The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

1.3k · July 11, 2011

4 horror movie characters have been played by the same actor on at least 6 occasions in films. Sir Christopher Lee: Dracula, Robert Englund: Freddy Krueger, Tobin Bell: Jigsaw...

The other is a part time member of extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.

The ding for the character and film.

A ding and a pint for the actor!

The character's Pinhead, from Hellraiser (1, 2 etc)

No idea what his real name is. And had no idea he was in Cradle of Filth, either.

Ding!

Liverpool's Doug Bradley does narrative on several Cradle Of Filth songs, but due to acting commitments and contracts has yet to appear in a video, with other actors playing his roles.

A childhood friend of Clive Barker, he took the role of Pinhead in Hellraiser and played the characte in the first 8 hellraiser movies. Bill Bradley is credited on some of the films as a make up artist... This was Doug, using his middle name, and he's credited as he has become expert in applying the make up and masks required for the cenobites.

3k · July 12, 2011

OK

The latest official UK Mega event is in a few weeks, in Wales (but there may be an unofficial one a week before that... )

What did mega originally mean, what does mega mean in the scientific community - and how long has it been in use?

July 12, 2011

OK

The latest official UK Mega event is in a few weeks, in Wales (but there may be an unofficial one a week before that... )

What did mega originally mean, what does mega mean in the scientific community - and how long has it been in use?

Mega means 10^6 or 2^20 (as in megahertz = 10^6 cycles per second; or megabyte = 2^20 bytes) depending on context to the scientific community. I suspect it's Greek and originates with the ancient Greeks - so it's been in use for over 500 years (D'oh! - I meant 500 years BC - see note). I can't speak Greek but I'll guess it means what we mean in a non-scientific sense: i.e. huge or awe-inspiring depending on context?

Note: Edited to correct timescale. I meant 500 years BC, so it's been in use for over 2,500 years.

2nd Edit: Having heard nothing all day, I re-examined the question and realized the timescale thing is ambiguous: i.e. the question could be asking how long has it been used by the scientific community. So I'll give that a go.

AIUI, the earliest scientific use as a unit multiplier can't pre-date the first metric scientific system of units, which was introduced just after the French Revolution - i.e. late 18th century. It was definitely in place when the CGS system was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. So its first 'scientific' use must have been during the half-century between those dates.

Also, I suspect the part of the question that asks what did it originally mean may also be ambiguous. AFAICT, 'mega' first came into the English language in the scientific context to mean 'decimal million'.

Edited July 12, 2011 by Pajaholic

July 13, 2011

OK

The latest official UK Mega event is in a few weeks, in Wales (but there may be an unofficial one a week before that... )

What did mega originally mean, what does mega mean in the scientific community - and how long has it been in use?

Mega means 10^6 or 2^20 (as in megahertz = 10^6 cycles per second; or megabyte = 2^20 bytes) depending on context to the scientific community. I suspect it's Greek and originates with the ancient Greeks - so it's been in use for over 500 years (D'oh! - I meant 500 years BC - see note). I can't speak Greek but I'll guess it means what we mean in a non-scientific sense: i.e. huge or awe-inspiring depending on context?

Note: Edited to correct timescale. I meant 500 years BC, so it's been in use for over 2,500 years.

2nd Edit: Having heard nothing all day, I re-examined the question and realized the timescale thing is ambiguous: i.e. the question could be asking how long has it been used by the scientific community. So I'll give that a go.

AIUI, the earliest scientific use as a unit multiplier can't pre-date the first metric scientific system of units, which was introduced just after the French Revolution - i.e. late 18th century. It was definitely in place when the CGS system was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. So its first 'scientific' use must have been during the half-century between those dates.

Also, I suspect the part of the question that asks what did it originally mean may also be ambiguous. AFAICT, 'mega' first came into the English language in the scientific context to mean 'decimal million'.

most definitely a pub knowledge question then eh?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

1.3k · July 13, 2011

OK

The latest official UK Mega event is in a few weeks, in Wales (but there may be an unofficial one a week before that... )

What did mega originally mean, what does mega mean in the scientific community - and how long has it been in use?

