+mellers Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Well on the episode of QI I saw about the bizarre ones, I remember Stephen Fry mentioning Town Planning. Is it that? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 DING! Yrjö Lindegren got the gold at the 1948 London Olympics for Town Planning for the Centre of Athletics in Varkaus, Finland. He designed the Centre for the Helsinki games that were cancelled due to WWII. Since the category was dropped after 1948, he remains the Olympic champion! BTW, I too got inspiration for this question from QI! Over to Mellers ... Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 With the Olympic opening ceremony barely only hours ago, one event has already been settled. Can you say which country has won the only Gold medal so far awarded of the 2012 games... (and for extra kudos - not required for the DING, which event it was). If this Q remains unanswered for a bit, the later translation will be... which country won the FIRST gold medal of the 2012 games! Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Chinese lady in 10m air rifle at Woolwich barracks I think................... Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Chinese lady in 10m air rifle at Woolwich barracks I think................... Thats a big ol' DING for dodgydaved with a huge helping of kudos on the side. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Ta Mellers! Philip Noel-Baker - one time Labour MP for Derby - was an Olympian (1920 1500m Silver) - But what other, very prestigious award did he hold? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 He was a tireless campaigner for peace and disarmament and won the Nobel peace prize. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 He was a tireless campaigner for peace and disarmament and won the Nobel peace prize. Way to go Betelgeuse and OVER to you!!!!!! DING Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Sticking with Nobel laureates, who was the first person to win two Nobel prizes? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I know that Churchill got a Nobel for literature. Did he also get peace? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 No - just the literature prize. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Marie Curie? That's a DING! for you Marie Curie won the Nobel prize for physics in 1903 along with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel for research on the phenomenon of radiation initially discovered by Becquerel. She won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1911 for discovering the radioactive elements radium and polonium and isolating radium. It took the careful processing of one ton of pitchblende to produce one tenth of a gram of radium chloride and further processing to isolate the metal from the salt. Over to you... Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Time for some history. Son of a King; father, grandfather, great-grandfather and uncle to Kings; but he wasn't king himself and neither were any of his brothers. Who was he? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 On reflection tthat might be a bit tough so, to make it a little easier, his eldest brother was the Black Prince. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM reported Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 John of Gaunt DING. His geneology is quite impressive: he was a direct decendant of William the Conqueror and a direct ancestor of every monarch since Henry VII in 1485 including the current queen. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Thanks for that. It would have been harder had it not been for the Beeb's recent "Hollow Crown" series! The Swallow Sidecar Company was founded in 1922 and changed to S.S. Cars Ltd in 1934. After the Second World War, due to the unfavourable connotations of the SS initials, the company was renamed...... To become which famous British motor manufacturer? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Thanks for that. It would have been harder had it not been for the Beeb's recent "Hollow Crown" series! The Swallow Sidecar Company was founded in 1922 and changed to S.S. Cars Ltd in 1934. After the Second World War, due to the unfavourable connotations of the SS initials, the company was renamed...... To become which famous British motor manufacturer? Think that was Jaguar Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Think that was Jaguar DING! Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Under SP's "one week" rule, I'll step in to get this going again with a nice easy one. How many GOLD medals did team GB win at the 2012 London Olympic Games? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Oops, never saw that Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Oops, never saw that Hey - Marty! Fancy having a guess then? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Oops, never saw that Hey - Marty! Fancy having a guess then? Too late, I already googled it. I was in the right ballpark and Mrs MB had the same idea as me, but we were wrong. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 29 And 65 medals in all Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 (edited) Oops - double post Edited August 16, 2012 by MTH Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 29 And 65 medals in all DING Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Sticking to the Olympics, Great Britain has only won more than 29 gold medals once. In which year? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 1908 DING Britain won 56 golds in London that year. Since only 22 nations took part and over 1/3 of the competitors were British it would be a huge surprise if we ever came close to that total again. Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) OK my turn. How many roads are there in London? Edited August 18, 2012 by Dogfort Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 OK my turn. How many roads are there in London? According to an article I read an hour or so ago there is half a road in the City of London - half of Goswell Road (the other half is in Islington) - apparently this could be because all the by-ways in the city were already named when the concept of "Road" as a name was introduced. Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 heh ummmmm thats a DING! I read this today as well. On the Londonist? Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 heh ummmmm thats a DING! I read this today as well. On the Londonist? Yup! OK - am off to the test match today soooooo: What was special about the second day of the Lord's Test against the Windies in 2000? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 heh ummmmm thats a DING! I read this today as well. On the Londonist? Yup! OK - am off to the test match today soooooo: What was special about the second day of the Lord's Test against the Windies in 2000? It didn't rain? Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Dominic Cork got a hat trick? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I posted an answer this morning but ir's not there??? All 4 innings took part on the same day. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 heh ummmmm thats a DING! I read this today as well. On the Londonist? Yup! OK - am off to the test match today soooooo: What was special about the second day of the Lord's Test against the Windies in 2000? It didn't rain? Very droll John, but no!! :lol: Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I posted an answer this morning but ir's not there??? All 4 innings took part on the same day. That's the answer - DING - and over to you!! Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 According to the Lords website, it was also the 100th test match played at the ground. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I'll stick with cricket. The current Lord's test is Andrew Strauss's 100th test and 50th as captain - neither of which is a record. So who has been captain in most test matches? Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Mike Atherton. It was his era I grew up and fell in love with cricket. Christ knows why when he was captian. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Mike Atherton Nope. I didn't specify English Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Bugger. IN that case. Graeme SMith? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Graeme SMith DING The current test is Smith's 94th as test captain, breaking Alan Border's record of 93. Not bad considering Smith has "only" played 101 tests. You would have been forgiven for missing the milestone though as all the focus seemed to be on Strauss. Incidentally, Atherton holds the English record at 54 which will get beaten this winter assuming Strauss stays on as captain Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Change of subject now. Which premier league club is the oldest? Quote Link to comment
+Dogfort Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Great guess but no. By my reckoning there is a team in the Premier League that is a few years older. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 I know very little about footie, but purely because I did a multi which involved a visit to the area where they started as a company team I'll guess "West Ham". Quote Link to comment
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