General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Florence Griffith Joyner

 

[Peterthegreat]

I'll hazard a guess at Bob Beamon. 1968 Long Jump.

He's the one.
Your turn to go for glory.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

In the Pirates of the Caribbean films one of the main characters is Captain Barbossa. What is his first name?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thinking of the part played by Geoffrey Rush, the first name was Hector.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Thinking of the part played by Geoffrey Rush, the first name was Hector.

It was indeed.

Your turn to shiver our timbers and do other stereotypical pirate things and set a new question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which north-west football team is the holder of the largest number of winning goals margin scored in a league match in the former Third Division (North). in what year did it occur and who were the defeated team?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Tranmere Rovers vs Oldham Athletic. Finished 13-4. No idea of the year/season, but probably would have been mid 1930s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tranmere Rovers vs Oldham Athletic. Finished 13-4. No idea of the year/season, but probably would have been mid 1930s.

That particular match score of 13 by the winning side still remains the highest aggregate score of 17 goals in an English football league match, but would not be out of place as a rugby match result. However I still need the year in which the match is played in a full answer.

HINT....In that match, the goal margin difference between the teams was 9, but there was another match in the same division where the winning goals margin was higher than that and that was in the previous year to the game that you nominated.

The mention of Oldham Athletic in your posting takes me back to a very cold and frosty Boxing Day in 1962 (when I was 17) and three of us went to Boundary Park for the Division 4 home match against Southport, which was one of the very few league matches not cancelled that day on account of the plastic pitch and the score ended Oldham Athletic 11 Southport 0 and Bert Lister, the Oldham centre forward could not be held in check by the Southport defence and had a field day to remember, scoring six goals.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Since we have hit an impasse, I will reveal the full answer....

The team that scored the largest number of winning goals margin in a league match in the former Third Division (North)...... Stockport County with a 13 goal winning margin.

The year in which the match was played ...... 1934

The defeated team ... Halifax Town

Open floor now declared

 

[DaleCooper]

Since we have hit an impasse, I will reveal the full answer....

The team that scored the largest number of winning goals margin in a league match in the former Third Division (North)...... Stockport County with a 13 goal winning margin.

The year in which the match was played ...... 1934

The defeated team ... Halifax Town

Open floor now declared

Next question:

In 1948 what unusual modification was made to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Warrior?

 

[Gloster]

Prototype ‘ski-jump’?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Next question:

In 1948 what unusual modification was made to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Warrior?

A really big magnet?

 

[DaleCooper]

Prototype ‘ski-jump’?

That was HMS Furious.

A really big magnet?

That would be a good idea but I think most planes were mainly aluminium.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Was this the first one angled slightly to the side to get a bit of extra length?

 

[MotCO]

Cord across the deck to catch the planes as they land?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Fitted with a rubber flight deck and loaned to the Canadian Navy?

 

[DaleCooper]

Was this the first one angled slightly to the side to get a bit of extra length?

No

Cord across the deck to catch the planes as they land?

Arresting cables weren't unusual at that time.

Fitted with a rubber flight deck and loaned to the Canadian Navy?

You're right about the rubber flight deck (for planes without undercarriage) but this was after it came back from Canada. Your turn...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What are the 8 states that border Missouri - in order clockwise starting from the 12.00 position?

 

[Calthrop]

I'll try (know them as per map; but from memory, pretty dodgy): Iowa / Illinois / Ohio / Kentucky / Tennessee / Arkansas / Kansas / Nebraska ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I'll try (know them as per map; but from memory, pretty dodgy): Iowa / Illinois / Ohio / Kentucky / Tennessee / Arkansas / Kansas / Nebraska ?

Great try - 7 right and one wrong.

 

[Calthrop]

We're in the (in Britain) new day -- nobody else has had a go: if I might take another shot -- altering one state, as per -- Iowa / Illinois / Indiana / Kentucky / Tennessee / Arkansas / Kansas / Nebraska

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Indiana is incorrect, missing one from the southwest

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Indiana is incorrect, missing one from the southwest

I was not just a folk singer in my teens and twenties, but also belonged to a dramatic and musical society and I think the missing state is described in the words of the song that names the state.....

"When the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure small sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain"

Oklahoma

 

[yoyothehobo]

I was not just a folk singer in my teens and twenties, but also belonged to a dramatic and musical society and I think the missing state is described in the words of the song that names the state.....

"When the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure small sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain"

Oklahoma

You mean OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Klahoma

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I was not just a folk singer in my teens and twenties, but also belonged to a dramatic and musical society and I think the missing state is described in the words of the song that names the state.....

"When the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure small sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain"

Oklahoma

Correct sir. Calthrop did the bulk of the heavy lifting on this one and you have contributed. So I don't think it fair to declare open floor but either of you two should set the next question.

 

[Calthrop]

Say, Xeno-phon (what kind of moniker is that? Injun, maybe?) buddy -- I would admire for you to set the next one. Gee, but you sure set plumb weird 'uns ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What name is given to the single species great ape that lived in the area of Southern China during the early to middle Pleistocene Age before becoming extinct.

 

[yoyothehobo]

What name is given to the single species great ape that lived in the area of Southern China during the early to middle Pleistocene Age before becoming extince.

Geoff

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Geoff

Not so. The name commonly used has a lot of letters in it.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Not so. The name commonly used has a lot of letters in it.

I was hoping it would be a name which would be colliquially used!

Need to have more of a think...

Probably giganto something if i remember back to undergrad 1st year geology. Everything big is giganto something