The All New GAGB Pub Quiz

[martybartfast]

OK sticking with the telephone theme:

Who demonstrated the first telephone call, and who was the recipient.

[Cornell Finch]

OK sticking with the telephone theme:

Who demonstrated the first telephone call, and who was the recipient.

Awe man! It was that bloke. He phoned his assistant. They said "alloo".

I'm darned if I can remember the names though!

[Boltonian]

i THINK ONE WAS dINDONG Mr A Bell and the other no idea.

[ardip912]

It was Alexander Graham Bell who made the call, and as his famous words were, "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you." I guess the recipient was Mr Watson.

[martybartfast]

Ding a Ling to ardip912

[ardip912]

I received a shiny Help For Heroes Geocoin t'other day. The question:- Which members of the armed forces are entitled to receive The Dickin Medal for bravery in the field?

[Palujia]

This is a medal awarded to animals for gallantry

[ardip912]

This is a medal awarded to animals for gallantry

That's a great big gong, sorry DING to Palujia. Over to you!

[Palujia]

I fink I been "gonged"!
Ok - one for the miliary buffs - What are Victoria Crosses made from ?

[Boltonian]

Metal from an old canon.

[Palujia]

Ah - but what cannon specifically?

[Boltonian]

No idea, think it might have been from the boar war.

[Palujia]

Nope - a bit earlier (clue 17/21 Lancers)

[martybartfast]

Well I know it's the Crimean war, and I've got s suspicion it was from the Siege of Sevastopol but not sure on that bit.

[Palujia]

getting there but not quite yet

[Boltonian]

Read something this morning about it being from multiple places rather than just the ******* (I do know the answer but someone else can have it) cannon, they think it is also from china cannons following analysis.

[Palujia]

That's true but they are now made from the Cannons captured at Sebastopol - and always were supposed to be - but as you say research has intimated that some may not be - the last bronze from the Sebastopol cannons is kept for this purpose and there is enough metal left for quite a few more - put this one to bed as it was a bit ambiguous ! You can have the Ding as you are the closest !!
cheers
palujia

[Boltonian]

OK this is a very easy one but might be time consuming.

How many numbers from 1 - 100, have the letter 'A' in their spellings?

[DrDick&Vick]

None

[Boltonian]

dING dONG, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU?
we have a winner.
Over to you.

[DrDick&Vick]

about 30 seconds mate

OK then which fictional character had the catch phrase 'Correctomundo'?

[Palujia]

That's gotta be the Fonz ! heeeey

[DrDick&Vick]

Correctomundo:applause:

Ding a Ling to you

[Palujia]

'Nother TV one
Who was Mork from Ork !

[martybartfast]

Mork from Ork, was Mork from Ork !!!!
First appeared in an episode of Happy Days as an alien who crash landed his 'egg' spaceship in Earth. Then went on to have his own show Mork & Mindy, played by Robin Williams & Pam Dawber respectively.

Nanooo Nanoooo

[Boltonian]

I think that is correct but couldnt have said who it was as it was a long time ago.

[Palujia]

Big Ding
to martybartfast. Should have phrased it who played Mork from Ork !!
so solly :D

[martybartfast]

What year was Sputnki 1 launched?

(and for a bonus DING what year did it return to earth?)

[Boltonian]

I think that would be 1961 the year of my birth.

[martybartfast]

I think that would be 1961 the year of my birth.

Sorry didn't see this. Anyway it's earlier that 1961.

[ardip912]

I remember being in my first year at primary school (as it was called in those days) and the classes being called into the hall to hear some of the first live sounds from Sputnik 1 being broadcast by the BBC. Didn't understand what was going on but hey!
I was five at the time so that makes it 1957. I think it only remained up for about three months before burning up on re-entry.

[martybartfast]

DING to ardip912, it went up in October 1957 and came down in January 1958 so it didn't last long but managed to travel about 30 million miles while it was up there.

[ardip912]

Woo ooo! Thanks martybartfast.
Staying on theme, what was launched by NASA in July 1962 becoming the first privately rather than Government/military funded satellite?

[Boltonian]

?? Since when was NASA not funded by government?

[martybartfast]

?? Since when was NASA not funded by government?