Mega means 10^6 or 2^20 (as in megahertz = 10^6 cycles per second; or megabyte = 2^20 bytes) depending on context to the scientific community. I suspect it's Greek and originates with the ancient Greeks - so it's been in use for over 500 years (D'oh! - I meant 500 years BC - see note). I can't speak Greek but I'll guess it means what we mean in a non-scientific sense: i.e. huge or awe-inspiring depending on context?

Note: Edited to correct timescale. I meant 500 years BC, so it's been in use for over 2,500 years.

2nd Edit: Having heard nothing all day, I re-examined the question and realized the timescale thing is ambiguous: i.e. the question could be asking how long has it been used by the scientific community. So I'll give that a go.

AIUI, the earliest scientific use as a unit multiplier can't pre-date the first metric scientific system of units, which was introduced just after the French Revolution - i.e. late 18th century. It was definitely in place when the CGS system was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. So its first 'scientific' use must have been during the half-century between those dates.

Also, I suspect the part of the question that asks what did it originally mean may also be ambiguous. AFAICT, 'mega' first came into the English language in the scientific context to mean 'decimal million'.

most definitely a pub knowledge question then eh?

:lol:

10^6 and "great" hopefully a little more than pub knowledge, more the common bit. 2^20 is def pub knowledge, and techie... Lots of techies here. So, looking fir the catch.

3k · July 13, 2011

OK

The latest official UK Mega event is in a few weeks, in Wales (but there may be an unofficial one a week before that... )

What did mega originally mean, what does mega mean in the scientific community - and how long has it been in use?

Mega means 10^6 or 2^20 (as in megahertz = 10^6 cycles per second; or megabyte = 2^20 bytes) depending on context to the scientific community. I suspect it's Greek and originates with the ancient Greeks - so it's been in use for over 500 years (D'oh! - I meant 500 years BC - see note). I can't speak Greek but I'll guess it means what we mean in a non-scientific sense: i.e. huge or awe-inspiring depending on context?

Note: Edited to correct timescale. I meant 500 years BC, so it's been in use for over 2,500 years.

2nd Edit: Having heard nothing all day, I re-examined the question and realized the timescale thing is ambiguous: i.e. the question could be asking how long has it been used by the scientific community. So I'll give that a go.

AIUI, the earliest scientific use as a unit multiplier can't pre-date the first metric scientific system of units, which was introduced just after the French Revolution - i.e. late 18th century. It was definitely in place when the CGS system was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. So its first 'scientific' use must have been during the half-century between those dates.

Also, I suspect the part of the question that asks what did it originally mean may also be ambiguous. AFAICT, 'mega' first came into the English language in the scientific context to mean 'decimal million'.

LOL - close enough for a DING

July 13, 2011

10^6 and "great" hopefully a little more than pub knowledge, more the common bit. 2^20 is def pub knowledge, and techie... Lots of techies here. So, looking fir the catch.

was talking more about his edit eh?

1.3k · July 13, 2011

10^6 and "great" hopefully a little more than pub knowledge, more the common bit. 2^20 is def pub knowledge, and techie... Lots of techies here. So, looking fir the catch.

was talking more about his edit eh?

Sorry... but I was looking for the catch!!!!

July 13, 2011

LOL - close enough for a DING

Thanks, I was wondering whether I'd inadvertently taken the question the wrong way or two!

Anyway, staying with units of measure, what is a millihelen?

1.3k · July 13, 2011

LOL - close enough for a DING

Thanks, I was wondering whether I'd inadvertently taken the question the wrong way or two!

Anyway, staying with units of measure, what is a millihelen?

lmao... something to do with Helen of Troy... don't remember her being sliced though

1.3k · July 14, 2011

lmao... something to do with Helen of Troy... don't remember her being sliced though

I cheated...and you are not far wrong....although..

Rule 2 - Try and keep your question at the level someone in a pub quiz might be able to answer...

You must go to different pubs than me!! :lol:

Edited July 14, 2011 by eusty

July 14, 2011

Anyway, staying with units of measure, what is a millihelen?

"Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?" or similar - Faust?

The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

Edit for speellling

Edited July 14, 2011 by The Patrician

July 14, 2011

"Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?" or similar - Faust?

