General Knowledge Quiz

[John Griffiths]

Note it was an innovation in the UK. The subject of the answer was already known elsewhere.

 

[MotCO]

The scoop they use to fill the chip packets?

 

[John Griffiths]

No, this is an edible thing.

 

[MotCO]

Chicken nuggets?

 

[Gloster]

Chicken nuggets?

Are they edible?

 

[Mvann]

Hash browns

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Some potato product, but what? I have not been to McD for a while, sorry

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Hash browns?

 

[John Griffiths]

Mvann gets it, hash browns is correct.


I was researching this for a talk a couple of years ago (about the Great British breakfast, not hash browns, I'm not that boring). Hash browns are only mentioned in the press pre-1982 as an American curiosity, requiring description/explanation. McDonald introduced their breakfast, with hash, in 1982, and McCain's began advertising frozen hash browns around the same time. I'm unclear whether the success of McD spurred McCaininto launching hash browns in the UK or vice-versa, or, as was sort-of suggested outbreaks, McCain supplied the hash browns to McD. I spoke to both their PR offices, but they tend to be cagey about that sort of thing. Anyway...

Your floor, Mvann

 

[Mvann]

Open floor as I'm at work

 

[MotCO]

Sticking with a culinary theme, please name the two presenters who presented the original Masterchef series (before Gregg Wallace and John Torode)?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Sticking with a culinary theme, please name the two presenters who presented the original Masterchef series (before Gregg Wallace and John Torode)?

Lloyd Grossman with David Frost was it?

 

[MotCO]

Lloyd Grossman with David Frost was it?

Lloyd Grosman, yes, but someone else fronted the final series (Series 11).

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Lloyd Grosman, yes, but someone else fronted the final series (Series 11).

I’m thinking of Through the Keyhole. Gary Rhodes?

 

[MotCO]

I’m thinking of Through the Keyhole. Gary Rhodes?

Yes it was the late Gary Rhodes.

Please don your toque, and take command of the kitchen.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Yes it was the late Gary Rhodes.

Please don your toque, and take command of the kitchen.

Thanks. Keeping on the culinary theme, which sweets were particularly popular in the 1940s because they only needed one ration token rather than two?

 

[Calthrop]

Random guess -- gobstoppers?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Sherbert Lemons?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Random guess -- gobstoppers?

Sherbert Lemons?

Neither of those. Doing a bit more research these sweets actually appear to have launched in 1950. They were then discontinued in the 1980s.

 

[SteveM70]

Spangles?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Barley sugar? Something with chocolate? Marshmallows?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Spangles?

Is correct!

 

[SteveM70]

Is correct!

Blimey, that was a guess based on the “discontinued in the 1980s” bit, didn’t realise they’d been around so long. Horrible things too

Open floor, please

 

[Gloster]

These should really have appeared about a fortnight ago:

What was unusual about the 1997 Grand National?

How do The Chair and The Water Jump differ from the other fences?

How many 100/1 (Starting Price) winners have there been?

Where was the Grand National run 1916-1918? (Not all sources regard it as a true Grand National.)

Something closely connected to the 1952 Grand National caused much hilarity and some embarrassment. What?

 

[SteveM70]

1997 - run on the Monday following a bomb scare

chair & water jump - only fences only jumped once

others - no idea

 

[Gloster]

1997 - run on the Monday following a bomb scare

chair & water jump - only fences only jumped once

others - no idea

Both correct.

 

[AndyPJG]

Where was the Grand National run 1916-1918? (Not all sources regard it as a true Grand National.)

Something closely connected to the 1952 Grand National caused much hilarity and some embarrassment. What?

WW1 - Gatwick Racecourse

 

[Gloster]

WW1 - Gatwick Racecourse

Correct.

 

[AndyPJG]

How many 100/1 (Starting Price) winners have there been?

At least 1, Foinavon in 1964 or 66ish time?

 

[Gloster]

At least 1, Foinavon in 1964 or 66ish time?

I will say that there were others. Foinavon was the winner in 1967.