Perhaps NASA only provided the delivery mechaninsm and didn't own/fund the object, which I expect was a satellite. The only other early satellite I can think of is Telstar, as much for the hit record as for the satellite.

[DrDick&Vick]

Somewhere in my adled old brain is something about one that was made and launched by NASA but was British controlled and funded. Still trying to dig deep enough to come up with a name though.

[ardip912]

?? Since when was NASA not funded by government?

The satellite was launched by NASA on a commercial basis. It cost the private companies $3m for the service. (AT&T- USA, British Telecommunications - UK, and a couple of other European firms that I don't remember)

A huge DING DING to martybartfast. One for the correct name of Telstar, and the other for linking it to The Tornadoes hit single written in its honour.

Incidentaly, Telstar provided the first ever live satellite transmission in the world, across the Atlantic.

Allan.

[martybartfast]

What is Mervyn Peake's most well known work.

[Palujia]

The Gormanghast series - was on telly (not as good as the books)

[martybartfast]

DING

[Palujia]

What did Neville Shute do as a real job (beside writing books!)

[ardip912]

Nevil Shute (first and second names, and 'nom de plume') Norway (family name) was an engineer in the aviation industry. Many of his novels where based on his engineering and aeronautical knowledge.

Thanks, likely to go back and revisit some really good novels.

[Palujia]

Ding

One of my all time favourite books - Trustee from the Toolroom. A nice, moral tale, written in good accurate english !!

[ardip912]

Off to library today, picked up copies of No Highway and On the Beach. Fab. Haven't read Trustee from the Toolroom so that's my next aim. Thanks!!!

Soooo....

Who brought the 1st, 3rd, 16th and 26th Presidents of the USA together?

[Boltonian]

I suppose that would be the Devil himself.
No one else would want politicians together.

[Palujia]

Gutzon and his son Lincoln Borglum - Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Was in film on TV the other night !!

[ardip912]

Thats a big DING to you Palujia. :cheers:

[Palujia]

two part question now:-
a. Where is the Lion's Mound ?
b. What did a very famous English General say about it ?

[Palujia]

Cryptic clue - Swedish pop group !

[DrDick&Vick]

Waterloo then

[Palujia]

half a ding ! second part ??

[martybartfast]

.
.
.
b. What did a very famous English General say about it ?

Guess who: Wellington
Guess what: "See that mound over there, don't you think it looks like a Lion"

[Palujia]

You can have a ding for that - what Wellington said roughly translated to
"who'se been mucking about with my battlefield"

[martybartfast]

In all honour I must give up the DING to DrDick&Vick as I would have had no idea if he hadn't got Waterloo first, and in any case I'm a bit busy at the mo and shouldn't really be on here :ph34r:

[Palujia]

Ok then - over to you Richard !

[DrDick&Vick]

A question will appear here on Wednesday as still loading software on the new drive and all my reference stuff is on the old drive

[DrDick&Vick]

Ok folks
What are Trinity, Trellis, Cable and Ladder of Life?

[martybartfast]

Butterflies?

[DrDick&Vick]

Nope, not even close. Sorry

[Maple Leaf]

knitting patterns ?

[DrDick&Vick]

Warm enough for the DING
they are all knitting stitches.
Over to you.

[DrDick&Vick]

Warm enough for the DING
they are all knitting stitches.
Over to you.

[Maple Leaf]

Where was Englands first escalator installed?

[martybartfast]

IIRC Baker Street tube employed a 1 legged bloke to ride the escalator to show the public that it was safe, so I'll go with that.

[DrDick&Vick]

The U/G is a bit of a hobby of mine so I teend to disagree with this, somewhere in my very adled old brain is something about a shop having the first one.
Still racking the brain for which one but reckon it had to be something like Selfridges, Harrods or one of the flash london stores back then.

[Maple Leaf]

IIRC Baker Street tube employed a 1 legged bloke to ride the escalator to show the public that it was safe, so I'll go with that.

No (but Earls Court was the first underground station to have one)

[Maple Leaf]

The U/G is a bit of a hobby of mine so I teend to disagree with this, somewhere in my very adled old brain is something about a shop having the first one.
Still racking the brain for which one but reckon it had to be something like Selfridges, Harrods or one of the flash london stores back then.

