+Team Noodles Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 it was definitely the bulk of the lot, so guestimating 14 Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It's close enough - 15 out of 19. DING to Team Noodles Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It's close enough - 15 out of 19. DING to Team Noodles Cheers! I'll stick with the theme, what are the names of the airlines the 4 hijacked planes belonged to? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 I'll stick with the theme, what are the names of the airlines the 4 hijacked planes belonged to?United Airlines and American Airlines? Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I'll stick with the theme, what are the names of the airlines the 4 hijacked planes belonged to?United Airlines and American Airlines? That's a DING! Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 That's a DING! Thanks very much. I knew United Airlines (from the United 93 film) but American Airlines was a semi-guess. Ok, what would I mean by "cum hoc ergo propter hoc"? Quote Link to comment
+welshsprite Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 That's a DING! Thanks very much. I knew United Airlines (from the United 93 film) but American Airlines was a semi-guess. Ok, what would I mean by "cum hoc ergo propter hoc"? with this, therefore because of this ? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 You'd be pointing out a logical fallacy - correlation doesn't imply causation. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 Both answers are correct, but welshsprite gets the Ding for the literal translation. Over to you! (Housepoint to Betelgeuse) Quote Link to comment
+welshsprite Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 This is my first attempt at this so be gentle with me... How many letters in the Welsh alphabet? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 IIRC, the 'proper' letters are: A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G H I J L Ll M N O P R S T U W Y. So there are 25 of those. However, there are also soft and nasal mutations (ph, rh, th, ng), which might be considered letters. So I'll try 25 without mutations and 29 with. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 I'll take a guess at 22. The usual less the vowels plus the 'clearing your throat' noise. Quote Link to comment
+welshsprite Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 IIRC, the 'proper' letters are: A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G H I J L Ll M N O P R S T U W Y. So there are 25 of those. However, there are also soft and nasal mutations (ph, rh, th, ng), which might be considered letters. So I'll try 25 without mutations and 29 with. DING! Correct. As a primary school teacher we say there are 29 letters to the alphabet. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Diolch yn fawr! Staying with all things Celtic. What is the Scots Gaelic equivalent of a "Twmpath"? Quote Link to comment
+welshsprite Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 I know, I know (jumping up and down with my hand up). However I'm going to leave it to someone else because I don't want to embarrass myself with my attempt to spell it! Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 DING! Over to Betelgeuse... Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 A ceilidh is an informal gathering with music and dancing but what does the word ceilidh actually mean? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 28, 2013 Author Share Posted February 28, 2013 I had this in a pub quiz some years ago, when it was asked what ceilidh and Sputnik had in common. I guessed at they both meant companion and got the point. How's my luck this time? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I had this in a pub quiz some years ago, when it was asked what ceilidh and Sputnik had in common. I guessed at they both meant companion and got the point. How's my luck this time? Your luck holds true. A DING! for you, sir. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 28, 2013 Author Share Posted February 28, 2013 Your luck holds true. A DING! for you, sir. Thanks very much. Taking a tangent, Sputnik is an interesting object. Although the original is long-since-burnt-up, several 'contemporary', Soviet-made copies exist - either development or back-up units. Most are in museums (as are many replicas) but one is owned by a remarkable individual with a link to Geocaching. The second person to wear the Union flag in orbit, the second in orbit to be the child of a previous generation 'naut (their father Owen flying on Skylab and a shuttle mission) and the only private individual to own an object on the moon. They would have been the first 'space tourist' if it wasn't for the Dot-Com crash, are a keen magician, and shot a short sci-fi film while in space; the first. They also officiated over the first zero-gee wedding, on a 727 'vomit comet'... But who are they?! (I used Google to set the question but please don't to answer it. There should be enough info above for you to get the name I'm after.) Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 This is easier than it appears. How many cachers do we know who've been into orbit..? Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I know there's at least one as there has been a cache on the ISS. When I last looked at it (some months ago), it hadn't been found) so my guess is 1. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 This is easier than it appears. How many cachers do we know who've been into orbit..? Lord British? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 6, 2013 Author Share Posted March 6, 2013 This is easier than it appears. How many cachers do we know who've been into orbit..? Lord British?aka Richard Garriott, aka Richard Garriott de Cayeux: Ding! I note he found his second-ever cache just last month. Over to Team Noodles. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Cool! Alrighty, easy one: What is the name of the capsule that SpaceX put in orbit last Friday which successfully docked with the ISS 2 days later? