General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

Staying below sea level, Mponeng Gold Mine is the world's deepest mine. According to its Wikipedia page, to the nearest 250 metres how deep below ground level does it go?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

A crazy high (low!!!) guess of 2500 metres (2.5 km).

 

[xotGD]

A crazy high (low!!!) guess of 2500 metres (2.5 km).

Sorry, not close enough. But is it higher or lower???

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Sorry, not close enough. But is it higher or lower???

Well at that depth the heat would be unbearable so I will go lower to 2000 metres.

 

[xotGD]

Well at that depth the heat would be unbearable so I will go lower to 2000 metres.

No, you are heading the wrong way. And they do have to take special measures to deal with the heat.

 

[MotCO]

5.6km?

 

[xotGD]

5.6km?

Sorry, too deep!

 

[MotCO]

3.5km?

 

[martinsh]

4.3 km ?

 

[xotGD]

3.5km?

I'm going to give the answer - it is 4 km

MotCO, you were nearest, so the floor is yours...

 

[MotCO]

Thank you. Sticking with deepest points, where is the deepest point in England (hint: it is a lake)

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Thank you. Sticking with deepest points, where is the deepest point in England (hint: it is a lake)

My father taught me it was/is Waswater

 

[MotCO]

My father taught me it was/is Waswater

He didn't teach you very well - it's actually Wast Water (only joking!)

Your turn to plumb new depths.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

In what state of the USA did the largest ever earthquake in the continent of North America occur?

 

[Calthrop]

Complete and utter guess: California -- San Francisco 1906??

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Complete and utter guess: California -- San Francisco 1906??

Sorry no - later year than that and not CA

 

[Calthrop]

Ah -- seem to recall very bad one in Alaska; affecting Anchorage, the capital -- 1960s-ish?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Ah -- seem to recall very bad one in Alaska; affecting Anchorage, the capital -- 1960s-ish?

Is the correct answer. 2nd worst of all time anywhere in the world.

 

[Calthrop]

@GRALISTAIR -- thanks. My floor, I take it.

Who told in the first person, for laughs; of travels by various modes, in England and Germany, for variously recreational and religious ends?

 

[MotCO]

Chaucer - Canterbury Tales?

 

[Calthrop]

Chaucer - Canterbury Tales?

Interesting lateral thinking; but, no -- our bod was much later in history.

 

[Ian Smeeton]

Jerome K Jerome

Three men in a boat, and

Three men on the Bummel

Regards

Ian

 

[Calthrop]

Jerome K Jerome

Three men in a boat, and

Three men on the Bummel

Regards

Ian

You've got the "question person", well and truly. The "religious" element is to do with a third book (existence of which I'd forgotten for many years -- reminded of it by chance the other day): Diary of a Pilgrimage, falling time-wise between Boat, and Bummel (cycling in the Black Forest) -- both of those involving Jerome and his pals George and Harris. Pilgrimage is about a journey -- with a different chum, as sole companion -- by rail, from England to Oberammergau to see the 1891 Passion Play.

Anyway, you've furnished the desired name -- your floor.

 

[Ian Smeeton]

My floor.

Where to go.... what do do....?

Just drinking some Lancaster Bomber,now brewed by Marstons.

But who brewed it originally, and who did it pass to when they closed their brewery?

Regards & good drinking.

Ian

 

[xotGD]

Robinson's?

Edit: As the original brewery

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Mitchell’s definitely first and I am almost certain it went to Thwaites after that.

 

[martinsh]

Just drinking some Lancaster Bomber,now brewed by Marstons.

To be pedantic, I think it is now actually brewed at the Banks's brewery, rather than the Marstons one. [ Same ultimate ownership of course]

 

[Ian Smeeton]

GRALISTAIR is totally corect

Your turn at the grist Mill

Regards

Ian

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Let’s keep it on beer and breweries but with a twist of railway.

In the 1980s and earlier I loved going to the New Forest at Brockenhurst. 200 meters or less to the east of the station there was/is a level crossing and 50 meters from this was a pub with a beer garden. Great place for drinking beer and watching trains. What sadly defunct Brewery ran this or whose beer was served there and which brewery took them over or bought the assets of this defunct brewery?

 

[MotCO]

Can I take a punt at Youngs?