Yep - it was Harrods (1898)

[DrDick&Vick]

Ok an London Underground question.
The shortest distance between 2 London Underground stations is 100m. name the two stations?

[DrDick&Vick]

Ok an London Underground question.
The shortest distance between 2 London Underground stations is 100m. name the two stations?

[martybartfast]

Ok an London Underground question.
The shortest distance between 2 London Underground stations is 100m. name the two stations?

Pretty sure this is Charing Cross to Embankment, but it seems more than 100m when you're on the bl***y thing.

[DrDick&Vick]

Ding Dong to you. Obviously someone else likes silly info about the London Underground as well.

[martybartfast]

Who was Jasper Maskelyne, and what was his contribution to the war effort?

[Palujia]

He was a famous magician in the 1930s - recruited into the forces to be responsible for large scale illusions - dummy airfields, rubber tanks etc. There was a fascinating programme about him on Sky a while back. They thought he wasn't given enough credit after the war. His dummy airfields etc., saved lots of real ones in the battle of Britain !

[martybartfast]

DING for that.

And the program's well worth a look if anyone gets a chance.

[Palujia]

Yep ! There's a great shot of a couple of squaddies bouncing a rubber tank about !- Anyway - Question :-
Who was born Marion Robert Morrison ?

[ardip912]

Anyway - Question :-
Who was born Marion Robert Morrison ?[/quote]

Obvious, Marion Robert Morrison was! :). Later he used the name John Wayne to pursue his movie career.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Bump...

[ardip912]

In the extended absence of a 'ding' or a 'dong', I'm unsure of what happens next.

[thekennelat79]

You had the correct answer, so why not go ahead and set the next question?

[Bill D (wwh)]

Yes, go ahead with the next one. :)

[ardip912]

Thanks guys. ;)

At up to 30cms across it is the largest known creature of it's kind. What is a Queen Alexandra's Birdwing?

[Boltonian]

I knows this one, its a flutterbye.:applause:

[ardip912]

Had this in a quiz about two years ago. I said moth. Wrong. Had it again a few weeks back, this time I remembered the last time. Moth I said. Doooohhhh!

Thats a DING. Over to Boltonian

[Boltonian]

Staying with the theme of Flutterbyes, who is this quote from?

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

[ardip912]

Urm? I think this was Hans Christian Anderson. He came up with some brill 'quotes' in his writings! If it was the Brit, I'll get a butterfly to stamp on me. :o

[Boltonian]

Urm? I think this was Hans Christian Anderson. He came up with some brill 'quotes' in his writings! If it was the Brit, I'll get a butterfly to stamp on me. :o

DING DONG
HCA is the correct answer.:applause:

[ardip912]

Thanks Boltonian, just had a doubt in the back of the brain that it might have been the Kipling chappie.

I'm away from civilisation for some days from tomorrow first thing, would you do me the honours of posting the next Q for me; I won't be able to monitor and reply to answers.

Best regards,

Dips.

[Boltonian]

OK, another quote and a clue is it isnt Kipling.

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

Who said that?

[martybartfast]

100% guess :-

Jonathan Miller

[Boltonian]

Nope.
I have found 2 answers for the question but your answer isnt either of them.
One person is purported to have said it on his deathbead but the other person died 10 years before him so its the earliest answer I am looking for.

Want a clue?

[DrDick&Vick]

Must admit this had me baffled so I googled it and still non the wiser as to who either of them were except for what I have read.

[martybartfast]

After my guess I googled it too (so I'm out of the running), I've never heard of one of them but have heard of the other (the one Simon & Garfunkel wrote a song about!) however I don't know what he was doing commenting about TV.

[Boltonian]

The clue I was going to use is that there is a song about him.
If no one else gets it then I would say over to you unless there is a rule about it.

[martybartfast]

As no-one's going to get it, how about another Q?

[Boltonian]

The answer was "Frank Loyd Wright"

OK, another quote, should be easy.


Who said this?

Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true.:wub:

[DrDick&Vick]

Easy peasy

That would be Tennyson

[Boltonian]

Lord Tennyson it is Ding Dong

[DrDick&Vick]

On which planet was Superman born?

