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    The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

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    isn't it what they call the red inflateable arches marking distances to the finish of stages in the Tour de France?

     

    More correctly marking the last kilometre - but its a maillot jaune and a ding to Sharpeset!!

     

    Merci :) sticking tenuously with the cycling theme: Queen released Bicycle Race as a double A-sided single in 1978. What track was on the other A-side?

    The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    I think you're talking about the large horse head sculptures, I think they're based on some mythical sea creature, and IIRC they're at the same place that has the big waterwheel canal boat lift, but I can't remember the name of the place.

     

    Yep, right on all counts. As you have been precise with the canal lift detail I'll let you off not specifying Falkirk

     

    DING

    The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    So, summing up: Pajaholic contributes "H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York)."

     

    Boggin's Dad adds :"I think Ripon would count, as Reading is a town rather than a city."

     

    Optimist on the run plonks the cherry on top with "And I think Inverness"

     

    That crowdfunded answer looks good to me! But who gets the ding ... now that's a conundrum for Yorkshire Yellow - it's going to be like infant school sports day ("You are all winners ... but ... ")

     

    I think Pajaholic gets it - the Ding was for the first to name six of the eight

    The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    one of two countries that doesnt have VAT, the other being Luxemburg.

    Wow, interesting! But not the answer I'm afraid, for one thing the dates don't fit.

    According to the Guardian

    "VAT is a continental invention. French tax authority apparatchik Maurice Lauré fathered the tax in 1954, although a tax that touched on every stage of the production process was first theorised in Germany a century earlier. VAT took its bow in the UK in November 1974"

    I checked because I was worried my question might have an unintended second solution.

     

    It's one of only two countries that are wholly landlocked by countries which are themselves landlocked. The other one is one of the 'Stans' I believe (Kyrgistan landlocked by Kazakhstan?)

    Ding to Sharpeset, a "doubly landlocked" country is what wikipedia calls it, defined there as

    " ... surrounded entirely by one or more landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)."

    The other is Uzbekistan

    Over to you

     

    Thank you :)

     

    Sticking with geography - where would you find a monk standing between a virgin and an ogre?

    The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    one of two countries that doesnt have VAT, the other being Luxemburg.

    Wow, interesting! But not the answer I'm afraid, for one thing the dates don't fit.

    According to the Guardian

    "VAT is a continental invention. French tax authority apparatchik Maurice Lauré fathered the tax in 1954, although a tax that touched on every stage of the production process was first theorised in Germany a century earlier. VAT took its bow in the UK in November 1974"

    I checked because I was worried my question might have an unintended second solution.

     

    It's one of only two countries that are wholly landlocked by countries which are themselves landlocked. The other one is one of the 'Stans' I believe (Kyrgistan landlocked by Kazakhstan?)

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