Sharpeset
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Thanks - FWIW he's the only famous golfer I could mentally picture with a Scottish accent; hence the guess.
Moving from golf (about which I know next to nothing) to cycling. 'Clipless' pedals (so called because they positively locate the foot onto the pedal without needing toe-clips) use cleats mounted on the shoes that engage with sprung bindings of the pedals. You need to give your foot an outward twist to disengage them. Hence they've been responsible for more than one 'timber' moment when the rider has forgotten to give that twist and so been unable to put his or her foot down!
'Clipless' pedals are often called 'SPDs', but what do the initials 'SPD' stand for in this context?
I've got some but can't remember! I know S = Shimano (who invented them) and P = pedals, but the 'D' is eluding me...
(and I've never had a 'timber' moment.....yet....)
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We were in Helsinki on a 'cruise-call' this summer. We walked about two miles to find the cache at the Sibelius Monument. Unfortunately the cache was gone, but it was obvious where it should have been (fixing still in place). We logged it as a find - but noted in the log what had actually happened. Others had done the same, some attaching photos of the fixing as proof. We then received an e:mail from CO, quoting guidelines that 'no sign log = no find' and requesting we amend the log to a 'note' or delete it. We felt a little miffed, but complied with the request. Over the course of the next couple of days all similar logs close to ours were either amended or deleted so at least CO was consistent and not just picking on us. Shame though...
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Not as fast as 'very slow', more like stationary...
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paddington bear
sorry, just too late...
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Time for a clue?
His surname's a colour, the colour Saruman had and Gandalf took from him....
...White
no idea on first name though
Ding! T H White.
Over to you.
Thanks - Didn't expect the Ding for half an answer!
Staying with a literary them: who famously lived at 32 Windsor Gardens, London?
Pete
Paddington?
DING! yes indeed, one of my faves....
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Time for a clue?
His surname's a colour, the colour Saruman had and Gandalf took from him....
...White
no idea on first name though
Ding! T H White.
Over to you.
Thanks - Didn't expect the Ding for half an answer!
Staying with a literary them: who famously lived at 32 Windsor Gardens, London?
Pete
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Time for a clue?
His surname's a colour, the colour Saruman had and Gandalf took from him....
...White
no idea on first name though
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Tau Day was yesterday (in American format).
EDIT: Oops!
Serving leader? Neil Kinnock? Labour?
Yesterday is yesterday in any format surely?
yesterday - or more specifically 28th June was 6.28 in american format, as opposed to 28/6...
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In some quarters 28th June just gone was referred as 'Tau Day': To what does 'Tau' refer?
Somewhere along the lies of the mathamatical bods want a new number.
Tau is equal to 2x Pi
The number is 628 the date written in the non-UK format.
DING! Over to you
Pete
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what was the question again hehehehe
Ok.
Bat for Lashes is a solo artist, her cousin was considered the best in the world ever in his sport... Who is he?
As it's gone on a while, pub quizzers should know him by his record... Most consecutive victories in any sport. (obviously this rules out anyone from Great Britain)
no idea who bat for lashes is, but I recall Jehengar (spelling?) Khan went undefeated playing squash for years
Pete
Ding dong!
Jahengir Kahn, cousin of Natasha "bat for lashes" khan... Went 555 matches with all victories from the age of 17 unbeaten... Over 5 years. During this time he won a major tournament without losing a single point.
His record is under threat... Number 2 on the list is a female wheelchair tennis player who is now past 350 wins in a row.
The only people who compete for the title are the Harlem globetrotters.... Who've been unbeaten for decades. They have however drawn matches in regulation time, going on to win in overtime. For records purposes these are counted as draws, so the unbeaten streak goes on, but the winning one stops.
OK: changing the subject completely to something topical that caught my eye....
In some quarters 28th June just gone was referred as 'Tau Day': To what does 'Tau' refer?
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what was the question again hehehehe
Ok.
Bat for Lashes is a solo artist, her cousin was considered the best in the world ever in his sport... Who is he?
As it's gone on a while, pub quizzers should know him by his record... Most consecutive victories in any sport. (obviously this rules out anyone from Great Britain)
no idea who bat for lashes is, but I recall Jehengar (spelling?) Khan went undefeated playing squash for years
Pete
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Any one watch Only Connect on BBC 4? Preview of next week's edition (Monday 8.30) says a team of geocachers will be taking part. Who might they be?
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what about MPLC....
which we came across on holiday... ?French equivalent of TFTC maybe? - "Merci pour la cache"
Pete
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Iceland
A vey quick DING for that (very impressive they are too)
Pete
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OK I'll give you a DING for Mary Queen of Scots as she was only six days old, so she must have been the shortest.
I was however thinking of Matilda who was only 4' 2"
So over to you Sharpeset
Thanks: Changing topic: In which country would you find the Gullfoss and Godafoss waterfalls?
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okey dokey: not sure Eric fixed magnetic north pole though...
Sorry missed the north pole bit
no problem. Back to your question - how about Mary Queen of Scots? Think she was only a babe when she became Queen so presumably pretty small...
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Well Roald Amundsen is the DING according to my Bamber Gascoigne Uni Challenge quiz book, so unless the vikings aregoing to object, over to you...
Thanks Pete. However, Eric the Red is more likely to be the first than Amundsen - so I'll pass the ding back over to norsch, who gave that answer.
Geoff
okey dokey: not sure Eric fixed magnetic north pole though...
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British, English, whatever: happy to accept the Ding....
Which explorer was the frst to sail through the northwest passage, going on to fix the position of the North magnetic Pole?
I suspect you're thinking of Roald Amundsen - who navigated the Northwest passage at the beginning of the twentieth century. At least, he was the guy AFAICT who fixed the position of the North Pole. However, there is evidence that the Vikings navigated the Northwest passage centuries before, so Amundsen almost certainly wasn't the first.
Geoff
Well Roald Amundsen is the DING according to my Bamber Gascoigne Uni Challenge quiz book, so unless the vikings aregoing to object, over to you...
Pete
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Eric Thorwaldsson
nope...
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Probably Franklin, but as he never survived, we'll never know
Sorry, not him either. This guy did survive...
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James Cabalt I think... not sure of the spelling though Cheers MaxKim.
no, not him either
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Hudson?
Sorry, no
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DING to Sharpeset
The shortest-reigning British monarch was Lady Jane Grey who ruled for 13 days from July 6, 1553 until July 19 (although she was only proclaimed queen by the Lords of the Council on July 10).
British, English, whatever: happy to accept the Ding....
Which explorer was the frst to sail through the northwest passage, going on to fix the position of the North magnetic Pole?
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Lady Jane Grey?
Pete
which we came across on holiday... ?
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That was (I believe) Peter Duncan