General Knowledge Quiz

[yoyothehobo]

Are disease and squalor 2 of them?

 

[CarltonA]

Are disease and squalor 2 of them?

Yes, two points. Three to go.

 

[Gloster]

Illiteracy?

 

[SteveM70]

One was ignorance and I think there was also idleness

 

[DaleCooper]

Coveting thy neighbour's ox.

 

[CarltonA]

One was ignorance and I think there was also idleness

Another two points. Just the one word needed.

 

[CarltonA]

As there have been no further attempts I will give the answer:

Want
Disease
Ignorance
Squalor
Idleness

@yoyothehobo and @SteveM70 got two each so can decide between them who sets the next question.

 

[SteveM70]

I wouldn't have remembered them without seeing the two @yoyothehobo got first, so I'll defer

 

[yoyothehobo]

Ken Warby is famous for what?

 

[xotGD]

As I've never heard of him, I'll say "Nothing".

 

[randyrippley]

Ken Warby is famous for what?

Nothing?
Well I've never heard of him anyway........

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Isn't he the guy that broke Donald Cambells water speed record? He died very close by where I used to live - Cincinatti Ohio.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Isn't he the guy that broke Donald Cambells water speed record? He died very close by where I used to live - Cincinatti Ohio.

That is correct he broke and still holds the world water speed record and is the only person to travel at over 300mph on water and live.

Your turn to set records

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Same theme, name the year and body of water Donald Campbell died attempting to break the water speed record.

 

[Gloster]

1967, Coniston Water?

 

[yoyothehobo]

1967, Coniston Water?

4th January to be precise

 

[MotCO]

At 8.46 to be precise!

 

[GRALISTAIR]

1967, Coniston Water?

Correct and you were first. Your turn to set a record.

 

[Gloster]

To keep to the same area. There is only one official ‘lake’ in the Lake District, all the others being meres or waters. Which one is it?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

So I assume it can not be Windermere or Waswater ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Tarn Hows?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Bassenthwaite Lke

 

[Gloster]

Bassenthwaite Lke

Indeed it is Bassenthwaite Lake.

To you to cast your question on the the waters.

 

[yoyothehobo]

I shall declare open floor (water)

 

[DaleCooper]

I shall declare open floor (water)

Next question:

Who wrote Tomkinson's Schooldays, The Curse of the Claw and Murder at Moorstones Manor?

 

[Gloster]

Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

 

[DaleCooper]

Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Yes, they are three from the nine part Ripping Yarns television series. Your turn...

 

[Gloster]

On a similar theme. What was the name of the hotel that John Cleese got the original idea for Fawlty Towers from? As a bonus, what was the name of the owner?

 

[MotCO]

On a similar theme. What was the name of the hotel that John Cleese got the original idea for Fawlty Towers from? As a bonus, what was the name of the owner?

Farty Towels (if the opening shots of the hotel in the intro is to be believed)

 

[DaleCooper]

Farty Towels (if the opening shots of the hotel in the intro is to be believed)

Don't you mean Flowery ****s?