General Knowledge Quiz

[Bradford PA]

Dwyfor Meirionydd has, like Brighton Pavilion, been in opposition hands since 2010 (Plaid Cymru, rather than Green). Its predecessor before boundary changes had also returned a Plaid Cymru MP since 1983. Not sure whether this counts ?

 

[Mooky]

Dwyfor Meirionydd has, like Brighton Pavilion, been in opposition hands since 2010 (Plaid Cymru, rather than Green). Its predecessor before boundary changes had also returned a Plaid Cymru MP since 1983. Not sure whether this counts ?

The answer is indeed Dwyfor Meirionnydd, for the reasons you stated.

 

[Bradford PA]

The answer is indeed Dwyfor Meirionnydd, for the reasons you stated.

Staying with politics, what parliamentary record amongst Prime Minsters is shared by William Gladstone and Winston Churchill ?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Represented 5 different constituencies.

 

[Bradford PA]

Represented 5 different constituencies.

Well done ! Your turn to put forward a bill for discussion.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What, uniquely in the UK, links Hythe in Kent and Rothwell in Northamptonshire?

 

[Gloster]

Military canals (not the same one)?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Military canals (not the same one)?

Not military canals.

 

[Calthrop]

Have done what I often do -- Googled, thus put self out of running. (Thought I might have, before, come across the answer -- but it turned out to be a fact totally new to me.)

 

[DaleCooper]

What, uniquely in the UK, links Hythe in Kent and Rothwell in Northamptonshire?

A microwave link.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

A microwave link.

Nothing to do with microwaves.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

A little clue.

The link involves St Leonards church in Hythe and Holy Trinity church in Rothwell.

 

[DaleCooper]

A little clue.

The link involves St Leonards church in Hythe and Holy Trinity church in Rothwell.

Do they contain a particular saint's relic?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Do they contain a particular saint's relic?

Not as far as I know.

 

[D6130]

Both designed by the same architect....who designed no other churches?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Both designed by the same architect....who designed no other churches?

Not the answer.

Don't focus on the churches themselves but on what these two churches have.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Some sort of specific tower or spire that isn’t found anywhere else

 

[MotCO]

Do they both have an Archbishop of Canterbury buried there?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Some sort of specific tower or spire that isn’t found anywhere else

Not this.

Do they both have an Archbishop of Canterbury buried there?

Not correct I am afraid.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I have a gut feeling what it is... but as I'm away for a few days I'm not going to offer it as I'd have to declare an open floor, so what I'll do is DM Oh No just to get my guess in without derailing the thread...

By messaging him, he'll know I haven't responded to the actual answer later.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I have a gut feeling what it is... but as I'm away for a few days I'm not going to offer it as I'd have to declare an open floor, so what I'll do is DM Oh No just to get my guess in without derailing the thread...

By messaging him, he'll know I haven't responded to the actual answer later.

Well I will say that Peter Mugridge did indeed know the answer.

He says he had a gut feeling well let us say that for the thing in question guts are certainly not involved.

 

[D6130]

They both have a severed head concealed somewhere in the building?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

They both have a severed head concealed somewhere in the building?

That isn’t the correct answer but in a sense it isn't incorrect either.

 

[D6130]

They both have headless statues of saints?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

They both have headless statues of saints?

Not correct I am afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

I had an idea but wasn't sure how to spell the word, when I checked the spelling Google also gave me the answer! Now I'm disqualified.

 

[CarltonA]

Perhaps these places contain an ossiary, that is a place containing bones (I think, can't check for fear of disqualifying myself).

 

[MotCO]

Do they both sarcophagus (or however it's spelt)?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Do they both sarcophagus (or however it's spelt)?

Not this.

Perhaps these places contain an ossiary, that is a place containing bones (I think, can't check for fear of disqualifying myself).

But it is this.

The two churches house the onely two surviving ossuaries in the UK.

You may now connect the thigh bone to the hip bone and set the next question.

 

[CarltonA]

Which English Cathedral was saved from collapse by Edwardian diver William Walker who spent several years propping up the waterlogged foundations?