General Knowledge

[Sweetpea]

ONE ANSWER PER DAY PLEASE

1. Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger
to the Gods? - Mercury - Kels97

2. Which Shropshire town is named after the civil engineer who built
viaducts, roads and bridges in the area? - Telford - Kels97

3. The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was visiting which country in 1908,
when she was presented with a fruit and cream merangue in her name? - New Zealand -Kels97

4. Which subatomic particle is named after the Greek for "first"? - Proton - Poppy

5. Named after four renaissance painters, what are the four names of the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? - Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello. - Hekna

6. Which town in Yorkshire has liquorice based sweets named after it? - Pontefract Cake - Jaysay

7.The Phillipines were named after which Philip II, king of which country? - Prince Philip of Spain - Jasay

8. What is the full name of the owner of the company AMSTRAD? - Alan Michael Sugar - Terrywit

9. Volgograd, a Russian city on the river Volga, was known until 1961 as - Stalingrad - Poppy
what name?

10. Dame Nellie Melba the Australian soprano was ill in the London Savoy
in 1893, and would only eat one thing that was later named in her

honour. What was this? - Peach Melba - Bruv2

[jaysay]

6 Pontifract (don't know if thats spelt right)

[poppy]

9, Stalingrad

[terrywit]

8. Alan Micheal Sugar

[Kels97]

1. Would that be Mercury by any chance?

[Sweetpea]

Well, that was made for you wasn't it?

[Kels97]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Well, that was made for you wasn't it?

Well, if I didnt know that, I'd need to be cgu

[Bruv]

10. Peach Melba

[Sweetpea]

Close enough. Bruv, can I knock the 2 off your name please?

[Hekna]

5 - not sure about the spelling, but Michalangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello.