General Knowledge Quiz

[Neo9320]

Spectre?

 

[444045]

Spectre?

You are correct - Sam Smith sang Writings on the Wall for Spectre.

 

[444045]

All the answers are in now for the James Bond theme song quiz, thanks to everyone who took part. I will leave the 2nd part for another time.
I can reveal that the winner with 3 correct answers is @Gloster & ask them to ask the next question please.

 

[Gloster]

Well will continue the theme.

Who was the first actor to play Ian Fleming’s British agent James Bond?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Well will continue the theme.

Who was the first actor to play Ian Fleming’s British agent James Bond?

Bob Holness?

 

[Gloster]

Bob Holness?

Correct. He played James Bond in a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker around 1955 (there is some doubt about the exact year). Barry Nelson had previously played the part in an American TV play based on Casino Royale, but he played it as an American, sometimes called Jimmy.

Your turn to see Q for a question setting gadget.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Correct. He played James Bond in a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker around 1955 (there is some doubt about the exact year). Barry Nelson had previously played the part in an American TV play based on Casino Royale, but he played it as an American, sometimes called Jimmy.

Your turn to see Q for a question setting gadget.

Classic pub quiz question that one (and oft disputed I might add!). Staying with films:

How many actors have portrayed Hannibal Lecter? Extra points for naming them.

 

[MotCO]

Anthony Hopkins

But there's probably more than 1, so I'll say 4.

 

[Neo9320]

5-
Anthony Hopkins, Brian cox, mads mikkelson, gaspard ulliel (forgive spelling) and one who played him as a kid (name escapes me)

 

[FrodshamJnct]

5-
Anthony Hopkins, Brian cox, mads mikkelson, gaspard ulliel (forgive spelling) and one who played him as a kid (name escapes me)

Excellent! Aaran Thomas was the actor who played young Hannibal. I’ll declare you the winner and next to set a question.

 

[Neo9320]

I’m drawing a blank at present so open floor!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Going back to last Wednesday's question, have we had "You know my name" by Chris Cornell which was featured in the 2006 remake of 'Casino Royale'?

 

[444045]

Going back to last Wednesday's question, have we had "You know my name" by Chris Cornell which was featured in the 2006 remake of 'Casino Royale'?

You are indeed correct, my apologises, we had the original Casino Royale offered as an answer and when checking them off, mistook that
answer as for the remake.

 

[Calthrop]

I’m drawing a blank at present so open floor!

"Ringing the changes" a little: about a month ago we had a question involving fictional dogs, which folk were invited to identify from the clues. Doing similarly here, with the same number of fictional cats.

1) The pet of a youthful heroine who has adventures among playing cards and chess pieces and numerous other beings.

2) A conjurer and illusionist of genius: one of a number of felines individually celebrated in the same canon.

3) Reckoned "the grand-daddy of them all" cats-wise, in the particular branch of the (using the term broadly) art-form concerned: created 1919, still going strong.

4) One of a pair of incompetent and over-generous business partners: the two are friends, notwithstanding their being of different species between which traditionally and more commonly, an age-old enmity obtains.

5) This cat is taught human speech, and the use of it; which proves not a happy development for any of the humans involved in the episode.

6) A supporting member of the cast: leader of a musical ensemble in a European capital early in the twentieth century.

7) One party in a bizarre love / hate triangle among residents of Coconino County, Arizona. Those concerned, are our cat; a mouse; and a dog: cat unrequitedly loves mouse, mouse hates cat, dog loves cat and therefore persecutes mouse.

8) A former witch's-familiar, who has transferred allegiance to "the side of light": assists the hero in his struggle against his (the hero's) witch-governess and her evil associates.

 

[Gloster]

5 is by Saki and I have a vague feeling the cat is Tobermory, unless I am getting mixed up with the Terror of Tobermory, about whom I have recently read. He was definitely no pussy. 5’s story is, as is usual with Saki, very cynical.

 

[Calthrop]

5 is by Saki and I have a vague feeling the cat is Tobermory, unless I am getting mixed up with the Terror of Tobermory, about whom I have recently read. He was definitely no pussy. 5’s story is, as is usual with Saki, very cynical.

Fully correct ! -- story by Saki (splendidly wicked fellow, indeed) -- name of cat, and of story, Tobermory. (Also the name of a Womble -- but that's "a whole 'nother thing".)

 

[Gloster]

Could 2 be Top Cat?

 

[MotCO]

1. Cheshire Cat?
7. Tom and Jerry?
6. Tom O'Malley (Aristocats)?
3. Korky the Cat (Dandy)?
4. Mr Mystopheles (Cats the Musical)?

 

[Calthrop]

Could 2 be Top Cat?

I'm afraid not.

1. Cheshire Cat?
7. Tom and Jerry?
6. Tom O'Malley (Aristocats)?
3. Korky the Cat (Dandy)?
4. Mr Mystopheles (Cats the Musical)?

1. You're basically on the right track; but, not this one. (The cat we want, belonged "in the real world".)

7. No -- of an earlier vintage than T and J.

6. Right film, but wrong character.

3. No -- Korky is some two decades "younger" than the right-answer character.

4. Not no. 4; but the character whom you cite, is correct for another of the questions.

 

[MotCO]

I'm afraid not.



1. You're basically on the right track; but, not this one. (The cat we want, belonged "in the real world".)

7. No -- of an earlier vintage than T and J.

6. Right film, but wrong character.

3. No -- Korky is some two decades "younger" than the right-answer character.

4. Not no. 4; but the character whom you cite, is correct for another of the questions.

In which case, is 2 Mr Mystopheles?

 

[Calthrop]

In which case, is 2 Mr Mystopheles?

Certainly is (sometimes spelt "Mistoffelees" -- but, same diff.). Two bulls-eyes; six to go.

 

[xotGD]

Felix the cat.

 

[Calthrop]

Felix the cat.

One of them, yes; which one, please?

 

[xotGD]

One of them, yes; which one, please?

3?

 

[Calthrop]

Indeed: no. 3 is Felix, of cartoon-film fame.

 

[Trackman]

8- The cat on Bewitched? (don't know the name without googling)

 

[Calthrop]

8- The cat on Bewitched? (don't know the name without googling)

Afraid not -- this one originated anyway, as a character in a book.

 

[Calthrop]

Three correctly "got", five left. Time for some hints, I feel --

1) The same name, as featuring in two very different songs: (A) a young lady resident in Carolina, USA. (B) in a Cockney burlesque of the Romeo and Juliet story; where the Romeo figure is called Villikins.

4) Comes in a tale by a prolific author whose probably best-known material, features rabbits -- not the kind who have a language of their own and worship the sun-god Frith.

6) Has a two-word, two-syllable rhyming name.

7) Has an "illiterately alliterative" name.

8) In a kids' / "young adult" novel: by a person who was for a long while, Britain's Poet Laureate.

 

[Gloster]

1 - Dinah, if that is the correct spelling. I have heard of the song (?) ‘Villikins and his Dinah’.

 

[Calthrop]

1 - Dinah, if that is the correct spelling. I have heard of the song (?) ‘Villikins and his Dinah’.

Right ! Dinah it is -- Alice's cat; who does not accompany her mistress to Wonderland and Looking-Glass-World ! (The other song is the Jazz Age classic, Dinah - is there anyone finer?)