The All New GAGB Pub Quiz

keehotee · 25th January 2009, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

Clue ..... they remain faithful to their partner for life and the pair even search for food together (according to my book anyway)

Penguin! (Common - or feral - I don't mind.......)

lol

**Mrs Blorenge** · 25th January 2009, 05:31 PM

"This weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch..."

Originally Posted by keehotee

Penguin! (Common - or feral - I don't mind.......)

lol

You know, you really must stop putting those sardines on your bird table

:

**martybartfast** · 25th January 2009, 05:51 PM

Coal Tit?

**Maple Leaf** · 25th January 2009, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by martybartfast

Coal Tit?

Nope ...... bigger

keehotee · 25th January 2009, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

Nope ...... bigger

Rook, crow, jackdaw, chough, emperor penguin, puffin.

That's all the birds I can think of that haven't already been mentioned.... apart from Golden Eagle, Red kite, Falcon, Heron, vulture......but I don't think you'd get many in the back garden

**Maple Leaf** · 25th January 2009, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by keehotee

Rook, crow, jackdaw, chough, emperor penguin, puffin.

Yep, it is one of those .....

**Mrs Blorenge** · 25th January 2009, 10:09 PM

OK... If it's one of those then I'd go for the jackdaw.

**Maple Leaf** · 26th January 2009, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by Mrs Blorenge

OK... If it's one of those then I'd go for the jackdaw.

Ding to Mrs B

Top 15 from RSPB 2008 survey were:

Blackbird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Robin, Starling, Wood Pigeon

**Mrs Blorenge** · 26th January 2009, 08:14 AM

I found this amusing mnemonic recently, but what is it for?

(Please give the full group/series/detail.)

No point letting your trousers slip half way.

keehotee · 26th January 2009, 06:53 PM

Are they the initial letters of the last 8 members of your hamster's pedigree line?

**Mrs Blorenge** · 26th January 2009, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by keehotee

Are they the initial letters of the last 8 members of your hamster's pedigree line?

What a charming idea... but no :lol:

It's the sort of mnemonic that teachers might have given to their pupils 30 or 40 years ago. Today, because this subject is taught in a more modern style, often using 'topics', I doubt whether pupils are actually required to know this group/series/detail.

**Bill D (wwh)** · 26th January 2009, 09:50 PM

Aha, I had no idea, and I hadn't heard it before, but though I wasn't taught in the modern style using topics, the mention of that immediately suggested history, and I worked it out from there:

Norman
Plantagenet
Lancaster
York
Tudor
Stuart
Hanover
Windsor

Our Royal Houses since Bill the Norm.

**Mrs Blorenge** · 26th January 2009, 10:09 PM

Major "Ding" to Bill

Over to you...

**Bill D (wwh)** · 26th January 2009, 10:20 PM

Thanks, Mrs B!

Where is the one location on Earth that is both the closest point to and the furthest point from the Sun?

keehotee · 27th January 2009, 05:06 AM

Chimborazo in the Andes....?

(I set this question in the other place last year)

**Bill D (wwh)** · 27th January 2009, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by keehotee

Chimborazo in the Andes....?

(I set this question in the other place last year)

That's a ding to Tim...

I haven't followed the other pub quiz, so I didn't know you'd posted the very same question there!

keehotee · 27th January 2009, 11:30 AM

OK – without google or Wikipedia – what are the proper names for the following:-

1. &
2. Æ
3. @
4. Œ

**Mrs Blorenge** · 27th January 2009, 11:57 AM

I only know that 1. is an ampersand. I've only ever called @ a "curly at" myself.

keehotee · 27th January 2009, 12:00 PM

1. to Mrs B

**martybartfast** · 27th January 2009, 12:14 PM

I think 3 is a "Commercial At", at least thats what I've always called it.

keehotee · 27th January 2009, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by martybartfast

I think 3 is a "Commercial At", at least thats what I've always called it.

Haha - it may well be a commercial at - but that's not it's name.......

OK – without google or Wikipedia – what are the proper names for the following:-

1. & - Ampersand - Mrs B
2. Æ
3. @
4. Œ

Hint time...... two of them have latin names (and Mrs B got one of them) - the other two are old english / anglo saxon.

p.s. I'm editing this post for a second time - why have I got a Vote Now button at the bottom of the box?

keehotee · 28th January 2009, 08:20 AM

Has nobody in here got a dictionary??????

**martybartfast** · 28th January 2009, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by keehotee

Has nobody in here got a dictionary?????

Wot, in a pub?

Anyway I only ever use online dictionaries nowadays & they're not allowed.

**Mrs Blorenge** · 28th January 2009, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by keehotee

Has nobody in here got a dictionary?????

