General Knowledge Quiz

[MotCO]

Atlanta, Georgia?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Baton Rouge

 

[xotGD]

Sorry, both incorrect.

 

[DaleCooper]

In which US city would you find Duke University?

Austin, Texas

 

[Gloster]

Wayne…

 

[xotGD]

Still no correct answer.

Clue: It has the same name as a city in the UK.

 

[D6130]

Birmingham, Alabama?

 

[xotGD]

Birmingham, Alabama?

Too far south.

 

[D6130]

Manchester, New Hampshire?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Durham. N.C.

 

[xotGD]

Durham. N.C.

We have a winner!

Your turn to establish a tech start up in a former tobacco warehouse...

(That's what they seem to do there!)

 

[AndyPJG]

We have a winner!

Your turn to establish a tech start up in a former tobacco warehouse...

(That's what they seem to do there!)

Is it Open Floor yet?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it Open Floor yet?

Wide open I'd say but I bet a certain someone will complain.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

@Peterthegreat. Are you planning to set the next question?

 

[Peterthegreat]

@Peterthegreat. Are you planning to set the next question?

Oops sorry
Completely missed it.
So yes open floor please.

 

[DaleCooper]

Oops sorry
Completely missed it.
So yes open floor please.

Next question:

Who wrote and performed these songs?

On Again! On Again!
Lah Di Dah
The Bantam Cock
Sister Josephine

 

[Gloster]

Next question:

Who wrote and performed these songs?

On Again! On Again!
Lah Di Dah
The Bantam Cock
Sister Josephine

Jake Thackray?

 

[DaleCooper]

Jake Thackray?

You answered that before I hit "Post reply"! Your turn...

 

[Gloster]

Bantam Cock was quite often heard on the radio in the 1960s and 1970s as it was about as naughty as Auntie permitted. One programme it could be heard on ran for thirty-five years and was intended to link families in the UK with their relatives serving abroad? What was its name (either version is acceptable)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Bantam Cock was quite often heard on the radio in the 1960s and 1970s as it was about as naughty as Auntie permitted. One programme it could be heard on ran for thirty-five years and was intended to link families in the UK with their relatives serving abroad? What was its name (either version is acceptable)?

Two Way Family Favourites

 

[Gloster]

Two Way Family Favourites

Indeed, although it was also Three Way Family Favourites (the wonders of modern broadcasting technology, as we thought then) or just Family Favourites at times.

To you to broadcast the next question.

 

[DaleCooper]

Indeed, although it was also Three Way Family Favourites (the wonders of modern broadcasting technology, as we thought then) or just Family Favourites at times.

To you to broadcast the next question.

Thank you.

Next question:

To which WW2 general were the epithets "Smiling" and "Uncle" applied?

 

[MotCO]

Joe Stalin?

 

[DaleCooper]

Joe Stalin?

Uncle - yes, Smiling - I don't think so.

 

[Calthrop]

And it can't have been Joe Stilwell (U.S. Army, China / India / Burma part of the war); he was sometimes called "Uncle Joe", but he was a miserable so-and-so.

 

[341o2]

Albert Kesselring

 

[Greenheart]

I think Kesselring was called smiling but if that's not it my guess would be William Slim.

 

[DaleCooper]

I think Kesselring was called smiling but if that's not it my guess would be William Slim.

See below.

Albert Kesselring

It was he, apparently he even smiled during his war crimes trial. Your turn...

 

[341o2]

Whose statue may be found at the Royal Oak Nailsea nr Bristol?

 

[MotCO]

IK Brunel is presumably too obvious