+Archer4 Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Snaefell on the IOM?At 621m, you're over 300m out, sorry. Sorry too to itschopper - this forum can move pretty fast! Aha - missed the point (Water Aid run a Six Peaks Challenge - Snaefell is the sixth...) Scottish islands then...? Skye? Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 That was quick: Ding! I didn't know there's an official 6-peaks challenge. Snaefell makes sense I guess, but it's the 992m Sgurr Alasdair on the Isle of Skye which it the highest point of any of the UK's outlying islands. Link to comment
+Archer4 Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Who was born at 17 Bruton Street in London? (FYI - Six Peaks Challenge (no I'm not up for it/to it!)) Edited January 13, 2007 by Archer4 Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I do know, but I'll let someone else have a chance. Link to comment
+Archer4 Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 The Queen? It was indeed her majness the second Ding Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Thanks! Okey dokey, this should be easy enough: Who is the only player to have scored a triple hat-trick in an F.A. Cip tie? For the Ding, I'd like his name and the two teams involved, and the final score please. Link to comment
+itschopper Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Right here I go again. Was it George Best for Man U against Northampton.or similar. Final score 10-1. Edited January 13, 2007 by itschopper Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 No, sorry, it wasn't. Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 It was Ted MacDougall, for AFC Bournemouth, but I forget who it was against (but I'd love to believe it was Man. U ) Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 You're getting warm ... Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 You're getting warm ... ..Mighty MacDougall v the less than Mighty Margate....guess 9-0 cos I don't think he let anyone else score... Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 I am going to accept that for the DING principly because I thought all the details were going to be easy for all you soccer buffs, and clearly it wasn't as easy as I thought! Ted McDougal scored a triple hat trick in the FA Cup first round in November 1971 against Margate, and the final score was 11-0. I know, cos I was there supporting the Cherries! Over to you Sharpeset. Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I am going to accept that for the DING principly because I thought all the details were going to be easy for all you soccer buffs, and clearly it wasn't as easy as I thought! Ted McDougal scored a triple hat trick in the FA Cup first round in November 1971 against Margate, and the final score was 11-0. I know, cos I was there supporting the Cherries! Over to you Sharpeset. Thanks Dorsetgal - (from an ex-Dorsetboy, Weymouth to be precise) Apologies for delay in setting question, but Big Brother doesn't allow access to 'hobby' websites at work. Keeping to a sporting theme, who can tell me the names of the four Horseracing courses in England whose name doesn't include any of the letters from the word R-A-C-E. Shouldn't be too difficult... Ding goes to the supplier of the fourth one....giddyup! Pete Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Well, Goodwood is one for a start ... Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Plumpton and Ludlow ... but I'll be blowed if I can think of the fourth Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Plumpton and Ludlow ... but I'll be blowed if I can think of the fourth ...there is one, trust me! Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 DING!! That's the one, over to you.... Link to comment
Nediam Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) That's the one, over to you.... Thought so, my sister works for the Tote Right, next up something a little different:- Spot the Difference! There are six differences to be found. To give your answers you can either describe the difference or use photoshop etc to highlight it. Not sure how this will work but we'll give it a go. Ding goes to whoever gets the last difference Edited January 15, 2007 by Nediam Link to comment
+Tiger-Eyes Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) lever knobs are different colours, red in one blue in the other, The left hand pictures has some little coloured squares where the right hand one has some screwheads The knobs to the left of robots left shoulder are just cicles in the right picture his helmet has yellow bits in the right pic but grey in the other me thinks Nediam is struggling with various quizzes so is posting them on here so we get the answers for him Edited January 15, 2007 by The Nutters Link to comment
Nediam Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) lever knobs are different colours, red in one blue in the other, The left hand pictures has some little coloured squares where the right hand one has some screwheads The knobs to the left of robots left shoulder are just cicles in the right picture his helmet has yellow bits in the right pic but grey in the other That's 4 out of the 6 me thinks Nediam is struggling with various quizzes so is posting them on here so we get the answers for him Edited January 15, 2007 by Nediam Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) lever knobs are different colours, red in one blue in the other, The left hand pictures has some little coloured squares where the right hand one has some screwheads The knobs to the left of robots left shoulder are just cicles in the right picture his helmet has yellow bits in the right pic but grey in the other That's 4 out of the 6 me thinks Nediam is struggling with various quizzes so is posting them on here so we get the answers for him the keyboard on the right has two extra buttons; to the left of the robot's hip there are graphs. In one the red line is above the blue, in the other the blue is above the red... Edited to say "Darn, just too late!" Edited January 15, 2007 by Sharpeset Link to comment
