General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

.....or even The Outlaw Josey Wales....

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The Outlaw Josie Wells.

....or even 'The Outlaw Josie Wales'?

Is correct - D6130 is more accurate but Peterthegreat was first. One of you can set the next question- if you want me to adjudicate I slightly favor Ptg

 

[GRALISTAIR]

.....or even The Outlaw Josey Wales....

 

[Gloster]

Shouldn’t that be The Outlaw Josef Wales/Cymru?

 

[D6130]

Is correct - D6130 is more accurate but Peterthegreat was first. One of you can set the next question- if you want me to adjudicate I slightly favor Ptg

I'm happy for @Peterthegreat to set the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thanks.
However I shall be unavailable this afternoon so if anyone wants to set a question please feel free.

 

[Calthrop]

While Shakespeare is generally acknowledged as a genius; he didn't always get everything right -- for instance, his geography could be a bit ropy. His biggest geographical howler, is usually considered to be in his play The Winter's Tale. Please identify said howler.

 

[randyrippley]

Bohemia doesn't have a coast

 

[Calthrop]

Bohemia doesn't have a coast

That's it ! (Nitpick-minutiae department: I seem to recall reading that for an extremely brief period way back in the Middle Ages, at a time of much chopping-and-changing of national ownerships, Bohemia did have a very short stretch of Adriatic coast; but it certainly didn't in Shakey's time.)

In good sooth, Master Randyrippley, 'tis thine to set the next poser.

 

[randyrippley]

What's the connection between the first internal combustion engined motor car to be built in the UK, and the English Electric Lightning?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

What's the connection between the first internal combustion engined motor car to be built in the UK, and the English Electric Lightning?

Surely that has to be a Rolls Royce engine?

 

[millemille]

Surely that has to be a Rolls Royce engine?

Having just read a biography of Henry Royce I think it would be a challenge as Rolls Royce didn't exist until 1906(?) and I'm pretty sure the first car that was truly British was on the road in the late 19th century...

 

[randyrippley]

Surely that has to be a Rolls Royce engine?

Nope

 

[Gloster]

A constant need to read the fuel gauge?

 

[randyrippley]

A constant need to read the fuel gauge?

I doubt if the car had one! As a clue, it was built in 1895 in Yeovil.

 

[Gloster]

Designed by a Petter?

 

[randyrippley]

Designed by a Petter?

Exactly, I thought that would take longer!

Teddy Petter was the brains behind the Lysander, Lightning, Canberra and Folland Gnat
His father and uncle set up Westlands during WW1, but already had the Petter engines business before that. They built the first UK car around one of their engines

So your go!

 

[Gloster]

A suitable question for today: when did the current May Day (Early May, if you wish) Bank Holiday become a holiday in England? (I will give a year’s leeway each way.)

 

[Peterthegreat]

1978?

 

[SteveM70]

1978?

That would’ve been my answer too. We had letters home from school reminding our parents “the school does not observe the new May Day holiday” for a few years after that

 

[Gloster]

1978?

Indeed. Even though I was still at school (just) I don’t remember it, but it is possible thar being a (boarding) public-school, they just assumed that parents would not expect them to participate in such a revolutionary socialist idea.

To you to pose the next question.

 

[Calthrop]

Approximately a week gone by -- might we take it that it's "open floor"?

 

[DaleCooper]

Approximately a week gone by -- might we take it that it's "open floor"?

I think we might. Have you got a question?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Oops apologies.
Open floor please.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks, folks. Question --

Please name the character who in the mid-19th century, was vicar of Swimbridge, Devon (incidentally, on the one-time Taunton -- Barnstaple rail line): and who is best known nowadays, not for anything "religious"; but for a matter pertaining to his involvement with certain things concerning -- in the widest sense -- pets?

 

[Gloster]

Jack Russell?

 

[Calthrop]

Jack Russell?

That's him -- the Reverend of that name; one of his hobbies was dog-breeding, in the course of which he gave to the world the Jack Russell terrier breed.

Your turn to take your preferred four-legged friend for a walk...

 

[Gloster]

Another with a tangential connection to four-legged ‘friends’. What was unusual about the North Irish Horse military unit between 1934 and 1938?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

At a rough guess, they didn't have any horses...?

 

[Gloster]

At a rough guess, they didn't have any horses...?

Well, yes, but that was also true for most, if not all, of the cavalry regiments, so the North Irish Horse was not unusual in that way.