The Big LBR Non Google Trivia Quiz

[Guest sustra]

Pacific ocean...out of the Philippines

[bumblebee]

Pacific ocean...out of the Philippines

You got it in one Sustra.

[pacman]

Which King was considered a giant in his time. His life size statue sees him measured at 6' 3". There are even some reports of him being 6' 7".

 

And here's a hint - today's Prince William is a direct descendant of one of his bastard children.

 

And the answer is   -   William of Seward. Just kidding, a little joke for JaiDee. Very little joke, sorry.

 

It's Charles II. And his great height proved to be a challenge for his loyal men then they were smuggling him out of England to France. That he came back to claim the throne is another of those stories I love.

 

You got it in one Sustra.

 

I knew that one but I guess most here did. The deepest point in the ocean comes up in quizzes regularly. And it's where James Cameron went in a mini sub. That took some balls, one slip up & he could never have returned to the surface.

[bumblebee]

Chennai in south east India was formally known by what name?

[pdogg]

Chennai in south east India was formally known by what name?

while we're pondering this hot place, here's some cold questions

is the latitude of the Arctic Circle fixed?

If not, is the change due to global warming?

[Guest sustra]

not fixed as the inclination of the axis and rotation of the earth change it continuously...nothing to do with Ozone Hole and global warming ( when in abstinence  in my city we say "i am so horny that  i would fuck even the ozone hole " )

Tamil Sandokan's brother used to stay near Madras to fight the British India Company

[bumblebee]

Looks like you are on fire just now Sustra.

Here is one that should favour members from Britain and Ireland.   What sports record did Terry Wogan hold from 1981 to 2012?

[globetrotter]

Chennai in south east India was formally known by what name?

Madras

[JaiDee]

What was/is Zbigniew Brzezinski?

[pacman]

He was the Secretary for Defence if I'm not mistaken. I think he was there during Reagan's time.

 

Edit: I think he was there later than Reagan.

[pdogg]

What was/is Zbigniew Brzezinski?

Think he was Jimmy Carter's National Security adviser, though that many not be the correct term.

 

Same role as Kissinger had for Tricky Dick before Kissinger became Secretary of State.

[JaiDee]

Think he was Jimmy Carter's National Security adviser

 

Yes!

 

Daughter now works for MSNBC as a morning news anchor.

[JaiDee]

  OK, same era......but back to Cambodia

 

   Name the leader who overthrew King Sihanouk;  we supported him in the 70's and throughout the Cambodian civil war.

 

   2 hints;  We shipped him off to Hawaii when the Khmer Rouge came marching into Phnom Penh in 1975.

                 His name is a palindrome.

[pdogg]

 

                 His name is a palindrome.

I'll take Palindromes for 200 Alex

 

Who is Lon Nol?

 

Name the two southernmost countries that are entirely below the Tropic of Capricorn?

[pacman]

Think he was Jimmy Carter's National Security adviser, though that many not be the correct term.

 

National Security Advisor! Of course, I should have thought about it a bit longer.

 

Name the two southernmost countries that are entirely below the Tropic of Capricorn?

 

One of them must be New Zealand. Of the other two possibilities, South Africa & Chile, I pick Chile. I'm sure SA is extends too far north.

[pdogg]

National Security Advisor! Of course, I should have thought about it a bit longer.

 

 

One of them must be New Zealand. Of the other two possibilities, South Africa & Chile, I pick Chile. I'm sure SA is extends too far north.

New Zealand is correctomundo!

 

Still looking for the other.

[bumblebee]

Looks like you are on fire just now Sustra.

Here is one that should favour members from Britain and Ireland.   What sports record did Terry Wogan hold from 1981 to 2012?

Think this may have gone under the radar, any takers?

[pdogg]

Think this may have gone under the radar, any takers?

Most consecutive rugby matches, just a wild guess?

[JaiDee]

For BB's question I will say Bowling?

 

For P Dogg's  I will say; Fiji?

 

      For you guys still into late 70's trivia;  who was John Simon Ritchie?

[pacman]

New Zealand is correctomundo!

 

Still looking for the other.

 

Is it the small country inside South Africa where Sun City has been built? I think its called Lesotho.

[pdogg]

For BB's question I will say Bowling?

 

For P Dogg's  I will say; Fiji?

 

      For you guys still into late 70's trivia;  who was John Simon Ritchie?

Lionel?

Fiji is not below the T of C.

Lesotho is one of four countries entirely below the T of C but not one of the two most southern.

[JaiDee]

Lionel?

 

 

   Nope, not Lionel.....if Rte67 sees this he will know for sure.

[pacman]

Lesotho is one of four countries entirely below the T of C but not of the two most southern.

 

Mauritius?

 

Surely Argentina isn't the other? I don't think it can be Madagascar. Hmm, good question.

[pacman]

Think this may have gone under the radar, any takers?

 

Was it billiards or snooker? He wasn't a youngster in 81, he couldn't have been running around a sports field.

[JaiDee]

Surely Argentina isn't the other?

 

  I only thought of Argentina because of the Falklands and South Georgia Island, all well below the TOC, but a large portion  of Argentina is above it.