The Patrician
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Half an answer - "Lost Horizon". Can't remember the author.
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Don't they have Wadsworth's 6X at the Bayshill? That's always worth a detour.
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There's Open Street Map:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/All_in_one_Garmin_Map/Regions
I don't know how good the OSM maps are in this area but may be sufficient. They're free anyway so it won't cost anything to have a look!
I'd take a paper map and compass anyway if I was going off the beaten track.
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I've literally just bought a P7 from Amazon thinking it will enable me to go night caching. I'm waiting for it to arrive as I write this. I hope I won't be disappointed. Will it be OK for the odd bit of night caching??
I've had a P7 for a few months now and it falls into the category of my current kit along with my GPS62s and ipod Classic - if I lost it or broke it I'd replace it with the same thing. I don't think you'll have a problem.
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Tactile paving and bleeping when the man turns green?
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My guess would be around the time provisional licences were introduced, so 1930s?
Ding!
1935
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In which decade were L-plates made compulsory for all learner drivers in the UK?
Pure guess, 1960's
Nope!
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DING!
Even though his wife divorced him during an extended stay in a leper colony, he couldn't part with his white gold wedding ring; and white gold had magical powers in The Land.
Even though Donaldson has been called a 'latter day Tolkien' I found Donaldson addictive but found Tolkien too much like hard work.
Sorry to diss your favourite author!
In which decade were L-plates made compulsory for all learner drivers in the UK?
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His white gold ring wasn't it?
I always thought the author of this series, whose name escapes me, relied a bit too much on Tolkein for his ideas.
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Same here, I've done most of the urban ones near my office, plus some to get puzzle cache clues etc, but I wouldn't go out of my way to do more.
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Assassination of JFK?
DING! Over to you....
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What was recorded on the film commonly know as the 'Zapruder film'?
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What is the particular favourite fast-food of Lolcats?
Can I has cheeseburger?
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That'll be the Infinite Improbability Drive, then.
That'll be DING!
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That's a big-ol' DING for The Patrician. Over to you.
(...and a side order of kudos to castagnari - which sadly doesn't let you set the next question but might give you the warm fuzzies
Ta!
What revolutionary engine powered the 'Heart of Gold', the space ship stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox?
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Babel fish - HHGTTG by the late great Douglas Adams?
Man gets himself killed by twisted logic or similar?
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Do I get a bonus ding for pointing out it's spelled Vader ?
You have been touched by the Dark Side young Bartfast!
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Pinewood Studios?
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£322
Ding! £329 at the moment.
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No idea, but I'll guess at £240
Higher
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Ta!
The Royal Mint are advertising gold sovereigns:
"2011 Gold Sovereign at a sensational price for collectors! Beat coming gold price increases and order now!"
Face value £1 as mentioned above, how much to the nearest tenner would one of these cost from the Mint?
(I'll shout higher and lower until someone gets it right!)
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Groat.
FWIW, I nearly asked how many of these were there to a pound as my last question, but thought that florins and sovereigns might be more well known.
DING! Over to you......
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DING to The Patrician! As you wrote, a florin was two shillings and a sovereign was a pound, or twenty shillings.
Ta!
What is the name of an English silver coin worth four (old) English pence?
The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Ta! That's the bloke, I was thinking of Conan Doyle, Kipling, Rider Haggard, et al but I knew it wasn't any of them, especially Al before anyone else gets in with the joke.
Which novel, published in 1949 and originally to be called 'The Last Man in Europe' has the opening line: 'It was bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'?