The All New GAGB Pub Quiz

[active cacher]

greenfly ?

sorry! Not the right answer

[gazooks]

is it a fungus ?

[Mrs Blorenge]

I can't see the "loose connection" yet, but is it whitefly?

[active cacher]

is it a fungus ?

Yes it's fungal

[active cacher]

I can't see the "loose connection" yet, but is it whitefly?

the loose connection was the Irish comment.....

Sorry, it's not whitefly either :(

[martybartfast]

Blackspot?

[active cacher]

Blackspot?

Sorry, not blackspot either...

[Dave Gerrie]

i suspect that the irish connection is a well known irish favourite food, especially in mash form!

potato blight! :D

[active cacher]

i suspect that the irish connection is a well known irish favourite food, especially in mash form!

potato blight! :D

:applause::cheers: DING!! :cheers::applause:

( The Irish depended on the potato and the failure of the potato crop due to potato blight in 1845 was disastrous. The crop failed again in 1846, 1847, and 1848. By 1851, the population of Ireland had been reduced by more than two million due to starvation, disease, and emigration to Britain and North America ):(

[Dave Gerrie]

sorry folks, missed the ding...

OK, apologies if its been asked before, and can I also specify (if thats allowed!) no looking at underground maps!

Which station on the London Underground has none of the letters of the word MACKEREL in it?

[keehotee]

St John's Wood

[Dave Gerrie]

da da ding!

well that was easy! :D

[rutson]

I *think* that was asked in the pub quiz in the other place.

[keehotee]

I *think* that was asked in the pub quiz in the other place.

:ohmy: There's another place ??? ;)

lol :applause::applause:

[keehotee]

OK - as usual I'm late...and was stuck for a question....
But after a visit to the planetarium @Bristol yesterday, I now need to know -

1. At what rate is the moon moving away from Earth?
2. How long does it take the Earth to orbit the Sun?
3. If you held a compass for long enough on the moon, where would the north arrow point? (for 9 days, starting 3 days before the full moon)

[Ten point nine]

:ohmy: Bit of an educational day out :)

2) is easy 1 sidereal year

As for the others :eek::eek:

[keehotee]

:ohmy: Bit of an educational day out :)

2) is easy 1 sidereal year

As for the others :eek::eek:

Hmmmm - I would give you a ding for 2...but I'm being picky. Hehehe
So need the answer to the nearest minute !! :rolleyes:

[Ten point nine]

:( I'll have to do with out a ding then, I know we get 1 extra day every 4 years but to the minute, :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Paradiddle]

OK - as usual I'm late...and was stuck for a question....
But after a visit to the planetarium @Bristol yesterday, I now need to know -

1. At what rate is the moon moving away from Earth?
2. How long does it take the Earth to orbit the Sun?
3. If you held a compass for long enough on the moon, where would the north arrow point? (for 9 days, starting 3 days before the full moon)


Hmmmm - I would give you a ding for 2...but I'm being picky. Hehehe
So need the answer to the nearest minute !! :rolleyes:

Question 2:
Leap years are divisible by 4, but not if divisible by 100, unless they are also divisible by 400 :blink: .

So, in 400 years there will be 97 leap years (3 non-leap years because divisible by 100 but not 400) and 303 common years.
= (303 x 365) + (97 x 366) days in 400 years
= 146,097 days
= 3,306,328 hours
= 210, 379, 680 mins in 400 years
= 525,949.2 mins per year (phew :wacko:)

Question 1:
I'll guess that it's a few cm per year...... 2.3 cm

Question 3:
This is getting a bit like QI. I'm just waiting for the big claxon and bells to go off here!

....at the Earth ....(woooooop!)
....at the Sun ......(woooooop!)
....the moon's magnetic North .......(wooooop!)
....it will spin round and round.......(wooooop!)

Elephant in the house!

[Maple Leaf]

Keehotee .......... where are you? :p

[*mouse*]

Whoops....

As Paradiddle is the only one anywhere close to having the correct answers, I shall bestow the ding upon his shoulders.....

