General knowledge thread

Tree

longshanks wrote: »

an extinct one located in a polar region?

on a moon around neptune?

Blisterman

New question.

Who is the most capped player for the Barbarians Rugby team?

patmac

Gareth Edwards?

Capt'n Midnight

Tree wrote: »

on a moon around neptune?

Correct

keano_afc

Blisterman wrote: »

New question.

Who is the most capped player for the Barbarians Rugby team?

AJF O'Reilly.

Blisterman

Correct. Your question.

keano_afc

What is the Tribeca district in New York short for?

RuggieBear

triangle between something

keano_afc

RuggieBear wrote: »

triangle between something

Close. You have the triangle part correct.

stevejazzx

it's in manhattan no...?

stevejazzx

stevejazzx wrote: »

it's in manhattan no...?

edit: ok i've read the question now..it's triangle beside the canal or something like that...I tihink..I'll have to google it now..it's bugging me

keano_afc

Ok close enough. Its triangle beneath canal st. Post a question so.

Blisterman

New question.
On the London Underground. What line is coloured brown on the maps?

Capt'n Midnight

Hammersmith ?

Tree

bakerloo?

Capt'n Midnight

Tree wrote: »

bakerloo?

feck arse - that's the one I was thinking about (even if it's wrong)

Tree

for some reason im thinking hammersmith is either on bakerloo or victoria but not a stop in itslef.


What is the favourite plant of the silk worm?

Capt'n Midnight

it probably is , rally annoying that I can't remember the line cos I can see the map in my minds eye
ah well we'll find out soon enough

Capt'n Midnight

mulberry

Tree

\o/ for you being right, after gorging themselves senseless on mulberry leaves and making a nice coocoon, the unfortunates taht are to be made into silk are baked in an oven and the cocoons carefully unwound.

Capt'n Midnight

could have sworn that they boiled the poor blighters alive

The US have the V-22 Osprey

With its first flight in 1989, the V-22 has been in development for more than 25 years and despite having consumed $20 billion the Osprey program will require another $35 billion in investments from the Pentagon before the program is finished.[11] A total of 458 V-22s are expected to be built for the Marines, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy at an average unit cost of $110 million per aircraft.[

not only is it expensive it also has the nasty habit of falling out of the sky

But half a century ago the Brits had a machine with similar capabilities, it didn't go ahead because the government didn't want to invest a few million pounds.

what was that aircraft ?

Orion

Are you talking about the Hawker?

and on a point of order re: the brown line in the underground -

The Bakerloo line is brown and the Hammersmith line is pink

. (I looked it up tbh seeing as the question had been lost )


[edit]scratch that answer - Hawker was manufacturer not a plane - can't remember the name of the plane that was dumped but think it was them - and I'm not thinking of the Harrier.

Capt'n Midnight

No it wasn't Hawker, but it was another fairly innovative company

Blisterman

Who designed the Bank of Ireland building on Baggot Street?

keano_afc

James Gandon?

Blisterman

No. Try again.

keano_afc

I was thinking of something completely different. I believe it was Ronald Tallon.

Blisterman

Correct. Your question.

keano_afc

Who did Alan White replace as drummer in Oasis?

Blisterman

New Question


What is the only country in the world, whose name begins with A, that doesn't end in A?