Question of the day

[JonW]

Yay!

1) New Zealand - Correct (JonW)
2) Brazil - Correct (JonW)
3) Norway - Correct (JonW)
4) Portugal - Correct (Navcorr)
5) Bahrain - But I will give it to BennyD for Quatar and MrCambio for Qatar, since on-screen colours can be ambiguous
6) Bhutan - Correct (spkennyuk)
7) Algeria - Correct (spkennyuk)
8) Zimbabwe - Correct (JonW)
9) Slovenia - Correct (BennyD) - I'm impressed; that one is hard
10) South Korea - Correct (JonW)

I think we have to give it to JonW for getting 5 out of 10 right.

Thanks - but I'm about to go on holiday this evening for a couple of weeks, so I'll pass to either BennyD or SPK...

 

[spkennyuk]

BennyD your turn in the hot seat.

 

[BennyD]

SPK, sorry mate, can you take the hot seat as I'm getting ready to bugger off around Europe for the best part of the next 3 weeks. I've still got to load the car and pack my bags and I'm too frazzled to think of trivia questions! Cheers fella.

 

[MarkMas]

Well, I guess that's the end of this thread, then.

 

[midlifecrisis]

I'll jump in with a killer that should keep you googling to the cows come home....

What links the following years...

1962, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979 (twice), 1980 (twice but for different a reason), 1982, 1998, 2000.

 

[MarkMas]

Well, it's been 5 minutes - how about a clue?

 

[spkennyuk]

Well, I guess that's the end of this thread, then.

Not at all the thread will go on for as long as the forum does.

My question was going to be. When was the last person executed in France by guillotine ?

Mlc has jumped in with a question so run with that one instead.

 

[MarkMas]

My question was going to be. When was the last person executed in France by guillotine ?

I like the system of having two questions running in parallel.

I have a notion that the last person executed in France by guillotine was a woman. Can that be right? Maybe a WWI spy?

 

[Navcorr]

I like the system of having two questions running in parallel.

I have a notion that the last person executed in France by guillotine was a woman. Can that be right? Maybe a WWI spy?

It was much later - don't know the name but it was in Marseilles in the 70s. A friend there told me they are quite proud of it. Shame they couldn't do some of the cat sized rats too

No idea on the "official" QoD though.

 

[CatmanV2]

It was much later - don't know the name but it was in Marseilles in the 70s. A friend there told me they are quite proud of it. Shame they couldn't do some of the cat sized rats too

Yes I thought it was remarkably recent. The 70s sounds about right

C

 

[spkennyuk]

I like the system of having two questions running in parallel.

I have a notion that the last person executed in France by guillotine was a woman. Can that be right? Maybe a WWI spy?

No it was a bloke convicted of murder. Navcor is on the right track. Late 1977 was the last time the national razor was used.

The guillotine was still available as a punishment option until 1981.

Possibly Bennyd's favourite invention. The origins of which go back to Halifax Yorkshire.

 

[spkennyuk]

Strange to think we were watching star wars and playing computer games yet still using the guillotine.

I have no idea on MLC's question. It could be anything or multiple answers could fit.

Are they the release dates of Alfa Romeos must succeed cars ?

Are we talking cars, sports, music, world events, records broken, political events ?

I think we may need a clue.

 

[midlifecrisis]

I'll let it run for a bit before I give you a clue.

 

[MarkMas]

What links the following years... 1962, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979 (twice), 1980 (twice but for different a reason), 1982, 1998, 2000.

Launches of the US Space Program where one of the astronauts had a 'G' in their name?

 

[MarkMas]

What links the following years... 1962, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979 (twice), 1980 (twice but for different a reason), 1982, 1998, 2000.

Years in which British Leyland had a profitable quarter?

 

[MarkMas]

I'll jump in with a killer that should keep you googling to the cows come home....1962, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979 (twice), 1980 (twice but for different a reason), 1982, 1998, 2000.

Years in which the guillotine was used somewhere other than France?

 

[Navcorr]

Years in which British Leyland had a profitable quarter?

Who said:

"Another car strike. Marvellous, isn't it? The taxpayers pay them millions each year so they can go on strike. It's called socialism. If they don't like making cars, why don't they get themselves another b*oody job - designing cathedrals or composing violin concertos. That's it! The British Leyland Concerto - in four movements, all of them slow, with a four-hour tea-break in between."

 

[2b1ask1]

Who said:

"Another car strike. Marvellous, isn't it? The taxpayers pay them millions each year so they can go on strike. It's called socialism. If they don't like making cars, why don't they get themselves another b*oody job - designing cathedrals or composing violin concertos. That's it! The British Leyland Concerto - in four movements, all of them slow, with a four-hour tea-break in between."

Jasper Carrot?

 

[spkennyuk]

I'll jump in with a killer that should keep you googling to the cows come home....

What links the following years...

1962, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979 (twice), 1980 (twice but for different a reason), 1982, 1998, 2000.

All years Jimmy Saville almost got caught ? Possibly true but not the answer your looking for.

 

[Navcorr]

Jasper Carrot?

That's not a bad guess - being from the Black Country.
Basil Fawlty - best to name him before this turns into another alternative question.
Kipper & The Corpse - brilliant.



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