General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

I hesitate to suggest this but:

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II?

 

[Gutfright]

I hesitate to suggest this but:

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II?

Getting warmer. Much warmer.

Can you expand your answer out a little?

 

[DaleCooper]

Getting warmer. Much warmer.

Can you expand your answer out a little?

N y m p h o m a n i a c : V o l. I I ?

 

[Gutfright]

N y m p h o m a n i a c : V o l. I I ?

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde wasn't part of Nymphomaniac: Vol II, so I'm not sure I can give you that.

 

[DaleCooper]

Is the link Lars von Trier the director?

 

[Gutfright]

Is the link Lars von Trier the director?

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

The link is that all three pieces of music are linked with films in Lars von Trier's "Depression Trilogy".

Lascia ch'io pianga was the main theme of Antichrist. Tristan und Isolde was prominently featured in Melancholia, and Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major was featured in Nymphomaniac

Actors to have appeared in the Depression Trilogy include Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Jesper Christensen, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater and Uma Thurman. Even so, it seems I over-estimated how well known Lars von Trier's work is.

DaleCooper, the floor is yours...

 

[DaleCooper]

Lascia ch'io pianga was the main theme of Antichrist. Tristan und Isolde was prominently featured in Melancholia, and Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major was featured in Nymphomaniac

In fact both Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major and Lascia ch'io pianga are on the soundtrack of Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, at least they are according to IMDb.

I didn't have a question ready but to keep things moving here's a picture question:

Of what is this a part?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

In fact both Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major and Lascia ch'io pianga are on the soundtrack of Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, at least they are according to IMDb.

I didn't have a question ready but to keep things moving here's a picture question:

Of what is this a part?

Aircon unit at Newhaven Marine?

 

[DaleCooper]

Aircon unit at Newhaven Marine?

No it isn't that.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

No it isn't that.

Drat - and before people joke, I was wondering if it was the aircon unit from the old terminal building there

 

[backontrack]

Plughole at Newhaven Marine?

 

[DaleCooper]

Plughole at Newhaven Marine?

That's enough, I will ignore any other posts which include Newhaven Marine.

 

[Gutfright]

Is it part of a quadcopter drone type thing?

 

[backontrack]

That's enough, I will ignore any other posts which include Newhaven Marine.

As will I. Right, I've duly ignored your post, was it part of an old fan at Newhaven Marine?

Or, alternatively, is it part of some sort of 1970s gutter?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

That's enough, I will ignore any other posts which include Newhaven Marine.

Is it a close up of a fan or prop from an early model model jet engine?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it part of a quadcopter drone type thing?

No

Or, alternatively, is it part of some sort of 1970s gutter?

No and anyway I don't think gutter design has changed very much in the last 40 years. I misread that as guitar at first and thought "At least he's using his imagination".

Is it a close up of a fan or prop from an early model model jet engine?

No

 

[Peter Mugridge]

That looks like a hovercraft fan.

 

[DaleCooper]

That looks like a hovercraft fan.

I was hoping for a bit more detail but it would be churlish not to accept your answer. It is actually the first practical hovercraft, the Saunders-Roe SR.N1

Your turn...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I probably, as the bloke behind this project http://www.hover-gen.com/test-static/ ,had an unfair advantage with that question so I will declare open floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

I probably, as the bloke behind this project http://www.hover-gen.com/test-static/ ,had an unfair advantage with that question so I will declare open floor.

In that case I was too generous, you should have known exactly what it was!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

In that case I was too generous, you should have known exactly what it was!

I did - I posted my answer within seconds of seeing the picture in your question and then checking that nobody else had put the same suggestion down. I wrote it as quickly as possible to try to avoid being pipped to it.

 

[DasLunatic]

Okay...

Name the six routes that were included for the release of Microsoft Train Simulator.

 

[Gutfright]

Okay...

Name the six routes that were included for the release of Microsoft Train Simulator.

So many happy memories...

Settle - Carlisle, Northeast Corridor, a mountain in Austria, somewhere in Japan and...er...um...

Not enough memories, apparently.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Hisatsu Line, Innsbruck - St. Anton, Northeast Corridor, Marias Pass, Settle-Carlisle and the Tokyo - Hakone

Floor to me, I believe *puffs on cigar in bemused manner*

 

[DasLunatic]

You are correct, Ark Royal. The berth is yours.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

You are correct, Ark Royal. The berth is yours.

Thank you...

Which fictional duo were partly brought off US tv screens because the Catholic League of America thought there was open homosexuality and an inappropriate relationship between a man and a child?

 

[Groningen]

Is 1 of them Jodie (Billy Crystal)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Batman and Robin?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Batman and Robin?

Yep - strange as it may seem, that was one of the reasons it was cancelled

The floor is yours

 

[DaleCooper]

A musical question:

Which group is playing here?