General Knowledge Quiz

[LSWR Cavalier]

Unless @LSWRCavalier has some questions ready, I can provide a group this afternoon which I hope aren’t too obscure.

Please do, you are welcome

 

[Gloster]

The following are all pseudonyms used by authors who have had at least reasonable success under both the pseudonym and their proper name: in some cases they used a slight variation on their first name. (Some have had their books republished under the more successful name.) The proper names for each please.

1 - Jack Higgins

2 - Mary Westmacott

3 - Alexander Kent

4 - Carter Dickson

5 - Robert Markham

6 - Ian Stuart

7 - Derek Raymond

8 - Adam Hall

9 - Barbara Vine

10 - David Grant

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

9 Ruth Rendell

 

[Calthrop]

4: John Dickson Carr

 

[EbbwJunction1]

1. Harry (?) Patterson

3. Douglas Reeman

 

[SteveM70]

Markham is Kingsley Amis

 

[444045]

1, Henry Patterson

2, Agatha Christie

6, Ian Stuart Donaldson

7, Robin Cook

8, Elleston Trevor

 

[Gloster]

9 Ruth Rendell

Correct

4: John Dickson Carr

Correct

1. Harry (?) Patterson

3. Douglas Reeman

One and three-quarters correct

Markham is Kingsley Amis

Correct

1, Henry Patterson

2, Agatha Christie

6, Ian Stuart Donaldson

7, Robin Cook

8, Elleston Trevor

Four out of five correct.

That leaves 6 and 10.

 

[SteveM70]

6 is - I think - Alistair Maclean

 

[Gloster]

6 is - I think - Alistair Maclean

Correct.

I was a little bit unfair to EbbwJunction1 for only giving three-quarters of a point for Harry Patterson: Henry is his first name, but only a few books have appeared under that name. Far more books have appeared as Harry. So a full point there.

Also to be clear: the Robin Cook mentioned is not the same person as the American Robin Cook who writes medical thrillers. However both have Robert as their first name.

10 was a Welshman and his real name was, like his pseudonym, one where the family name could also be a first name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I was a little bit unfair to EbbwJunction1 for only giving three-quarters of a point for Harry Patterson: Henry is his first name, but only a few books have appeared under that name. Far more books have appeared as Harry. So a full point there.

Thank you; that puzzled me for a while, because I knew that he'd used Harry as his Christian name for a lot of his books!

 

[Gloster]

Well, as twenty-four hours have gone and nobody has given an answer to 10, the answer is [cue drum roll] Craig Thomas.

So, 444045, as you were first to come up with three of the answers, I hand the setter’s quill pen on to you.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Well, as twenty-four hours have gone and nobody has given an answer to 10, the answer is [cue drum roll] Craig Thomas.

Curses ... I knew that I knew the name, I just couldn't remember it! I've read quite a few of his books, actually, together with those of his (in rugby terms) more famous father, J B G Thomas.

Well done, 444045!

 

[444045]

Thank you @Gloster & @EbbwJunction1

Time for some more General Knowledge questions :

1/ What is a cheroot ?

2/ Before the invention of the clock, what was anticlockwise known as ?

3/ What is the sixth colour of the rainbow ?

4/ In which year did the Human League top the charts with "Don't you want me" ?

5/ Which car company manufactures the Cayenne ?

6/ What is the fifth sign of the zodiac ?

7/ Which cocktail is mainly made from gin and cherry brandy ?

8/ How many lines are there in a sonnet ?

9/ Which 20th century novelist used a Suffolk river as a pen name ?

10/ 0114 is the dialling code for which city in the UK ?

 

[Gloster]

1 - a type of cigar

3 - indigo

9 - Eric Blair, a.k.a George Orwell.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Thank you @Gloster & @EbbwJunction1

Time for some more General Knowledge questions :

1/ What is a cheroot ?

2/ Before the invention of the clock, what was anticlockwise known as ?

3/ What is the sixth colour of the rainbow ?

4/ In which year did the Human League top the charts with "Don't you want me" ?

5/ Which car company manufactures the Cayenne ?

6/ What is the fifth sign of the zodiac ?

7/ Which cocktail is mainly made from gin and cherry brandy ?

8/ How many lines are there in a sonnet ?

9/ Which 20th century novelist used a Suffolk river as a pen name ?

10/ 0114 is the dialling code for which city in the UK ?

4 - Porsche

10 - Leeds?

 

[AndyPJG]

8) Fourteen lines in a sonnet.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

2 sinister?

4 1982?

 

[Calthrop]

2: widdershins

6: Leo

(and mischievously -- 3: maybe orange, depending which order you're going in?)

 

[444045]

1 - a type of cigar

3 - indigo

9 - Eric Blair, a.k.a George Orwell.

all 3 answers are correct.

 

[444045]

4 - Porsche

10 - Leeds?

You have 1 correct.

 

[444045]

8) Fourteen lines in a sonnet.

You are correct.

 

[444045]

2 sinister?

4 1982?

Sorry neither answer is correct.

 

[444045]

2: widdershins

6: Leo

(and mischievously -- 3: maybe orange, depending which order you're going in?)

The 2 answers you have given are correct, re Rainbow going in clockwise direction.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

You have 1 correct.

10 - Sheffield

 

[SteveM70]

7 Singapore Sling

 

[Mcr Warrior]

2: widdershins

Never heard that word before. Every day's a school day on here!

 

[444045]

10 - Sheffield

You are correct.

 

[444045]

7 Singapore Sling

You are correct.

 

[444045]

Wow we have some fantastic people on this site with great General Knowledge,

Only 1 answer left to get now :

4/ In which year did the Human League top the charts with "Don't you want me" ?