Friday afternoon quiz

[Brighton Breezy]

Answers at the end of the day:

SPORT:

Which country has won the most gold medals in the 2004 Olympics so far?

Which football player is transferring from Real Madrid to Liverpool?

Which country beat England at Hockey in Athens?

Which Birmingham football player has been withdrawn from the England Squad due to an injury?

Which Australian swimmer broke the 100 meters free-style world record this week?

Who won Britain's first gold medal in the Olympics this week?

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SHOW BIZ:

Which Rolling Stones star is being treated for throat cancer?

Which Hollywood star died during the making of the 1994 film, The Crow?

Who directed the new Thunderbirds Film?

Which Hollywood film released in 1998 broke box office records and became the most
Expensive film ever made?

Who played Special Agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal?

What year did Elvis Presley Die?

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:

How long is the UK?

What is the world's tallest structure?

Which flags make up the Union Jack?

In Computer language what does R A M stand for?

What is the longest river in Europe?

How many States make up the U.S?

What year was the miners strike in the UK?

What year did the Titanic sink?

 

[Barnet Seagull]

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Anyone answering these? Needs to be in by just after 3.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

 

[Braders]

SPORT:

Which country has won the most gold medals in the 2004 Olympics so far? USA

Which football player is transferring from Real Madrid to Liverpool?
EDIT-not a clue
Which country beat England at Hockey in Athens?
korea
Which Birmingham football player has been withdrawn from the England Squad due to an injury?
matthew upson
Which Australian swimmer broke the 100 meters free-style world record this week?
ian thorpe
Who won Britain's first gold medal in the Olympics this week?
we've won a gold medal

not watched much telly this week

 

[Hiney]

SPORT:

Which football player is transferring from Real Madrid to Liverpool?
micheal owen

Bloody hell, that was quick

 

[The Large One]

Which country beat England at Hockey in Athens?

England aren't in it. It's Great Britain.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:

How long is the UK?

What is the world's tallest structure?

Which flags make up the Union Jack?

In Computer language what does R A M stand for?

What is the longest river in Europe?

How many States make up the U.S?

What year was the miners strike in the UK?

What year did the Titanic sink?

1. About 12,000 years
2. Man made or natural?
3. Three
4. Random Access Memory
5. Western Europe? Rhine
6. 50
7. 1984-85
8. 1912

SHOW BIZ:

Which Rolling Stones star is being treated for throat cancer?

Which Hollywood star died during the making of the 1994 film, The Crow?

Who directed the new Thunderbirds Film?

Which Hollywood film released in 1998 broke box office records and became the most
Expensive film ever made?

Who played Special Agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal?

What year did Elvis Presley Die?

1. Charlie Watts
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. 1977

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

7. 1984-85

Have people forgotten 1972 and 1974?

The 1974 strike brought down the Heath government.

Marvellous scenes - except when it got dark and the electricity was cut off.



And - as my grandad used to say regularly - REMEMBER 1926 !

 

[London Irish]

2 Brandon Lee

 

[The Large One]

Re: Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

And - as my grandad used to say regularly - REMEMBER 1926 !

Wasn't that the General Strike, not just the miners?

 

[Blackadder]

Answers at the end of the day:

SPORT:

Which country has won the most gold medals in the 2004 Olympics so far?

CHINA

Which football player is transferring from Real Madrid to Liverpool?

NUNEZ


Which country beat England at Hockey in Athens?

SOUTH KOREA

Which Birmingham football player has been withdrawn from the England Squad due to an injury?

UPSON?

Which Australian swimmer broke the 100 meters free-style world record this week?

ROLF HARRIS

Who won Britain's first gold medal in the Olympics this week?

THREE SAILING TOTTY
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SHOW BIZ:

Which Rolling Stones star is being treated for throat cancer?

CHARLIE WATTS
Which Hollywood star died during the making of the 1994 film, The Crow?

BRANDON LEE

Who directed the new Thunderbirds Film?

FG


Which Hollywood film released in 1998 broke box office records and became the most
Expensive film ever made?


WATER WORLD

Who played Special Agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal?

JODIE FOSTER?

What year did Elvis Presley Die?

1977
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:

How long is the UK?

850 MILES?

What is the world's tallest structure?

CN TOWER

Which flags make up the Union Jack?

ST GEORGE
ST DAVID
ST ANDREW
ST PATRICK?

In Computer language what does R A M stand for?

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

What is the longest river in Europe?

DANUBE?

How many States make up the U.S?

50

What year was the miners strike in the UK?

1984/5

What year did the Titanic sink?

1912

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

Wasn't that the General Strike, not just the miners?

Not really. The General Strike was called by the TUC in support of the miners, but the miners' dispute started before the General Strike was called.

