General Knowledge Quiz Round 7
 

Here's another one folks! See how long this one lasts!

1. When did China adopt the Gregorian calendar?
Tinkerbelle - 1949

2. What date is Sravana?
Ernie 23rd July

3. How many pencils would the carbon make in your body make on average?
Tinkerbelle - 900 approx

4. What was the world’s smallest aircraft – by the way it crash landed in 1988?
Tinkerbelle Bumble Bee Two

5. How many zero’s does a novemdecillion have?
Tinkerbelle 114

6. How many prime numbers are there under 1000
Rishton Blue 168

7. What is the heaviest element known?
Tinkerbelle Osmium

8. And how much would a football weigh if it was made out of that element?
Tinkerbelle - 126kg

9. Which common garden vegetable plant contains the poison solanine?
Gayle Potato

10. What does an anemometer measure?
KSH Wind Speed

11. Where is The Gherkin?
London Garinda


12. Why was Samuel James Seymour – who died on 13 April 1956 – famous?
KSH The last surviving witness to Abraham Lincoln's assasination

13. What year was the last public hanging in the UK?
Tinkerbelle 1868
14. Who was it that was hung?
Tinkerbelle Micheal Barrett

15. Who made their first comic strip appearance on 8 November 1920?
Rishton Blue - Rupert Bear

16. What colour of skin did the Incredible Hulk have in April 1962?
John Timmins - Grey

17. What is the oldest British weekly paper called?
Tinkerbelle - The Lancet

18. What are a birds feathers made out of ?
Neil Keratin

19. Which anniversary is your Platinum?
Steeljack 70th

20. What does the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution say that a President can do?
Neil Only serve 2 terms

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11/London.
17/ The Observer.

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You are right with Number 11 - it is in London

You are wrong with Number 17

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13. 1868
14. Micheal Barrat

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19...10th.......

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15..popeye The Sailor Man

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Wrong Granny Claret for both of them Sorry!!

Tinks you are right for both of them - them A level Law books come in handy! lol

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Hmm thought it would be a long time since I got those out again :rolleyes: do you want to know any other ones that were hanged while I'm here ..... like Francis Kidder being the last female and Dereck Bentleys miscarriage of justice !! lol

No 4. Bumble Bee II

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Yes you are right tinks

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19/ 70 yrs

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9 - Deadly Nightshade

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20 - I have 2 possible answers for this one.

Is it a) the President can pleasure inturns with cigars ;)

or b) the President can only hold office for 2 terms

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18 - the same stuff hair and nails are made of, Keratin

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9. Potato


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Opps I missed the little word vegetable when I read the question :o