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red squirrel too obvious...........White Squirrel?
Good enough for the Ding! Albino was the actual word I wanted, but white will do just fine. Some reports from the time: Dorking's famous albino squirrel is dead | This is Surrey BBC News - White squirrel death goes global A shrine to a squirrel: Town's 'Diana style' show of grief for dead ... - RIP Albi :(

 

 

 

OK, regular partakers in this quiz will know that,on the odd occasion that I get it right, I use questions from the quiz I do every month in my local club - reckoning that my regulars have a pretty wide basic general knowledge for a Pub Quiz (rather than specialist subjects on Mastermind) so here's one from next week's:

 

What can you do if you have scotopic vision?

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It's the transition from rod and cone to rod vision also known as dark adaptation - I use it when I'm out with my telescope. It takes around 20 minutes for full adaptation and a split second of white light to ruin it.

 

 

Oh yes my friend - you get it for being able to see in low light conditions that's a DING!!!!!!

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Thankee, sir. :)

 

With this being a pub quiz a reference to Al Murray who plays that well known pub landlord (Cheers to the beer, all hail to the ale and a glass of white wine or fruit-based drink for the lady) is in order.

 

Al Murray has an interesting lineage to say the least that includes the 3rd Duke of Atholl and also a famous literary figure. Who is this?

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How strange. I was reading about Al only a couple of nights ago. A local boy (Stewkley, Bucks), I too was surprised by his background. I think the figure you're after was... Thackery? Now to try to work out what sequence of Wiki-jumps lead me to his page. Someone had died (Richard Griffiths?) and that lead me to... Going off to look at my internet history!

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How strange. I was reading about Al only a couple of nights ago. A local boy (Stewkley, Bucks), I too was surprised by his background. I think the figure you're after was... Thackery? Now to try to work out what sequence of Wiki-jumps lead me to his page. Someone had died (Richard Griffiths?) and that lead me to... Going off to look at my internet history!

clearly the answer in your case should be:

 

Kevin Bacon

 

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Apollo 13 Simply Paul thanks you :)

It was Richard Griffiths who lead me to Al's background. I though RG may have starred in a TV show about someone working at a museum (filmed at Bucks County Museum, my local one) who suddenly becomes a Lord - but since I can't find any info about this one-series show from the late 80s, it seems my memory is off. Anyway, it lead me to famous people from Buckinghamshire, and that... If you happen to recall the programme, if you can name it, it'd take some weight off my mind :anibad:

 

That's not the question though. Inspired by the 52nd anniversary of Yuri's flight coming up (April 12th) we're going back into space with a puzzle from the very early days. How was it Ivan Ivanovich beat Yuri Gagarin into orbit?

 

Note, orbit, not space, because at the time ultra-high altitude aircraft pilots were said to be in space above 100,000ft/19 miles, making an almost-Ivan - Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. - the first man in 'space', in September '56. This was later revised up to 50 miles, where X-15's flew, giving eight pilots USAF astronaut status through the 60s. By 1963 Joseph A. Walker was passing above 100,000m or 62 miles in the X-15, the height recognised as space by the FIA. But 'only' at about 3,700mph. A long way off the 17,500mph needed to reach orbit... :ph34r:

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How strange. I was reading about Al only a couple of nights ago. A local boy (Stewkley, Bucks), I too was surprised by his background. I think the figure you're after was... Thackery? Now to try to work out what sequence of Wiki-jumps lead me to his page. Someone had died (Richard Griffiths?) and that lead me to... Going off to look at my internet history!

 

Good timing! :D

 

It was indeed William Makepeace Thackeray so the DING! goes to you. :)

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Just a willed stab in the dark as it’s not an animal

 

Was it a crash test dummy?

Dingski! Ivan was indeed the name given to a weighted space suit used to test Vostok craft and their escape systems. He made several flights ahead of Gagarin's successful launch and orbit. Recordings were also played from the suit, which may have lead to the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy theories. Over (and out) to you.
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A ding for civilised then.:)

 

The TV comedy 'The Big Bang Theory' is set around characters working at which American University ?

Well they're in Pasadena, which is California so I'll guess Cal-Tec (SP?) - just been watching it!

 

Wow - that was quick - and accurate. A ding to you.

 

It's funny too :)

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I suspect that it's the other way around. I.e. a Rector is 'self-employed' and receives his income directly from the congregation. As such, he cannot be 'sacked' (although his congregation can choose to go elsewhere!) OTOH, a Vicar is employed by a religious organisation, such as a diocese or monastery, receives a stipend, and can be replaced, reassigned, etc.

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