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Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Iranu

SnookerEd25 wrote:Dogging?

Bet they came down hard on that :chin:

That’s down to personal preference I believe.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

Illegal Horse trading?

Akin in those days to ‘selling dodgy motors’ I would imagine…

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Iranu

SnookerEd25 wrote:Illegal Horse trading?

Akin in those days to ‘selling dodgy motors’ I would imagine…

Combine that animal with your previous guess.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Iranu

Prop wrote:Illegal dog trading? Either that, or dogging on horseback :shrug:

Correction: Ed’s previous serious answer aka his first answer.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Iranu

Prop wrote:Stealing a horse?

That’s the one!

Although I think it was actually more than one in the end. If I remember right it was three horses that the owner tracked down. Might be wrong.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

What substance is defined in chemistry as the salt of a fatty acid, evidence of it's manufacture by humans dates back to at least the third millennium BCE in Babylonia?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

Identify the types of ‘acid’ associated with the following:

The Haçienda
Air pollution
Albert Hofmann
Conclusive examination

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

HappyCamper wrote:house
rain
tab
test


Correct! I would have accepted lysergic for the third, but we’re clearly on the same page.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

And easy one. The Haçienda night club was owned and operated by which Manchester based record label?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

HappyCamper wrote:
Prop wrote:Factory.


correct. now a bunch of flats.


Block of flats, we say. <ok>

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

According to an article from 2018 I found with Google, the largest factory in Europe is the Wolfsburg Plant.

With which brand is it associated?