Hellfire1917

That's good enough for me, Marty. He called his father in the first mobile phone call made on a UK network. So that's a *DING* and it's over to you........

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the forum. Been out all day. My question is; Just a minute or so after midnight, night of December 31st 1984/January 1st 1985, while in Parliament Square, London, what did Michael Harrison do? It was a 'first' for the UK.

That has to be Dave Swarbrick.

Canada, via Montreal, 1976, is right! Over to you.

Thanks for the ding! Which is the only country to host the Summer Olympic Games while not winning a single gold medal at those games?

Well this is just a guess, but it can only be either W. B. Yeats or James Joyce.

Give that man a *DING*! Over to Pajaholic.

Thanks for the Ding! My question is about two photos. The ship and the bridge are both named after the same person. Who is it?

I think I know that one - Groucho Marx.

Robinson Crusoe, and Daniel Defoe is buried about 200 yards from where I'm sitting right now Got it in one! Get under your goatskin sunshade and compose the next question!

Thanks, Optimist. Here's my question. Alexander Selkirk (1676 - 1721) was the inspiration for which famous literary character?

Just a guess, but I'm going to say it's the name Blake. I know that William Blake wrote the words to " Jerusalem" and there was a "Dynasty" character called Blake Carrington.

Gladiators it is. Although it's commonly quoted as "we who are about to die" it's actually, "Hail Caesar, they who are about to die salute you." It has one written source, recording that it was said in just one place, but legend now has it that all Gladiators said it. Anyhow - it's a Dingus Maximus to Pajaholic.

Let's move from Greek to Latin. Which groups of people was supposed to have said, "Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant"?

Well, I know that there's an ancient stone somewhere in Greece known as the omphalos which the ancients used to believe was the navel of the world. So I'll make the leap to the idea that omphalos means navel, and suggest that omphalophobia is the fear of navels.

*DING* Rolling Stones it is. The three singles are: 1 "Come On" - Chuck Berry 2 "I wanna be your man" - Lennon/McCartney 3 "Not Fade Away" - Buddy Holly

Sound thinking, but not what I was looking for. The band in question's first three singles all made it into the UK charts at 21, 12 and 3. And they were all released under the same band-name.

Thanks for the DING. Which British rock band's first three singles were (1) a Chuck Berry song, (2) a Lennon and McCartney song and (3) a Buddy Holly song?

I only just spotted this question. I'm a camera freak and I think the answer is CANON.

The Merchant of Venice.

Well done Beach_hut. Have a DING.

Here's my question, then: The communications company Nokia was founded in which country?

Just a guess - is it October, because of the extra hour when the clocks go back?

So glad to see that this thread has been revived!

Would it help to move things on if we just agreed that Joluc, as the last person to post before this thread stalled, sets a new question?