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 I left this until the following day so it doesn't become quiz tennis, but couldn't resist now it's Friday: Dragon. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I left this until the following day so it doesn't become quiz tennis, but couldn't resist now it's Friday: Dragon. your serve Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 Thanks. *Twok* Since the Space Shuttles were retired in 2011, NASA have been working on a replacement but it's a very interesting development that private enterprise is making a real inroad into space. Going back a generation, Shuttle missions were all named STS and then numbered, eg STS-31 to launch the Hubble space telescope, and STS-61, to fix it. But what does STS stand for? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Space transport service? Quote Link to comment
+Cache on Wheels Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 At last one I know thanks to James May. Lego as we know it was 1st produced in 1949, but the company that makes it started making wooden toys 1932 and changed its name to Lego in 1934 (cant remember what it was called before). In which country? Denmark - we've driven passed the factory when we visited Lego land in Denmark last year! also got a couple of caches (and a souvenir now) whilst we were there Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 9, 2013 Author Share Posted March 9, 2013 Space transport service?Oh, very close! Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Space Transportation System. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 9, 2013 Author Share Posted March 9, 2013 Space Transportation System. Advantage, Betelgeuse. Ding! The Space Transportation System was intended to be a whole set of modular craft, including a space tug (designed to be left in orbit and crewed and refilled as necessary) for inter-orbital work, a replacement for Apollo which would be good for setting up a moon base and a reusable 'space truck' which became the Shuttle. With the success of Apollo 11 and the winning of that phase of the Space Race, Nixon and Congress decided not to fund a Mars trip in the 'post-Apollo era', and as the final three planned moon landings were pulled, it was clear budgets were only going south. NASA's grand plans for fleets of nuclear-powered ships, stations - including a Luna-orbit Skylab - and bases were shelved, along with promising technology such as NERVA high-ISP nuclear engines. A good book on 'what might have been' is Stephen Baxter's Voyage. Which he wrote about 10 miles from my home, in Great Missendon. Small world Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Space transport service?Oh, very close! I know, I googled afterwards *Awaits betelgeuse's question* Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 America's space shuttles were retired from service in 2011 - or were they? America still has three shuttles in service. For the DING! Can you tell me either: Their flight designation OR the manufacturer and model? If you can answer both then expect a black helicopter or two overhead. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 I suspect you mean the X-37B micro-shuttle, reusable orbital drone thingies. There's one up there now but the USAF (they're not NASA craft) is keeping very tight-lipped on what it's doing. They're built by Boeing I think? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 That'll get you the DING! Boeing X-37B is correct. The USAF have 3 of them in service - they were intended to be launched from the NASA shuttle originally, but it was decided that it wasn't an economical launch system and so they are now strapped to an Atlas V. They're unmanned and designed to stay in orbit for up to 270 days at a time. The flight designation is OTV (Orbital Test Vehicle) 1, 2 and 3. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 That'll get you the DING! Thanks very much. Due to lack of forward planning, I'll let someone else set the next question as I may not be online as much as I'd like for the next few days; busy busy! Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 No takers? Well, ok then. I'm currently working on a pub quiz for my 10th caching anniversary event in May. Here's a question from it. In which year was iTunes launched? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Absolutely no idea but I'll take a guess at 2003. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Absolutely no idea but I'll take a guess at 2003.Sometimes a guess is all it takes. Ding! Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) Splendid. Winnie the pooh's name derives from which city? Edited March 14, 2013 by TheOldfields Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Splendid. Winnie the pooh's name derives from which city? Winnipeg ? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Would be a ding. Interesting background to the story available here: http://www.just-pooh.com/history.html Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Would be a ding. Interesting background to the story available here: http://www.just-pooh.com/history.html Thanks for the info. What was Adolf Hitler's mother's first name ? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 (edited) Would be a ding. Interesting background to the story available here: http://www.just-pooh.com/history.html Thanks for the info. What was Adolf Hitler's mother's first name ? [deletes stupid wrong answer] Edited March 16, 2013 by Beach_hut Quote Link to comment
+Capt. Grimbeard Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I think it was Klara. Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I think it was Klara. That's a ding to you ! Quote Link to comment
+Capt. Grimbeard Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 OK, a nice simple one: What was the name of Blackbeard's ship? Quote Link to comment
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