On behalf of Paradiddle .....
Malin
On behalf of Paradiddle .....
Malin
GAGB member since 2005
GAGB Committee member 2010 to 2016 (Chair 2012 to 2015)
UK Mega Event Chairman 2009 (Weston-super-Mare)
Correct Over to you!
RB
Who played the toy maker in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
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It was the dance choreographer but we can't remember his name!
Benny Hill.
(Dance guy was Wayne Sleep?)
I have a Geocaching problem...
Work gets in the way!
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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
I have a Geocaching problem...
Work gets in the way!
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Croquet?
No.
I have a Geocaching problem...
Work gets in the way!
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Walking and Caching in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire areas
I have a feeling this is Polo...
RB
I have a feeling you may be right!
DING!
Which capital city stands on the river Danube?
RB
Vienna
(Easy if BA divert you there for a day and a half!)
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits Hes lost?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - TS ELLIOT
I had a feeling it was Budapest.
But now, I have looked it up ...... I see you are playing tricks with us
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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
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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.
OK. Inspired by a friends recent holiday.
Where was the objective of Op CORPORATE?
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits Hes lost?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - TS ELLIOT
The Falklands Campaign ! Alas too late for me I'd left the Army for the police in 1976
Si vis pacem para bellum
Thought that might be a bit too easy. Well done.
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits Hes lost?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - TS ELLIOT
Staying on the "operations" theme - One they made a film about - what was "Operation Mincemeat" ?
Si vis pacem para bellum
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?
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits Hes lost?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - TS ELLIOT
Dat's de one ! Filmed as "the man who never was" Recent research found out his name (which was never released) over to you !
Si vis pacem para bellum
Bump .... to the Family_Moose
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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?
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits Hes lost?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - TS ELLIOT
Edinburgh !!
Si vis pacem para bellum
DING!!!
Over to you, after an easy one
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits Hes lost?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - TS ELLIOT
What was Winston Smith scared of in room 101 ?
Si vis pacem para bellum
Oh hell I am sure I know the answer, oh rats why can't I remember?
DING !! (I spent the whole of 1984 looking out for them !!)
Si vis pacem para bellum
One for the historians
Who was Klara Pölzl?
Adolph's mum !!
Si vis pacem para bellum
Very well done my friend Adolf H's mum indeed, for that I will award you the honour of posting the next question.
The dried berries of which condiment were used to pay rents in Medieval England - giving rise to a phrase meaning paying very little ?
Si vis pacem para bellum
It's got to be peppercorn, so the condiment is pepper.
Ding !!
Si vis pacem para bellum
BUMP for 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?
OK, he was a Scottish blacksmith who invented something, but what was it?
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.
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.
Thanks for that Marty.
Another bit of history then.
Which country sent its navy around the world to fight the Japanese in 1904?
Russia ?
Life is too important to take seriously !
Blimey Bob, I suppose you read about it in the paper when it happened then!!
Ding Ding and over to you
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
Life is too important to take seriously !
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 ?
Life is too important to take seriously !
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)
Si vis pacem para bellum
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 !
Life is too important to take seriously !
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" ?
Si vis pacem para bellum