General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Matt Damon has got to be in the running with the Bourne films, Saving Private Ryan etc.

 

[deltic1989]

I have to say, I think it's the Fresh Prince himself, Mr Will Smith. I know a lot of his films tipped over $150million internationally.

 

[theageofthetra]

I have to say, I think it's the Fresh Prince himself, Mr Will Smith. I know a lot of his films tipped over $150million internationally.[/QUOTE

It is indeed. Your floor.

 

[deltic1989]

I don't have a question ready, so I declare the floor to be open.

 

[Calthrop]

Here's a question of sorts: what phalangeally-challenged swimmer had an aunt who owned a red-whiskered cat?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

His Wiki entry doesn't mention that, but is it Duncan Goodhew?

 

[Calthrop]

I'm such an ignoramus about sport that I had to Google Mr. Goodhew -- of whom the best of my knowledge, I'd never previously heard. I'm afraid it's not him -- answer is literature-, rather than sport-, related.

 

[DaleCooper]

It sounds like something from Lewis Caroll.

 

[ComUtoR]

His Wiki entry doesn't mention that, but is it Duncan Goodhew?

That would be 'follically challenged'

 

[EbbwJunction1]

That would be 'follically challenged'

Yes, that would be the term that I would use, but I wondered whether it was a posh way of saying it ... wrong again!!

 

[Calthrop]

It sounds like something from Lewis Caroll.

You're warm. Not Lewis, but his contemporary fellow-nonsense-genius...

 

[DaleCooper]

The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Edward Lear?

 

[Calthrop]

The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Edward Lear?

Correct. During the Pobble's swim across the Bristol Channel (which cost him his toes); mariners encountered, commented:

"He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska's
Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers."

Please launch your sieve toward questions anew...

 

[DaleCooper]

Next question:

In the film Good Morning, Vietnam what is make and model of turntable used to play records in the radio station's studio?

 

[DaleCooper]

No guesses? I can tell you that they weren't Japanese.

 

[DaleCooper]

This isn't going anywhere so it's time to invite a question from someone else.

Open floor...

 

[ComUtoR]

Which turntable does Joseph Gordon Levit's character have in the superb film, Looper ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Michell Gyrodec

 

[ComUtoR]

Michell Gyrodec

Indeed.

Your turn on deck



PS Vinyl died, and needs to stay dead....

 

[ComUtoR]

Double post

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor.

 

[TheEdge]

What was wrong with Gene Hunt's Quattro?

 

[krus_aragon]

What was wrong with Gene Hunt's Quattro?

It wasn't released in the UK (right hand drive) until one year after the first series of Ashes to Ashes was set.

 

[TheEdge]

Simple, easy and your floor.

 

[A Challenge]

This isn't going anywhere so it's time to invite a question from someone else.

Open floor...

What was the answer?

 

[DaleCooper]

What was the answer?

Swindon's finest - Garrard 401 (Mine is over 40 years old and still going strong)

 

[krus_aragon]

Sorry for the delay in posting a question.

In what pursuit might one deliberate over using tubs or clinchers?

 

[theageofthetra]

Cycling. Its the rim/tyre type.

 

[krus_aragon]

Cycling. Its the rim/tyre type.

Correct. Most tyres have a metal bead on either side that is grasped by the wheel rim, whereas tubs or tubular tyres are sewn all the way around the inner tube (like a doughnut) and glued to the wheel rim. The latter type is favoured by racers.

It's your spin of the wheel.

 

[theageofthetra]

In Pink Floyd's The Wall what is heard but not seen & why?