Pajaholic Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 inch, foot, yard, chain, furlong, mile, league IIRC 12 inches = 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 22 yards = 1 chain, 10 chains = 1 furlong, 8 furlongs = 1 mile, 3 miles = 1 league Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 inch, foot, yard, chain, furlong, mile, league IIRC 12 inches = 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 22 yards = 1 chain, 10 chains = 1 furlong, 8 furlongs = 1 mile, 3 miles = 1 league Well I had in mind two old geezers who were most likely get it, and you were one of them!!!! DING Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Well I had in mind two old geezers who were most likely get it, and you were one of them!!!! DING Gee, thanks for that. I guess that I'm really showing my age! I wonder how many others had to learn four systems of units (Imperial, CGS, MKS, and SI) while at school and then have to use both imperial and metric at work - often together. FWIW, I was thinking of asking a real stinker on mixed units (thickness in mm of 20lb MS plate). However, I won't. Instead, another for the oldies: By what name is Elaine Bookbinder better known? Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Elaine Paige? (I don't know, but bookbinders work with pages). Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 It's Elkie Brooks, and I always wondered why she never chose Elkie Books! Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 It's Elkie Brooks, and I always wondered why she never chose Elkie Books! DING! Over to you! Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 It's Elkie Brooks, and I always wondered why she never chose Elkie Books! DING! Over to you! Many thanks! First time I've looked in here for ages too ... OK, what breed of dog is this ... Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 (edited) Yes, it's a Sealyham Terrier, clearly too easy and next time, I'll have to find a pic of an unusual cross breed to make it harder DING ... over to you. Edited August 6, 2011 by Dorsetgal & GeoDog Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Ta very much! Now an old atheist like myself shouldn't be asking this, but what is the most popular name for a pope? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Your Excellency? More seriously, papal names that spring to mind are Benedict (present pope is Benedict XVI), John-Paul (the last was John-Paul II), and Gregory (ISTR Gregory XVI). However, when John-Paul I was made pope ISTR that one of those compound names went into the twenties. I'll guess John with Paul as my first reserve! Darn it! always happens when you answer in depth - so I'll have to go with my first reserve of "Paul"! Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 John? 23 apparently. DING! Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 (edited) Pretty sure you are both right with John, there have been twenty odd popes with the name of John. Benedict and Gregory as Pajaholic said have both been chosen 16 times. EDIT: Lol, I was close. Knew it was something starting with twenty! Edited August 6, 2011 by Hawkins2 Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 John? 23 apparently. DING! See? 11 years of Catholic education not wasted on me ... haha! One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna. Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set? Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Pretty sure you are both right with John, there have been twenty odd popes with the name of John. Benedict and Gregory as Pajaholic said have both been chosen 16 times. EDIT: Lol, I was close. Knew it was something starting with twenty! Pope John XXIII died when I was a kid ... he opened the second Vatican Council but passed away during, and Pope Paul VI took over Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 John? 23 apparently. DING! See? 11 years of Catholic education not wasted on me ... haha! One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna. Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set? Ok... off to google for me... Graham Faulkner as St Francis is my limit! Well... maybe with Assisi as a location?... anything else I post is a cheat. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna. Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set? What little Italian I have tells me that should be Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna (Brother Sun, Sister Moon), but I didn't know it was the title of a film let alone the two characters and where it was set (unless it's the Sun and Moon and it's set in the Heavens!) Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 I just about managed the translation too. But films I'm not good on, especially foreign films, probably smelling strongly of garlic and with young ladies in various stages of undress..... Excuse me I'm just going to lie down with a damp flannel over my forehead. Quote Link to comment
+maiawalli Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 (edited) Edited...... Oops. Edited August 7, 2011 by maiawalli Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Pajaholic is on the right lines but need more ... Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I don't think I've seen that film, and if The Patrician's memory of it is anything to go by I definitely haven't seen it! pencil at the ready to go and look it up... Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Pajaholic is on the right lines but need more ... I am? ... I'm gobsmacked! Somewhat intrigued, I just Googled and think I may now know the answer. However, I can't post it as that would be cheating. So I guess that I'm out! Quote Link to comment
jadenrich2101 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 No idea on this question....Not good with foreign films at all! Will have a google moment to see what the crack is but untill the next question im out Quote Link to comment
+FantasyRaider Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 (edited) ? Edited August 9, 2011 by FantasyRaider Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I googled it. Never even heard of it! Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 OK then, I'll have a stab at it being set in Italy and the 2 stars were...hum...(can't think of any Italian actors right now, maybe it was a spagetti western) Clint Eastwood and that blonde one. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 so totally a pub question... Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 so totally a pub question... Careful now, or you'll get given the job of question master! Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Is it time for Dorsetgal & GeoDog to set another question or give a ding to whoever she thinks is closest (and IMO that isn't me since someone else has given two of the three factoids requested AFAICT)? Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I googled it...I'm pretty sure I saw this on TV a few times growing up, and the B & W version as well, but would never have remembered the actors names (I never do). Dorsetgirl did give a clue in an earlier comment about her childhood! There is one very famous actor in it - never knew he played that part/person! Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 (edited) Right. If we're going to form this mega pub quiz team Jady was talking about above we need a volunteer to watch a lot of foreign films, we're obviously no bloody good! When we used to do pub quizzes one of the members had the name and date of every Grand National winner pinned to the back of his toilet door so that he could contemplate them as required. That's the kind of commitment we need. (Once he'd learnt them all we never got a single question about the GN). C'est la vie (that's your actual French). Edit for not being able to speell in frech, probably still not right. Edited August 9, 2011 by The Patrician Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I think you just volunteered for the French films (lying down with a flannel at half time is advised, especially if there's a Jules or Jim in the title). My daughter is having real problems with French at school and I am having a daily battle with her to try to look at the revision books I got her to catch up over the hols, so don't talk to me about bloddy French, ok? Put me down for chocolate teapot questions. I like chocolate, and ...oh, make that chocolate coffeepot questions. Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 My daughter is having real problems with French at school and I am having a daily battle with her to try to look at the revision books I got her to catch up over the hols, so don't talk to me about bloddy French, ok? I can empathise with her. I wasn't too bad with most school subjects* but I just couldn't get to grips with learning a new language. I was useless and it's so hard to get enthused to revise for something that you just can't grasp. *With an also notable exception of PE but I didn't have to revise for that, I just went out and tried to have fun with it despite being useless! Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I can empathise with her. I wasn't too bad with most school subjects* but I just couldn't get to grips with learning a new language. I was useless and it's so hard to get enthused to revise for something that you just can't grasp. Empathise with me! I couldn't get to grips with it either, and now I'm going through it all again! Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Lol, I can sympathise with you but not having children I haven't had to go through trying to help someone else to revise and understand another language! Something for me to (hopefully) look forward to in the future! Mind you, I am a primary school teacher and they're trying to tell us that we should be teaching French. I think that me trying to teach French is worse than not learning it at all, the secondary schools would have to 'unteach' all the french I'd taught and then reteach it properly! Anyway, I digress... Time for a new question perhaps? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I googled it...I'm pretty sure I saw this on TV a few times growing up, and the B & W version as well, but would never have remembered the actors names (I never do). Dorsetgirl did give a clue in an earlier comment about her childhood! There is one very famous actor in it - never knew he played that part/person! He's the reason I knew the film... Tangents on the film he was reluctantly best known for. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 (edited) French is the only O Level I took but never passed. Twice. Oddly whenever we go to France I am usually appointed official translator (because no one else will do it, although much more highly qualified). I get one of those learn yourself Franglais CDs out of the library and listen in the car for a week or two before we go. In fact in a shop at the Pont du Gard I was buying SWMBO a timbre pour Angleterre to put on her postcard and put 'per favore' on the end of my request, well we'd been in Italy the year before and I'd probably had a couple of vins at lunchtime. "Amazing" said the lady behind the counter "an Englishman who speaks Italian ("un Anglais qui parle italien" if my memory serves)". I was feeling pretty cosmopolitan after that I can tell you. Edited August 10, 2011 by The Patrician Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Ok, I guess it was too hard for y'all? Just to be clear I was asking the names of the two main characters in the film, not the actors. I'll also say that the correct location has been given, so the characters may be obvious to some. If it's not successfully answered by (my) bedtime I'll claim the ding and set another question! Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 John? 23 apparently. DING! See? 11 years of Catholic education not wasted on me ... haha! One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna. Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set? Ok... off to google for me... Graham Faulkner as St Francis is my limit! Well... maybe with Assisi as a location?... anything else I post is a cheat. Oh I missed this earlier! Looks like NattyBoushka did get 2 parts right... Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Indeed, so someone just needs to get the other character and tie all three details together ... I'll check again in the morning ... It's not really that hard ... Quote Link to comment
+TonyNChelle Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I can see the woman in my mind, but I can't remember the char. name in the film. St Francis of Assisi and.... Argh, tip-of-tongue stuff. Claire(sp)? Don't recall her real name, but she was in the Black Beauty TV series, too. Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I can see the woman in my mind, but I can't remember the char. name in the film. St Francis of Assisi and.... Argh, tip-of-tongue stuff. Claire(sp)? Don't recall her real name, but she was in the Black Beauty TV series, too. Judi Bowker Quote Link to comment
jadenrich2101 Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Natty clearly is the film buff for our mega pub quiz team ........the more i think about it, the more i believe i should just sit in the corner looking pretty and keeping quiet Naaa thinkin about it more, im not too bad with sport, music or general really....just depends if its an easy question or hard one Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 (edited) Naaa thinkin about it more, im not too bad with sport, music or general really....just depends if its an easy question or hard one Questions are always easy if you know the answer! Edited August 10, 2011 by The Patrician Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Questions are always easy if you know the answer! ... and even the simplest is impossibly difficult if you don't! Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Natty clearly... should just sit in the corner looking pretty and keeping quiet I like a good selective edit! My makeup days are way behind me though... Back to one of the Nobodies so to speak! I'm not a film buff... Just know some tangents from Star Wars... And Alec Guiness was in this here film. Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Ok as nobody as managed to pull it together, I'm taking the DING! Ha! The film name translates as Brother Sun, Sister Moon. It was about the lives of St Francis and St Claire and was based in Asissi. Next question: I'm looking at 32 capsules at the moment, one may be missing and one is purple, what am I looking at? Quote Link to comment
+thehalibutkid Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Ok as nobody as managed to pull it together, I'm taking the DING! Ha! The film name translates as Brother Sun, Sister Moon. It was about the lives of St Francis and St Claire and was based in Asissi. Next question: I'm looking at 32 capsules at the moment, one may be missing and one is purple, what am I looking at? That sounds a bit like the london eye. The purple one is the VIP section. Quote Link to comment
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