Optimist on the run

Ding to Martin and Linda.

Time for a hint perhaps: a household item, often but not always found in the kitchen.

A question from Mogmother: What may be referred to as a maiden or a winterdyke, depending on where you live?

On behalf of Mogmother: Sky sails.

Probably not Cutty Sark then, unless your Grandparents had some very unusual ideas in child naming :-)

I'll give the ding to MartyBartfast. Both Basil Fawlty and Siegfried Farnon were based on real characters called Donald Sinclair. Over to you...

Sorry - good guess but wrong. Closer, but I need more information.

Ok, what connects Basil Fawlty (hotelier from Fawlty Towers) and Siegfried Farnon (James Herriot's boss and later partner in the All Creatures Great and Small series)?

Something is nagging at the back of my mind that Elvis Presley had a twin. Norris McWhirter had a twin brother, Ross, who was murdered by the IRA. I've never heard of the Rosie from the Dolly Sisters, but I'll guess she had a twin too.

As a guess, are they the winning answers to some quiz?

A definitely deserved ding for Dodgydaved!

Ok - moving away from Olympics, but staying with a Greek theme: Today is Pi Day (in American mm.dd.yy format) - i.e. 3.14 In the Greek Alphabet pi is the 16th letter. Which letters fall either side of it?

Sorry, been too busy to check this forum in the last couple of days. Will post a new question tonight.

I thought that one of Sir Steve Redgrave's streak of five was the only gold we won that year. If that's the case I'll guess 1992, which I think was Barcelona.

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Ding to Hellfire - there's also Roj Blake from the BBC 70's series Blake's 7, and Daphne's surname is Blake in Scooby-Doo.

I did. But it just makes it look as though I was emphasising it, rather than striking-it out.

Ok... On the subject of chariots, what links "Bring me my chariot of fire", a fictional oil tycoon, a sci-fi hero and a Scooby-Doo character?

To reinvoke QI, chariot racing?

Strikethrough is not supported by geocaching.com: https://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=739 Why not? it's supposed to be a valid feature in markdown. I understood that this was supposed to be an adequate replacement for html.

How do I do strike-through text in this new markdown language (the equivalent of the old <s>text</s> in html)? According to Wikipedia it should be ~~text~~, but that doesn't seem to work. For example see this log.

He was a letterboxer?

Alaska is correct - it's now been named Denali

OK - I'm new to this, so hopefully this is a fairly easy one. The tallest mountain in North America, previously known as Mount McKinley, recently changed its name. What to? Sorry, if this is too hard, I'll give an alternative question: in what US State is it?

One was a reply to a message sent to me by the message centre, and I replied to it by email. The other was sent directly by email through the user's profile. I don't know which one caused the problem. I don't use the message centre as I like to have a permanent record of all emails/messages I send and receive.