as an avid F1 fan I shall sit this one out but a good question with one easy answer and another one that may need a little thought
as an avid F1 fan I shall sit this one out but a good question with one easy answer and another one that may need a little thought
Sir Jack Brabham and Alan Jones:cheers:
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DINGO to Palujia
What is the name of the only english town with an exclamation mark in its title ??
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To easy for a seasoned caravanner like me, it's ????????????????????
Come on somebody else join in, I will answer on Friday if it is still open.
I dispute the 'town', more of a village but how about Westward Ho!
DING !!
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Sticking to the spelling of towns/villages theme. Please read the question carefully - without using the web, maps, atlases or any other references, can you spell the FULL name of that place in Anglesey that is usually abbreviated to LlanfairPG?
Last edited by Just Roger; 9th August 2010 at 06:39 PM.
In a word - No ! I'll leave this one to the cunning linguists !!
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DING to Paulija which I don't think he was expecting. The question was "Can you spell . . . " Not, "How do you spell . . . " Like I said, read the question carefully.
Well my ghast is flabbered - but I'll take the Ding for :-
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliog ogogoch :cheers:
(which I did now look up !!!)
Who wrote the book:-
Puckoon
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Spike Milligan
DING !
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Where would you find these letters printed in this order
TF
F
T
S
W
WNA
and for a bonus ding what do the acronyms stand for?
On the side of a ship. They are Loading lines
TF= Tropical Fresh
F=Fresh
T=Tropical
S=Summer
W=Winter
WNA=Winter North Atlantic
Beside these is a circle with a horizontal line through it, projecting outside the circle and on the ends of the line, in the case of a British Registered ship the letters L & R. These stand for Loyds Register which is the UK Certifying Authority.
DING for the answer
and a big
DING the acronyms.
Sticking to a Nautical Theme.
Brunel's last ship, the Great Eastern, after some years as a passenger ship, was converted to another use. After its conversion it carried out a notable task in 1866. What was that task?
It completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, and then repaired the failed attempt from the previous year.
BUMPING this one back up for Dan1980 to set a question
Whoops, I somehow missed the DING!
OK, we might as well stay with ships. A nice easy one:
What were the names of the Titanic's sister ships?
Olympic and Britanic.
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That's a DING
I told you it was an easy one!
Still with ships, why would this hades dweller be on board??
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Oh well thats me out of it, no good at cryptic stuff.
Another name for hades is hell.....
Who lives in hell....
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Ok - to move this on as it seems noone will get it ...
occupant of hades - the devil
why would he be onboard?
The devil is the name given to the longest continuous seam on the ships hull.
'''paying'' was the name given to caulking by the old sailors, and gives rise to the phrase - the devil to pay - the seam, called the devil, had to be caulked but it was held over as a punishment duty as it was such a vile job, especially if the ship was under way.
Ok, a non cryptic one to get things moving - we all know the penguin cant fly - but can you name 3 other birds with wings that are flightless??
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Ostrich for one and possibly an Emu, thats all I can think of
and Kiwi
There's around 40 species of bird that cannot fly - they survived as they evolved because they live in really isolated places that also had a lack of predators.
That's a DIIIIII and and IIINNNGGGG
Hmmm .. a split answer - fair to give it to DrDick&Vick and they got 2 of the 3?
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OK then, a film one
Scenes from which 007 film were shot at Stoke Poges golf club, in Buckinghamshire?
In the voice of Shirley Bassey :-
GoldFinger
Have we given up on this quiz ? Cummon giz a quezzie !
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My apologies folks I have been a little busy and my mind was on other things.
DING to Martybartfast
Well I'd forgotten all about this, otherwise I'd have self dinged.
Anyway, you might have found a cache in a 50 Cal ammo box, but what does "50 cal" mean?
Being an ex squaddie and familiar with the Browning, I'll let someone else answer this one !!
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50 caliber - or more accurately .50 caliber. The diameter of the barrel the ammunition is fired through. Don't know if it's in inches or mils though now. Inches I think given I remember a 22 rifle being referred to as such looooooong before decimalisation lol. So the 50 cal box would hold mmunition rounds suitable for firing through a gun with a .50 caliber barrel.
Or something like that :wacko:
Last edited by 4 and the dog; 7th September 2010 at 01:05 AM.
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DING
All the salient points were in there somewhere the 0.50 cal means half an inch, which is the diameter of the round, although in reality I believe the round is 0.51 inches in order to create a tight fit on the rifling.
Ok then, your starter for 10:
Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, James Garner, Elliot Gould and Robert Mitchum have all played which hard drinking character in film?
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Philip Marlowe?
And that's a DING :cheers:
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Very quick one then as I don't have time to think up anything else.
Who wrote the Philip Marlowe novels.
I'm kind of expecting "4 and the dog" to sit this one out.
That would be Raymond Chandler
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(Who's got the dinger)
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Me,
DING.
Righto !
Who wrote about "Wilt" ??
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