General Knowledge Quiz

[341o2]

The statue at the Royal Oak is of someone who has had nothing to do with railways, (as far as I am aware) Brunel's Bristol statue is outside Temple Meads.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Is Royal Oak the Wetherspoons,Tim Martin?

 

[RDP]

Adge Cutler?

 

[341o2]

Adge Cutler?

Is the right answer.
Adge Cutler and the Wurzels was formed in 1966, and their songs were described concerning cider drinking and farmyard manure.
Their first recording was made at the aforementioned pub. The statue was unveiled at the 50th anniversary of that event
On the way home from a concert, Adge crashed his car with fatal consequences in 1974.
the band continued as the Wurzels with hits such as "I've Got a Brand New Combine Harvester", a parody of Melanie's Brand New Key, and "I am a Cider Drinker"
The cider jar passes to you

 

[RDP]

Cheers (hic!!!).

Staying on the theme of the Wurzels, in addition to the two mentioned above they recorded at least three more parodies. Can you name any of them.

 

[Ashley Hill]

I am a cider drinker, I drinks it all of the day, ooh arr ooh arr aye. Ooh arr ooh are aye. (Una Paloma Blanca,George Baker Selection)
I’ve got a brand new combined harvester and I’ll give you the key. (Brand New Key,Melanie)

 

[RDP]

I am a cider drinker, I drinks it all of the day, ooh arr ooh arr aye. Ooh arr ooh are aye. (Una Paloma Blanca,George Baker Selection)
I’ve got a brand new combined harvester and I’ll give you the key. (Brand New Key,Melanie)

Those were the two already mentioned in post 26584. There are at least three others.

 

[xotGD]

Blackbird, I'll have thee.

Not sure if this is the title, but is certainly one of the lines in an awful song promoting aggressive behaviour towards wildlife.

 

[RDP]

Blackbird, I'll have thee.

Not that one.

 

[341o2]

I had hoped someone else would come up with the right answer, but two of the other three Wurzels parodies are Speedy Gonzales and I Was Farmer Bill's Cowman (I was Kaiser Bill's Batman)

It were a moonlight night in old Keynsham
And as I strolled along the banks of the old river Chew
Suddenly, I hears the plaintive cry of a young Radstock girl

 

[RDP]

That will do. The third one was The Tractor Song, a parody of The Push Bike Song.

Your turn with the scrumpy.

 

[341o2]

Open floor, please

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor, please

Next question:

For which book is Pedro Carolino notorious?

 

[DaleCooper]

Next question:

For which book is Pedro Carolino notorious?

I'm waiting for someone to have guess or as the French might say "croquer le marmot".

 

[Calthrop]

I Googled it; thereby disqualifying myself !

 

[444045]

Wild Guess - Karma Sutera ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Wild Guess - Karma Sutera ?

I had a go at that and got my head stuck however it's not the answer. My previous post contained a clue.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

It's the kind of book you might take on holiday... and regret it.

 

[444045]

English translation book into another langauge ?

 

[xotGD]

Is this the book that foresaw terrorists crashing planes into buildings?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is this the book that foresaw terrorists crashing planes into buildings?

No

English translation book into another langauge ?

You are very close but not quite there.

 

[Greenheart]

I remember a Monty Python sketch where this feller made a deliberately misleading language phrase book book, with insults instead of accurate translations. Is it something like that?

 

[DaleCooper]

I remember a Monty Python sketch where this feller made a deliberately misleading language phrase book book, with insults instead of accurate translations. Is it something like that?

No quite but near enough. It was the Portuguese-English phrasebook "English as She is Spoke". He apparently used a French–English dictionary to translate an earlier Portuguese–French phrase book which is how it came to include the sublime "to craunch a marmoset" a garbled translation of the French idiomatic phrase "croquer le marmot". Your turn...

 

[Greenheart]

What was Operation Paperclip?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

What was Operation Paperclip?

Was it the one-time Microsoft "Office Assistant", that annoyed just about everyone that ever encountered it?

 

[xotGD]

The exfiltration of a double agent from Russia to Finland.

 

[Gloster]

It was one of the major World War II operations, I think.

 

[Greenheart]

Was it the one-time Microsoft "Office Assistant", that annoyed just about everyone that ever encountered it?

No, a few decades earlier than this, originally called Operation Overcast.

 

[Greenheart]

The exfiltration of a double agent from Russia to Finland.

Not exactly, and a bigger exercise than this.

It was one of the major World War II operations, I think.

On the right lines, it started towards the end of ww2.

 

[DaleCooper]

Not exactly, and a bigger exercise than this.

On the right lines, it started towards the end of ww2.

Invasion of Italy