General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

How about 1981 for the Human League's hit?

 

[MotCO]

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" ?

1982?

 

[Calthrop]

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

An uncle of mine (now deceased) was an erudite guy, with an immense vocabulary. "Widdershins" was one of his very favourite words.

 

[Gloster]

An uncle of mine (now deceased) was an erudite guy, with an immense vocabulary. "Widdershins" was one of his very favourite words.

I have come across it a couple of times in Dorothy L Sayers’ books to do with it being bad luck to walk anti-clockwise around a churchyard.

 

[Calthrop]

I must have forgotten about that -- a long time since I read DLS's output.

 

[xotGD]

1983?

 

[444045]

How about 1981 for the Human League's hit?

You are correct.

 

[444045]

1982?

Sorry not correct.

 

[444045]

1983?

Sorry not correct.

 

[444045]

Thank you to everyone who took part. I am pleased to announce that @Gloster won having got 3 answers correct.

The floor is yours to ask the next question.

 

[Gloster]

The following are all fictional series characters used by well-known authors; all have appeared in at least three books by the author. All are detectives of one type or another (amateur, private or police), but no ranks or titles are given. The name of the author who created them, please.

1 - Albert Campion

2 - Gideon Fell

3 - Joseph French

4 - Roderick Alleyn

5 - Alan Grant

6 - Beatrice Bradley

7 - Sid Halley

8 - Maud Silver

9 - Gervase Fen

10 - John Thorndyke

 

[martinsh]

1) Margery alllingham

 

[444045]

4/ Ngaio Marsh
5/ Josephine Tey
6/ Gladys Mitchell
7/ Dick Francis
8/ Patricia Wentworth

 

[Gloster]

1) Margery alllingham

Correct.

4/ Ngaio Marsh
5/ Josephine Tey
6/ Gladys Mitchell
7/ Dick Francis
8/ Patricia Wentworth

All correct.

 

[Calthrop]

9: Gervase Fen -- Edmund Crispin. (Boast boast -- my tutor at university was reputed to be the factual person on whom Gervase F. was modelled.)

 

[Gloster]

9: Gervase Fen -- Edmund Crispin. (Boast boast -- my tutor at university was reputed to be the factual person on whom Gervase F. was modelled.)

Correct. (Well, the Edmund Crispin part. I can’t vouch for Fen being based on your tutor.)

 

[444045]

2/ John Dickson Carr ?

 

[Gloster]

2/ John Dickson Carr ?

Correct. Once all the answers are in, it looks as though you will be setting the next question as you have six out of ten.

 

[Gloster]

A couple of clues to the two remains questions:

3) The author spent a considerable number of years as a railway engineer in the north of Ireland.

10) The author, like his character, was a doctor and is credited with having invented the inverted detective story and - arguably - popularising the medico-legal detective story.

 

[Calthrop]

A couple of clues to the two remains questions:

3) The author spent a considerable number of years as a railway engineer in the north of Ireland.

Drat it ! I had -- long ago -- heard of the chap; and at least dipped into a railway-setting story of his, set during World War II -- but have no idea now, of his name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Is No. 10 Freeman Willis Crofts?

 

[Gloster]

Is No. 10 Freeman Willis Crofts?

Well, not number 10.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Is No. 10 Freeman Willis Crofts?

Well, not number 10.

Okay, he must be No. 3 then .... ?

I'm sure that I know No. 10, now ... but can I remember his name ... no! As Corporal jones might (not) have said: "Permission to cheat, Sir?".

 

[Gloster]

Okay, he must be No. 3 then .... ?

I'm sure that I know No. 10, now ... but can I remember his name ... no! As Corporal jones might (not) have said: "Permission to cheat, Sir?".

Indeed. No 3 was Freeman Wills Crofts, who worked for nearly thirty years for the Belfast & Northern Counties and LMS Northern Counties Committee.

It is probably getting about time to cheat. 444045 must be waiting to set the next challenge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Thanks ... in that case, it's R Austin Freeman (1862–1943).

Over to you, 444045!

 

[444045]

Thank you,

Could you please say who had these one hit wonders with the following songs :

1/ Video killed the Radio star.

2/ Break my Stride.

3/ Lets hear it for the boy.

4/ I've never been to me.

5/ The Safety Dance.

6/ If.

7/ Every Loser Wins.

8/ Japanese Boy.

9/ Marys Prayer.

10/ Feels like Heaven.

11/ St Elmos Fire.

12/ Funky Town.

13/ Dolce Vita.

14/ She's like the wind.

15/ Camouflage.

 

[Gloster]

1 - The Buggles

6 - Telly Savalas

 

[EbbwJunction1]

7/ Every Loser Wins - Nick Berry.

 

[SteveM70]

4 Charlene

9 Danny Wilson (though They had a second top 40 hit a couple of years later, the really quite nice The Second Summer Of Love)

10 John Parr

11 Fiction Factory

15 Stan Ridgway

Edit - I’ve managed to transpose 10 and 11

 

[martinsh]

5) Men Without Hats

8) Aneka

10) Fiction Factory