The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Pharisee]

I'll take a wild guess and say 12 r.p.m.

 

It's a bit faster than that.

[+Pharisee]

Well I just did a back of the fag packet calculation based on estimates and I reckon it would need just over 1000 revolutions of the driving wheels per minute.

 

But not as fast as that.

[+Simply Paul]

I'd guess at a drive wheel diameter of 6ft or so. Add some pi and I've a figure of 19ft approx. 125ish mph is 183ft per sec, or approx. 580rpm at the wheel. No idea if there's any form of gearing in a steam engine though, so this could be way off.

[+Pharisee]

I'd guess at a drive wheel diameter of 6ft or so. Add some pi and I've a figure of 19ft approx. 125ish mph is 183ft per sec, or approx. 580rpm at the wheel. No idea if there's any form of gearing in a steam engine though, so this could be way off.

 

That's just about close enough for a DING, Paul.

The driving wheels are 6 feet 8 inches in diameter and the speed was 125.88 m.p.h. That works out to 528.91 r.p.m. assuming there no wheel spin. No gearing, the connecting rods are coupled to the driving wheels.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Rather than let this thread lapse, I'll have a go: -

 

What links the places Dubna (Russia), Darmstadt (Germany) and Berkeley (USA), with the planet Neptune?

[+Simply Paul]

Hershal visited the first three and discovered the last? I have a rather nice science book where Neptune is listed as Hershal. I think he hoped it'd be called George-something, after the king.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Hershal visited the first three and discovered the last? I have a rather nice science book where Neptune is listed as Hershal. I think he hoped it'd be called George-something, after the king.

 

No, not Hershal, but you've mentioned the general area you should be considering in your post.

[+speakers-corner]

chemical elements??

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

chemical elements??

 

Ding!

They all have chemical elements named after them.

 

Dubna - Dubnium

Darmstadt - Darmstadtium

Berkeley - Berkelium

Neptune - Neptunium.

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding.

Now for a bit of history.

What are the connections between the families Cornwallis and Lafayette

[+crb11]

A Cornwallis was one of the British generals in the American War of Independence, and a Lafayette one of the Americans ones. Cornwallis I think was the one who surrendered: possibly to Lafayette?

[+speakers-corner]

A Cornwallis was one of the British generals in the American War of Independence, and a Lafayette one of the Americans ones. Cornwallis I think was the one who surrendered: possibly to Lafayette?

Thats the second part. Cornwallis or rather his 2IC surrendered to Washingtons 2IC. There is another connection.

[+crb11]

I found another one (between the same Cornwallis and a different Lafayette) by looking on Wikipedia but it's pretty obscure.

[+speakers-corner]

If it helps! The first part is on similar grounds as the second but has to do with the father of one of them.

[+crb11]

That fits what I've got. (We're not meant to look things up, so I wasn't claiming the win: knew I didn't know anything else about Cornwallis!)

[+speakers-corner]

OK, then I will give you the Ding. The other Information that I was looking for was that in a european war Cornwallis took part in a battle that killed the father of Lafayette. The son later took part in a battle that caused Cornwallis to surrender. Found all this out when I was in Yorktown last week.

[+crb11]

Thanks! A punchline to a well-known joke answers the following: what is the odd one out from American Football, elephants, Northern Ireland, particle physics. What is the joke?

[+crb11]

Should I give a hint?

[+TheOldfields]

Definitely.

[+martin&lindabryn]

yes please

[+crb11]

The three similar items all "have" something which is the same very common word, although with different meanings. The odd one out fails to "have" something which is a fourth meaning of the same word, and the joke plays on the confusion between this meaning and a fifth meaning of the same word.

[+martin&lindabryn]

I am more confused LOL

[Pajaholic]

IIRC, a "split" is an American Football 'play'. It's also been the political state of Northern Ireland; and particle physicists have been known to split the odd atom. The only way I can think of an elephant "splitting" is by "getting out of here"! So I'll guess that "split" is the very common word; but I have no idea of the joke!

[+crb11]

Right idea, not the right word. (It's specifically Northern Ireland and nowhere else that I'm aware of.)

[+crb11]

Oh dear. To clarify the hint: if all four were linked, then something in American football would be called X, something in Northern Ireland would be called X, something to do with elephants would be called X, something to do with particle physics would be called X. Four Xs, but a different meaning in each case. Except that one of these four isn't true, and there's a joke about it.