The correct answers were (according to @Bristol, and a little bit of sky at night)

1. 4cm/year
2. 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds
3. It would point at Earth at those times - but not at others (something to do with solar radiation disrupting the magnetic field that far out at all other times)

whoops - forgot to log Ali out again...... ho hum :)

[Paradiddle]

Oh Pooh! That means I've got to think up another question.:wacko:

Right,

Part 1) Which MAMMAL has the longest tongue relative to its body size?

Part 2) How long is its tongue relative to its body length?



(PS Keehotee the answer is not a *mouse* :D)

[*mouse*]

(PS Keehotee the answer is not a *mouse* :D)

:p :p :p

[Team Cobra UK]

I sort of know this but without using google cant be exact..

Its some kind of bat or something and its tongue is one and a half or twice its body length.

[Paradiddle]

I sort of know this but without using google cant be exact..

Its some kind of bat or something and its tongue is one and a half or twice its body length.

DING :applause:

It's the tube-lipped nectar bat which can extend its tongue to one and a half times its body length

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/9194/battonguefa0.jpg

[Team Cobra UK]

:socool::socool:

Ok here is a fairly simple question.

What was lauched on 22nd Feb 1978, and what was its full name, and who made it?

[Ten point nine]

Couldn't be the first GPS sattelite could it?
If it is they were made by Rockwell and named Navstar so this is probably #1 :)

[Team Cobra UK]

Ding to Ten point Nine :applause::applause:

[Ten point nine]

Famous first lines. name the work that opens with the line.
'Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.'
Extra ding and smiley for the author.

[Mrs Blorenge]

Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Berniere, I think.

(Read the book, still haven't got round to watching the film)

[Ten point nine]

That's 2 Dings and a smiley to Mrs B

:applause::applause::D

[Mrs Blorenge]

What's a chimsil?

Multiple extra dings will be given for explaining the origins of the word. :)

[keehotee]

It's a third brake light - the one at the top.
Is it french?

[Mrs Blorenge]

A ding and some pretty flashing lights for keehotee :)

Not French though - apparently it comes from CHMSL = Center High Mounted Stop Lamp.

Over to you ...

[keehotee]

:D

OK - where am I??

This ancient settlement in Somerset has a descriptive in it's name to tell it apart from others with the same name..... and is unusual in having the descriptives still in medieval Latin.
It was the site of Britain's first calamine mine.
The second of two piers was completed in 1904, followed by the Winter gardens in 1927.

[Matrix]

Too easy :D

Weston Super Mare :beer:

[keehotee]

ding.......

(although super has a lower case s... :) :) )

[Matrix]

But it is Super there :p


What does the acronym BIG RAT refer to ?

[gazooks]

I used to be a BIG fan of Joe 90....

Brain Impulse Galvascope Record and Transfer

... if I remember rightly :)

[Matrix]

BRAIN IMPULSE GALVANOSCOPE RECORD AND TRANSFER

But close enough for a Ding :applause:

[gazooks]

The Taj Mahal is on the bank of which river?

[DrDick&Vick]

Just came across this quia and as it hasn't been answered or posted on since 3/12 I shall have a go.
I seem to remember from somewhere that it is next to the Yamuna River

[DrDick&Vick]

whoops Double POst

[gazooks]

Oops I'd forgotten about this as well....

its the Jumna river but near enough
Ding to DrDick&Vick :applause:

[keehotee]

Oops I'd forgotten about this as well....

its the Jumna river but near enough
Ding to DrDick&Vick :applause:

Yes - but Wikipedia calls it the Yamuna......
(Haven't we had the "don't trust wikipedia" thread on here before? Or was that the other forum? M'wahahahahaha :ph34r::ph34r:

[DrDick&Vick]

Yes - but Wikipedia calls it the Yamuna......
(Haven't we had the "don't trust wikipedia" thread on here before? Or was that the other forum? M'wahahahahaha :ph34r::ph34r:

So does the 'Giveaway DVD Encyclopedia I use' :dunno:
New question by tonight then.

[DrDick&Vick]

By what name is 'Brian Robson Rankin' better know by?
Easy one.

[Ten point nine]

Hank B Marvin of the Shadows. Thought he was great at one time.

[DrDick&Vick]

Said it was easy

DING DING over to you

[keehotee]

bumpetty bump bump

[Ten point nine]

oops sorry. :o:o

The block of 7 letters represented by the asterisks in P*******R is palindromic can you find the word. Easy OK Try this one M*******US.