Yep. It tells me that an aedile is a magistrate in ancient Rome (I knew that anyway, having just finished reading "Imperium") and oecumenic relates to the whole Christian world, or church.

I also now know how to correct a printers' proof, have discovered the A.E.C. and Aeneas and, in passing, I now know how to address a Baron's son's wife and how many grains of truth I need to put into one scruple. I look forward to my next dopping of sheldrakes, too. I view your question aequo animo so will await further elucidation while having a Danish @ for lunch.

:coffee:

keehotee · 28th January 2009, 01:55 PM

Hint time...... two of them have latin names (and Mrs B got one of them) - the other two are old english / anglo saxon

The two with latin names sound very similar.
The two anglo saxon words sound like....... a tree, and a hebrew name.

**Bill D (wwh)** · 28th January 2009, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by keehotee

p.s. I'm editing this post for a second time - why have I got a Vote Now button at the bottom of the box?

Hmm, I've no idea. I've just clicked on "Edit" on that same post of yours and I got the usual edit page, with no "Vote Now" button.

Edit to add: I'm editing this post, and not getting a "Vote Now" button here either.

keehotee · 28th January 2009, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bill D (wwh)

Hmm, I've no idea. I've just clicked on "Edit" on that same post of yours and I got the usual edit page, with no "Vote Now" button.

Edit to add: I'm editing this post, and not getting a "Vote Now" button here either.

Hmmm - no, I've just tried to get it to do it again and it won't.
Next time it does I'll do a screen-cap....

Thanks for looking though Bill.

**Bill D (wwh)** · 28th January 2009, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by keehotee

Hmmm - no, I've just tried to get it to do it again and it won't.
Next time it does I'll do a screen-cap....

Thanks for looking though Bill.

You're welcome, and yes, please do post a screen-cap if it happens again.

**Bill D (wwh)** · 29th January 2009, 09:31 PM

Æ - Ash?

keehotee · 30th January 2009, 04:00 AM

Originally Posted by Bill D (wwh)

Æ - Ash?

hurray......... yes, 2 down, 2 to go

keehotee · 30th January 2009, 02:52 PM

1. & - Ampersand - Mrs B
2. Æ - ash - Bill D
3. @ - A?p?r?n?
4. Œ - ?s?e? (Rantzen?)

**gazooks** · 31st January 2009, 07:39 AM

ampersand
ester ?

keehotee · 31st January 2009, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by gazooks

ampersand
ester ?

a ding for ester...... (would also have accepted ethel....)

keehotee · 3rd February 2009, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by keehotee

1. & - Ampersand - Mrs B
2. Æ - ash - Bill D
3. @ - Asper?nd
4. Œ - ester - gazooks

Come on - next one in gets the ding

**Maple Leaf** · 3rd February 2009, 12:38 PM

Asperand

keehotee · 3rd February 2009, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

Asperand

DING..!!!

**Maple Leaf** · 4th February 2009, 05:10 PM

I have just booked a business trip to a place that has this flag .... but where am I going?

**Ten point nine** · 4th February 2009, 08:26 PM

Baliwick of Jersey?

**Maple Leaf** · 4th February 2009, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by Ten point nine

Baliwick of Jersey?

Ding .... wiki

**Ten point nine** · 5th February 2009, 10:49 PM

Name Londons main airport from 1920 - 1946.

**gazooks** · 6th February 2009, 07:53 AM

Hendon Aerodrome

**martybartfast** · 6th February 2009, 11:55 AM

Croydon.

**Ten point nine** · 6th February 2009, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by martybartfast

Croydon.

That's a DING to Martybartfast

**martybartfast** · 7th February 2009, 02:14 PM

What was the ship prefix of the Queen Mary (launched 26 September 1934) and what does the prefix stand for?

**gazooks** · 7th February 2009, 07:53 PM

SS ?

Steam Ship

keehotee · 8th February 2009, 08:14 AM

RMS - Royal Mail Ship

(ex PSNC, P&O, FWS, Cunard White Star Engineer Officer)

**martybartfast** · 8th February 2009, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by keehotee

RMS - Royal Mail Ship

(ex PSNC, P&O, FWS, Cunard White Star Engineer Officer)

Well I guess if anyone knows, it would be you! I only found out yesterday while watching an old documentary on the telly.

DING

keehotee · 10th February 2009, 04:44 AM

I'm being lazy - so some of you might have seen this question before

Names of the following please.....

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

**gazooks** · 10th February 2009, 08:29 AM

Pugh, Pugh, Barley Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub (I think)

keehotee · 10th February 2009, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by gazooks

Pugh, Pugh, Barley Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub (I think)

A bloke called Barley???

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