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Simply Paul

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Anyway! Moving away from the Jarrow area, what's next in this series? A circus, a street, an arch, a gate...
Is it a way?

As in London Underground Central Line Stations...... Oxford Circus, Bond Street, Marble Arch, Lancaster Gate then Queensway

DING to Turtlebum; yep, that's what I was after. Over to you :(
norsch

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Circle

 

Edited to change that to District as I had forgotten the East London Line

 

District doesn't connect with Metropolitan, sorry

Must be the other newish one then Jubilee

goldpot

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Sadly I know the answer, it's the Jubilee which norsch answered first, however, the East London line is closed for reconstruction and will reopen as a Overground line later this year, so technically is now no longer a Tube Line. So, this now means the Central also connects all Tube/DLR lines and if you include the interchange at Bank/Monument so too the Circle and District lines!

 

I better get a life....like hunting plastic Tupperware. :)

Pajaholic

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None at all

DING to Dr Dick, the last "legal tender" note in Scotland was the Bank of England £1.

Can you explain this?

 

The definition of "legal tender" is anything that cannot legally be refused as payment of a debt. The Pound Sterling is now a fiat currency. Thus, all Sterling banknotes and coins are "legal tender" AFAICT across the entire UK.

 

TIA,

 

Geoff

 

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I've done some further research and according to the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1954, only Bank of England notes with value less than £5 are legal tender in Scotland (i.e. the pound and ten-shilling notes at the time the legislation was enacted). With the demise of the pound and ten-shilling notes, Scotland was left with only coinage as legal tender. However, there is case law that should mean all English and Scottish bank notes are now legal tender. "Some time ago" the reference I found claims that a Scottish authority tried to refuse a cash payment in Scottish notes on the grounds that it was not legal tender, but the Sheriff ruled that that they were obliged to accept anything which was commonly accepted as "money". In doing so, AFAICT his ruling set a precedent that anything commonly accepted as "money" cannot be legally refused as payment of a debt in Scotland, and hence "anything commonly accepted as 'money'" now meets the definition of legal tender.

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norsch

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None at all

DING to Dr Dick, the last "legal tender" note in Scotland was the Bank of England £1.

Can you explain this?

 

The definition of "legal tender" is anything that cannot legally be refused as payment of a debt. The Pound Sterling is now a fiat currency. Thus, all Sterling banknotes and coins are "legal tender" AFAICT across the entire UK.

 

TIA,

 

Geoff

 

Edited to add:

 

I've done some further research and according to the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1954, only Bank of England notes with value less than £5 are legal tender in Scotland (i.e. the pound and ten-shilling notes at the time the legislation was enacted). With the demise of the pound and ten-shilling notes, Scotland was left with only coinage as legal tender. However, there is case law that should mean all English and Scottish bank notes are now legal tender. "Some time ago" the reference I found claims that a Scottish authority tried to refuse a cash payment in Scottish notes on the grounds that it was not legal tender, but the Sheriff ruled that that they were obliged to accept anything which was commonly accepted as "money". In doing so, AFAICT his ruling set a precedent that anything commonly accepted as "money" cannot be legally refused as payment of a debt in Scotland, and hence "anything commonly accepted as 'money'" now meets the definition of legal tender.

Payment by cheque or credit card is also accepted, but neither are legal tender.

 

In the United Kingdom, only coins valued 1 pound Sterling, 2 pounds, and 5 pounds Sterling are legal tender in unlimited amounts throughout the territory of the United Kingdom. In accordance with the Coinage Act 1971,[9] gold sovereigns are also legal tender for any amount. Although not specifically mentioned on them, the face values of gold coins are 50p, £1, £2 and £5, a mere fraction of their worth as bullion. The United Kingdom legislation that introduced the 1 pound coin left no United Kingdom-wide legal tender banknote.

 

Currently, 20 pence pieces, 25-pence coins and 50-pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 10 pounds; 5-pence pieces and 10-pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 5 pounds; and 1-penny pieces and 2-pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 20 pence.

Pajaholic

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Payment by cheque or credit card is also accepted, but neither are legal tender.

AIUI, the difference between "acceptable payment" and "legal tender" is whether the recipient is legally obliged to accept the form of payment. Thus credit cards and cheques are not legal tender and are accepted by agreement between the parties concerned since the recipient is under no obligation to accept that form of payment. With legal tender, agreement is not necessary since the recipient is legally obliged to accept that form of payment.

 

If that reference I dug up is correct then case law has modified the statutes we quoted to make legal tender in Scotland anything (including English and Scottish banknotes) commonly accepted as money - since that ruling obliged the authority concerned to accept such payments.

 

That said, I guess this is moot and the quizmaster's decision is final. So notwithstanding this interesting excursion into the UK money system, I await DrDick&Vick's question with interest.