[Ten point nine]

Clues:

1) one who owns something.

2) always the same so is boring.

[gazooks]

possessor

monotonous

[Ten point nine]

:applause: Ding to Gazooks :applause:

[gazooks]

a seasonal one ....

Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol?

[Bill D (wwh)]

Marley's Ghost, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future.

I've worked on the musical version :)

[gazooks]

a Ding to Bill D :applause:

[Bill D (wwh)]

Thanks. :)

Ok, here goes with an easy one where you only have to choose from a list...

Which one of the following countries is not a member of the European Union?

Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Sweden

[gazooks]

Norway

[Bill D (wwh)]

Norway
:applause: Ding! :applause:

[gazooks]

another seasonal one ...

The Christmas period of 1813-14 saw the last what in London?

[keehotee]

Last time the Thames froze? (enough to walk on)

[gazooks]

a DING to Keehotee :applause:

[keehotee]

Ho ho ho.....

What colour was father Christmas's suit before Coke dressed him in red in the 1930's???

[Ten point nine]

Green

[keehotee]

no ding yet......

[gazooks]

green & white ?

[keehotee]

still no ding....

[gazooks]

brown

[Ten point nine]

Green with brown fur trim, black boots, belt and other accesories :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[gazooks]

Of course it could be a trick question and it is Red because Coke only made it popular :blink:

[keehotee]

Of course it could be a trick question and it is Red because Coke only made it popular :blink:

DING....

Santa appeared in many different colours - including red, brown, green and blue before CC used him in red for their ads.

[gazooks]

Which token vegetable is often included in the ingredients of a Christmas pudding?

[Matrix]

Carrot ?

[DrDick&Vick]

Carrot ?

As a retired chef I agree.

[gazooks]

a DING to Matrix :socool:

[Matrix]

In heraldry, what colour is gules?

[gazooks]

red ?

[Matrix]

red ?

Ding Ding :applause:

[gazooks]

wow what a guess :ohmy:

What colour is the letter L in the standard Google logo?

no googling !! :lol:

[Matrix]

Thats easy its

GREEN :D

[gazooks]

A DING to Matrix :applause:

Hope you didn't google ? ;)

[Matrix]

A DING to Matrix :applause:

Hope you didn't google ? ;)

As if :cool:


Ok

Who finished third in the Formula 1 drivers world championship in 2000 ?

[gazooks]

Blimey - going back a bit there.... one of two I can think of...

Rubens Barachello ?

[Matrix]

No sorry :(

[gazooks]

In that case the other name is

David Coulthard

[Matrix]

Ding on the second attempt :p

[gazooks]

If an insect is apterous what has it not got?

[Matrix]

OMG ........:eek:

How about antennae :confused:

[gazooks]

sorry no :blink:

[Bill D (wwh)]

A guess, but from the ptero bit I think it might be wings.

[gazooks]

A DING to Bill D :applause::cheers:

[Bill D (wwh)]

Thanks! :)

Ok, here's a seasonal one...

Who wrote the words, and who wrote the music, of the carol "In the Bleak Midwinter"? It was two different people and I want both of them for a ding.

[gazooks]

Rogers & Hammerstein ?

[Bill D (wwh)]

Rogers & Hammerstein ?
Sorry, no.

[Ten point nine]

Gustav Holst wrote the music but the words are earlier. Have the sheet music somewhere. :o:o

[Bill D (wwh)]

Gustav Holst wrote the music but the words are earlier. Have the sheet music somewhere. :o:o
That's half a ding - you just need to dig out that music! :)

[Bill D (wwh)]

Oh, dear, are we stuck...? :p

Well, we've got the composer, so who wrote the words? She wrote them some thirty years before Holst set them to music, she was a poetess, and she had a famous artist brother.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Hmm, we really are stuck... I think in the circumstances I'll award the ding to Ten point nine. :applause:

The words were written by Christina Rossetti, sister of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

[Ten point nine]

Ok, Thanks for the ding :)

What do these words have in common.

Flaming, hell, limb, Quart, Sag.

[keehotee]

o

You can change all of them into another word by adding "o" to the end....

[Ten point nine]

Ding to Keehotee:applause:
Thought that might have run for a bit longer.

