General knowledge quiz

[wellinghall]

Literature
1. Who has the middle name "Wilberforce"?
2. Who lives at Whitehaven Mansions?
3. Give evidence for talking insects in Middle-earth.
4. When did Lord Peter Wimsey meet Sherlock Holmes?
5. Which cat can talk?

Music
6. What is life?
7. Which school did Genesis originate from?
8. Which band does Roger Taylor play drums for?
9. Which band does Roger Taylor play drums for?
10. Connect 10CC, Pearl Jam and The Lovin' Spoonful.

Film
11. Where did the eagle land?
12. And where did eagles dare?
13. How long was the bridge over the River Kwai?
14. What played itself in the Battle of the River Plate?
15. Who was ill the day the earth stood still?

Marks will be given for fun, style and elegance, as well as accuracy. Good marks mean virtual chocolate; very good marks mean real chocolate (or beer).

Comments

Briefly as I dash...

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

1. Bertram Wooster.
2. M Hercule Poirot
3. None that I know of: spiders are arachnids.
4. Not in canon, although Holmes almost certainly appears in Fr Brown's career.
5. Tobermory, of course.

And all I know abt Genesis is that its first drummer had the good sense to quit and now lives in Spain, where he writes about being an ex-pat in Spain, and quite well, too.

Re: Briefly as I dash...

[skordh.livejournal.com]

3. Well spiders are arachnids but I'm not sure Tolkien (or Bilbo) stuck to that line, I think they are referred to as insects in The Hobbit.

Re: Briefly as I dash...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oops - I missed you out! 1 point.

Re: Briefly as I dash...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

8 points, I think.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I just commented to lil_shepherd that the answer to Q10 was, perhaps, a bit risky (or risque) for a family blog.

Then I had to explain why.

Am wondering how anyone could have reached our age without knowing the average amount of male ejaculate and its commemoration in various rock bands, but I guess I'm just a Dirty Old Broad.

Wanders down to study to look up all the other answers.

Oh yes, and 13. According to IMDB, 161 minutes.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

4 points.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I just thought I'd tell you that I now have a Rocky Horror earworm. Thank you so very much :-).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My pleasure :-)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I actually know some of these.
Literature
1. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster.
2. Don't know.
3. Since you say "give evidence" that suggests it is obscure, which suggests that you aren't confusing insects with spiders. I also assume that the moth ex machina in the Two Towers film doesn't count. I am going for an obscure, possibly slightly cutesy line (or alternatively possibly very sinister line) in the Hobbit. Or that since foxes, spiders, birds and a dog can talk, why shouldn't insects, too?
4. On the radio, in a short story penned by Sayers in which Wimsey recounts a tale of a childhood encounter when his young self consulted the Great Detective over the missing nursery kitten. Available in various places online, and officially in "Sayers on Holmes".
5. In literature it is more surprising when they don't.

Books
6. Full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
7. the University of Life. Or possibly the other way round.
8/9/10. I can't even go for style and elegance with these.

Films
11. On the moon. Yes, I know that's not the answer.
12. No idea, but it was filmed at Werfen.
13. As long as it needed to be.
14. The River Plate.
15. Again, cannot even try to be funny on this one.

Better than my last attempt, certainly.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

12 points, I think.

[segh.livejournal.com]

Everyone else has got the ones I know, but did you know there's also a really good talking cat in Diana Wynne Jones' Minor Arcana?
And Orlando, of course.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

2 points.

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Missing out the ones answered correctly by others and thereby avoiding looking a complete twonk when I would have got them wrong...

5) There ae legion, for example the Ghatti in Gayle Greeno's Mindspeaker's Tale. Also, Melchett when he's hungry.
6) 42
7) Primary school.
11) Cairngorm, the last time I saw a golden eagle in the UK.
12) Scloss Adler if memory serves.
13) _The_ bridge isn't over the River Kwai. Trust me - I've walked across it. For all other Kwai-based bridges, they are of a length equal to the Kwai plus a positive number.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

7 points.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

7. Charterhouse.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

2 points.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

3. Err...the neekerbreekers 'saying' "neek breek neek breek"?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And another point.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

8 or 9. Queen.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And another.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

14. Well presumably it wasn't the Graf Spee, so I'll guess at one of the RN ships. Couldn't say which one though (or remember which ships were involved - I remember writing an essay on this battle for my history GCSE though).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And another, making five altogether.