General knowledge Q&A. Have a go at answering before you google!

[Marc]

Still not right huh?

Did Rupert Brooke also marry a lesbian to provide her with a 'beard'?

[Richard]

Rupert Brooke is buried in some corner of a foreign field, and Jeffrey Archer's output should be?

[Marc]

they both lied about their sporting achievements?

[B J]

I think I'll give the answer before Rupert Brooke suffers any further.
He lived for a while at The Old Vicarage, Grantchester and that is the title of one of his best known poems.
It is now the home of Jeffrey & Mary Archer. She has written two books about the house.

[Marc]

Oh, a tad anti-climactic! :-)

[B J]

What is the connection between Bombay, snowshoe and ragdoll?

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

Ooh, I know this one I think...but for now I'll just say Desley might get this.

[B J]

Quite right, Vanessa. I was expecting Desley to jump in with the answer. I didn't know it, but several people in last night's quiz were less ignorant.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Must be types of cat. I know a ragdoll is.

[Richard]

B J wrote: "What is the connection between Bombay, snowshoe and ragdoll?"

They're all things Richard Burton says into a radio after parachuting behind German lines.

Okay, maybe not.

[B J]

Good guess, Richard, but GL is right - they're all breeds of cats.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

B J wrote: "Quite right, Vanessa. I was expecting Desley to jump in with the answer. I didn't know it, but several people in last night's quiz were less ignorant."

I've only just seen this, but I did know the answer

[B J]

I was sure you would, Desley. I didn't - but I've now seen some very pretty pictures of all three on the internet.

[Richard]

As it's a quiet afternoon, here's one for the too-smart-to-Google brigade to have a go at: What happened in 1849, again in 1936, and will happen next time in 2025?

(Warning: if you don't already know this one, you may well be annoyed by the answer.)

[Patti (baconater)]

A comet?

Something spacey, I expect.

[Richard]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "A comet?

Something spacey, I expect."

It really should be, but isn't. Hence the annoyance.

[Tim]

Mu numbers came up in the lotto?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

A politician told the truth?

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh I got it!

It's when Travelodges wash the bedspreads.

[Richard]

Richard wrote: "What happened in 1849, again in 1936, and will happen next time in 2025?"

No further takers for this one?

[Anna]

Oh go on, tell us...please...

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh. I wasn't correct then?

[Richard]

Okay, but first off, I need to stress that I didn’t make this up myself, so I cannot be held wholly responsible. It was an icebreaker question for a pointless management training session I attended many moons back. That being understood, the answer is:

*ahem*

The square root of the year is a whole number
(43, 44 and 45, respectively)

As I recall, we stoned the guy facilitating that training session.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

After that, I hope you got pie.

[Patti (baconater)]

Maths.

*spit*

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Hey Patti, did you hear about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with a pencil!

[Patti (baconater)]

Hey, Gaff. You spent way too much time with male teenagers.

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Probably ...

[Richard]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Maths.

*spit*"

I’m do apologise, Patti. By way of amends, here’s an alternative, Only Connect-inspired effort requiring minimal mathematical prowess. What come 4th in this sequence:

1. Chancellor (a football)
2. Air Chief Marshall (a pair of golf balls)
3. Security Services Chief (a pair of ping pong balls)
4. ...?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Prime Minister (a balloon)

[Anita]

Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "Prime Minister (a balloon)"

A deflated balloon ?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I was more thinking full of hot air :)

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm with Rosemary.

[Richard]

To put it another way, the first person has one ball. The next two have two little ones each. Somewhere in the background, a bunch of POWs are whistling a Burmese bridge-building tune. So how many balls has the 4th person in this particular line-up got?

[Tim]

No balls at all.

[Patti (baconater)]

So it's Thatcher?

She had bigger balls than any man.

[Richard]

Tim wrote: "No balls at all."

Thank god there's still some willing and able to preserve our cultural heritage.

[Richard]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "So it's Thatcher?

She had bigger balls than any man."

I know, but it's generally considered bad form to wear a necklace of them.

[Patti (baconater)]

There's my jewellery back to the vault, then.

[S.]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Okay, I'll start it off.

Why is a pound (British money) called a pound?"

Because it sounds British to say pound rather than kilo.

[S.]

Pete wrote: "Alright, seriously now. Re. Q at message 16, what was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name?"

'Lightyear'