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Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

Cheers. I’ve got a hammer, just needed that for the set :chuckle:

Who played Nikita Kruschev in Armando Ianucci’s (highly recommended, by the way) 2017 film ‘the Death of Stalin’?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?

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Postby Prop

HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?


Partridge?

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Postby HappyCamper

Prop wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?


Partridge?


Correct, Alan Partridge. Most recently seen on the From the Oasthouse podcast from the Audible platform.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

HappyCamper wrote:
Prop wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?


Partridge?


Correct, Alan Partridge. Most recently seen on the From the Oasthouse podcast from the Audible platform.


Ahhaaa!

Ok. Which seasonal and forbidden fruit of the northern hemisphere has a latin name roughly translating as ‘spear-like’ and a modern western name that could also describe headgear?

(Slightly cryptic question)

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

Prop wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:
Prop wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?


Partridge?


Correct, Alan Partridge. Most recently seen on the From the Oasthouse podcast from the Audible platform.


Ahhaaa!

Ok. Which seasonal and forbidden fruit of the northern hemisphere has a latin name roughly translating as ‘spear-like’ and a modern western name that could also describe headgear?

(Slightly cryptic question)


Er ... hatfruit? (nae idea :hmmm:)

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

I might have to give some clues out on this one. First clue: it’s currently peak season here in Britain.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Ck147

Pear? Only say that as we have a pear tree in the garden

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Postby Prop

Clue 2.

The DNA of the organism bearing this fruit is more comparable with human DNA than plant DNA.

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Postby Prop

Clue 3.

The fruit of this organism have an alliterative nickname in the UK.

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Postby Prop

Clue 4:

Compounds within the fruiting bodies have been studied for their ability to treat depression and potentially rebuild neural pathways, recently by Imperial College, Kings, and many other notable scientific institutions in the UK and worldwide.

Despite this, they remain illegal to pick.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Prop

Iranu wrote:Magic mushrooms?

My girlfriend guesses grapefruit.


Correct <ok>

Psilocybe Semilanceata, AKA Liberty Caps, or indeed in the UK - Magic Mushrooms.

I was intentionally cryptic using the word ‘fruit’. It’s technically correct (the organism itself - mycelium - resides underground, while the mushrooms above ground are its fruit) but a bit sneaky of me.

Iranu’s turn.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby Iranu

Which popular British fruit is virtually unknown in the US as its farming was banned due to being seen as a threat to the US logging industry?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

Technically a vegetable, rhubarb, in the same way that tomatoes are technically a fruit.