Over to you :):):)

[keehotee]

OK - an easy topical one......

What extra bit will BBC engineers be doing for us tonight (specifically) - and how many times have they done it so far?

[martybartfast]

Well we're getting a leap second this year so the Beeb will be adding an extra 'pip' at midnight. How many times have they done it? I know at least once but I'll guess at twice.

[keehotee]

a ding for the first part...... anyone going to get the second (excuse the pun) correct?

[Ten point nine]

I think they said 23 prior to this. It was repeated heaven knows how many times on the morning news but I mustn't have been listening properly. :o:o:o

[keehotee]

gets you the second ding.
First one in gets to set the next one - or you can fight for it......

[Ten point nine]

Which country has the largest number of Newspapers.

[Ten point nine]

Clue this country is also a sub-continent.

[gazooks]

Australia ?

[Ten point nine]

Sorry no ding, a little more populous than Aus.

[martybartfast]

India

[Ten point nine]

Ding :applause:

Approx 4235 titles most of them regional

Over to you:)

[martybartfast]

Here's a quickie:

Who was the first person to breadk the sound barrier in level flight?

[gazooks]

Chuck Yeager ?

[martybartfast]

gazooks zooms in at the speed of sound and gets a supersonic

DING
:applause:

[gazooks]

wow what a guess - only name I knew :D

In which country was Greenpeace founded?

[Ten point nine]

Canada

[DrDick&Vick]

1972 in Vancouver, Canada.
I know because I am a member although no longer and active one.

[gazooks]

A DING to Ten Point Nine :socool:

[Ten point nine]

What's the next number?

12,215,308,523,345,916

[keehotee]

12,215,308,523,345,917

And the one after that's 12,215,308,523,345,918

lol

[Ten point nine]

:D DING :D
:applause::applause:

[Mrs Blorenge]

<random interjection> The above question and answer reminded me of the following joke I was sent last week:

Secretary of State Rice is giving president Bush his daily briefing. She concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the Bush exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "Remind me, exactly how many is a brazillion?"

</random interjection>

[keehotee]

Which of these British overseas territories is the odd one out, and why....

South Georgia
British Virgin Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands
British Indian Ocean Territory

[*mouse*]

South Georgia - only one that's land locked....

[Team Cobra UK]

South Georgia is correct...but its not landlocked (any Falklands veteran can confirm this) its because the other islands use US$ whilst South Georgia uses Pounds sterling.

[keehotee]

South Georgia is correct...but its not landlocked (any Falklands veteran can confirm this) its because the other islands use US$ whilst South Georgia uses Pounds sterling.

..gets you the double DING...

Think *mouse* had Georgia on her mind.... :dunno::D

[Team Cobra UK]

Yeeeee ..... Thanks for that..comiserations Mouse

An American space explorer is called an Astronaut,
A Russian one is a Cosmonaut,
But what is a Chinese space explorer called???

[keehotee]

.

[*mouse*]

Oops! Wrong Georgia!! I should have paid more attention in geography class! :o

[keehotee]

Yeeeee ..... Thanks for that..comiserations Mouse

An American space explorer is called an Astronaut,
A Russian one is a Cosmonaut,
But what is a Chinese space explorer called???

An Astlonaut ???

[Team Cobra UK]

:) Very good but no ding...:(

[Ten point nine]

They call them Taikonauts I think.

Anyone know why?

[Team Cobra UK]

A big DING to Ten Point Nine.. :applause::applause:

The
Phrase is a hybrid of the Chinese term taikong (space) and the Greek naut (traveller),

[Ten point nine]

In which sport might you use a 'Brunswick Command Zone'?

[keehotee]

I know the answer to this one 'cause my ex-wife actually has one. It was her brothers, and he left it in our house when he was flying back to the US after finishing his posting in Germany (he got a military flight from Germany to here, then commercial back home - and it was too heavy to warrant taking back).
But I'm not going to answer the question.... m'wahahahahahahaha

[Ten point nine]

The answer is "Ten Pin Bowling" it's a bowling ball.

Would someone else like to pick up the baton as I'm away working for a few days in the wilds of the Welsh Borders and I'll be off line as I don't know if there will be a McDonalds handy.

[Maple Leaf]

A bit of fun .....

This weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, but according to the results of the 2008 survey, what were the 'Top 15 birds' ?

[Mrs Blorenge]

This is a combined Blorenge effort: (Assuming these are birds actually seen in people's gardens, as opposed to seen from their garden.)

house sparrow, dunnock/hedge sparrow, robin, starling, blue tit, great tit, blackbird, magpie, pied wagtail, wren, crow, collared dove, greenfinch, goldfinch, black-headed gull.


That concludes the voting from the south Wales jury. ;)

[Maple Leaf]

This is a combined Blorenge effort: (Assuming these are birds actually seen in people's gardens, as opposed to seen from their garden.)

house sparrow, dunnock/hedge sparrow, robin, starling, blue tit, great tit, blackbird, magpie, pied wagtail, wren, crow, collared dove, greenfinch, goldfinch, black-headed gull.


That concludes the voting from the south Wales jury. ;)

11 correct ...

Blackbird, Blue Tit, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Magpie, Robin, Starling

4 still to find ...

(and yes the RSPB rules are 'seen in' not 'flying over')

[Bill D (wwh)]

I'd guess that the song thrush (Turdus philomelos :p) might be one of the others.

[Maple Leaf]

I'd guess that the song thrush (Turdus philomelos :p) might be one of the others.

No .... so still 4 to find

[Bill D (wwh)]

The wood pigeon?

[Mrs Blorenge]

On the way to an event this afternoon I was pondering birds, trying to think which ones we might have missed and I suddenly realised... chaffinch!
How could we have forgotten the chaffinch? Must be in the top 15, surely?

MrB suggests that the siskin and wood pigeon could be another two that're missing.

What about long tailed tit as another?

[martybartfast]

pied wagtail

[Maple Leaf]

The wood pigeon?

Yes


On the way to an event this afternoon I was pondering birds, trying to think which ones we might have missed and I suddenly realised... chaffinch!
How could we have forgotten the chaffinch? Must be in the top 15, surely?

MrB suggests that the siskin and wood pigeon could be another two that're missing.

What about long tailed tit as another?

Chaffinch, Wood pigeon and Long tail tit are correct

... so one left to go (plenty of them in my garden)

[Maple Leaf]

pied wagtail

No

[Mrs Blorenge]

A sad story, while we're on birds.

A friend recently told us that her cat had killed a small bird that she didn't recognise. From her description over the phone MrB thought it sounded like it was a goldcrest, which was rather sad. When he went there later and saw the remains it was even sadder than that - it was a firecrest. A fairly rare bird in our area... and now a bit rarer. :(


Back to the final bird missing from the Top 15

How about the feral pigeon?

[Maple Leaf]

A sad story, while we're on birds.

A friend recently told us that her cat had killed a small bird that she didn't recognise. From her description over the phone MrB thought it sounded like it was a goldcrest, which was rather sad. When he went there later and saw the remains it was even sadder than that - it was a firecrest. A fairly rare bird in our area... and now a bit rarer. :(


Back to the final bird missing from the Top 15

How about the feral pigeon?

I have had to go and get the bird book out now to look up a firecrest .. as never heard of them.

Sorry no, not feral pigeon.

Clue ..... they remain faithful to their partner for life and the pair even search for food together (according to my book anyway)

[keehotee]

Clue ..... they remain faithful to their partner for life and the pair even search for food together (according to my book anyway)

Penguin! (Common - or feral - I don't mind.......)











lol

[Mrs Blorenge]

"This weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch..."


Penguin! (Common - or feral - I don't mind.......)

lol

You know, you really must stop putting those sardines on your bird table :blink:

[martybartfast]

Coal Tit?

[Maple Leaf]

Coal Tit?

Nope ...... bigger

[keehotee]

Nope ...... bigger

Rook, crow, jackdaw, chough, emperor penguin, puffin.

That's all the birds I can think of that haven't already been mentioned.... apart from Golden Eagle, Red kite, Falcon, Heron, vulture......but I don't think you'd get many in the back garden :rolleyes:

[Maple Leaf]

Rook, crow, jackdaw, chough, emperor penguin, puffin.



Yep, it is one of those .....

[Mrs Blorenge]

OK... If it's one of those then I'd go for the jackdaw.

