General Knowledge Quiz

[Jimbob52]

Martinsh has not posted a question so, under the 24 hour rule, I declare Open Floor.

 

[MotCO]

May I take the floor? In the UK, there are 8 Royal Boroughs. Please name them, and identify the earliest and latest boroughs so designated.

 

[SteveM70]

May I take the floor? In the UK, there are 8 Royal Boroughs. Please name them, and identify the earliest and latest boroughs so designated.

Kensington and Chelsea
Greenwich
Windsor (the oldest?)
Leamington Spa
Tunbridge Wells
Wootton Bassett (the newest)

No idea of the others

 

[xotGD]

Maidenhead?

 

[MotCO]

Kensington and Chelsea
Greenwich
Windsor (the oldest?)
Leamington Spa
Tunbridge Wells
Wootton Bassett (the newest)

No idea of the others

Kensington and Chelsea
Greenwich
Windsor (the oldest?)
Leamington Spa
Tunbridge Wells
Wootton Bassett (the newest)

No idea of the others

6 correct answers, but the oldest and newest are incorrect. Windsor is actually Windsor & Maidenhead.

 

[MotCO]

Maidenhead?

Actually part of Windsor, correctly identified by Steve M70.

 

[Jimbob52]

Sutton Coldfield

 

[Romsey]

The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames.
(As an aside they used to register all their road vehicles on Portsmouth to obtain RBK registrations!)
Royal because it includes Hampton Court Palace.

 

[MotCO]

Sutton Coldfield

You wish!

 

[MotCO]

The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames.
(As an aside they used to register all their road vehicles on Portsmouth to obtain RBK registrations!)
Royal because it includes Hampton Court Palace.

The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames.
(As an aside they used to register all their road vehicles on Portsmouth to obtain RBK registrations!)
Royal because it includes Hampton Court Palace.

Right town, wrong reason.

 

[MotCO]

Seven correct answers, one to go.

 

[SteveM70]

Caernarfon?

 

[perryman]

Deeside, given that's where Balmoral is?

 

[MotCO]

Caernarfon?

Correct. Now which is the earliest and which is the latest - if possible, give approximate dates.

 

[MotCO]

Deeside, given that's where Balmoral is?

No, not Balmoral. The full list is:

Greenwich

Kensington & Chelsea

Kingston-upon-Thames

Caernarfon

Windsor and Maidenhead

Leamington Spa

Tunbridge Wells

Wootton Bassett


Please identify the first and last teams designated.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wootton Bassett is not a royal borough. It is a town that has been granted a Royal prefix (ditto Leamington Spa and Tunbridge Wells).

 

[AndyPJG]

The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames.
(As an aside they used to register all their road vehicles on Portsmouth to obtain RBK registrations!)
Royal because it includes Hampton Court Palace.

Hampton Court Palace is in the London Borough of Richmond; RBK is 'Royal' due to coronations being held many moons ago. The Coronation Stone being next to the Guildhall over the river Hogsmill. (I used to work for RBK)

 

[MotCO]

Wootton Bassett is not a royal borough. It is a town that has been granted a Royal prefix (ditto Leamington Spa and Tunbridge Wells).

I tend to agree with you about Wootton Bassett and Leamington Spa insofar I don't think that they are actualy boroughs in their own right. Tunbridge Wells is a borough, but the borough name is not usually prefixed by Royal, although the town is definitely Royal. Conversely, Kingston is a London borough, but no-one ever refers to the town as Royal Kingston, only the borough, so there is some confusion and inconsistency.

 

[MotCO]

Hampton Court Palace is in the London Borough of Richmond; RBK is 'Royal' due to coronations being held many moons ago. The Coronation Stone being next to the Guildhall over the river Hogsmill. (I used to work for RBK)

I never realised Hampton Court was in LB Richmond. You're right about Kingston being Royal due to its coronations, and as such it was the first Royal borough back in 925. The most recent is Greenwich in 2012.

The full list is:

Kingston-upon-Thames 925

Leamington Spa 1838

Tunbridge Wells 1909

Kensington & Chelsea 1965

Caernarfon 1974

Windsor and Maidenhead 1998

Wootton Bassett 2011

Greenwich 2012


Since SteveM70 got most right, can I ask him to take the floor.

 

[SteveM70]

Jamie Vardy recently scored his 100th premier league goal.

1 - how many players have now reached that landmark

2 - name the players that have reached that landmark with all the goals scored for the same team

 

[MotCO]

Jamie Vardy recently scored his 100th premier league goal.

1 - how many players have now reached that landmark

2 - name the players that have reached that landmark with all the goals scored for the same team

I can think of at least 24 players, (or 25 if you include Vardy!) and for part 2:

Henry, Bergkamp, Solskjaer, Van Nistelrooy, Zola, Vardy, Giggs, Drogba

 

[perryman]

I can think of at least 24 players, (or 25 if you include Vardy!) and for part 2:

Henry, Bergkamp, Solskjaer, Van Nistelrooy, Zola, Vardy, Giggs, Drogba

Solksjaer, Zola and Bergkamp are definitely not in the group. Kane (scored all for Tottenham), Sheringham, Robbie Keane, Defoe, Van Persie, Andy Cole, Lampard, Wright, Yorke, Aguero (same team), and somehow Darren Bent are.

 

[perryman]

And Rooney, Fowler, Anelka too. There's quite a few unlikely suspects too, as I recall.

 

[SteveM70]

Point of clarification on the second part - it’s probably better phrased as “players who have reached that landmark and scored all their premier league goals for one team” ie excluding the likes of Shearer who has over 100 for both Blackburn and Newcastle

 

[martinsh]

Martinsh has not posted a question so, under the 24 hour rule, I declare Open Floor.

Martinsh has not posted a question because Martinsh didn't realise he had given the correct answer !

 

[SteveM70]

I can think of at least 24 players, (or 25 if you include Vardy!) and for part 2:

Henry, Bergkamp, Solskjaer, Van Nistelrooy, Zola, Vardy, Giggs, Drogba

Not a million miles out with part 1, and 5 correct for part 2 (the other 3 you mention didn’t score 100 premier league goals)

 

[SteveM70]

I think this has run its course, so the answers are below and I’ll declare open floor

There are 29 players who’ve scored 100+ premier league goals, of whom 9 have scored them all for one club:

Thierry Henry
Sergio Aguero
Harry Kane *
Didier Drogba
Steven Gerrard
Ryan Giggs
Paul Scholes
Matthew Le Tissier
Jamie Vardy

* played 3 games for Norwich but didn’t score any goals

 

[Jimbob52]

An easy question while someone thinks of something more challenging:

Which 1960s pop record had a melody based on a folk song about a Cossack leader who led an uprising against tsarist bureaucracy?

At its peak, the record was selling 93,000 copies a day.

 

[MotCO]

I'd have said Rasputin by Boney M, but I don't think it was in the 60's.

 

[Jimbob52]

I'd have said Rasputin by Boney M, but I don't think it was in the 60's.

Interesting guess, but not 'Rasputin'.

Note it is the melody that is based on the folk song, not the lyrics.