The All New Groundspeak Uk Pub Quiz!

July 12, 2006

Ok one last go, courtesy of a conversation with a former colleague who keeps chickens.

MrsB = Lucia
Lucia = Andalusia
Andalusia = Southern Spain
Andalusian bird = Andalusian Blue, rare breed of chicken
Foot short of a digit because chickens only have four toes - this bit is pure speculation as I don't have a chicken handy for reference but I'm sure they have three toes and a little spur sticking out the back which is probably a counts as a toe.

Oh yes, the senior female muggle at Fett Towers suggests the Andalusian Horse, as horses apparently, have only four toes on their front feet.

/Jango mills about looking not particularly hopefull/ :laughing:

Edited July 12, 2006 by Jango & Boba Fett

8.6k · July 12, 2006

MrsB gives Jango a ding ! for sheer perseverance, rather than total accuracy :laughing:

The Andalusian hemipode

or Small Button Quail (Clue: "I fear...." geddit?) will be saddened to known that it has passed from the memory of British Twitchers. These cute little creatures would occasionally holiday in this country, but have not been seen for many a year. Possibly due to unfavourable exchange rates and their tendancy to fall over backwards due to the lack of a hind toe....

Over to you then, Jango :laughing:

July 12, 2006

Many thanks for your generosity MrsB. :laughing:

Well as a counterpoint to the thread on cache saturation, and in an attempt to demonstrate that this thread does (occasionally) have a GeoCaching content here is my question:

Which is the most isolated GeoCache on the British mainland? (furthest from its nearest neighbouring cache)

{Oh yes to limit flooding risk I'll take your first answer and best suggestion by teatime wins}

Edited July 12, 2006 by Jango & Boba Fett

1.4k · July 12, 2006

The one on Barra?

July 12, 2006

GCB59F Out on a limb

by The Cave Troll

I would do a linky but don't know how

edited because the first one I submitted wasn't on the mainland

Edited July 12, 2006 by The Nutters

July 12, 2006

GCJVHA is pretty remote - you need a fishing trawler. I know that there are three caches on Lifeboyes and one on a teeny remote island in the middle of the Irish sea, but I couldnt find the link to help me track those down!

Also depends on your point of view - some of the islands are considered part of the UK mainland

Edited July 12, 2006 by Alice Band

July 12, 2006

Edited - as the nutters edited theirs.

Edited July 12, 2006 by Alice Band

July 12, 2006

I believe there are 4 caches on Barra and two on Tiree (Balephetrish Bay GCGYV7), unfortunately Barra and Tiree are offshore islands and not part of that large island known as the British mainland or the island of Great Britain. Sorry :laughing:

July 12, 2006

Edited - as the nutters edited theirs.

That is the cache I origionally submitted then had second thoughts

looks pretty remote too me

July 12, 2006

But do Archived caches count?

July 12, 2006

I believe there are 4 caches on Barra and two on Tiree (Balephetrish Bay GCGYV7), unfortunately Barra and Tiree are offshore islands and not part of that large island known as the British mainland or the island of Great Britain. Sorry

If that is right then they would be independent states, which they aren't. They still fall under Scottish mainland decrees.

For another remote mainland cache, what about this one?

Edited July 12, 2006 by Alice Band

July 12, 2006

If that is right then they would be independent states, which they aren't. They still fall under Scottish mainland decrees.

For another remote mainland cache, what about this one?

Its a Pub Quiz so its the quizmaster's little card that counts, so far two submissions:

Out On Alimb - 17.4km from nearest neighbour cache

Lizard Point - 2.8 km from nearest neighbour cache

So that's a bit of a Rum do, and it looks like someone's going to end up with Egg on their face. :blink:

1.4k · July 12, 2006

The other leg of that stool is Muck!

July 12, 2006

So that's a bit of a Rum do, and it looks like someone's going to end up with Egg on their face.

ooh look, Jango has found pretty colours! :tired: :blink: :blink:

Edited July 12, 2006 by Alice Band

1.7k · July 12, 2006

That would be GCPNZJ then.

Someone else can ask the next question, as I won't be around to ding.

July 12, 2006

That would be GCPNZJ then.

Someone else can ask the next question, as I won't be around to ding.

Sorry, just back from Boba's school concert - three hours of recorder music; bliss. :blink:

Yep its Rum and Egg which is 30.8 km from its nearest neighbour Strontianite. So the free pass from Pengy & Tigger goes to Fiona with Out on a Limb, or Alice if there's no Nutters about. :blink:

6.2k · July 12, 2006

Is (GCB59F) Out on a limb by The Cave Troll really the most remote cache on the big island of Britain? Wow. I had no idea when I did it. Cool. :blink:

Edit: No, it's not, but it might have been when I visited in June last year. Then the nearest still listed was/is 27.2 miles away. It's now 10.8m (but it's disabled. The next nearest is 26.3miles away).

Here are some others I found:

(GC3287) The Water of Ae by The Relic Hunters at 13.7miles.

(GCHAPB) Ben Griam Mor by Naefearjustbeer at 14.5m.

(GCPNZJ) Rum & Egg by Team Gundi at 19.2miles - best I can find on the mainland using this helpful map:

Edited July 13, 2006 by Simply Paul

July 13, 2006

I've just been prodded by Jango's very efficient mercenary poking stick to post a question, so here' s one for all you lovely people who happen to know who Alice Band really is:

Where do the Gods retire to later in the day after appearing to the masses?

6.2k · July 13, 2006

Dunmanifestin

July 13, 2006

DING! Over to you Paul

6.2k · July 13, 2006

Two questions. I need both answers from the same person to get your Ding!

What's the next number in this sequence: 2, 6, 15, 35, 77.

