dodgydaved Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Right you are then - new tack = In 1944 Helen Duncan was the last case of a woman being tried and convicted in the U.K. for what crime? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 I think this is witchcraft. If it's the one I'm thinking of she was arrested in Portsmouth/Gosport for doing a seance where she gave details of a Royal Navy ship which had been torpedoed but which hadn't been released by the War Department, they arrested her on charges of Witchcraft, but the suspicion is there was some leak/espionage involved and the Govt just wanted to keep her banged up and out of the way for the duration. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 I think this is witchcraft. If it's the one I'm thinking of she was arrested in Portsmouth/Gosport for doing a seance where she gave details of a Royal Navy ship which had been torpedoed but which hadn't been released by the War Department, they arrested her on charges of Witchcraft, but the suspicion is there was some leak/espionage involved and the Govt just wanted to keep her banged up and out of the way for the duration. That's the one Marty - over to you!! Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 OK, here's a question with a couple of links to the last one. John Nevil Maskelyne was a well known debunker of mediums/psychics but his grandson, who was a famous stage magician, had another role during WWII, what was it and what was his name? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 Clue please! Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 His name was Jasper Maskelyne, and there is some controvesy over the scale of the contributions he made, but no dispute that he was in there doing this stuff at some level.... Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I don't know his name, but ISTR that he was involved in the subterfuge that fooled the Germans into thinking that the D-day landings would take place at Pas-de-Calais rather than Normandy. Fake tanks, empty tents, 'fake' radio traffic all helped. WRT his name, I'll guess 'Nevil' but with no confidence. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I don't know his name, but ISTR that he was involved in the subterfuge that fooled the Germans into thinking that the D-day landings would take place at Pas-de-Calais rather than Normandy. Fake tanks, empty tents, 'fake' radio traffic all helped. WRT his name, I'll guess 'Nevil' but with no confidence. I suspect you missed my post just before yours where I told you his name but you're right, he worked for the secret service. Depending on who you believe he was responsible for the inflatable tanks and cardboard cut out planes which deceived Germany in the D-Day landings, which was a rerun of tactics he'd used in North Africa, he was also responsible for creating an illusion which led to Germany bombing an empty lagoon off North Africa instead of Alexandria Harbour. Over to you. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Thanks - FWIW, we 'crossed', i.e. you posted yours while I was writing mine! Moving to a more recent conflict - the Falklands 'war' - what, in broad terms, was Operation Algeciras. Bonus points for naming the units involved. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Was that the operation involving the multiple refuelling in-flight of the bombers that took out the airport at Port Stanley? No idea what the units were but I believe they stopped off at Ascension Island. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 That was - probably the most complicated wartime refuelling schedule ever! Operation Algeciras was the other way round - i.e. an Argentine attack on UK forces. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 As a week has passed since I posted the question, in accordance with SP's modified rules, you have my permission to use Google, Wikipedia, etc. to help answer this question. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Did Argentina attack Gibraltar? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 That'll get you the ding! More specifically, an Argentine commando unit made a failed attempt to place limpet mines on HMS Ariadne while she was in Gibraltar harbour. Over to Beach_hut! Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 That'll get you the ding! More specifically, an Argentine commando unit made a failed attempt to place limpet mines on HMS Ariadne while she was in Gibraltar harbour. Over to Beach_hut! Many thanks. Gibraltar's football team recently became members of UEFA. Who were their opponents in their first match as a fully-fledged international football team? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Kosovo? I can't see that those two played each other but in any case Kosovo aren't in UEFA or FIFA. Guess again Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Guessing that there's some sort of irony involved, I'll guess at Spain. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) I know the answer - didn't google, but I have family on Gib - is that allowed? :) speelink Edited March 30, 2014 by dodgydaved Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I know the answer - didn't google, but I have family on Gib - is that allowed? :) speelink If you know the answer without googling, go for it.. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I know the answer - didn't google, but I have family on Gib - is that allowed? :) speelink If you know the answer without googling, go for it.. OK then draw with Slovakia - but It was in Portugal - Faro - not at the Victoria Stadium. Dave N tells me all their home EUEFA matches could be/will be played in Faro. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 And that's the DING! Over to dodgydaved Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 OK, sticking with the rock. John Pharisee - we missed each other by a couple of days last year - but how much did you learn about Gib. Its a mixture of Andalusian Spanish and British English, with vocabulary from Genoese, Hebrew, Maltese and Portuguese. It is spoken in Gibraltar by the locals. But what is it called? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I would like to be able to say "Yeah... I know that!" but to be truthful, I haven't got a clue. Sorry.... Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 If there's any justice in the world, it ought to be called Gibrish! Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 If there's any justice in the world, it ought to be called Gibrish! :) Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Coincidentally.... I figured this one out earlier on.... http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC50JD0_utter-gibberish Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 Coincidentally.... I figured this one out earlier on.... http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC50JD0_utter-gibberish Premium Members only Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 I've waited long enough to say "Is it Yan-something?" thanks to a half-remembered comment on some TV programme (with Alan Wicker?) about the rock. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I've waited long enough to say "Is it Yan-something?" thanks to a half-remembered comment on some TV programme (with Alan Wicker?) about the rock. Hi Paul, Yan something is close enough after this time. Yanito or Llanito (not too sure about the spellings though. Over to you :) Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 That's unexpected, but thank you. The above question inspired the next: Venetia Phair, née Burney (July 11th 1918 – April 30th 2009) was the first person to suggest a name for something, when aged 11 and living in Oxford. She was granddaughter of Falconer Madan, whose brother Henry Madan (once Science Master of Eton) had suggested two names for somethings not entirely different, in 1878. All three names are still in use. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Clue One: Her age and date of birth should lead you to a year. Since she suggested it in the first half of the year, add one. You now have a year which may help identify what it was she gave the name to. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I seem to remember that its something to do with moons, but which ones and round which plane eludes me Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 You're in the right area, but some way off. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 Extra clue: This object is now known to have at least five moons, one of which is so unusually big it lifts the system's centre of mass (aka barycenter) and rotation outside its primary - the only body in the solar system known to do this apart from the Sun/Jupiter combination, which only just does it too. The 'wobble' this gives our sun is basically the same as what we use to 'spot' planets around distant stars. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 Pluto? Ding! Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 using the 'blink comparator' method, but named by a girl from Oxford after the god of the Underworld, Pluto is the rock in question. Over to you! P.S. The great-uncle suggested the names still used for Mars' two small moons. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Splendid. What are the four quarters of the old city of Jerusalem? Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Oh Dear, I should know this having visited this most wonderful of places some years back...but have my doubts as to my answer. Jewish, Arab, Christian and Greek (?). Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Muslim, American, Jewish and Christian Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 No dings as yet. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) Muslim, AmericanArmenian, Jewish and Christian Dammed auto correct Edited April 13, 2014 by martin&lindabryn Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 That would be a lovely shiny Ding to m&l. Over to you. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Thanks for the ding Now for something different Which famous logo, is the company’s name written in blue, inside a yellow oval which in turn sits inside a blue rectangle? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 I literally have no Ikea Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Very droll, but a quick ding to you Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 Cheers. A rapid change of direction and a tricky question: What's pretty much unique about the City of Lincoln? Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 It has a "green" named after it? Worth a punt. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Michael Portillo was there on one of his railway journeys recently and the Cathedral doesn't have a spire so I'll go with it's the only Cathedral without one. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 You're being a little too literal, but I like the cathedral idea. However, St Paul's has no spire. Lots have towers and no spire..? Quote Link to comment
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