The Patrician
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Many of you will know of Jon Snow (he of the Channel 4 news), but he had a 19th century namesake John Snow, so
What was John Snow's occupation, and what is he best known for?
Was he the doctor who discovered the cause of cholera down that well in London?
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....or enter the postcode.
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and it was pretty nasty looking (the bruise that is
).As for me, just the normal stings, scratches & minor cuts.
I'm told on good authority (Mrs P) that the bum's nothing to write home about either!
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Like everyone else I thought Paj had the best answer, but still....
How was the famous pirate Edward Teach better known?
I think he was Blackbeard.
Ding!
Over to you.
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Like everyone else I thought Paj had the best answer, but still....
How was the famous pirate Edward Teach better known?
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Not directly caching related, but there's a photo of my bum on this page which I seem to remember being quite painful at the time. Also a geocaching photo.
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Why are pirates pirates? Because they "Arrrrrr"!
I thought the terms were pretty much synonymous. Pirates attacked anyone regardless of country of origin, privateers (a private man o' war) operated under Letters of Marque issued by a government permitting them to attack enemy vessels. Are buccaneers considered more privateer than pirate?
I've read the Hornblower, Aubrey & Maturin & Captain Pugwash books, I know this stuff.
Buccaneers eat bouccan, pirates eat like pigs, I dunno.
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Town in Brazil isn't it? May be named after some bloke!
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Voldemort
Ding!
Over to you.
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Strewth, that's the first time I've ever got a question right without having a bleeding clue what was going on.
Easy peasy question requested.....
Who is the chief baddy in the Harry Potter films?
We have a beer in my local pub that isn't supposed to be there (the pub owner doesn't like the brewer, but the landlord does). We locals get some funny looks from strangers when we ask for a pint of V..... (the beer that cannot be named!) and the bar staff disappear out the back and return with a pint which does not appear on the pumps.
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Just googled it and I'm waaaaaaay off in the magnitude stakes!
I have been staring into my crystal balls all evening and think that it may be something very, very small. It's just a feeling I have.
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"Broad as a barn door" and "built like a brick outhouse" are my best shots, though "outhouse" is not always the word used. If I had to make a better guess I'd say something to do with particle physics, they're always making up strange units and particles, and indeed charmed, up and down!
I'm out too, I've never heard of them.
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To answer your question, ISTR it was Skegness.
Ding!
Over to you.
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Lucky guess! I thought he was Venetian.
As it's the summer hols:
Where did Billy Butlin set up his first holiday camp in 1936?
Hi de hi.
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Something like take a pound of lead, divide into 12 equal parts, make each part into a sphere - that's 12 bore, as to the cost no idea. Now heading for pub!
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J.R.R. Tolkien
What do the initials stand for?
I know John, and I think Ronald, the other one is unusual, very unusual. And I don't know it.
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Boromir.
Hurry up Harry!
Ding!
It's all a Sham.
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A green gelatinous substance known as "calipee" is used to make which favourite amongst gastronomes?
There was me trying to have a day or two off the Pub Quiz.....
Turtle soup.
DING DING!
My little clue to Jady didn't help!
I have to admit that it didn't help me either, but now I see it! Nice one! Doh!
Lord of the Rings: who says "One does not simply walk into Mordor"?
Please get the answer within the hour, in the words of the song, I'm going down the pub.
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A green gelatinous substance known as "calipee" is used to make which favourite amongst gastronomes?
There was me trying to have a day or two off the Pub Quiz.....
Turtle soup.
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Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Hayman?
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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.
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We had a lovely grass snake doing a bit of frog hunting in our garden last year (we know it was frog hunting because when we accidently disturbed it a frog burst out of hiding and hopped down the garden as though death was on its heels, as I suppose it was!). We've had lizards in the house masquerading as snakes with just the tips of their tails sticking out from under the fridge, that caused a quite stir as I recall. I nearly got a slow worm (not a snake, I know) with the lawn mower a couple of years back, I just spotted him in time.
We saw the biggest adder ever at Grimspound on Dartmoor and I've seen them in Cornwall, Pembrokeshire and on the Malvern Hills (where a dog got bitten last week, no fatalities fortunately).
Personally I like snakes.
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Time for a clue?
His surname's a colour, the colour Saruman had and Gandalf took from him....
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The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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There's a pub named after him too, there's glory for you.
Literature for a change:
"Ill met by moonlight, proud ......"
Who?