General Knowledge Quiz

[Ashley Hill]

OK, the answer is El Apóstol (The Apostle) a 1917 Argentine film which was destroyed in a fire in 1926. Open floor...

Thats the trouble with early nitrate film stock,very combustable.

Who was the lead singer of the fictional rock band Disaster Area?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thats the trouble with early nitrate film stock,very combustable.

Who was the lead singer of the fictional rock band Disaster Area?

I can't remember his name but I know who stole his spaceship.

 

[millemille]

Thats the trouble with early nitrate film stock,very combustable.

Who was the lead singer of the fictional rock band Disaster Area?

Hotback Desiato (sp?)

He died for a year for tax reasons.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Hotback Desiato (sp?)

He died for a year for tax reasons.

Indeed it was. Your turn to crash into a sun….

 

[millemille]

Between April and June 1982 where was the busiest airport in the world?

 

[Calthrop]

Probably wrong -- likely not an "airport" in the accepted sense: but -- RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire? (A certain disagreement over some islands...)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Similar thinking to @Calthrop. Going solely by the dates, the airport at (Port) Stanley on the Falkland Islands?

 

[MotCO]

Was it Ascension Island on the way down to the Falklands?

 

[millemille]

Was it Ascension Island on the way down to the Falklands?

Yep, Wide Awake airfield on Ascension Island.

By aircraft movements it became the busiest in the world for several months.

 

[MotCO]

Everyone knows that ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 in Brighton with 'Waterloo'. But why did the French withdraw from the contest a few days beforehand?

 

[RDP]

Because of the death of President Georges Pompidou.

 

[MotCO]

Because of the death of President Georges Pompidou.

He did indeed meet his Waterloo.

Please set the next question

 

[RDP]

Cheers.

Staying with the Eurovision theme....

The 1977 Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Wembley Conference Centre, London. Who provided the interval act?

 

[Ashley Hill]

1977,The Sex Pistols?

 

[RDP]

1977,The Sex Pistols?

Not them.

 

[DaleCooper]

Cheers.

Staying with the Eurovision theme....

The 1977 Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Wembley Conference Centre, London. Who provided the interval act?

Hawkwind (with Stacia)

 

[RDP]

Hawkwind (with Stacia)

No.

CLue

The leader of this group had a solo instrumental No.1 hit some years earlier.

 

[randyrippley]

Hawkwind (with Stacia)

I wish!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Aker Bilk.

 

[RDP]

Aker Bilk.

That'll do.

It was Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band.

Your turn to jazz things up with the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Who once said he'd given a fat cheque to a fat Czech?
And who was the fat Czech.

 

[Gloster]

Ian Hislop and Captain Bob (Maxwell).

 

[Peterthegreat]

Ian Hislop and Captain Bob (Maxwell).

That didn't take long!
Please supply the next question

 

[Gloster]

Where is Banba’s Crown?

 

[DaleCooper]

Where is Banba’s Crown?

On Banba's head.

 

[Gloster]

On Banba's head.

I was waiting for that answer. In fact it is, in one way, partially correct. But, no.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Isnt it at the northern most part of Ireland (not Northern Ireland, but the northern most part of the republic of Ireland, which is further North than Northern Ireland)

 

[Gloster]

Isnt it at the northern most part of Ireland (not Northern Ireland, but the northern most part of the republic of Ireland, which is further North than Northern Ireland)

Correct. It is the very tip of Malin Head, which is the northernmost point of the mainland of the island of Ireland.

To you to forecast the next question.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Thank you, the weather forecast is in...

Hurricane Catarina is/was unique in what regard?

 

[MotCO]

It wasn't a hurricane? (Was it Michael Fish again? )