General knowledge thread

roadruner wrote: »

I give up what is it?

Its not that hard, ok heres a give away,

2001 A space odyssey is based on a blank blank by Arthur C Clarke.

Those blanks are the answer to the original question!!!

Sherifu

Short story?

Sherifu wrote: »

Short story?

Correct!:) They were all based on Short Stories!

Ado86

The sartorius muscle on the inside of the thigh is named after what type of person ?

A tailor?

Q. What is bombay duck?

fiiiiisssssssssssh (fish)

Tis fishies alrite!!:p

what is the chemical element associated w/ the pungent smell of garlic and onions? (poisoning by this element will leave you w/ garlic breath btw)

Sherifu

Tree wrote: »

what is the chemical element associated w/ the pungent smell of garlic and onions? (poisoning by this element will leave you w/ garlic breath btw)

Sulphur?

Capt'n Midnight

mercaptans smell bad C-C-S-H

but sulphur isn't posionous so it would have to Selenium then which smells just as bad

even worse than selenium, beleive it or not.

Capt'n Midnight

In that case hydrogen sulphide H-S, but it smells of rotten eggs

IIRC it's more posionous than cyanide but you smell it long before

tis an element. not likely to get enough of it to kill yerself w/

MB74

Okay Tree I think you need to put us out of our misery and get this thread back on the road.

Name all the Baldwin brothers in the order they were born, I'll start it off for you......Alec is the oldest.

Daniel, William, Stephen

Q. Name the actor who said this line "The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls!"

patmac

kerash wrote: »

Daniel, William, Stephen

Q. Name the actor who said this line "The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls!"

Charlton Heston, seems like something he would have said or Ronnie Reagan, or Clint Eastwood.

kerash wrote: »

Q. Name the actor who said this line "The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls!"

Walter Matthau?

patmac wrote: »

Charlton Heston, seems like something he would have said or Ronnie Reagan, or Clint Eastwood.

No, but i could imagine Heston sayin the likes allright!

Skellington wrote: »

Walter Matthau?

Yes, in JFK:)

Where does the painting, The Last Supper hang?

GhostInTheRuins

It doesn't hang, it's a fresco.

My bad.

The painting 'The Last Supper' is located on the wall of which building?

Capt'n Midnight

city hall in Florence (wild guess)

Tellurium

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

city hall in Florence (wild guess)

Sorry Capt'n, nope.

keano_afc

The santa maria della Gratzie or something like that.

Something like that.
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.