General Knowledge Quiz

[RJ21]

As a clue, the highest point in this county lies on a long distance path which follows the route of a historic boundary.

 

[DaleCooper]

Shropshire?

 

[RJ21]

Close, very close, but no biscuit.

 

[Cowley]

Worcestershire?

 

[RJ21]

Wrong choice.

 

[DaleCooper]

Lea & Perrins shire

 

[RJ21]

Very good

 

[Cowley]

Ok this is doing my head in, Herefordshire? (Can't be many around there left)

 

[RJ21]

It is Herefordshire, a point South of Hay Bluff in the Black Mountains on the border with Powys, 703m AMSL, 67m higher than Kinder Scout in Derbyshire and 33m lower than Whernside in North Yorkshire.

 

[Cowley]

That was a good question. Following the theme then, what is highest point of the UK south of the Brecon Beacons?

 

[Springs Branch]

I recall parts of Dartmoor are pretty high, so I'll guess High Willhays in Devon ?

 

[Cowley]

I recall parts of Dartmoor are pretty high, so I'll guess High Willhays in Devon ?

You guessed very well. It is High Willhays at 621 metres, next to Yes Tor on Northern Dartmoor.
Your windswept moor.

 

[Springs Branch]

Next clue - what are the next two numbers in this sequence?

3, 19, 7, 16, 8, 11, 14 ......

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue - what are the next two numbers in this sequence?

3, 19, 7, 16, 8, 11, 14 ......

9, 12 (Dartboard)

 

[Springs Branch]

There is indeed a tenuous connection between the previous answer (on Dartmoor) and this one (on a Dartboard).
The sequence of numbers from 6 o'clock onwards to be specific.

It's a big one-hundred-and-eighty and the floor to DaleCooper.

 

[DaleCooper]

A question to mark the death of Chuck Berry.

Where was his hit record "My Ding-a-Ling" recorded?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Abbey Road?

 

[DaleCooper]

Abbey Road?

Not Abbey Road, although it seems like just about everything else was recorded there.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Okay, a long shot ..... was it recorded at the Rockfield Studios near Monmouth?

 

[DaleCooper]

Okay, a long shot ..... was it recorded at the Rockfield Studios near Monmouth?

No, it wasn't Rockfield Studios.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Something tells me that there was something odd about the recording session - but I can't remember what!

I sounds like it's a live recording, but whether that was overdubbed I don't know. Okay, one last guess .... the Air Studios?

 

[DaleCooper]

Something tells me that there was something odd about the recording session - but I can't remember what!

I sounds like it's a live recording, but whether that was overdubbed I don't know. Okay, one last guess .... the Air Studios?

You're getting closer, it was a live recording.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I didn't go looking (honest!), but I've just seen this on another forum: "However I can claim to have had a hit record having sang on My Ding-A-Ling. I was at the concert in Coventry in 1972 when it was recorded and which was part of the Lanchester Polytechnic's Art Festival. It was a great concert and Ding-A-Ling was an amusing interlude at the time and didn't take away from the Rock and roll experience. I think Leon Russell was also on the bill."

So, I guess the answer is "somewhere in Coventry" ... at the Student's Union, perhaps?

 

[DaleCooper]

I didn't go looking (honest!), but I've just seen this on another forum: "However I can claim to have had a hit record having sang on My Ding-A-Ling. I was at the concert in Coventry in 1972 when it was recorded and which was part of the Lanchester Polytechnic's Art Festival. It was a great concert and Ding-A-Ling was an amusing interlude at the time and didn't take away from the Rock and roll experience. I think Leon Russell was also on the bill."

So, I guess the answer is "somewhere in Coventry" ... at the Student's Union, perhaps?

"somewhere in Coventry" is correct but I'd like the name of the venue; surely you can remember where it was or were you too stoned?

The full answer was on the BBC news website yesterday after I set the question; I couldn't believe that no one spotted it.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

"somewhere in Coventry" is correct but I'd like the name of the venue; surely you can remember where it was or were you too stoned?

The full answer was on the BBC news website yesterday after I set the question; I couldn't believe that no one spotted it.

No, this is a quote from someone else, who didn't say where it was .... I wasn't there, honest guv!

Not being familiar with venues in Coventry apart from the Cathedral (which is obviously incorrect!), I don't know.

 

[DaleCooper]

No, this is a quote from someone else, who didn't say where it was .... I wasn't there, honest guv!

Sorry, I didn't read it with sufficient care so I missed the quotation marks.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sorry, I didn't read it with sufficient care so I missed the quotation marks.

That's okay .... so, Coventry Cathedral is obviously wrong as well, then?

 

[DaleCooper]

Here's a hint:

It's not Coventry Cathedral but according to Wikipedia:

... is the subject of The Specials song Friday Night, Saturday Morning, B-side to Ghost Town.

 

[DaleCooper]

No one is going to get it so I'll give the answer, it was The Locarno, Coventry.

As EbbwJunction1 got close I offer the floor to him...

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ah, thank you.

Whose names have been removed from here?

"XX XX was a real ****ant
Who was very rarely stable
XX, XX was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table

XX XX could out-consume
XX and XX
And XX was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as XX

There's nothing XX couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
XX, himself, was permanently ****ed

XX XX XX, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
XX, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

XX, XX was a bugger for the bottle
XX was fond of his dram
And XX XX was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, XX, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's ****ed"

Note: Each XX represents part of or the whole of a name.

One point (or should it be pint?) for each name given!