[Maple Leaf]

OK... If it's one of those then I'd go for the jackdaw.

:applause: Ding to Mrs B

Top 15 from RSPB 2008 survey (http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/lookfor/top15/index.asp) were:

Blackbird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Robin, Starling, Wood Pigeon

[Mrs Blorenge]

I found this amusing mnemonic recently, but what is it for?

(Please give the full group/series/detail.)

No point letting your trousers slip half way.

[keehotee]

Are they the initial letters of the last 8 members of your hamster's pedigree line? :D :D

[Mrs Blorenge]

Are they the initial letters of the last 8 members of your hamster's pedigree line? :D :D

What a charming idea... but no :lol:

It's the sort of mnemonic that teachers might have given to their pupils 30 or 40 years ago. Today, because this subject is taught in a more modern style, often using 'topics', I doubt whether pupils are actually required to know this group/series/detail.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Aha, I had no idea, and I hadn't heard it before, but though I wasn't taught in the modern style using topics, the mention of that immediately suggested history, and I worked it out from there:

Norman
Plantagenet
Lancaster
York
Tudor
Stuart
Hanover
Windsor

Our Royal Houses since Bill the Norm. :p

[Mrs Blorenge]

Major "Ding" to Bill :applause:


Over to you...

[Bill D (wwh)]

Thanks, Mrs B! :)

Where is the one location on Earth that is both the closest point to and the furthest point from the Sun?

[keehotee]

Chimborazo in the Andes....?

(I set this question in the other place last year) :)

[Bill D (wwh)]

Chimborazo in the Andes....?

(I set this question in the other place last year) :)
That's a ding to Tim... :applause:

I haven't followed the other pub quiz, so I didn't know you'd posted the very same question there! :)

[keehotee]

OK – without google or Wikipedia – what are the proper names for the following:-

1. &
2. Æ
3. @
4. Œ

[Mrs Blorenge]

I only know that 1. is an ampersand. I've only ever called @ a "curly at" myself. :D

[keehotee]

1. to Mrs B :)

[martybartfast]

I think 3 is a "Commercial At", at least thats what I've always called it.

[keehotee]

I think 3 is a "Commercial At", at least thats what I've always called it.

Haha - it may well be a commercial at - but that's not it's name.......





OK – without google or Wikipedia – what are the proper names for the following:-

1. & - Ampersand - Mrs B
2. Æ
3. @
4. Œ

Hint time...... two of them have latin names (and Mrs B got one of them) - the other two are old english / anglo saxon.

p.s. I'm editing this post for a second time - why have I got a Vote Now button at the bottom of the box?

[keehotee]

Has nobody in here got a dictionary??????

[martybartfast]

Has nobody in here got a dictionary?????

Wot, in a pub? :beer:

Anyway I only ever use online dictionaries nowadays & they're not allowed. :eek:

[Mrs Blorenge]

Has nobody in here got a dictionary?????

Yep. It tells me that an aedile is a magistrate in ancient Rome (I knew that anyway, having just finished reading "Imperium") and oecumenic relates to the whole Christian world, or church.

I also now know how to correct a printers' proof, have discovered the A.E.C. and Aeneas and, in passing, I now know how to address a Baron's son's wife and how many grains of truth I need to put into one scruple. I look forward to my next dopping of sheldrakes, too. I view your question aequo animo so will await further elucidation while having a Danish @ for lunch.

:coffee:

[keehotee]

Hint time...... two of them have latin names (and Mrs B got one of them) - the other two are old english / anglo saxon
The two with latin names sound very similar.
The two anglo saxon words sound like....... a tree, and a hebrew name.

[Bill D (wwh)]

p.s. I'm editing this post for a second time - why have I got a Vote Now button at the bottom of the box?
Hmm, I've no idea. I've just clicked on "Edit" on that same post of yours and I got the usual edit page, with no "Vote Now" button. :confused:

Edit to add: I'm editing this post, and not getting a "Vote Now" button here either.

[keehotee]

Hmm, I've no idea. I've just clicked on "Edit" on that same post of yours and I got the usual edit page, with no "Vote Now" button. :confused:

Edit to add: I'm editing this post, and not getting a "Vote Now" button here either.