[Boltonian]

Dont know but it wasnt the obviopus one as that was tyhe sun.

[ardip912]

Superman was born on the planet Krypton. (Hence his adverse reaction on planet Earth to exposure to Kryptonite, an element that brought his powers in line with that of the inhabitants of the surrounding environment; in this case weakling earthlings. Basically he lost his superpowers)

A popular ITV Series cached (sorry, cashed) in on this theme, they called it 'The Krypton Factor'.

[DrDick&Vick]

Ding and over to you.

[ardip912]

Thanks !

What is regarded as the tallest mountain on Earth :dunno: ?

[martybartfast]

It's Hawaii, I think it's called Mauna Kea (or something similar), on the basis that 'tallest' is measured from the base (which is on the sea bed) to the summit, rather than absolute height of the summit.

[ardip912]

I was thinking someone would jump in with Everest. But no, you get the
DING
with the correct spelling and reasoning. Over to you.

[martybartfast]

He was a poet, and playwright, suspected of being a spy, and is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave in Deptford.

Who was he?

[martybartfast]

Some people also think he wrote Shakespere's plays.

[DrDick&Vick]

could be Marlowe

[Bill D (wwh)]

Bump...

[martybartfast]

Oope, forgot about this.

DING to DrDick&Vick

[DrDick&Vick]

Cheers for that!
One of my interests is the London Underground so here is a question about that:

Which line is the oldest 'tube line' in the world and which year did it open?

[martybartfast]

I think the Metropolitan is the oldest in London, so I'll guess it was also the first in the world.

If that's right I'll have a guess at the year.

[DrDick&Vick]

Correct line and I will give you the Ding if you get year +/- 10

[martybartfast]

1890 ????

[DrDick&Vick]

Close, it was actually 1863 but you can have it.

Ding Ding and mind the gap.

[martybartfast]

OK, going back to simple basics

When was the battle of Trafalgar?

If no-one gets the day then I'll take just the year.

[ardip912]

Sad, I know, but true.

Mums birthday - 21st October. - 21/10
She was born at 5 mins past 6pm - 1805hrs.

Battle of Trafalgar 21/10/1805

[martybartfast]

Sad, I know, but true.

Mums birthday - 21st October. - 21/10
She was born at 5 mins past 6pm - 1805hrs.

Battle of Trafalgar 21/10/1805

So your mum shares her birthday with my youngest daughter then! Although Emily only just snuck in before the 22nd, as it was almost midnight before she put in an appearance!

DING

[ardip912]

So your mum shares her birthday with my youngest daughter then! Although Emily only just snuck in before the 22nd, as it was almost midnight before she put in an appearance!

DING

Yes, she was always going on about the connection with Trafalgar, so much so that I used to take the mickey and call her 'Nelson'. Not appreciated and usually got me a clump round the lughole!

So? Question.

Inspired by the events of Friday 29th April 2011 (which I managed to avoid by picking up nine caches on a wander around beautiful Worcestershire countryside) where did Ms Middleton walk to get to the altar?

[DrDick&Vick]

down the aisle?????????

[ardip912]

Aha!! Kerplonk. Right idea, wrong answer. Some pedants would say you have the direction wrong too; couldn't comment on that.

ardip912

[martybartfast]

I think this is a 'trick' question. If I remember right the Aisles are the bits down the side of the church, and the bit in the middle has a different name, not sure what it is and I have 2 in mind, I'll guess


Nave

[ardip912]

Thought it might catch some people hopping but not really a 'trick' question. Quite right Martybartfast, the aisles run along the side of the church the nave goes up the centre from the entrance towards the altar.

DING

[martybartfast]

Sticking with the theme ('cos I can't think of anything else at the mo).

Which is the tallest Cathdral spire in the UK?

[martybartfast]

Clues:

It's proper name is "the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary"
It has the oldest working clock in the world.
It has one of the 4 surviving copies of the Magna Carta

[Family_Moose]

Winchester?

[martybartfast]

Close (geographically speaking)

[Cornell Finch]

Salisbury?

[martybartfast]

DING dong DING dong

to the man with the funny trousers.

[Cornell Finch]

Yeah baby! What a guess!

Ok...

The first import tax was levied by Henry VIII. On what item?