The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

From the Iliad, or Song of Ilium (attributed to Homer), after Paris abducted Helen and took her to Troy the Achaeans set sail with a thousand ships to get her back. Thus the beauteous Helen of Troy is known as "the face that launched a thousand ships" and a millihelen is, indeed, the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship!

Fractions of a millihelen are, allegedly, fine also. For example, a tenth of a millihelen might be sufficient to launch a couple of sailors. The millihelen can be combined with the unit of alcohol, the standard drink, to give the drink-millihelen, which in part is a measure of the 'beer goggles effect', it taking correspondingly less beauty to launch a matelot after an increasing number of drinks!

Over to The Patrician.

July 14, 2011

I see that Helen herself launched 1186 ships, giving her a rating of 1.186 Helens, and that there are also negative Helens which cause the ships to be launched but to row off in the opposite direction.

Some other units of measure are the beard-second which is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but used for extremely short distances such as those in nuclear physics. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second (Kemp Bennet Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 angstroms) and of course the Thaum is a measuring unit used in the Terry Pratchett series of Discworld novels to quantify magic. It equals the amount of mystical energy required to conjure up one small white pigeon, or three normal-sized billiard balls. It can, of course, be measured with a thaumometer.

On with the question, an easy one I hope:

Broadsword calling .....

Who, and in what?

1.3k · July 14, 2011

lmao... something to do with Helen of Troy... don't remember her being sliced though

I cheated...and you are not far wrong....although..

Rule 2 - Try and keep your question at the level someone in a pub quiz might be able to answer...

You must go to different pubs than me!!

SU bars!

July 14, 2011

On with the question, an easy one I hope:

Broadsword calling .....

Who, and in what?

I remember hearing this uttered with a posh Port Talbot accent as ISTR it's Richard Burton's character in 'Where Eagles Dare', which was on Films4men or similar only last week. However, I'm darned if I can remember the name of the character :unsure:

1.3k · July 14, 2011

On with the question, an easy one I hope:

Broadsword calling .....

Who, and in what?

I remember hearing this uttered with a posh Port Talbot accent as ISTR it's Richard Burton's character in 'Where Eagles Dare', which was on Films4men or similar only last week. However, I'm darned if I can remember the name of the character

Broadsword calling Danny Boy

<Can't remember the rank> John Smith?

Where Eagles Dare

Edited July 14, 2011 by NattyBooshka

July 14, 2011

Broadsword calling Danny Boy

<Can't remember the rank> John Smith?

Where Eagles Dare

Spot on! Hard luck Pajaholic, so close.

Over to Natty.

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Broadsword calling Danny Boy

<Can't remember the rank> John Smith?

Where Eagles Dare

Spot on! Hard luck Pajaholic, so close.

Over to Natty.

I read books and watch films that are used as song titles... dunno why... that one an Iron Maiden song in 1983.

So, I'll link it... kind of.

Dalton Trumbo wrote the anti-war book Johnny Got his Gun in 1938.

Dalton Trumbo wrote and directed the film of the book in 1971, Donald Sutherland played Jesus. It won he Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at Cannes (the second most prestigious award) and yet was little known or seen.

In 1989 the film was used in a music video, giving it its biggest audience to date. Name the band and the song.

The music video created interest in the film, until its DVD release VHS copies were selling for £250 on ebay. The book has also seen a great increase in sales.

July 14, 2011

Oh boy! we surely do go to very different pubs!

I'm probably a million miles away, but it sounds like the footage used for 'When the Tigers Broke Free' by Pink Floyd?

July 14, 2011

I'm out!

July 14, 2011

is ur pub also known as MENSA ???? :huh:

1.3k · July 14, 2011

is ur pub also known as MENSA ????

You definitely know this one

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Oh boy! we surely do go to very different pubs!

I'm probably a million miles away, but it sounds like the footage used for 'When the Tigers Broke Free' by Pink Floyd?

Not the Floyd.

July 14, 2011

My feeling is................Metallica......n the song being ONE ??? am I way off here ??

1.3k · July 14, 2011

My feeling is................Metallica......n the song being ONE ??? am I way off here ??

DING!

Told ya so

July 14, 2011

yay had a feeling it would beee!

Now to think of a question.............

Which metallica band member was burnt by pyrotechnics during a concert in Montreal?

1.3k · July 14, 2011

yay had a feeling it would beee!

