Never Ending General Knowledge

correct,all yours.

LDS wrote:I had no idea they got married. But now I do

Yeah, crazy huh. Here’s a photo of them on their big day

And what a lovely couple they make.

Mount Rushmore?

Rush was a legendary Canadian rock band. Their drummer, who also wrote the lyrics and is regarded as one of the best drummers ever, sadly passed away in 2020. What was his name?

neil peart

HappyCamper wrote:neil peart

Correct

I had the pleasure of seeing Rush perform in concert 3 times. They were brilliant.

Designed by Canadian cymbal manufacturers Sabian for Neil Peart, the Paragon series of cymbals are made from 'B20', a form of which metal alloy, named for the proportion of the tin content?

Bronze?

Holden Chinaski wrote:Bronze?

correct. approx 80% copper and 20% tin, with trace other elements. first used for cymbals in the ottomon empire over four hundred years ago.

What is the name of the opera singer in The Adventures of Tintin?

SnookerEd25 wrote:Dave?

Not Dave.

Asterix?

Prop wrote:Asterix?

Asterix rules, but he was not the opera singer in The Adventures of Tintin. The person I’m referring to is a woman.

The name of the dog is snowy if I remember right. Then there's the twins? The ones in bowler hats? Were they called Thompson (not the band)? Then there's the captain with the beard? But opera singer? Was he/she a regular?

They mostley had vaguely apt names (captain Haddock, Professor Calculus etc.) So I'll go with Madame Soprano as a guess.

LDS wrote:But opera singer? Was he/she a regular?

She appears in six Tintin adventures. There is also one title with her last name in it: "The ********** Emerald".


From Wikipedia:

"She is comically portrayed as narcissistic, whimsical, absent-minded, and talkative, but often shows a more generous and essentially amiable side, in addition to an iron will.
Her given name means "white" (feminine) in Italian, and her surname is Italian for "chaste flower". She first appeared in 1939, but from the 1950s, Hergé partially remodelled her after the Greek soprano Maria Callas."

LDS wrote:Then there's the twins? The ones in bowler hats? Were they called Thompson (not the band)?

the band were actually named after the tintin characters.

bianca fiorapura?

HappyCamper wrote:bianca fiorapura?

First name correct. Last name not correct.