The All New GAGB Pub Quiz

[keehotee]

o

You can change all of them into another word by adding "o" to the end....

[Ten point nine]

Ding to Keehotee
Thought that might have run for a bit longer.

Over to you

[keehotee]

OK - an easy topical one......

What extra bit will BBC engineers be doing for us tonight (specifically) - and how many times have they done it so far?

[martybartfast]

Well we're getting a leap second this year so the Beeb will be adding an extra 'pip' at midnight. How many times have they done it? I know at least once but I'll guess at twice.

[keehotee]

a ding for the first part...... anyone going to get the second (excuse the pun) correct?

[Ten point nine]

I think they said 23 prior to this. It was repeated heaven knows how many times on the morning news but I mustn't have been listening properly.

[keehotee]

gets you the second ding.
First one in gets to set the next one - or you can fight for it......

[Ten point nine]

Which country has the largest number of Newspapers.

[Ten point nine]

Clue this country is also a sub-continent.

[gazooks]

Australia ?

[Ten point nine]

Sorry no ding, a little more populous than Aus.

[martybartfast]

India

[Ten point nine]

Ding

Approx 4235 titles most of them regional

Over to you

[martybartfast]

Here's a quickie:

Who was the first person to breadk the sound barrier in level flight?

[gazooks]

Chuck Yeager ?

[martybartfast]

gazooks zooms in at the speed of sound and gets a supersonic

DING

[gazooks]

wow what a guess - only name I knew

In which country was Greenpeace founded?

[Ten point nine]

Canada

[DrDick&Vick]

1972 in Vancouver, Canada.
I know because I am a member although no longer and active one.

[gazooks]

A DING to Ten Point Nine :socool:

[Ten point nine]

What's the next number?

12,215,308,523,345,916

[keehotee]

12,215,308,523,345,917

And the one after that's 12,215,308,523,345,918

lol

[Ten point nine]

DING

[Mrs Blorenge]

<random interjection> The above question and answer reminded me of the following joke I was sent last week:

Secretary of State Rice is giving president Bush his daily briefing. She concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the Bush exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "Remind me, exactly how many is a brazillion?"

</random interjection>

[keehotee]

Which of these British overseas territories is the odd one out, and why....

South Georgia
British Virgin Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands
British Indian Ocean Territory

[*mouse*]

South Georgia - only one that's land locked....

[Team Cobra UK]

South Georgia is correct...but its not landlocked (any Falklands veteran can confirm this) its because the other islands use US$ whilst South Georgia uses Pounds sterling.

[keehotee]

South Georgia is correct...but its not landlocked (any Falklands veteran can confirm this) its because the other islands use US$ whilst South Georgia uses Pounds sterling.

..gets you the double DING...

Think *mouse* had Georgia on her mind....

[Team Cobra UK]

Yeeeee ..... Thanks for that..comiserations Mouse

An American space explorer is called an Astronaut,
A Russian one is a Cosmonaut,
But what is a Chinese space explorer called???

[keehotee]

.

[*mouse*]

Oops! Wrong Georgia!! I should have paid more attention in geography class!

[keehotee]

Yeeeee ..... Thanks for that..comiserations Mouse

An American space explorer is called an Astronaut,
A Russian one is a Cosmonaut,
But what is a Chinese space explorer called???

An Astlonaut ???

[Team Cobra UK]

Very good but no ding...

[Ten point nine]

They call them Taikonauts I think.

Anyone know why?

[Team Cobra UK]

A big DING to Ten Point Nine..

The
Phrase is a hybrid of the Chinese term taikong (space) and the Greek naut (traveller),

[Ten point nine]

In which sport might you use a 'Brunswick Command Zone'?

[keehotee]

I know the answer to this one 'cause my ex-wife actually has one. It was her brothers, and he left it in our house when he was flying back to the US after finishing his posting in Germany (he got a military flight from Germany to here, then commercial back home - and it was too heavy to warrant taking back).
But I'm not going to answer the question.... m'wahahahahahahaha

[Ten point nine]

The answer is "Ten Pin Bowling" it's a bowling ball.

Would someone else like to pick up the baton as I'm away working for a few days in the wilds of the Welsh Borders and I'll be off line as I don't know if there will be a McDonalds handy.

[Maple Leaf]

A bit of fun .....

This weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, but according to the results of the 2008 survey, what were the 'Top 15 birds' ?

[Mrs Blorenge]

This is a combined Blorenge effort: (Assuming these are birds actually seen in people's gardens, as opposed to seen from their garden.)

house sparrow, dunnock/hedge sparrow, robin, starling, blue tit, great tit, blackbird, magpie, pied wagtail, wren, crow, collared dove, greenfinch, goldfinch, black-headed gull.


That concludes the voting from the south Wales jury.

[Maple Leaf]

This is a combined Blorenge effort: (Assuming these are birds actually seen in people's gardens, as opposed to seen from their garden.)

house sparrow, dunnock/hedge sparrow, robin, starling, blue tit, great tit, blackbird, magpie, pied wagtail, wren, crow, collared dove, greenfinch, goldfinch, black-headed gull.


That concludes the voting from the south Wales jury.

11 correct ...

Blackbird, Blue Tit, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Magpie, Robin, Starling

4 still to find ...

(and yes the RSPB rules are 'seen in' not 'flying over')

[Bill D (wwh)]

I'd guess that the song thrush (Turdus philomelos ) might be one of the others.

[Maple Leaf]

I'd guess that the song thrush (Turdus philomelos ) might be one of the others.

No .... so still 4 to find

[Bill D (wwh)]

The wood pigeon?

[Mrs Blorenge]

On the way to an event this afternoon I was pondering birds, trying to think which ones we might have missed and I suddenly realised... chaffinch!
How could we have forgotten the chaffinch? Must be in the top 15, surely?

MrB suggests that the siskin and wood pigeon could be another two that're missing.

What about long tailed tit as another?

[martybartfast]

pied wagtail

[Maple Leaf]

The wood pigeon?

Yes

On the way to an event this afternoon I was pondering birds, trying to think which ones we might have missed and I suddenly realised... chaffinch!
How could we have forgotten the chaffinch? Must be in the top 15, surely?

MrB suggests that the siskin and wood pigeon could be another two that're missing.

What about long tailed tit as another?

Chaffinch, Wood pigeon and Long tail tit are correct

... so one left to go (plenty of them in my garden)

[Maple Leaf]

pied wagtail

No

[Mrs Blorenge]

A sad story, while we're on birds.

A friend recently told us that her cat had killed a small bird that she didn't recognise. From her description over the phone MrB thought it sounded like it was a goldcrest, which was rather sad. When he went there later and saw the remains it was even sadder than that - it was a firecrest. A fairly rare bird in our area... and now a bit rarer.


Back to the final bird missing from the Top 15

How about the feral pigeon?

[Maple Leaf]

A sad story, while we're on birds.

A friend recently told us that her cat had killed a small bird that she didn't recognise. From her description over the phone MrB thought it sounded like it was a goldcrest, which was rather sad. When he went there later and saw the remains it was even sadder than that - it was a firecrest. A fairly rare bird in our area... and now a bit rarer.


Back to the final bird missing from the Top 15

How about the feral pigeon?

I have had to go and get the bird book out now to look up a firecrest .. as never heard of them.

Sorry no, not feral pigeon.

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