 

Geoff

Madam Cholet

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He played Inspector Lynch and also played the same character in 'Softly Softly' even earlier. Showing my age now!!

 

By the way, sorry for my non-confirmation of my last question, internet went down at work over the weekend. It was, indeed, a correct Ding to Norsch.

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goldpot

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By the way, sorry for my non-confirmation of my last question, internet went down at work over the weekend. It was, indeed, a correct Ding to Norsch.

 

...I didn't realised you are a professional Quiz Master! :)

Madam Cholet

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Ding to Madam Cholet Bert Lynch (various ranks)

 

Ah yes, Goldpot. My job is many fold. A 14 hour shift consists of...cup of tea and newspaper, check GC forum, breakfast, plan holiday, stick a plaster on someone, watch a dvd, lunch, send someone to hospital, plan GCing for day off, wash a eye out, dinner, snooze and home.

 

Staying with the same theme (cos it's too early to think of another).

 

To the nearest 10, how many episodes of Z Cars were there?

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Ding to Madam Cholet Bert Lynch (various ranks)

 

Ah yes, Goldpot. My job is many fold. A 14 hour shift consists of...cup of tea and newspaper, check GC forum, breakfast, plan holiday, stick a plaster on someone, watch a dvd, lunch, send someone to hospital, plan GCing for day off, wash a eye out, dinner, snooze and home.

 

Staying with the same theme (cos it's too early to think of another).

 

To the nearest 10, how many episodes of Z Cars were there?

My guess is 40... but it's only a guess... MaxKim.

drdick&vick

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Now I am going to show my age as I remember it really well and as far as I can remember it ran for around 15 years so I am going to take a stab and say 1 per week for 15 years = 780 ish and if I remember correctly James Ellis was in about 80% of them.

Must admit I don't remember his character in Softly Softly although a few of the characters crossed over to Z Cars

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Madam Cholet

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Now I am going to show my age as I remember it really well and as far as I can remember it ran for around 15 years so I am going to take a stab and say 1 per week for 15 years = 780 ish and if I remember correctly James Ellis was in about 80% of them.

Must admit I don't remember his character in Softly Softly although a few of the characters crossed over to Z Cars

 

This is the closest guess so far but just a little too high. Any further guesses or I will give it to DrDick&Vick for being the nearest.

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Madam Cholet

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Guessing at 670

 

Sorry, my apologies. On double checking the answers I realise that DrDick&Vick were very close with their guess. There were 799 episodes. (I had 699 in my head)

 

It ran from 1962 to 1978. There were 462 x 25 min episodes then 337 x 50 min episodes. Black and White (1962-1970) Color (1970-1978). James Ellis was in 626 of them.

 

So that's a DING to DrDick&Vick.

Pajaholic

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DING to Pajaholic

 

At least I am not the only old one who knows these things.

Thanks. Every since I saw the question I can't get "oompah eekah, oompah eekah" out of my head ... and the chorus of "Running Bear" intertwined with "Please Mr Custer, I don't want to go!" ... Aghhh!

 

Next question: In April 2006, ex-soldier Kevin Alderton set a world speed record of 100.94 mph - but in what discipline?

 

Geoff

The Blorenges

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Thanks Geoff

 

Who was the first woman to win the TV show "One man and his dog"?

 

...a wild guess; Mrs B! :D

 

Here in the wilds of SE Wales we have to create our own entertainment to fill the long, dark evenings and inevitably such recreation often involves the cooperation of our ever-obliging sheep population. Many years ago I graduated from the rather mundane 'one (wo)man and her dog and some sheep' scenario and experimented instead with shepherding colonies of native wild hamsters over the heathlands of the Brecon Beacons. Hamsters, by the very nature of their diminutive size, are much trickier to round up but I've managed to take the World record for 26 crammed into one standard size hamster exercise ball. More recently my interests have returned to "creative sheep herding" as practised on the lower slopes of The Blorenge: Some of the more artistic efforts of illuminated sheep herding can be seen here...

 

 

MrsB

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goldpot

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Thanks Geoff

 

Who was the first woman to win the TV show "One man and his dog"?

 

...a wild guess; Mrs B! :D

 

Here in the wilds of SE Wales we have to create our own entertainment to fill the long, dark evenings and inevitably such recreation often involves the cooperation of our ever-obliging sheep population. Many years ago I graduated from the rather mundane 'one (wo)man and her dog and some sheep' scenario and experimented instead with shepherding colonies of native wild hamsters over the heathlands of the Brecon Beacons. Hamsters, by the very nature of their diminutive size, are much trickier to round up but I've managed to take the World record for 26 crammed into one standard size hamster exercise ball. More recently my interests have returned to "creative sheep herding" as practised on the lower slopes of The Blorenge: Some of the more artistic efforts of illuminated sheep herding can be seen here...

 

 

MrsB

 

...is that a ding then???

 

I take it that no sheep were harmed in that 'art' video. B)

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