General Knowledge Quiz

[Gloster]

OK -- Montana, from the name, is pretty mountainous -- Helena, Montana?

That comes sixth.

Somewhere else in the Rockies. Santa Fe, New Mexico??

That is correct: there is some doubt whether it is 7,198’ or 7,199’, but either way it is the top.

To you to take us to the heights with a new question.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Where did Alf Wight say was the finest view in England?

 

[D6130]

From the top of Sutton Bank at Sutton-under-Whitestone Cliffe, a few miles East of Thirsk in North Yorkshire.

 

[SuspectUsual]

I didn’t think that would last long! Yes, a pretty much perfect answer. Your turn to survey the scene and set the next question

 

[D6130]

I didn’t think that would last long! Yes, a pretty much perfect answer. Your turn to survey the scene and set the next question

Thanks. Next up:

What is the name of the prominent mountain visible from the 'Queen's View' at Loch Tummel, Perthshire?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

What is the name of the prominent mountain visible from the 'Queen's View' at Loch Tummel, Perthshire?

Schiehallion?

 

[D6130]

Schiehallion?

Correct! Your turn to blow the horn to arouse Robert the Bruce and his knights to awaken in their cave and save Scotland....but don't tell Ms Sturgeon!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Staying with the Scottish outdoors, what's the second highest mountain in all of Scotland / the British Isles?

 

[D6130]

Ben MacDui?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Ben MacDui?

That's the one. Was once thought to be the highest point in Britain, but Ben Nevis is higher. Your turn to ask the next question.

 

[D6130]

That's the one. Was once thought to be the highest point in Britain, but Ben Nevis is higher. Your turn to ask the next question.

Thanks. Next up:

Ben Macdui is the highest point in the Cairngorm mountain range. What is the English translation of the Garlic 'Cairn Gorm'?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thanks. Next up:

Ben Macdui is the highest point in the Cairngorm mountain range. What is the English translation of the Garlic 'Cairn Gorm'?

Didn't know they grew garlic so far north.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Didn't know they grew garlic so far north.

Gaelic ?

 

[Calthrop]

"Cairn Gorm" -- Gaelic for "Grey Mountain(s)"?

 

[D6130]

Gaelic ?

Bloody autocorrect! Gaelic it is!

 

[D6130]

"Cairn Gorm" -- Gaelic for "Grey Mountain(s)"?

Not quite....but your thinking along the right (funicular?) lines.

 

[Calthrop]

There are the Cairngorm Mountains, and their neighbours the Monadhliath ditto. Have it in head, that one signifies "grey", and the other "blue" -- so I'll try t'other way about: Cairngorm = Blue Mountain(s).

 

[D6130]

There are the Cairngorm Mountains, and their neighbours the Monadhliath ditto. Have it in head, that one signifies "grey", and the other "blue" -- so I'll try t'other way about: Cairngorm = Blue Mountain(s).

I'll give you that as you're so close. It's actually 'blue rock'....but carn can also mean a rocky mountain. (Where's @Gaelan when you need them? ). Your turn to take the funicular to the summit....on the off chance that it's running!

 

[Calthrop]

I'll give you that as you're so close. It's actually 'blue rock'....but carn can also mean a rocky mountain. (Where's @Gaelan when you need them? ). Your turn to take the funicular to the summit....on the off chance that it's running!

Tapadh leat (had to look that up -- I'm clearly a lousy Gaelic scholar !)

Continuing on Scottish themes; but a different one here; on the current Royal Bank of Scotland £20, £10 and £5 notes: in broadly "general" terms -- what persons are depicted on one side; and what category of "other images", on the other? I'll try not to be harsh: quite "broadly general" will suffice -- but "virtual bonus points" for greater precision, if offered.

 

[D6130]

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Tapadh leat (had to look that up -- I'm clearly a lousy Gaelic scholar !)

Continuing on Scottish themes; but a different one here; on the current Royal Bank of Scotland £20, £10 and £5 notes: in broadly "general" terms -- what persons are depicted on one side; and what category of "other images", on the other? I'll try not to be harsh: quite "broadly general" will suffice -- but "virtual bonus points" for greater precision, if offered.

The fiver depicts author and artist Nan Shepherd....but I can't for the life of me remember the others.

 

[Calthrop]

The fiver depicts author and artist Nan Shepherd....but I can't for the life of me remember the others.

It does -- that's a start -- but what's on the reverse side? -- and the other values: "five still to go".

 

[Gloster]

Oor Wullie, Angus Og an‘ Pa Broon.

 

[Calthrop]

Oor Wullie, Angus Og an‘ Pa Broon.

Delightful thought; but, "none of the above".

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Continuing on Scottish themes; but a different one here; on the current Royal Bank of Scotland £20, £10 and £5 notes: in broadly "general" terms -- what persons are depicted on one side; and what category of "other images", on the other?

Various bridges in Scotland, on the other side of the banknotes?

 

[Calthrop]

Various bridges in Scotland, on the other side of the banknotes?

Bridges are thus on the other side, of the notes of another of Scotland's banks; but not the RBS, I'm afraid.

 

[xotGD]

Sir Walter Scott and Lochs?

 

[Calthrop]

Sir Walter Scott and Lochs?

Sorry -- neither.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Famous Scottish Women and Mountains.

 

[DaleCooper]

Different varieties of wild haggis.

 

[Calthrop]

Famous Scottish women and Mountains.

My bolding, above: famous Scottish women, yes -- as per my setting-of-question, that will qualify as an answer (@D6130's Nan Shepherd, being one of such). The other side of the notes, however: a shared category of subjects, but it isn't mountains.