The All New GAGB Pub Quiz

[DrDick&Vick]

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

[Palujia]

Sir Jack Brabham and Alan Jones:cheers:

[martybartfast]

DINGO to Palujia

[Palujia]

What is the name of the only english town with an exclamation mark in its title ??

[DrDick&Vick]

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.

[Just Roger]

I dispute the 'town', more of a village but how about Westward Ho!

[Palujia]

DING !!

[Just Roger]

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?

[Palujia]

In a word - No ! I'll leave this one to the cunning linguists !!

[Just Roger]

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.

[Palujia]

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

[martybartfast]

Spike Milligan

[Palujia]

DING !

[martybartfast]

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?

[Just Roger]

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.

[martybartfast]

DING for the answer

and a big
DING the acronyms.

[Just Roger]

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?

[Dan1980]

It completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, and then repaired the failed attempt from the previous year.

[Just Roger]

It completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, and then repaired the failed attempt from the previous year.

DING DONG one for the cable and another for the repair.

Over to you

[DrDick&Vick]

BUMPING this one back up for Dan1980 to set a question

[Dan1980]

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?

[4 and the dog]

Olympic and Britanic.

[Dan1980]

That's a DING

I told you it was an easy one!

[4 and the dog]

Still with ships, why would this hades dweller be on board??

[martybartfast]

Still with ships, why would this hades dweller be on board??

Is there supposed to be a picture attached, or is this a cryptic question?, or maybe it's just too early and my brain hasn't woken up yet.

[4 and the dog]

Is there supposed to be a picture attached, or is this a cryptic question?, or maybe it's just too early and my brain hasn't woken up yet.

No picture supposed to be attached, cryptic question, coffee I.V. stat

[DrDick&Vick]

Oh well thats me out of it, no good at cryptic stuff.

[4 and the dog]

Another name for hades is hell.....

Who lives in hell....

[4 and the dog]

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??

[DrDick&Vick]

Ostrich for one and possibly an Emu, thats all I can think of

[martybartfast]

and Kiwi

[4 and the dog]

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?

[DrDick&Vick]

OK then, a film one

Scenes from which 007 film were shot at Stoke Poges golf club, in Buckinghamshire?

[martybartfast]

In the voice of Shirley Bassey :-

GoldFinger

[Palujia]

Have we given up on this quiz ? Cummon giz a quezzie !

[DrDick&Vick]

My apologies folks I have been a little busy and my mind was on other things.

DING to Martybartfast

[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?

[Palujia]

Being an ex squaddie and familiar with the Browning, I'll let someone else answer this one !!

[4 and the dog]

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?

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:

[martybartfast]

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.

[4 and the dog]

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?

[martybartfast]

Philip Marlowe?

[4 and the dog]

And that's a DING :cheers:

[martybartfast]

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.

[4 and the dog]

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.

:coffee:

opcorn:

[Palujia]

That would be Raymond Chandler

[4 and the dog]

(Who's got the dinger)

[martybartfast]

Me,

DING.

[Palujia]

Righto !

Who wrote about "Wilt" ??

[4 and the dog]

Righto !

Who wrote about "Wilt" ??

Wilt's brother Droopy