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  1. 29th April 2008, 09:49 AM #1
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    Rule 1 - No googling!

    Rule 2 - no using other internet search engines which are available

    Rule 3 - Try and keep your question at the level someone in a pub quiz might be able to answer...
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  2. 29th April 2008, 09:50 AM #2
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    I suppose I'd better ask a question:

    What modern day place was named Lactodorum by the Romans?



    edited because I've got very fat fingers today and keep hitting multiple buttonsd!
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  3. 29th April 2008, 10:44 AM #3
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    Ha - is there anybody that hasn't looked this up over the past few years????

    Towcester....pronounced Toaster??? :lol:
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  4. 29th April 2008, 10:58 AM #4
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    Ding to Keehotee
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  5. 29th April 2008, 11:45 AM #5
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    Badabing....

    OK - staying with the theme - what was discovered in Eckington late last year? :lol: :lol:















    pre-post editing to add, that's Eckington the place..!!!
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  6. 29th April 2008, 12:30 PM #6
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    Complete guess - Some treasure trove hoard?
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  7. 29th April 2008, 12:58 PM #7
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    On the right lines - but unfortunately wrong......
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  8. 29th April 2008, 07:44 PM #8
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    OK - let's speed it up......

    It was Roman, and it wasn't treasure or a building
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  9. 29th April 2008, 08:45 PM #9
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    surely it's the remains of a brewery :lol:
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  10. 30th April 2008, 06:37 PM #10
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    To speed this up and stop it stagnating as much as the quiz on the other forum I'm calling question setters perogative and giving the ding to Mrs B (Sorry Matt).

    The item found in Eckington last year was a dead Roman soldier (how he managed to review all those caches and keep that quiet is beyond me).

    It may well have been a Roman brewery that lead to his demise - but they haven't found it yet if it was........
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    Mrs B...??? Helloooooooo...????????
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    What are the elusive characters? Missing two letters or numbers?

    WATE?
    M?LON


    (No, it's nothing fruity )
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  13. 23rd May 2008, 10:34 AM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Blorenge View Post
    What are the elusive characters? Missing two letters or numbers?

    WATE?
    M?LON
    c and t?
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    Well done, Tim - I like a bit of lateral thinking
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  15. 23rd May 2008, 06:25 PM #15
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    Darn - better think of a question then.....

    120-129, 110-119, 100-109, 130-139, 140-149

    According to George and Bungle, which two might I have got in the wrong order...?
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    No Idea - and I don't get Mrs B's either
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  17. 24th June 2008, 07:08 PM #17
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    would it be 130-139 and 140-149?

    wavelengths of light in a rainbow? or have i got them the wrong way round?
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  18. 24th June 2008, 08:00 PM #18
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    On the right lines - sort of.

    OK - this has gone on long enough.....

    Think disodium salt of 6-hydroxy-5-[(4-sulfophenyl)azo]-2
    -naphthalenesulfonic acid instead.

    No?

    LOL - OK - sunset yellow!
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    Well, I'll admit I cheated n googled the disodium salt... h34r:

    I now know what it is, and Sunset Yellow then became obvious, but, um, I'm no nearer the answer...
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  20. 25th June 2008, 05:47 AM #20
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    could we be looking at food colouring E numbers?
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  21. 25th June 2008, 06:07 AM #21
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    could we be looking at food colouring E numbers?
    I'm going to give you the ding - just to get it moving again.
    They're red orange yellow green blue purple as e numbers..... can't remember which two I swapped round....whoops
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  22. 25th June 2008, 07:52 PM #22
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    Who was the first man to put two feet onto mount everest?
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  23. 25th June 2008, 07:59 PM #23
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    Teehee - you watch QI as well.....................
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  24. 26th June 2008, 05:10 AM #24
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    of course
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  25. 26th June 2008, 12:25 PM #25
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    An Indian guy who calculated the height as 29,000 feet then added 2 feet so it would appear that the height was not considered rounded. Without googling it I have no idea of his name.

    Yep .. I saw QI as well.
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  26. 26th June 2008, 02:05 PM #26
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    Didn't think he was Indian???
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    I think it's usually said that it was a surveyor called Waugh who added those two extra feet for "credibility" - I can't remember his first name. But I believe that's disputed, and it's sometimes claimed that an Indian whose name I can't remember at all was the first person to do that, and Waugh copied his idea.
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  28. 26th June 2008, 05:08 PM #28
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    From the information i have it was Waugh who added the two feet due to the feeling that 29000 would suggest it had been rounded up. so it's a ding to bill :cheers:
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    Thanks, Matt! :cheers:

    Ok, here we go...

    In what film is the following quote spoken, and who was the original author of the lines (not the film scriptwriter)?

    Some are born to sweet delight.
    Some are born to endless night.

    If it turns out that there's another film, other than the one I have in mind, in which those lines are spoken, I'll accept that one. But either way I want both answers, the film and the author.

    If no-one's got it by the morning I'll give a clue.
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  30. 26th June 2008, 06:41 PM #30
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    The words appear in the movie "Dead Man" about William Blake, who originally penned them ("Auguries of Innocence"). The words also appear in the Doors song "End of the Night".
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    Quote Originally Posted by nick_h_nz View Post
    The words appear in the movie "Dead Man" about William Blake, who originally penned them ("Auguries of Innocence"). The words also appear in the Doors song "End of the Night".
    Ding - wow, that was quick!

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  32. 26th June 2008, 08:50 PM #32
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    I'll hand it back to Gazooks, since he answered the Everest question too. (And since there is dispute as to whether or not it was Waugh or an Indian who added two feet to Everest.)

    As to it being fast, I like Johnny Depp movies, so I've seen most. Also familiar with Blake because he's influenced so many bands and artists. No doubt I could go through my cd collection and find a whole bunch, but the more obvious references are in the Doors, the Blake Babies, and Bruce Dickinson's "Chemical Wedding".
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    Oh OK thanks...

    Coca-Cola would be what colour - if colouring weren’t added to it.
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  34. 27th June 2008, 06:03 AM #34
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    I'm guessing green - from the coca leaves
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    A Ding to Keehotee
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    Tim...???
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    Bump...
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  38. 17th July 2008, 03:07 PM #38
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    Whoops - sorry all - forgot about this.

    Ummm - better think of a question then.....

    OK - we'll try this one.

    It's just gone 4 o'clock, and I'm sat in my office staring at the monitor.
    What one dimensional construct (apart from time) am I looking at?
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    Windows Vista - cant get anymore one dimensional that Microsoft
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  40. 17th July 2008, 06:34 PM #40
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    If only - but no, I was sat in front of a brand new Mac Pro........
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  41. 17th July 2008, 06:48 PM #41
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    one dimensional construct? your love life? hmy:
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  42. 17th July 2008, 06:51 PM #42
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    I wish - I aspire to a love life that in depth.....lol
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    Erm.... a line of failed LCDs on your screen??!
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  44. 17th July 2008, 08:02 PM #44
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    almost - I feel a bit of a cad about this question...





    (that was a clue)
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    Must be using a little bit of software from Autodesk then eh? Posh etch-a-sketch!
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    lol - going to give you the ding just because I've got slopey shoulders, and it was a really lame question....

    A straight line in AutoCad has only got one dimension - length. No width, and no height.
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    Doh, that means I've got to think of a question now! Well here's one borrowed from the local pub quiz 'cause I'm too lazy to think something up myself.....

    What is Fernville Lord Digby famous for?
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    A couple of clues to get this one moving......

    Don't assume he's human.
    He's appeared in a series of TV adverts but what product was he selling......
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    Advertising paint. He's one of the Dulux dogs.
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    Ding!
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