General Knowledge Quiz

[TheEdge]

Immanuel Kant, Heidegger, David Hume, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Schlegel, Nietzche, Socrates, John Stuart Mill, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Ren Descartes, Socrates.

If in doubt, Monty Python.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Immanuel Kant, Heidegger, David Hume, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Schlegel, Nietzche, Socrates, John Stuart Mill, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Ren Descartes, Socrates.

If in doubt, Monty Python.

I am amazed ..... 100% right, and so quick! The opportunity to slander philosophers is yours, sir!

 

[TheEdge]

I am amazed ..... 100% right, and so quick! The opportunity to slander philosophers is yours, sir!

I'll admit I was listening to it to try and get the more obscure ones, then judged that as I knew exactly where it was from and couldn't spell most of them getting the lyrics was okay.

What is so scary about Andy's birthday party in Toy Story 1?

 

[deltic1989]

All his mates look exactly like him.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I'll admit I was listening to it to try and get the more obscure ones, then judged that as I knew exactly where it was from and couldn't spell most of them getting the lyrics was okay.

Ah, that explains it - still, well done!

 

[TheEdge]

All his mates look exactly like him.

Correct, software at the time really wasn't up to human faces so the children at the party are all clones of Andy. Even Sid shares a fairly similar model to Andy.

Your floor.

 

[deltic1989]

It was one of my favourite films as a kid, and still holds the attention of my kids today.

I don't have a question prepared at this point . So I'll declare an open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

As it's open floor --

Which character in a much-liked fantasy / legend-re-telling, novel series; was living their (very long) life, "backwards" through history, in relation to everyone else: thus, in the Middle Ages they would reminisce to their associates, about the twentieth century ?

 

[martinsh]

Merlin ?

 

[Calthrop]

Merlin ?

That's him, in T.H.White's The Once and Future King. White spells him with a y not an i, but that's minutiae. Thy turn in the lists, Sir Martinsh.

 

[martinsh]

I'm not going to be around much in the next few days - so Open Floor

 

[Strat-tastic]

You may have heard the phrase, 'Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.'

What was the original unit of measurement used in the phrase instead of mile, and how long is it?

 

[Calthrop]

You may have heard the phrase, 'Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.'

What was the original unit of measurement used in the phrase instead of mile, and how long is it?

An ell (45in. / 1.143 metres)?

 

[Strat-tastic]

An ell (45in. / 1.143 metres)?

Bang on! Take it away

 

[Calthrop]

Bang on! Take it away

Thanks.

In biology / taxonomy, fish now extant on earth fall into three Classes; one of these three – the one featuring a far greater number of species, than the other two – is divided into two Sub-Classes. Please give a descriptive title of one kind or another for each of: the three Classes and the two sub-ditto. Virtual “bonus points” if you give the scientific Greek / Latin names of the categories concerned; but that is not insisted on !

 

[DaleCooper]

My guess for what it's worth:

Bony
i) Battered
ii) Breaded

Cartilaginous

Lampreys

 

[Calthrop]

DC -- I'm much inclined to give you this one as correct -- could you do a job just a tad more serious, re the "bony" ones? (The difference is to do with their respective fins.) Look it up by all means, for me.

 

[DaleCooper]

DC -- I'm much inclined to give you this one as correct -- could you do a job just a tad more serious, re the "bony" ones? (The difference is to do with their respective fins.) Look it up by all means, for me.

Lampreys was a complete shot in the dark and as for bony fish there's something lurking in my memory about spiny fins (the other variety presumably being non-spiny). Is that it?

 

[Calthrop]

Lampreys was a complete shot in the dark and as for bony fish there's something lurking in my memory about spiny fins (the other variety presumably being non-spiny). Is that it?

I’ll say “correct” – I’m much impressed with your accomplishment in the memory line. Bony fishes are “ray-finned” = fins supported by bony or horny spines (an enormous majority of the sub-class are this kind); or “lobe-finned”.

Showing-off on my part –

Class “bony fish” (Osteichthyes); sub-classes

ray-finned (Actinopterygii) – comprising the great majority of fish

lobe-finned (Sarcopterygii)

Class “cartilaginous fish” (Chordrichthyes) – sharks, skates, rays

Class “jawless fish” (Agnatha) – lampreys, hagfish


The ocean floor is yours, my osteichthyic friend !

 

[DaleCooper]

I’ll say “correct” – I’m much impressed with your accomplishment in the memory line. Bony fishes are “ray-finned” = fins supported by bony or horny spines (an enormous majority of the sub-class are this kind); or “lobe-finned”.

I had the idea that all bony fish had spiny fins that's why i didn't put it in my original answer, "Battered" and "Breaded" were just space fillers.

Next question:

Which river has been called "The Only River That Crosses Itself"?

 

[martinsh]

The Rhine ?

 

[DaleCooper]

The Rhine ?

The Rhine is not the rhight rhiver.

 

[Calthrop]

Which river has been called "The Only River That Crosses Itself"?[/QUOTE]

It's not the business in South America, I suppose -- the Orinoco and Rio Negro between them, flowing both into the Amazon, and directly into the Atlantic Ocean?

 

[DaleCooper]

It's not the business in South America, I suppose -- the Orinoco and Rio Negro between them, flowing both into the Amazon, and directly into the Atlantic Ocean?

Sorry, the Orinoco is Orinogo and the Rio Negro is Rio Wrongro.

 

[TheEdge]

I'm going to say the River Wensum. I know its wrong but I want to see then pun.

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm going to say the River Wensum. I know its wrong but I want to see then pun.

Wensum is completely wrong and thensum.

Will that do?

 

[Cowley]

Very good.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

At the risk of getting this topic diverted completely, is it the Severn?

 

[DaleCooper]

is it the Severn?

Severn would be magnificent but I 'ate to say "Nein, it is not".

(I fear I've unleashed a monster and made a rod for my own back.)

 

[TheEdge]

Niagara River.