+me N u Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 According to Mrs me N u, who's just been watching the news on TV, its Lithuania. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 And that's a CLINK to you (either festive glasses or freshly minted Euros - your choice). Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Just lucky timing when answering the last question, so to change the subject totally. The acronym LASER stands for what? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. (At least if my memory from A level is correct.) Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. (At least if my memory from A level is correct.) That's a nice quick DING to you! Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 A UK railway station with three words in its name shares two of those words with another three-word station over a hundred miles away. Name them. (There might be more than one answer to this.) Quote Link to comment
+zannieandjazzy Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Ebbw Vale Parkway and Aylesbury Vale Parkway? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 A good thing I put the proviso in. I hadn't heard of Aylesbury Vale Parkway, nor did I think it would be that far to Ebbw Vale, but the straight line distance is 100.2 miles! So a DING to you. I was actually thinking of two much larger and better known stations - anyone want to go for those as a bonus? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 London Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime Street for the bonus? Quote Link to comment
+zannieandjazzy Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 well it depends if we are playing this Family Fortunes style or Pointless! Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 That's the pair I was thinking of - easier if you're over this part of the country as Beach Hut is, as a few stations have trains to both. (But over to zannieandjazzy to set the next round.) Quote Link to comment
+zannieandjazzy Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I have a question but I need to put a picture in - how do I do that? When I press insert picture, it asks me for a URL, but it's a file. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I upload the pic onto one of my archived caches, and then get the URL from there. Once the pic is uploaded on here you can delete it from the cache page Quote Link to comment
+zannieandjazzy Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I upload the pic onto one of my archived caches, and then get the URL from there. Once the pic is uploaded on here you can delete it from the cache page Ooh, it is on a cache page already - in honour of the best geoswag EVER... (picked up today near Leith Hill Tower) which UK Christmas special of 2014 did Rudolph (and his colleagues) make a cameo appearance? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I'm going to say Doctor Who Quote Link to comment
+zannieandjazzy Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I'm going to say Doctor Who And that's the last DING of Xmas 2014. Sorry if it was a bit easy, I wanted to show off my Leith Hill swag. Over to a Beach Hut for the next question. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks for the DING! Let's go down the Doctor Who avenue. What distinction do Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi have? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Well Colin Baker appeared as a baddie before he was cast as The Doctor, so I'll guess Peter Capaldi did too. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Well Colin Baker appeared as a baddie before he was cast as The Doctor, so I'll guess Peter Capaldi did too. That's a quick DING for you. Peter Capaldi was a Roman Centurion in a David Tennant story. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks, sticking with the Roman theme who would have used a Groma (or Gruma). Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Thanks, sticking with the Roman theme who would have used a Groma (or Gruma). That would be a Gromaticus - a surveyor. HF Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Indeed, a DING to HF, your turn. Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Thanks for the ding. OK - the road called Ermine Street ran between the Roman settlements at Londinium and Eboracum. What are the modern names for these places? HF Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 And it's a Dingus Maximus to you, crb11. Over to you. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Following on with the same theme: what is LXV multiplied by XXXI? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Completely in my head, I think it's MMXV Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Marty is correct. 2015. Completely on my calculator. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 A belated DING - sorry, completely forgot to come back and check this. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I'm a polymath, born around 287BC in Syracuse, Scicily. Who am I? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Eureka, your turn (of the Archimedes screw?) Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Thanks! Staying with the Greeks, which king was condemned to forever push a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Sisyphus? (Didn't know he was a king.) Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 DING! Over to you. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 What were the names of the three children in "My Family"? Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 What were the names of the three children in "My Family"? Mikey, Nick and Jane/Janie Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 A triple DING to you! Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 A triple DING to you! Why thank you, thank you, thank you! Sticking with the theme: what are the names of the three children in 'Outnumbered'? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Ben, Jake and Karen. Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Ben, Jake and Karen. Ding, Ding and thrice Ding! Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Why thank you. Let's play a game of "what am I?" I'm a four-legged animal. I have a unique feature in that when I walk, the two legs on the left hand side of my body move in unison, then my right. (If you think about how a human walks, when you put one foot forward, the opposite hand moves in unison. This one and only animal walks differently.) What am I? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 A Giraffe. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Giraffe. And that's a DING for MartyBartfast! Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 What's the common name for the tree Araucaria araucana? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I think that's the monkey puzzle. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 And that's a DING, your go. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Thanks. Knew that one due to the Guardian crossword setter who used Araucaria as his 'nom de puzzle'. Next - which Lord of the Rings actor's father is a major rock star? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Thanks. Knew that one due to the Guardian crossword setter who used Araucaria as his 'nom de puzzle'. Next - which Lord of the Rings actor's father is a major rock star? Liv Tyler was in the Lord of the Rings films, I believe? Her father is Steven Tyler of Aerosmith Quote Link to comment
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