Now to think of a question.............

Which metallica band member was burnt by pyrotechnics during a concert in Montreal?

James Hetfield... Same night Axl Pose incited a riot!

July 14, 2011

DING! Back to u NB

1.3k · July 14, 2011

DING! Back to u NB

Had a mate at that gig

Err...

Montreal is a track on the album Strip. The album was the second solo one by Diana Dorr's godson. He had his biggest hits with a band a couple of years earlier. Real name Stuart Goddard.

Name the artist.

July 14, 2011

dum dum dum, dum dum dum....dont u ever dont u ever............... (in ADAM ANTS voice)...........ha i dont even no if im right

1.3k · July 14, 2011

dum dum dum, dum dum dum....dont u ever dont u ever............... (in ADAM ANTS voice)...........ha i dont even no if im right

DING!

Didn't think you'd be old enough!!!!!

July 14, 2011

Thats the good thing about my mum an dad been sooo wide spread with their music likeness! From Metallica to fleetwood Mac to Slipknot to prodigy

Right lets leave the music track and go for something completly different

What is the collective name for a group of Crows?

U better not be googling NB..... :blink:

1.3k · July 14, 2011

I don't google

BTW... there are 2 answers to your question IIRC

maybe you should google

July 14, 2011

Give me them both and ill give u a high five

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Give me them both and ill give u a high five

flock

murder

July 14, 2011

DING DING!

HIGH FIVE NB....YOU ROOOOCCCCKKKKK

July 14, 2011

shouldnt u be working :blink: Shouldnt i be working :blink:

1.3k · July 14, 2011

shouldnt u be working Shouldnt i be working

Don't swear at me... I'm a student again!

Especially for a Leeds United fan:

Manager of Manchester United from 1945, I used to play for rivals City and Liverpool. I oversaw the development of the group that would become the Busby babes. What was my first name?

July 14, 2011

Whos swearing now !!!! :mad:

July 14, 2011

Matt busby! (i have nothing against the busby babes just the rest of Man U)

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Matt busby! (i have nothing against the busby babes just the rest of Man U)

Well... if we were on QI the klaxons and flashing lights would now be on.

Wrong!

July 14, 2011

OOOO interesting! Then i will have to leave it untill someone else has an input :unsure:

July 14, 2011

Matt busby! (i have nothing against the busby babes just the rest of Man U)

Well... if we were on QI the klaxons and flashing lights would now be on.

Wrong!

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a trick question and that Busby is the right person. I just mentioned this quiz to a football-mad neighbour who, rather cryptically, retorted that Matt wasn't Busby's first name and that Sir Alex Ferguson isn't the only smart Alex to have managed Manchester United.

From that, I'll guess that Matt Busby's first name was Alexander and that he is the guy in question.

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Ding!

Alexander Matthew Busby and Alexander Chapman Ferguson have nearly 50 years in the job between them!

July 14, 2011

Thanks.

Here's a QI-esque question: What was the name of the Alsatian at the forefront of the fight against rabies?

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Thanks.

Here's a QI-esque question: What was the name of the Alsatian at the forefront of the fight against rabies?

Err...

Rover?

Nice question.

Louis Pasteur possibly... Complete guess though as I don't know where he was from.

July 14, 2011

Aww harsh i said matt!! u never specified that u wanted first name i feel cheated!

This question is way out of my leauge....I dont get QI so i dont watch it......they say what i think the right answer is and then it BUZZES and flashes at em but i thought that was the right answer :unsure:

July 14, 2011

Ding! Louis Pasteur was born in the Jura in Alsace and invented, among other things, an anti-rabies vaccine.

Over to you.

1.3k · July 14, 2011

Aww harsh i said matt!! u never specified that u wanted first name i feel cheated!

This question is way out of my leauge....I dont get QI so i dont watch it......they say what i think the right answer is and then it BUZZES and flashes at em but i thought that was the right answer

Err... The end of the question was "what is my first name?"

The klaxons on QI are for obvious common knowledge answers that are actually wrong... For example... Name a berry... Strawberry is a wrong answer. Read the wiki on berry and you'll see that most "berries" aren't berries... But a banana is!

Edited July 14, 2011 by NattyBooshka

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