Nediam Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) Ding! Well done Dorsetgal & GeoDog Over to you for the next one.... Bad luck Sharpeset, pipped to the post by 1 minute By the way, it took me ages to notice the red and blue wavy lines! (I blame the cheap monitor ) Edited January 15, 2007 by Nediam Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Okey dokey, on your marks, get set, go! Name the largest natural harbour in Europe for the DING please. Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Right now there's a geocacher busily drilling a very long horizontal oilwell under the seabed of that harbour. Poole. Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) Okey dokey, on your marks, get set, go! Name the largest natural harbour in Europe for the DING please. Vigo (Spain)? I seem to remember our tour guide boasting when we there in '95.... Edited: I'm reminded by my other half that Vigo is the deepest... and with Poole on her doorstep I'm sure Dorsetgal is using her local knowledge so I defer to Forester! Edited January 15, 2007 by Sharpeset Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I suppose the Sea of Marmara is technically the largest as it is absolutely huge and a vast area of it is used by Instanbul's shipping as a harbour, but half of it is actually in Asia, so I'll stick with my Poole answer. Anyway, I think someone called Dorsetgal might just have her own ideas what merits a ding on this! Onne of those qustions where there's a clue in the question. Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 To check whether I've got a ding, I've looked up Poole's entry in Wiki. Poole Harbour (said to be the second largest natural harbour in the world after Sydney) That, I think, is a ding, so here's my question: What nationality was Saint Kilda? Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Warmish. Can you elaborate? Link to comment
+Archer4 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Warmish. Can you elaborate? Viking? Newfoundland & just passing through Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 What nationality was Saint Kilda? I thought that St Kilda did not exist and the island name was just a corruption of a viking phrase, but correct me if I am wrong Helen Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) I thought you were close to the answer, but no. There is a viking connection though. Edited to add that I was replying here to Archer, not Helen Edited January 15, 2007 by The Forester Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Ding for Helen! It was a trick question. There has never been a saint by the name of Kilda. The islands are called St Kilda, not Saint Kilda. The vikings called the islands Skildur which means shields because the shape of the islands looked rather like their own shields. St Kilda is a Gaelic or English corruption of the name "Skildur" into the spurious separation into two parts, "St" and "Kilda". Nothing to do with Saint or St at all. Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Oi, Mr Forester, you're a bit premature! Yes, you got the DING and yes Poole is the largest natural harbour in Europe ... now one would normally say over to you, but ... I see you couldn't wait and have already been! Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yes, you got the DING and yes Poole is the largest natural harbour in Europe ... now one would normally say over to you, but ... I see you couldn't wait and have already been! Sorry, could not resist from answering... Thinking of a question... Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Next question... What is considered to be the first killer application for the IBM PC? Link to comment
+Carlos & The Birdie Crew Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Has to be a guess? A Calculator or a wordprocessor? Regards Carlos Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Lotus 123? Ding! Over to Forester Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 When was the last time a Royal Air Force pilot, flying a Royal Air Force aircraft, shot down an enemy aircraft? What year? Where? What type of aircraft? Link to comment
+Carlos & The Birdie Crew Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Again a guess 82, the falklands, harrier Carlos Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Good guess. Royal Air Force pilots did fly, with distinction and some victories, against Argentine aircraft during the Falklands campaign, but they flew Sea Harriers belonging to the Fleet Air Arm which is a subset of the Royal Navy, not the RAF. The RAF's Harriers were being shipped out there aboard Atlantic Conveyor which was sunk by Argentine Exocet before the aircraft could be offloaded. No RAF pilot shot down any enemy aircraft with any RAF aircraft at any time during the Falklands campaign. Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (Behind the times I know, but I'm reading a book on St Kilda at the moment and while I (and it) agree there was never a Saint Kilda, where the name comes from is debatable. It's a bit dull though, so if you'd like more information, please email me through my profile ) Link to comment
+Carlos & The Birdie Crew Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 RightyO Too obscure to know unless it's your bag, so to speak. So I have done research. How about..... 1948 Haifa, Isreal/Palestine Spitfire FR18 Carlos PS Pilot - Fg Off Tim McElhaw Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 The version of the origin of the name St Kilda which I believe is the Scandihooligan one, but that's perhaps 'cos I have Scand roots myself and speak Norwegian. There certainly are a phenomenal number of islands around the Scottish coast which have Norse names to this day. As a general rule, any island whose name ends with "ay" or "oy" is usually an Anglicised version of a Norse name, as the word Øy means island in Norse/Norwegian. Modern Icelandic is the Scandiwegian language which is closest to Old Norse and vikings would be able to converse with a modern Icelander without any difficulty. Another reason why I'm inclined to believe the Norse theory of the St Kilda name is that vikings would quite certainly have seen and perhaps investigated those islands and would quite certainly have given them a collective name and perhaps individual names. Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Yup, that's a ding for Carlos. Correct in every particular. Quite surprising that the RAF haven't shot down any enemy (they have shot down one or two of their own!) aircraft at all in almost 60 years. Makes you wonder why we're spending Billions buying super-expensive Typhoon fighters when we don't seem to have much use for that sort of thing. Link to comment
+Carlos & The Birdie Crew Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 OK while we are touching on planes, heres mine. A none googleable one methinks. I once worked at Stanstead Airport and in late 86 early 87 (can't remember exactly) Rolls Royce went public. RR had a day of RR engined planes throughout the company's history. Every one either landed or took off that day, except one. Now guessing the one would be too easy so I want the first plane that did a take off /flyby /landing and the one that didn't touch the Stanstead runway on that day. Carlos PS Confirmation ding will be in the morning cos I'm off to the land of nod Link to comment
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