Hmmm - no, I've just tried to get it to do it again and it won't.
Next time it does I'll do a screen-cap.... :)

Thanks for looking though Bill.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Hmmm - no, I've just tried to get it to do it again and it won't.
Next time it does I'll do a screen-cap.... :)

Thanks for looking though Bill.
You're welcome, and yes, please do post a screen-cap if it happens again.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Æ - Ash?

[keehotee]

Æ - Ash?
hurray......... yes, 2 down, 2 to go

[keehotee]

1. & - Ampersand - Mrs B
2. Æ - ash - Bill D
3. @ - A?p?r?n?
4. Π- ?s?e? (Rantzen?)

[gazooks]

ampersand
ester ?

[keehotee]

ampersand
ester ?

a ding for ester...... (would also have accepted ethel....)

[keehotee]

1. & - Ampersand - Mrs B
2. Æ - ash - Bill D
3. @ - Asper?nd
4. Π- ester - gazooks

Come on - next one in gets the ding

[Maple Leaf]

Asperand :)

[keehotee]

Asperand :)
DING..!!!

[Maple Leaf]

http://widget.slide.com/rdr/1/1/3/W/800000021cc29b7/1/105/TOPur4pEwj9mEO3uDmOP6MrV5lJYFIQ5.jpg (http://www.slide.com/s/0MXZeoAm5j9JLGrou7uwo698JOjaSkMh?referrer=hlnk)

I have just booked a business trip to a place that has this flag .... but where am I going?

[Ten point nine]

Baliwick of Jersey?

[Maple Leaf]

Baliwick of Jersey?

Ding .... wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Jersey)

[Ten point nine]

Name Londons main airport from 1920 - 1946.

[gazooks]

Hendon Aerodrome

[martybartfast]

Croydon.

[Ten point nine]

Croydon.

That's a DING to Martybartfast :applause:

[martybartfast]

What was the ship prefix of the Queen Mary (launched 26 September 1934) and what does the prefix stand for?

[gazooks]

SS ?

Steam Ship

[keehotee]

RMS - Royal Mail Ship


(ex PSNC, P&O, FWS, Cunard White Star Engineer Officer)

[martybartfast]

RMS - Royal Mail Ship


(ex PSNC, P&O, FWS, Cunard White Star Engineer Officer)



Well I guess if anyone knows, it would be you! I only found out yesterday while watching an old documentary on the telly.

DING

[keehotee]

I'm being lazy - so some of you might have seen this question before ;)

Names of the following please.....

1.http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s44/keehotee/12.jpg

2.http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s44/keehotee/3.jpg

3.http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s44/keehotee/4.jpg

4.http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s44/keehotee/5.jpg

5.http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s44/keehotee/6.jpg

[gazooks]

Pugh, Pugh, Barley Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub (I think)

[keehotee]

Pugh, Pugh, Barley Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub (I think)

A bloke called Barley???

[gazooks]

A bloke called Barley???


Thats what it sounds like in the song !!:confused::wacko:

is it Barney then - cant think what else would fit - it has been a long time since I heard or saw it ... honest

[keehotee]

Thats what it sounds like in the song !!:confused::wacko:

is it Barney then - cant think what else would fit - it has been a long time since I heard or saw it ... honest

Ding...!!

(quick - nip across to the other side and get that one too....)

[gazooks]

What is the height of bullseye to the floor of a standard dart board in feet and inches?

[Muggle]

five feet - six inches

[gazooks]

not the answer I'm looking for ...

[keehotee]

5' 7"?

[keehotee]

5'8"?

[keehotee]

5'9"?

[keehotee]

5'10"?

[keehotee]

5'11"

[keehotee]

6'?

[gazooks]

Ding to Keehotee :D

[keehotee]

Ding to Keehotee :D

Just out of interest...... which one was it??? :ph34r::rolleyes:

[gazooks]

5' 8"

[Maple Leaf]

keeee-hoooo-teeee :p

[keehotee]

Whoops...
I'd better think of an easy one, to atone for my tardiness.....

OK - no Googling (run out to your sheds instead)
1. What does the WD in WD40 stand for?
2. What three properties does 3 in 1 oil profess to have?
3. What have they both got in common (apart from the really obvious...) ?

