General Knowledge Quiz

[randyrippley]

Four

Yes!

Sarah Jane got a fourth one after the third destroyed itself in a suicide explosion.

Your turn!

 

[DaleCooper]

Yes!

Sarah Jane got a fourth one after the third destroyed itself in a suicide explosion.

Your turn!

Thank you.

Next question:

What is the scientific name of the western lowland gorilla?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Thank you.

Next question:

What is the scientific name of the western lowland gorilla?

I want to guess Gorilla Gorilla

 

[Peterthegreat]

Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla.

Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla?

 

[randyrippley]

Gorilla grosus scarious

 

[DaleCooper]

Gorilla grosus scarious

No

I want to guess Gorilla Gorilla

Getting warm.

Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla?

Whoa! Slow down or you might overshoot.

Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla.

That's it (it's actually Gorilla gorilla gorilla - note the lower case), your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Apologies for the delay. I've been having problems with Internet connectivity.
So why not a question on that?
The terms 3G, 4G etc have been in use for over twenty years now. But what does the "G" stand for?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Generation?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Generation?

Is correct. Please generate the next question.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Staying with the letter 'G', which elements in the periodic table have (two letter) chemical symbols beginning with this particular letter? Clue: Gold (= Au) isn't one of them!

 

[yoyothehobo]

Gallium and germanium. Ga and Ge

 

[yoyothehobo]

Gallium and germanium. Ga and Ge

Pretty sure there is a transuranic element with the symbol Gd but i dont know the name

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Gadolinium GD

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Gallium and germanium. Ga and Ge

Pretty sure there is a transuranic element with the symbol Gd but i dont know the name

Correct. And the other is indeed Gd (Gadolinium) as confirmed below by @GRALISTAIR.

Gadolinium GD

@yoyothehobo Would you like to pose the next question?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Pretty sure there is a transuranic element with the symbol Gd but i dont know the name

Its F block (rare earth) not transuranic

 

[yoyothehobo]

@GRALISTAIR can take this one.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Which 1980s song started with the words "You consider me the young apprentice, caught between the Scylla and Charybdis"

 

[Ashley Hill]

Wrapped Around Your Finger by The Police

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Wrapped Around Your Finger by The Police

Mephistopholes is not your name - I know what you're up to just the same.

Your turn to do the next question.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Where would you find Ossicones?

 

[Calthrop]

On the head of a giraffe -- they are the sort-of-not-quite-horn-things thereon.

 

[Ashley Hill]

On the head of a giraffe -- they are the sort-of-not-quite-horn-things thereon.

Correct. Your may hold your head high and set the next question.

 

[randyrippley]

On the head of a giraffe -- they are the sort-of-not-quite-horn-things thereon.

So they weren't Australian pine trees?

 

[Calthrop]

So they weren't Australian pine trees?

Only in the same way that folk very much not into pop culture: think that Taylor Swift must be a species of exotic bird which ingeniously, and with great precision, sews leaves together to make its nest...

Correct. Your may hold your head high and set the next question.

Thank you.

Concerning the "William" books by Richmal Crompton: please give the names of the other three members of William's gang, the "Outlaws".

 

[DaleCooper]

Only in the same way that folk very much not into pop culture: think that Taylor Swift must be a species of exotic bird which ingeniously, and with great precision, sews leaves together to make its nest...

There are weaver birds which make their nests from woven leaves, grass and twigs.

 

[randyrippley]

There are weaver birds which make their nests from woven leaves, grass and twigs.

And tailor birds which is the point he was making

 

[DaleCooper]

Concerning the "William" books by Richmal Crompton: please give the names of the other three members of William's gang, the "Outlaws".

I bet one of them was Ginger.

 

[randyrippley]

I bet one of them was Ginger.

And was one Timmy the dog? Or was that an Enid Blyton story?

 

[SteveM70]

And was one Timmy the dog? Or was that an Enid Blyton story?

That was Blyton - Timmy was one of the Famous Five