[Cornell Finch]

I know this is a hard question, but if you take a shot you might just hit the right answer...

[Bear and Ragged]

Arrows?

[Cornell Finch]

Close. You're nocking on the right answer but not quite there.

[martybartfast]

crossbows ?

[Cornell Finch]

crossbows ?

Not quite. It's more about the component of the longbow.

[DrDick&Vick]

bowstrings?

[Cornell Finch]

And the doc gets the DING!

Unfortunately (and embarrassingly), I have been able to find nothing on the 'net to back this up!

[DrDick&Vick]

A very lucky guess.

Which maritime explorer gave the Pacific ocean its name?

[Cornell Finch]

Is it time for a hint Doc?

[martybartfast]

I'll have a completely random guess and guess Capt. Cook.

[Cornell Finch]

I'm gonna go for an older random guess with Columbus.

[DrDick&Vick]

Wrong and Wrong!!
Hint: think GPS

[RuberyBlue]

Magellan............

RB

[Cornell Finch]

Magellan............

RB

And there was me thinking it was that famous explorer known as Tom Tom...

[DrDick&Vick]

Ding dong to RB

[RuberyBlue]

Which shipping forecast area is to the directly north of Ireland?

RB

[martybartfast]

Mull?

[RuberyBlue]

Mull?

Nope....

RB

[Tek_Kaz]

Is it Rockall ??

[DrDick&Vick]

I do know this one as my brother in law is a nautical man and I was looking at his charts recently but in fairness I shall leave this for others as I will possible be a litle preoccupied over the next few days as we are going home o spend some time with our new grandaughter

[RuberyBlue]

Not Rockall.....Clue?

RB

[Maple Leaf]

On behalf of Paradiddle .....

Malin

[RuberyBlue]

Correct :) Over to you!

RB

[Maple Leaf]

Who played the toy maker in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

[Cornell Finch]

It was the dance choreographer but we can't remember his name!

[Maple Leaf]

It was the dance choreographer but we can't remember his name!

No ....... you are thinking of the Child Catcher.

[Bear and Ragged]

Benny Hill.

(Dance guy was Wayne Sleep?)

[Maple Leaf]

Benny Hill.


Correct :applause:

[Bear and Ragged]

Sport.
Can't be played 'left handed'
Both teams play in the same direction towards the same goal.
(But it has two goals!)


edit to add:
Chitty child catcher was Sir Robert Helpmann CBE

[martybartfast]

Croquet?

[Bear and Ragged]

No.

[RuberyBlue]

I have a feeling this is Polo...

RB

[Bear and Ragged]

I have a feeling you may be right!

DING!

[RuberyBlue]

Which capital city stands on the river Danube?

RB

[Family_Moose]

Vienna

(Easy if BA divert you there for a day and a half!)

[Maple Leaf]

I had a feeling it was Budapest.

But now, I have looked it up ...... I see you are playing tricks with us :p

[RuberyBlue]

It is Budapest...

RB

[Maple Leaf]

Vienna



I had a feeling it was Budapest.

But now, I have looked it up ...... I see you are playing tricks with us :p


It is Budapest...

RB

... and three other capital cities.

The Danube flows through four capital cities - Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary) and Belgrade (Serbia)

So I think the ding goes to Family_Moose

[DrDick&Vick]

Budapest actually straddles the Danube with Buda to one side, which is the hilly side and Pest on the other which is the flat built up side.
We have family living on the Buda side.

[Family_Moose]

OK. Inspired by a friends recent holiday.

Where was the objective of Op CORPORATE?

[Palujia]

The Falklands Campaign ! Alas too late for me I'd left the Army for the police in 1976

[Family_Moose]

Thought that might be a bit too easy. Well done.:applause:

[Palujia]

Staying on the "operations" theme - One they made a film about - what was "Operation Mincemeat" ?

[Family_Moose]

OK...no idea, so a pure stab in the dark.

Is it the one about drifting a Royal Navy dressed dead body off the coast of Germany/France/Italy with "SUPER SECRET PLANNING DOCUMENT" in a briefcase?:confused:

[Palujia]

Dat's de one ! Filmed as "the man who never was" Recent research found out his name (which was never released) over to you !