1926 was the last time the miners went on strike until 1972.

 

[Blackadder]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

1926 was the last time the miners went on strike until 1972.

Ah yes, 1972 - the three day week.

The first time that football was played on a Sunday!

 

[aftershavedave]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

1926 was the last time the miners went on strike until 1972.

bloody long strike that

 

[Eastleigh Seagull]

Birmingham footballer was Heskey

Tallest building is in Taipei, Taiwan now.

Hockey team could also have been Spain.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Sport:
1.USA with 14
2. Nunez
3.Spain
4. Emile Heskey
5. Dont know - I didnt get this one
6. Shirley Robertson

Show Biz:

1.Charlie Watts
2.Brandon Lee
3.John Frakes
4.Titanic - I didnt get this one
5.Julianne Moore. - I didnt get this one
6. 1977

General Knowledge
1. 1000 kilometres
2.C N Tower - I didnt get this one.
3. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
4. Random Access Memory
5. The Volga
6. 50 States
7. 1984-85
8. 1912

 

[m20gull]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

.

1926 was the last time the miners went on strike until 1972.

Apart from 1944?

 

[Eastleigh Seagull]

CN Tower is now wrong - promise you - I went in the building in Taiwan and it is fricking tall

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

CN Tower is now wrong - promise you - I went in the building in Taiwan and it is fricking tall

I thought it was the Petronas Towers in Malaysia anyway

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Friday afternoon quiz

Apart from 1944?

Indeed. Although it wasn't a national strike.

In 1944 the government was faced with a coal crisis. Coal was absolutely fundamental to the production demands of the war economy, and on top of this, plans were well under way for the opening of the Second Front in Europe, which also required vast amounts of home produced coal. Yet these extra demands were not received warmly by the miners when their demand for a minimum wage was met with a compromise deal falling far short of what they had expected. The 'Porter pay award' as it was known aroused massive anger in the pits. Within 24 hours of its announcement almost every single pit in South Wales and Lancashire was idle. These were soon joined by pits in Kent, Yorkshire, Durham and Scotland. Just when it needed coal most, the government had provoked the biggest single mining dispute since the 1926 General Strike with more than 180,000 miners stopping work.

The government claimed that the miners had been duped by a Trotskyist conspiracy which would only aid Hitler. As far as Ernest Bevin, the minister of labour, was concerned, the strikes in the pits were 'worse than if Hitler had bombed Sheffield and all of our communications had been cut.' The TUC said that the miners had 'struck a blow in the back of their comrades fighting in the armed forces'. Yet there was massive public support for the miners.

At the same time as they were making huge profits out of coal production for the 'war effort', the coal owners were directing work into shaly seams which would not have been profitable in peacetime, and oversaw a decline in safety standards which by 1944 meant that you had more chance of being injured as a miner than if you were fighting in the armed forces!

Such profiteering put the issue of coal nationalisation onto the political agenda, and it was this which was the central aim of a dispute which marked the high point of industrial militancy during the war: the Tyneside apprentices' strike.

The government needed coal desperately, and with miners out indefinitely it put greater emphasis on the Bevin Ballot Scheme, a measure which aimed to conscript 10 percent of all apprentices to the coalface to increase production. This was one of the most unpopular measures of the entire war and nowhere was it met with more opposition than on the Tyne. The apprentices were bitter about being made to pay for a coal crisis which was not of their making.

After three or four years working for a pittance in the hope of becoming skilled workers, the apprentices were being directed to the pits with no guarantee that they could resume their trade when the war was over. In the absence of any official trade union support they formed their own organisation, the Tyne Apprentices' Guild, which became, in the words of one of its members, 'the government of the apprentices, by the apprentices, for the apprentices'. Then they set about preparing to take on the government, linking up with apprentices in other areas and securing the support of their fathers, brothers and workmates in their firms.

In March 1944 they gave notice of strike action unless their demands for nationalisation of the mines and for exemption from 'the pit compulsion plot' were met. When no reply came, they were itching for a fight. 'Bevin won't climb down, so we'll pull him down,' was the battle cry of one of them. So at the end of March 26,000 apprentices, on the Tyne and then in Glasgow, Huddersfield and Teesside, came out in direct conflict with the government, against the Bevin Ballot Scheme and in support of the call for nationalisation of the mines.

The apprentices' strike only lasted two weeks and--while no Tyneside apprentice was directed to the pits--it did not achieve its immediate demands. Nonetheless, it was the culmination of a process of rank and file recovery which saw workers advance from the defence of pay and conditions to unofficial, illegal action which directly challenged the political authority of the government.

It was little wonder then--after such a wave of working class revolt--that the 1945 Labour government embarked on the most systematic reform programme in British history in an effort to stem that tide of anger mixed with high expectations.