How many Peaks are there in The Peak District?

July 13, 2006

Two questions. I need both answers from the same person to get your Ding!

What's the next number in this sequence: 2, 6, 15, 35, 77.

How many Peaks are there in The Peak District?

The next number in the sequence is 165.

There are actually no real "peaks" in the Peak District as the hills

are gentle and rounded slopes (I'm hoping it's the trick question answer you wanted).

6.2k · July 13, 2006

Answer one is wrong, answer two isn't what I was after :laughing:

1.7k · July 13, 2006

The next number in the sequence is 165.

That would work actually. Double the previous number then add the next prime number in the sequence:

2 x 2 + 2 = 6

6 x 2 + 3 = 15

15 x 2 + 5 = 35

35 x 2 + 7 = 77

77 x 2 + 11 = 165

July 13, 2006

143 - product of two successive prime numbers

2 - Dark Peak & White Peak

6.2k · July 13, 2006

Thanks P&T, I should have said 165 wasn't what I was after, not that it was wrong. 68 Guns has got that one right! But my question about Peaks in the Peak District was more of a trick one. :laughing:

July 13, 2006

... my question about Peaks in the Peak District was more of a trick one.

In that case the answer must be that there is only one Peak in the phrase Peak District. :laughing:

6.2k · July 13, 2006

Well done bust still no Ding. Reread my original question post!

July 13, 2006

Well done bust still no Ding. Reread my original question post!

Ok SP then what you want is:

the next number in the sequence is 143
there is only one "Peak" in "The Peak District"

6.2k · July 13, 2006

DING!

1.4k · July 14, 2006

Woa!

Daytribe answered that there are no "Peaks" in "The Peak District". That's true. There are no Peaks in "the Peak District". There is an occurence of the word "Peak" in "The Peak District" but no occurences of the word "Peaks" in "The Peak District".

Daytribe also answered the numerical question correctly.

Anyway, what's this thing of having to answer two questions at once. Why two and not simply one? Or is there some kind of connection between the number 143 and the number of peaks in the Peak District?

July 14, 2006

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? - off caching for a few hours so best answer wins.

July 14, 2006

Britney Spears - Soda Pop

1.1k · July 14, 2006

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? - off caching for a few hours so best answer wins.

The same person that put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong.

July 14, 2006

I agree with 68 Guns. Definately Britney Spears-Soda Pop

:mad: <_< <_<

6.2k · July 14, 2006

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? - off caching for a few hours so best answer wins.

The same person that put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong.

Didn't he also put the Dit in the Dit der Dit der Dit? If so then I reckon it was Samuel Morse.

July 14, 2006

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? - off caching for a few hours so best answer wins.

The same person that put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong.

Didn't he also put the Dit in the Dit der Dit der Dit? If so then I reckon it was Samuel Morse.

Would have accepted Barry Morse who wrote it, The Vicounts who had a hit with it or even Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers or The Worzels who covered it. That said MartyBarfast's answer made me laugh so DING and over to you, MartyBarfast

6.2k · July 15, 2006

OK, which cartoon characters were named after a couple of philosophers?

1.2k · July 15, 2006

Pinky & The Brain?

6.2k · July 15, 2006

Pinky & The Brain?

No

July 15, 2006

OK, which cartoon characters were named after a couple of philosophers?

Calvin and Hobbes?

6.2k · July 15, 2006

OK, which cartoon characters were named after a couple of philosophers?

Calvin and Hobbes?

DING your turn.

July 15, 2006

OK, which cartoon characters were named after a couple of philosophers?

Calvin and Hobbes?

DING your turn.

OK

Which novel starts with the line

'A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys'

July 15, 2006

OK, which cartoon characters were named after a couple of philosophers?

Calvin and Hobbes?

DING your turn.

OK

Which novel starts with the line

'A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys'

Brave New World?

July 15, 2006

OK, which cartoon characters were named after a couple of philosophers?

Calvin and Hobbes?

DING your turn.

OK

Which novel starts with the line

'A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys'

Brave New World?

Ding!

Your go

July 16, 2006

Anyone seen Johnmelad today or has he locked himself into the loo again?

July 16, 2006

Sorry, for delay!

Kate's abilities as a soldier soon earned the respect of ????? and they became firm friends, particularly when ????? sought her advice over his split with Nancy.

Name ????? and the program...

6.2k · July 16, 2006

Sorry, for delay!

Kate's abilities as a soldier soon earned the respect of ????? and they became firm friends, particularly when ????? sought her advice over his split with Nancy.

Name ????? and the program...

Well I seem to remember Richard Sharpe (of the Bernard Cornwell novels) had a bit of totty by the name of Nancy, I guess he program was "Sharpe's something or other".

[edit to add his Christian name]

Edited July 16, 2006 by MartyBartfast

July 17, 2006

Sorry, for delay!

Kate's abilities as a soldier soon earned the respect of ????? and they became firm friends, particularly when ????? sought her advice over his split with Nancy.

Name ????? and the program...

Well I seem to remember Richard Sharpe (of the Bernard Cornwell novels) had a bit of totty by the name of Nancy, I guess he program was "Sharpe's something or other".

[edit to add his Christian name]

Nope.

July 17, 2006

Sorry, for delay!

Kate's abilities as a soldier soon earned the respect of ????? and they became firm friends, particularly when ????? sought her advice over his split with Nancy.

Name ????? and the program...

Well I seem to remember Richard Sharpe (of the Bernard Cornwell novels) had a bit of totty by the name of Nancy, I guess he program was "Sharpe's something or other".

[edit to add his Christian name]

Nope.

Paddy. Soldier Soldier

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