[DrDick&Vick]

Water dispersal or something like that
3 in 1 Lubricates,cleans and prevents rust and I think they belong to the same company

And it's flaming cold out there

[keehotee]

Water dispersal or something like that
3 in 1 Lubricates,cleans and prevents rust and I think they belong to the same company

And it's flaming cold out there

Close enough for a DING

[DrDick&Vick]

The Eiffel Tower was completed, Adolf Hitler was born and so was Charlie Chaplin.

What year?

[martybartfast]

guess: 1898

[DrDick&Vick]

Good guess & close but not correct.

[gazooks]

1895

[DrDick&Vick]

Oh no no no, still wrong

[Ten point nine]

Just realised Martybartfast had the right numbers just not in the right order
1889?

[DrDick&Vick]

Ding a Ling

over to you

[Ten point nine]

What was the racing number of Herbie the "Love Bug"?

and for a bonus ding which fruit do you associate with Herbie?

[martybartfast]

What was the racing number of Herbie the "Love Bug"?

and for a bonus ding which fruit do you associate with Herbie?

I think it was 51.

and I associate Pineapples with Herbie, now you (and the rest of the world) might associate another fruit with Herbie but that wasn't what was asked was it? so I'm right on that one :applause:

[keehotee]

What was the racing number of Herbie the "Love Bug"?

and for a bonus ding which fruit do you associate with Herbie?

53..... (at least that's the number on the white veedub upstairs in my son's toybox).... and bananas, as in Herbie goes bananas?

[Ten point nine]

53..... (at least that's the number on the white veedub upstairs in my son's toybox).... and bananas, as in Herbie goes bananas?

:applause::socool: A ding and a bonus Ding to Keehotee.

A little Ding to Martybartfast for a QI style answer.

[keehotee]

OK

What links Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and Louis Zborowski?

[keehotee]

OK

What links Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and Louis Zborowski?

Ok - clue time (or is everybody just fed up with the question??:eek:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s44/keehotee/gen11.jpg

[martybartfast]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

I know Ian Flemming wrote it, no idea about the others though.

[keehotee]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

I know Ian Flemming wrote it, no idea about the others though.

DING

Ian Fleming wrote the book, Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay, and Count Louis Zborowski built the original car the book was based on..........

[martybartfast]

What could you see on the worlds first publicly available Webcam? and where was it?

[Bill D (wwh)]

I think perhaps we need a clue for this one... :confused:

[martybartfast]

Oops, forgot I'd asked this.

OK, it was placed by students at Cambridge uni Computer Science dept and was in a place called the "Trojan Room" although there's no clue to be derived from that name.

[gazooks]

Bridge of Sighs ?

[Ten point nine]

Back in the late 90's I was coaching a Cambs Uni team and this could be seen on almost any of the Uni terminals, if you wanted to. What was it? a coffee pot. I left in '99 but I believe it was auctioned a couple of years later for a stupid amount of money.

[martybartfast]

Ding, it was so they (and the rest of the world) could see whether there was any :coffee: left in the pot. The webcamn was taken offline only when the department move buildings (around 2001 I think).

[Bill D (wwh)]

Bump...

[Ten point nine]

Sorry for the hold up, I only work 2 days a week but sometimes they are back to back and at opposite ends of the country.

Anyway, Name the six catergories of citizen who are not allowed to stand as members of parliment.

[Mrs Blorenge]

Anyone who is a Lord or a Bishop, because they already get a say in the House of Lords so they don't need to be elected in.

[Bill D (wwh)]

People under the age of 18.

People in prison?

[Ten point nine]

Peers and Priests gets a ding for Mrs B :applause:

Felons gets a ding for Bill D :applause:

Three more to get.

[martybartfast]

Loonies

Judges

Edit to add:

Furriners

Bankrupts

[Ten point nine]

Loonies




Gets Martybartfast a Ding Just 2 more left

[martybartfast]

Bankrupts?

[Ten point nine]

Bankrupts?
No ding for that one, sorry :( Still 2 to find

[martybartfast]

Royalty

Non Domiciles (i.e. don't even live here...)

[Ten point nine]

Think this has run long enough so the full list is: Members of the armed forces, Holders of public office, Felons, the Insane, Peers and Priests.

Mrs B Has the most correct answers so over to you. :applause: