Optimist on the run

Scousers? :-)

147 break ding for that! Over to you...

Sorry, no.

Apart from the obvious...

Apart from the obvious, what connects Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths, Tony Meo, Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne?

I think 1931 and 1933 are both primes. A fifty-fifty guess - 1933.

I'd guess at Battersea Power Sation, though I'd need 10 guesses to get the year.

No doubt saying camels would give a QI-style claxon, so I'll say badgers. I'm pretty certain badger hair was used for shaving brushes, but I don't know about hairbrushes.

Ding! In the novels by Anthony Buckeridge.

Sorry, Boggin's Dad, I've already got it! Actually the beans connection goes back to the earliest cache, as a tin of beans was apparently one of the things hidden in it. Next question: Name the most famous pupil of Linbury Court.

Baked beans?

Rice? I'm not aware of geocaching connections though.

Ding to searcherdog. I'll be walking/caching along there later today, walking from Alvechurch to Bromsgrove. Not done them by boat though - yet.

Thanks. Now for a canal question - where is the longest flight of locks in the UK?

6 - As above plus mountain rescue and mines rescue.

It's possible to view archived caches with Project GC. If you let me know the approximate coords, I'll have a look tonight.

I'd add first of a well-known series to the list - e.g. first SideTracked cache, first Church Micro, etc. - if the series is well established and been around a long time.

England is correct of course. Ding to colleda...

Hope no-one objects if I give this thread a reboot. A really tricky one - which team won the World Cup in 1966? (Googling allowed!)

Ding to speakers-corner. The songs were Back Home and This Time (We'll Get it Right).

Ok, changing the theme... Which group had a British number 1 hit in 1970, and a number 2 hit in 1982, despite the entire line-up changing between times? Bonus points if you can name the hits!

I'm getting my authors confused - Philleas Fogg was Jules Verne.

HG Wells? Philleas Fogg for the low cloud, and the Invisible Man as no-one. Don't know about a master key though, unless there's a skeleton in one of his books.

I'll take a guess at Roald Dahl, as the creator of many unusual characters.

Well I think I've stumped you on this one, so I'll give you the answer, which is that the authors (CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley and John F Kennedy) all died on the same day - 22 November 1963. I'll give the ding to hal-an-tow for identifying two of the authors. I wasn't expecting anyone to identify JFK as the author of the third book, but I thought that the coincidence of their deaths was a fairly well-known bit of pub quiz trivia, so I thought people might work it out by connecting Lewis and Huxley. However it's always difficult to judge what other people know, so if I made it too hard I apologise! Over to hal-an-tow...