[Maple Leaf]

Bump .... to the Family_Moose (https://www.gagb.org.uk/forums/member.php?u=3986)

[Family_Moose]

As I meander home after a night on the tiles, I wander past St Margaret's Loch.

I look up to my right and see the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel.

Which city am I in?

[Palujia]

Edinburgh !!

[Family_Moose]

DING!!!

Over to you, after an easy one :)

[Palujia]

What was Winston Smith scared of in room 101 ?

[DrDick&Vick]

Oh hell I am sure I know the answer, oh rats why can't I remember?

[Palujia]

DING !! (I spent the whole of 1984 looking out for them !!)

[DrDick&Vick]

One for the historians

Who was Klara Pölzl?

[Palujia]

Adolph's mum !!

[DrDick&Vick]

Very well done my friend Adolf H's mum indeed, for that I will award you the honour of posting the next question.

[Palujia]

The dried berries of which condiment were used to pay rents in Medieval England - giving rise to a phrase meaning paying very little ?

[martybartfast]

It's got to be peppercorn, so the condiment is pepper.

[Palujia]

Ding !!

[DrDick&Vick]

BUMP for Martybartfast

[martybartfast]

Oops, well that woke me up!

Today I was listening to a radio play about a chap named "Kirkpatrick Macmillan" so the question is, what is he famous for?

[martybartfast]

OK, he was a Scottish blacksmith who invented something, but what was it?

[DrDick&Vick]

If I remember back, many many many moons ago, to when I was young and doing an engineering aprenticeship and bulding my own cycles for cometition road racing, I seem to remember that he invented something for bicycles.

[martybartfast]

As I don't think anyone is going to get any closer I'll give the DING to DrD&V, he invented the pedal cycle, previously they were basically a seat on wheels that were pushed along.

[DrDick&Vick]

Thanks for that Marty.

Another bit of history then.
Which country sent its navy around the world to fight the Japanese in 1904?

[Predictable Bob]

Russia ?

[DrDick&Vick]

Blimey Bob, I suppose you read about it in the paper when it happened then!!

Ding Ding and over to you

[Predictable Bob]

I'm only 54 !

Would you believe it was just an inspired guess - Russia's next door to Japan but I vaguely recall that most of their Navy is based in the west so ...


Now you'll all have to wait for me to cogitate for a while cos I'm slow of thought

:D

[Predictable Bob]

Thinking time has run out so we'll go with something close to my heart ...

Which is the odd one out:- Gigondas, St Emillion, Medoc, Pomerol, Fronsac ?

:beer:

[Palujia]

I would say that Gigondas is the odd one out - in the Cote d'Asur region. It is a wine producing area but not like like the others in the Aquitaine region (St Emilion produces my favourite french wines)

[Predictable Bob]

:applause:

Ding !

Gigondas is odd cos the others are clarets

On a personal note I've yet to find a claret that's a match for any of the decent southern Rhones - then again I can't afford 'good claret' prices !


:D

[Palujia]

S*******ys often have an offer on quite a decent St Emillion but as a "drinking" wine We get a nice antipodean merlot from the local A**di at a very good price ! A nice Cornish one for you:- What was the unusual thing about Frederic in the comic opera "Pirates of Penzance" ?

[martybartfast]

Was Frederic a girl?

[DrDick&Vick]

never seen a woman???

[Palujia]

No to both ! -think of a calendar ??

[DrDick&Vick]

just been told the answer by my missus
29th Feb is the answer. Clever old bird aint she.

[Palujia]

You'm right me 'andsome as my cornish Bro-in-law used to say. Born on 29th Feb
Ding !!

[DrDick&Vick]

A simple one.

In Cornwall what does the word Wheal refer to?

[Predictable Bob]

Mine ?

[DrDick&Vick]

Correct Bob so over to you for the next question.

[Predictable Bob]

:lol:

Nice to see my guessing head still works !

Another easy one (probably)

What is vitamin B1 better known as ?


:cool:

[Palujia]

Thiamine?(so madame says)

[Predictable Bob]

:applause:

Ding !

[Palujia]

From which poem by Macaulay does "Horatius at the bridge" come ?
Then up spake brave Horatius
the Captain of the Gate

[DrDick&Vick]

was that not the poem called 'Horatius'

[Palujia]

It was taken out of a longer poem (although it was the most popular part of it and at one stage published separately as Horatius at the bridge) - its the name of the whole thing I want !

