General Knowledge Quiz

[yoyothehobo]

Staying in the Upside Down.

What is unusual about Australian Central Western Standard Time?

 

[Gloster]

There is nowhere that uses it?

 

[randyrippley]

It isn't standard anywhere?

 

[yoyothehobo]

There is nowhere that uses it?

Nope

It isn't standard anywhere?

Nope

Its used by some places.

It has something a touchy more unusual.

 

[Gloster]

It is a half-hour (or x and a half-hours ) different to adjacent zones?

 

[yoyothehobo]

It is a half-hour (or x and a half-hours ) different to adjacent zones?

Nope, even wilder than that

 

[martinsh]

isn't this the time zone that is only used by a few isolated settlements in Western Australia ?

 

[MotCO]

It doesn't have 'summer time', or it does and no-one else has?

 

[yoyothehobo]

isn't this the time zone that is only used by a few isolated settlements in Western Australia ?

it is, but what is unusual about said time zone

 

[Peter Mugridge]

it is, but what is unusual about said time zone

Is it an unusual number of minutes difference from other zones?

 

[SteveM70]

So given WA and SA are 90 minutes apart, I’m guessing it’s 45 minutes behind one and 45 ahead of the other?

 

[yoyothehobo]

So given WA and SA are 90 minutes apart, I’m guessing it’s 45 minutes behind one and 45 ahead of the other?

Correct, the time zone is defined as UTC+8:45. It covers part of WA and one town in SA.

Your turn to set the time.

 

[SteveM70]

Which cathedral city is built on the river Skell?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripon. That river also flows past the ruins of Fountains Abbey.

 

[SteveM70]

Ripon. That river also flows past the ruins of Fountains Abbey.

It does indeed. Your turn at the atlas

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In a part of China, mummified human remains with reddish hair were discovered in a desert area and are thought to be from 1,800 BC onwards.

What is the name of the desert and in what region of China is it located.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I wouldn't know the region, but isn't the Chinese desert the Gobi Desert? So that one...?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Rather like I only know one Norwegian playwright I only know one Chinese region, so on that basis I will go with

Xinjiang

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yes the area is Southern Xinjiang, so all we now need is the name of the desert.

 

[Calthrop]

The Takla Makan Desert?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Takla Makan Desert?

Correct.

Over now to you to set the next one.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you. (I gather that the desert concerned is, even by desert standards, an especially harsh and inhospitable one. "Takla Makan" apparently means in the local language, "You go in -- you don't come out".)

Staying on geographical lines (I fear nothing else comes to mind for me at present) -- concerning the following list of countries: what (apart from their all being in Africa) do they have in common / are linked by?

Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

 

[Donny Dave]

All been a protectorate of a European country

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Does the River Nile flow through them?

 

[MotCO]

All looked at before Rwanda was chosen for deporting illegal immigrants

 

[Calthrop]

All been a protectorate of a European country

Near; but I'd figure, not the "full-and-fair" answer as reckoned by me; and checked via Googling, with the learned geographers. Egypt, if I understand rightly, not fully featuring as above -- although it was for much of 19th / 20th centuries, greatly in Britain's sphere of influence: was always "notionally and technically" independent.

Does the River Nile flow through them?

That's the answer as seen by me -- all (improbable though it may feel in a few cases, if one is not a big geography-buff) on the Nile waterways complex / ramifications -- main Nile, White and Blue branches thereof, various lakes.

All looked at before Rwanda was chosen for deporting illegal immigrants

Like it ! -- but alas, no.

Thus, @Xenophon PCDGS : next "set" is yours.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which Scottish monarch had the shortest reign?

 

[Gloster]

Macbeth?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Duncan II.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duncan II.

Correct. Only ruled for a matter of months in 1097.

Over now to you.