General Knowledge Quiz

[341o2]

Indeed it is, the second highest peak in the country and since 1993 has emitted smoke.

Your floor

 

[perryman]

Thank you.

T-Model, Federale 102, Allen and Duplo T are the first four incarnations of what?

 

[MotCO]

Keys / screw heads?

(As in Allen keys)

 

[perryman]

Keys / screw heads?

(As in Allen keys)

Not keys or screw heads.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

T-Model, Federale 102, Allen and Duplo T are the first four incarnations of what?

Lego

 

[perryman]

Lego

Not Lego.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I am not a football fan (sorry soccer) but is this something to do with the World Cup?

 

[perryman]

I am not a football fan (sorry soccer) but is this something to do with the World Cup?

It is. It's very specific.

 

[DaleCooper]

It is. It's very specific.

Ball designs?

 

[perryman]

Ball designs?

They were indeed the names of the official tournament ball for the 1930 (T-Model, Uruguay), 1934 (Federale 102, Italy), 1938 (Allen, France) and 1950 (Duplo T, Brazil) World Cups.

You can kick-off the next tournament.

 

[DaleCooper]

They were indeed the names of the official tournament ball for the 1930 (T-Model, Uruguay), 1934 (Federale 102, Italy), 1938 (Allen, France) and 1950 (Duplo T, Brazil) World Cups.

You can kick-off the next tournament.

Thank you.

Next question:

1=S 2=J 3=G 4=B 5=S 6=G 7=S 8=W 9=K 10=?

 

[Loppylugs]

Next question:

1=S 2=J 3=G 4=B 5=S 6=G 7=S 8=W 9=K 10=?

These are my ex-wives !
Sonia, Joanna, Georgina, Brenda, Sarah, Gladys, Sally, Wendy, Karen, now working on Molly so 10=M.

 

[DaleCooper]

These are my ex-wives !
Sonia, Joanna, Georgina, Brenda, Sarah, Gladys, Sally, Wendy, Karen, now working on Molly so 10=M.

To quote Ian Fleming "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
You must have a lot of enemies.

 

[krus_aragon]

To quote Ian Fleming "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
You must have a lot of enemies.

And a lot of divorce paperwork...

 

[341o2]

A man marries a woman, that's a mystery
A man marries two women, that's a bigamistry

 

[MotCO]

Thank you.

Next question:

1=S 2=J 3=G 4=B 5=S 6=G 7=S 8=W 9=K 10=?

I'm assuming that these are the initial letters of some sort of series - is that correct?

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm assuming that these are the initial letters of some sort of series - is that correct?

Correct although I would describe it as a sequence and it has a name.

 

[Caboose Class]

10 = S Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss M A A A G G P I E E!!

 

[DaleCooper]

10 = S Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss M A A A G G P I E E!!

Actually "A bird you must not miss" otherwise correct, from the TV show of that name. Your turn...

Magpie - The Murgatroyd Band (aka The Spencer Davis Group)

 

[Caboose Class]

As a follow up to the question which I set in #21.730 (In 1971 which two clubs played each other six times in the FA Cup?), here is another football teaser:- In the 2011/12 season which two clubs played each other seven times in League and Cup matches?

 

[Caboose Class]

Another clue:- They played each other twice in League matches and five times in three different Cup competitions.

 

[Caboose Class]

Final clue:- No English player featured in any of the seven matches

 

[Caboose Class]

Well it's been 24 hours and not a single kick of the ball so I think it's time to reveal the answer: Barcelona and Real Madrid. Match details of their 7 encounters can be found here:- https://sports.stackexchange.com/qu...ost-number-of-times-two-teams-met-in-a-season

Continuing with the theme of 24 hours Where might Gene Pitney have been when he was only “Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa”?

 

[DaleCooper]

Well it's been 24 hours and not a single kick of the ball so I think it's time to reveal the answer: Barcelona and Real Madrid. Match details of their 7 encounters can be found here:- https://sports.stackexchange.com/qu...ost-number-of-times-two-teams-met-in-a-season

Continuing with the theme of 24 hours Where might Gene Pitney have been when he was only “Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa”?

Muskogee (He was on Shanks's pony)

 

[Gloster]

I think that Tulsa is somewhere in the middle (Kansas?), so if he is twenty-four hours from it, presumably by car as I think a motel is mentioned, he is probably out at one of the extremities. I will guess Alaska makes the distance. My acquaintance with the song is because a girlfriend use to play it a lot.

 

[martinsh]

Phoenix, Arixzona ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Tulsa is in lower midwest Oklahoma. He stops at a motel on his way home so therefore he is driving. In the 1950s so factor in speed of car, Seatle, Boston, New York, Miami, Washington DC, San Diego? On Route 66 so could be Chicago?

 

[444045]

I'm going for Spokane in Washington.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Its a cheapish motel so highly unlikely to be a businessman who is also flying somewhere.

 

[perryman]

I reckon he'd be first checking out Johnny Cash's new motor, so I say Detroit.