General Knowledge Quiz

[Steph]

Yes, close enough...

There is no toll on Brittany road, and so no motoways!

Two reasons:
- When the duchess Ann maried Louis XII part of the deal was that the kingdom of France would not ask any toll for the roads in Brittany. This was a kind of tradition
- When the road network was modernized in the 1960s, the people from there argued that as the roads are used only by the locals (contrary to a motorway going from Spain to Germany), they shouldn't pay for it.

 

[Mise]

What does IOU stand for?

 

[a_propagandist]

I owe you.

 

[Mise]

I owe you.

QI ALERT!!!! -10 points!

It's not I owe you

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Investor-owned utility?

Inverted outdoor umbrella?

 

[nonconformist]

I Owe Unto?

 

[Ozbenno]

Incredibly Odious Unicorn

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I was going to say Imaginary Orange Unicorn, but that would just be silly.

 

[choxorn]

Invisible Omani Urn?

 

[Steph]

It is the IATA code for the airport of the Quen island, in New Caledonia.

 

[Mise]

I Owe Unto?

Close enough. It's actually "Is Owed Unto", apparently, but I reckon "I Owe Unto" sounds more correct...

It might also be the IATA code for the airport of the Quen island, in New Caledonia, though.

Noncon's up!

 

[nonconformist]

Yeah, damn right beeyotches.

Who first performed the song Red Red Wine?

 

[Mise]

UB40............

 

[choxorn]

Neil Diamond.

 

[nonconformist]

Mise fell into my cunning trap, which Choxorn didn't

 

[Mise]

Boo

!

 

[choxorn]

Oops, did I forget to make one?

Okay, here's the new one:

What is the only planet in the solar system that's always closer to the sun than to the next farthest out planet?

 

[Catharsis]

Mars, perhaps?

 

[Steph]

Mercury:
- Aphelion = 69,816,900 km
- Perihelion = 46,001,200 km

Venus
- Aphelion 108,942,109 km
- Perihelion 107,476,259 km

Earth
- Aphelion 152,097,701 km
- Perihelion 147,098,074 km

Mars
- Aphelion 249,209,300 km
- Perihelion 206,669,000 km

Jupiter
- Aphelion 816,520,800 km
- Perihelion 740,573,600 km

Saturne
- Aphelion 1,513,325,783 km
- Perihelion 1,353,572,956 km

Uranus
- Aphelion 3,004,419,704 km
- Perihelion 2,748,938,461 km

Neptune
- Aphelion 4,553,946,490 km
- Perihelion 4,452,940,833 km

So... I'm afraid EVERY planet of the solar system is always closer to the sun than the next farther planet.

Or did you mean Pluto, which has
- Aphelion 7,375,927,931 km
- Perihelion 4,436,824,613 km

And so can sometimes be closer to the sun than Neptune?

Then you need to change your question... And Pluto is no longer a planet.

 

[Catharsis]

I assumed he meant that the Planet-Sun distance has to always be smaller than the Planet-Next Planet distance, but then if that's the case, it could well be Neptune... what's the 'next planet' on from Neptune?

(so I'd guess that Mars is always closer to the Sun than it is to Jupiter, for example)