[ardip912]

This comes from a collection of four poems 'The Lays of Ancient Rome' according to my learned daughter. She studied 'Ancient History and Civilisations' at Uni so that she could better understand her Dad (errrm??).
I bow to her undoubted intelligence but please tell me she's wrong!:blink:

[Palujia]

Ding !!!

Had to read it at school - Horatius was the best bit !!

[Palujia]

Bumpity Bump Ardip !!

[martybartfast]

I've given up on Ardip, so to get the ball rolling again, here's an easy peasy one:

Which dinosaur has a name that roughly translates from Latin as "Thunder Lizard" ?

[Palujia]

Brontosaurus ?:)

[martybartfast]

DING

I'd forgotten about this!

[Palujia]

Who was "Mad Carew"???

[Cornell Finch]

Can we have a hint please?

[martybartfast]

I missed this.

He was a soldier in the tale of the green eyed yellow idol, to the North of Katmandu.

Pharisee asked a Q about the same monologue over on the GC pub quiz thread a couple of weeks ago.

[Palujia]

DING !!
Didn't see that one - Was reading through some of Kipling's poetry the other day and thought this was one of his !! But was by a man called Hayes ! Great minds must think alike

[martybartfast]

What happened at Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938 ?

[Palujia]

Easy one for us "puffer" addicts - The Mallard broke the steam train speed record - I remember seeing it on God's Wonderful Railway (GWR) in the 50s when we used to stand on the bridge over the railway at White Waltham. There was a very long straight from the Reading direction and the steamers used to come at great rates of knots ! Mallard was bright blue and easy to recognise - they were the days - Saw City of Truro, and lots of the (then) new Britannia class - then later saw the advent of the big diesels - not so much fun as the smoke and noise of the old steamers !!

[martybartfast]

DING

I'm not a train nut myself, but I did once have a day trip out from Marleybone on the Mallard and returned on the "Sir Nigel Gresley" which was the same class of loco and named after their designer.

[Palujia]

Everyone knows the name of Wellington's Horse - but do you know what happened to Copenhagen when he retired - the Horse that is !!

[martybartfast]

Did they have Pedigree Chum back in those days?

[Palujia]

OK - no takers - When he retired he went to the Duke's estate at Stratfield Saye and when he died was given a full military funeral - you were the only taker marty so over to you

[martybartfast]

Well I don't really feel worthy but here goes:

Sticking with horses, name either of the two horses Steptoe and Son had.

[Palujia]

I can only remember one ? He was "Hercules" I think :confused:

[Palujia]

Bump !!!!

[martybartfast]

Oops, missed that.

DING

the other one was Sampson (renamed Delilah when they found out it was pregnant).

[Palujia]

What was Laszlo Biro famous for ??

[Maple Leaf]

Guess .... Biro pen.

[DrDick&Vick]

actually it was just a ballpoint pen he invented, the Biro name was used later.
He was born in Budapest and as Vicky is from there she knows all about him.

[Palujia]

Ding to Richard - as his was the accurate answer - it gave me a thought for other "generic" names (for later inclusion in quiz)

[DrDick&Vick]

Ok, thanks for that.
One for the followers of the famous.
By what name is Carlos Estevez better known?

[Palujia]

Well known Bad Boy and son of my favourite President (West Wing)
Charlie Sheen!!

[DrDick&Vick]

you have got it in one Paul

Ding and over to you.

[Palujia]

How much cash is awarded to the winner of the Man Booker prize

[Palujia]

Have we given up on this one ???

[frosty68]

pretty sure it's £25,000 prize money? ..or 50 :)

[DrDick&Vick]

BUMP for Palujia

[Palujia]

I'll give you a "Ding" for the £50.000
:applause::applause:

[frosty68]

Here's one I learnt last night

Which toy is based on a Phillipino (I bet I spelt that wrong) weapon?

[martybartfast]

Yo-Yo

[frosty68]

yep, the yo-yo, maybe I'm the only person in the world that didn't know that? :)

[Palujia]

Nope ! I didn't either :socool: