General Knowledge Quiz

[SteveM70]

Salisbury Cathedral? Westminster Abbey?

Neither of those I’m afraid

Giant's Causeway

Is correct

One to go

 

[Metrolink]

One to go

Would you be able to tell us which of the four nations it is?

 

[SteveM70]

Would you be able to tell us which of the four nations it is?

It’s in england

 

[Metrolink]

It’s in england

A bit far fetched, but the Lake District?

 

[xotGD]

Jurassic Coast

 

[Gloster]

Glastonbury?
Hastings/Battle?
Flodden Field?
Bosworth Field?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Norwich or Lincoln cathedral, is it a kirk?

 

[SteveM70]

None of the above

Another clue - it’s in northern England

 

[perryman]

Lindisfarne?

 

[SteveM70]

Lindisfarne?

Not there

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Royal Border Bridge? Tyne Bridge? Fountains Abbey? Castle Howard?

 

[perryman]

Bamburgh Castle?
Durham Cathedral?

 

[SteveM70]

Royal Border Bridge? Tyne Bridge? Fountains Abbey? Castle Howard?

Bingo!

Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey is the sixth and final answer

And it also gives you a 2-1-1-1-1 victory, so the honour is yours

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Thanks very much, just lots of guesses %)

What are or were:
Rennrad Norwich
Hull Thursday
Staubwoelke [dustcloud] Marl
VC Toutourien-Tower
GAN-Mercier
VC Sevale

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Names of five-a-side football teams?

 

[John Griffiths]

Works football teams?

 

[John Griffiths]

Cycling teams or clubs?

They would create dustclouds on the untarred roads of yore.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Not football teams

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Cycling teams or clubs?

Correct, was the question too easy?

 

[John Griffiths]

If you had n' t given the dustcloud clue I don't think I'd have got it.

 

[John Griffiths]

For what culinary innovation in the UK in 1982 can we thank McCain's and McDonald's?

 

[Gloster]

Probably something to do with chips. Freeze-dried ones? (I was tempted to say a large increase in vegetarianism, but that was John Selwyn-Gummer.)

 

[MotCO]

Thin chips?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

McFlurry, just saw some ads for that?

 

[Metrolink]

For what culinary innovation in the UK in 1982 can we thank McCain's and McDonald's?

Was it that McCain’s supplied the potato’s to make the McDonald’s fries?

 

[xotGD]

Fries not made from potatoes.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Freedom fries?

 

[John Griffiths]

Sorry for the delay in replying - none of the above, though most are horticulturally along the right lines.

 

[MotCO]

Oven chips?

 

[John Griffiths]

Not oven chips, sorry.