname?

 

[SteveM70]

Allocated alphabetically by surname?

They were indeed (at least the 21 players in the start of season squad - obviously later additions were tagged on at the end)

Your turn to kick off

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Name the five clubs to have lost their place in the SPFL (= Scottish Professional Football League) following the introduction of end-of-season play-offs for teams finishing bottom of SPFL League 2 in season 2014/15?

 

[SteveM70]

Ooooh

Brechin
East Stirlingshire
Cowdenbeath
Berwick Rangers

One other I can’t remember

 

[yoyothehobo]

Albion rovers

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Brechin
East Stirlingshire
Cowdenbeath
Berwick Rangers

One other I can’t remember

That's four correct.

Albion rovers

Yep. They're the other one.

@Steve70. As you got four out of five, perhaps you'd be so kind as to set the next question?

 

[SteveM70]

Open floor please

 

[Calthrop]

In the realm of philately, sort-of -- which vain head of state: commanded that his country's post office, use in all instances a postmark in the form of a frame around the edge of each stamp, so as not to muck-up his revered head as portrayed on said stamp?

 

[randyrippley]

In the realm of philately, sort-of -- which vain head of state: commanded that his country's post office, use in all instances a postmark in the form of a frame around the edge of each stamp, so as not to muck-up his revered head as portrayed on said stamp?

Just a guess............Reza Shah of Iran?

 

[DaleCooper]

In the realm of philately, sort-of -- which vain head of state: commanded that his country's post office, use in all instances a postmark in the form of a frame around the edge of each stamp, so as not to muck-up his revered head as portrayed on said stamp?

Kim Il-sung

 

[yoyothehobo]

That Tajikistan leader

 

[Loppylugs]

In the realm of philately, sort-of -- which vain head of state: commanded that his country's post office, use in all instances a postmark in the form of a frame around the edge of each stamp, so as not to muck-up his revered head as portrayed on said stamp?

King Donald of the Virgin Islands (well they were until he arrived).

 

[Calthrop]

None of those suggested to date, I'm afraid. Re the historically-existing ones thereof (with old Donald, who knows?): the "answer guy" considerably pre-dates them all.

 

[DaleCooper]

King Zog (Just because I like the name and have never before had the opportunity to use it.)

 

[Calthrop]

King Zog (Just because I like the name and have never before had the opportunity to use it.)

Ah, that splendidly-named monarch. Not him, I fear -- I get the impression that he was overall sane, and a good chap; at least compared to some leaders which his country has had. As above -- our man is of earlier date, context the relatively brief historical window since postage stamps were first introduced.

 

[Gloster]

Kaiser Bill?

 

[Calthrop]

No -- he was funny over a fair number of issues; but doesn't seem to have had a "thing" about postmarks. Look yet earlier...

 

[randyrippley]

Ludwig II of Bavaria?
He was mad..........

 

[Calthrop]

Ludwig II of Bavaria?
He was mad..........

This is the closest yet, re time in history. It was a monarch, but of a different Continental country.

 

[Peterthegreat]

King Boris!