 

The joke also features a duck.

[+TheOldfields]

Quark, craic and quack?

[+crb11]

That looks like it could be a better answer than mine, but no. All the connections are the same word, pronounced and spelt the same (except one has a capital letter.)

[Sharpeset]

Oh dear. To clarify the hint: if all four were linked, then something in American football would be called X, something in Northern Ireland would be called X, something to do with elephants would be called X, something to do with particle physics would be called X. Four Xs, but a different meaning in each case. Except that one of these four isn't true, and there's a joke about it.

 

The joke also features a duck.

 

No idea of the joke, but could the word possibly be 'Down'?

Logic being:

American football features eg "first down and ten";

There's a County Down in NI;

Picking up on the Oldfields suggestions, I believe quarks can be classified as 'up' or 'down' (used to work in nuclear fusion facility -in admin- but surrounded by physicists discussing such things over coffee at lunchtime);

 

That leaves elephants: can't think of a 'down' connection, but since you mention that the joke features a duck, could that duck possibly be an eider duck, giving an eider down link?

 

Pete

[+crb11]

That's the connection, and I'll give you the ding for it.

 

The joke is: "How do you get down off an elephant?" "You don't, you get down off a duck." (I'd seen it regularly, but think I was into my teens before I understood it.)

[Sharpeset]

That's the connection, and I'll give you the ding for it.

 

The joke is: "How do you get down off an elephant?" "You don't, you get down off a duck." (I'd seen it regularly, but think I was into my teens before I understood it.)

 

Thanks- ah yes, remember it now

 

What word links the “Wizard of Oz” with the top goal-scorer in the 1990 World Cup finals?

[+Beach_hut]

That's the connection, and I'll give you the ding for it.

 

The joke is: "How do you get down off an elephant?" "You don't, you get down off a duck." (I'd seen it regularly, but think I was into my teens before I understood it.)

 

Thanks- ah yes, remember it now

 

What word links the “Wizard of Oz” with the top goal-scorer in the 1990 World Cup finals?

 

The goalscorer was Salvatore Schillaci, who I believe was also known as Toto.

 

Edit to finish joining the dots: and Toto was Dorothy's dog in the Wizard of Oz

Edited September 23, 2014 by Beach_hut

[Sharpeset]

That's the connection, and I'll give you the ding for it.

 

The joke is: "How do you get down off an elephant?" "You don't, you get down off a duck." (I'd seen it regularly, but think I was into my teens before I understood it.)

 

Thanks- ah yes, remember it now

 

What word links the “Wizard of Oz” with the top goal-scorer in the 1990 World Cup finals?

 

The goalscorer was Salvatore Schillaci, who I believe was also known as Toto.

 

Edit to finish joining the dots: and Toto was Dorothy's dog in the Wizard of Oz

 

Back of the net! - over to you...

[+Beach_hut]

Why thank you. Toto's last goal of that World Cup was against England, in a match Italy won 2-1. Who scored for England?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

David Platt?

[+Beach_hut]

David Platt?

And that's a DING!

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Wow! That was a total guess!

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Okay then, here's the next one: -

 

What connects ice hockey, polo, tug of war and gliding?

[+martin&lindabryn]

they all used to be Olympic sports

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Correct.

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the Ding.

A nice easy question for you now.

 

What animal is used on UK road signs to denote a zoo?

Edited September 27, 2014 by martin&lindabryn

[+speakers-corner]

a Zebra

[+speakers-corner]

or was it an Elephant.

[+Pharisee]

A kangaroo

[+martin&lindabryn]

over to speakers-corner with his second attempt Elephant.

[+speakers-corner]

History.

Who built the breakwaters of Portland Harbor?

[Sharpeset]

The inmates of Portland Prison (who were prisoners of war)

Edited September 28, 2014 by Sharpeset

[+speakers-corner]

There goes the Ding. It was built by the inmates of Portland prison, they were not prisoners of war but were convicts who lived at "The Grove" on Portland.

[Sharpeset]

There goes the Ding. It was built by the inmates of Portland prison, they were not prisoners of war but were convicts who lived at "The Grove" on Portland.

 

Thanks - sticking with Portland, which battleship was deliberately scuttled in the southernmost entrance to Portland Harbour in 1914?

[+speakers-corner]

That was going to be one of my questions.

It was HMS Hood, sunk across the opening to stop enemy submarines from entering the Harbour.

[Sharpeset]

DING! - exactly right