General Knowledge Quiz

[backontrack]

Manchester United?

 

[steevp]

An actress?

 

[DaleCooper]

Henry Cooper?

 

[theageofthetra]

It could be sort of described as a sport and Epstein did actually manage one of its participants whilst still managing his bands.

 

[DaleCooper]

Bobby Fischer?

 

[theageofthetra]

I am not looking for a particular 'sports man' -if you can call them that. I need the 'sport' Brian and a group of very famous high living people including Orson Welles were in to.

Brian oddly managed an English participant which was very unusual in this 'sport'

 

[DaleCooper]

I am not looking for a particular 'sports man' -if you can call them that. I need the 'sport' Brian and a group of very famous high living people including Orson Welles were in to.

Brian oddly managed an English participant which was very unusual in this 'sport'

You did ask "...who?".

Had he not taken the overdose Brian had planned to get out the music business and manage who?

Was it Poker?

 

[theageofthetra]

Sorry should have worded it as whom. Not any of the sports named so far.

It is a 'sport' mostly associated with one country and to have a particpant from outside that country managed by Brian would have been unusual.

 

[steevp]

Some North American sport such as baseball, ice hockey or American football?

 

[DaleCooper]

Bullfighting?

 

[theageofthetra]

Bullfighting?

Correct.

Brian was part of a group including Orson Welles who travelled around the top bullfights in Spain. He managed a British bullfighter (there have been a few over the years including one who was still performing about 10 years ago in the lower arenas)

Brian wanted to sell the Beatles and the rest of his music stable on and just manage the top Matadors (with a plan to bring an event to London) but John in particular refused to be managed by anyone else.

Your bullring.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next question:

All these words share an unusual attribute, what is it?

Cleave
Dust
Let
Overlook
Sanction
Screen

 

[theageofthetra]

They are all words which can mean the opposite of what was intended depending on the context.

 

[DaleCooper]

They are all words which can mean the opposite of what was intended depending on the context.

Correct, they are auto-antonyms.

Your strike (decisive action/refusal to act)...

 

[Cowley]

Correct, they are auto-antonyms.

Your strike (decisive action/refusal to act)...

That was a really good question.

 

[krus_aragon]

As the floor's been quiet for a day, let me offer you this:

What connects Louisiana, the novel Silver Blaze, Struldbrugs, and Stott Hall Farm?

 

[Calthrop]

This attempted response may be greatly off-beam: but, anyway: I suggest that the common feature is stubbornness / tenacity / keeping grimly on regardless.

The Louisiana reference is to the French-speaking folk of the marshlands of that state, the Cajuns: renownedly -- while nice people – stubborn about keeping to their preferred way of life and “doing their own thing”.

Silver Blaze is a Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle: if anyone was ever determined and tenacious, Holmes was.

The Struldbrugs were a race in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, who were immortal, but physically aged and went on ageing, at the normal mortal-human rate (ghastly thought). You could say that they “staunchly carried on, regardless”, even if it was involuntary.

Stott Hall Farm, in the Pennines not far from Huddersfield, was in the building of the M62 motorway, circumvented by that road – as opposed to being demolished and the road built straight through. As per “legend”, that was due to fierce and determined opposition on the part of the then farmer; I believe that in fact, though, the decision made was for reasons to do with the terrain at that spot.

 

[krus_aragon]

This attempted response may be greatly off-beam: but, anyway: I suggest that the common feature is stubbornness / tenacity / keeping grimly on regardless.

The Louisiana reference is to the French-speaking folk of the marshlands of that state, the Cajuns: renownedly -- while nice people – stubborn about keeping to their preferred way of life and “doing their own thing”.

Silver Blaze is a Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle: if anyone was ever determined and tenacious, Holmes was.

The Struldbrugs were a race in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, who were immortal, but physically aged and went on ageing, at the normal mortal-human rate (ghastly thought). You could say that they “staunchly carried on, regardless”, even if it was involuntary.

Stott Hall Farm, in the Pennines not far from Huddersfield, was in the building of the M62 motorway, circumvented by that road – as opposed to being demolished and the road built straight through. As per “legend”, that was due to fierce and determined opposition on the part of the then farmer; I believe that in fact, though, the decision made was for reasons to do with the terrain at that spot.

The details you list are all true, but not the right connection. A little more tenacity required, perhaps?

 

[Calthrop]

Desperate thrashing-around (and with nothing submitted by any other player): I can only think of matters of compulsory, or generally non-consensual, purchase.

I have no doubt that in the course of the Stott Hall Farm saga, compulsory purchase was at some stage thought of as a way to go. Then there was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803: in which the United States of America bought from France, what is basically the entire middle part of the present-day USA -- including some but not all of the modern State of Louisiana.

Could the novel Silver Blaze (if I've ever read it, that was so long ago that I remember literally nothing except that SB is a horse) perhaps in some way feature coerced buying, or someone trying to enforce such? But have to admit to seeing no possible way, in which this theme could have anything to do with Struldbrugs.

 

[DaleCooper]

Desperate thrashing-around (and with nothing submitted by any other player): I can only think of matters of compulsory, or generally non-consensual, purchase.

I have no doubt that in the course of the Stott Hall Farm saga, compulsory purchase was at some stage thought of as a way to go. Then there was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803: in which the United States of America bought from France, what is basically the entire middle part of the present-day USA -- including some but not all of the modern State of Louisiana.

Could the novel Silver Blaze (if I've ever read it, that was so long ago that I remember literally nothing except that SB is a horse) perhaps in some way feature coerced buying, or someone trying to enforce such? But have to admit to seeing no possible way, in which this theme could have anything to do with Struldbrugs.

I don't know if you're right but you could add that Struldbrugs were not allowed to own real estate (and neither are horses).

 

[krus_aragon]

Let me aid you in your deliberations: I couldn't have asked this question more than five years ago (give or take a few weeks), and it wouldn't be fair to ask it anywhere but here.

 

[DaleCooper]

They relate to the first questions in this quiz which started August 5 2012.

 

[theageofthetra]

Let me aid you in your deliberations: I couldn't have asked this question more than five years ago (give or take a few weeks), and it wouldn't be fair to ask it anywhere but here.

Is it relevant that about 5 years ago the farm was sold and also an old documentary was uncovered which confirmed it was for geological reasons that the farm didn't need to be knocked down?

 

[A Challenge]

They relate to the first questions in this quiz which started August 5 2012.

I will be annoyed if that is the answer aside had realised that but didn't make the thought it could actually be the answer!

 

[krus_aragon]

They relate to the first questions in this quiz which started August 5 2012.

Dale has it. Click [thread=69606]here[/thread] to see the first page of this very thread.

Yes, people, we've been doing this for five years!

The next question is yours, Dale.

 

[DaleCooper]

Dale has it. Click [thread=69606]here[/thread] to see the first page of this very thread.

Yes, people, we've been doing this for five years!

The next question is yours, Dale.

That was a stinker of a question but the hint was so good that it alone could have led to the answer.

Next question:

Who would use a Gigli Saw?

 

[theageofthetra]

A surgeon. Its a sort of hand band saw used in amputations and looks gross!

 

[Cowley]

That was a stinker of a question but the hint was so good that it alone could have led to the answer.

Next question:

Who would use a Gigli Saw?

DaleCooper?

 

[DaleCooper]

A surgeon. Its a sort of hand band saw used in amputations and looks gross!

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

Your turn...

 

[DaleCooper]

DaleCooper?

There are only three circumstances under which I would use one:

1. When absolutely necessary
2. For pleasure
3. For money