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Betelgeuse

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Hmm, I can do the Southernmost and Easternmost but not so sure about the other two so I'll take a guess

 

N - John O'Groats

S - Lizard Point

W - Land's End

E - Lowestoft

 

Not quite there, unfortunately.

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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North: Dunnet Head

South: The Lizard

East: Lowestoft

West: Ardnamurchan Point

 

... at least, that's the four locations visited on a 'compass point' ride of GB! However, Dunnet Head is fairly close to John O'Groats and The Lizard close-ish to Lands End, and so most visit all six to get in a LeJog (or JogLe) in the same trip.

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Betelgeuse

+Betelgeuse

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North: Dunnet Head

South: The Lizard

East: Lowestoft

West: Ardnamurchan Point

 

... at least, that's the four locations visited on a 'compass point' ride of GB! However, Dunnet Head is fairly close to John O'Groats and The Lizard close-ish to Lands End, and so most visit all six to get in a LeJog (or JogLe) in the same trip.

 

Ding!

 

It should really be Lowestoft Ness but I'm not about to split hairs :D

NattyBooshka

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Thanks. Next question:

 

Which word can go before 'pet', 'ton', and 'mine' to make three more words?

car

DING!

As a veggie the more obscure carmine came to mind easily.

 

There's a more common name for carmine... and an E number... I want both answers!?

Fianccetto

+Fianccetto

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Thanks. Next question:

 

Which word can go before 'pet', 'ton', and 'mine' to make three more words?

car

DING!

As a veggie the more obscure carmine came to mind easily.

 

There's a more common name for carmine... and an E number... I want both answers!?

I know carmine as a deep pinky purple, and am pretty sure it is made by crushing the wing cases of the cochineal beetle. I'll take a guess on the E number..E110?

NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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Cochineal is right... I usually have to look for the E Number though... as there's a vegetarian cochineal food colouring out there... why they named it after the beetle god knows! Anyway... we're half way there guys!

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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There's a more common name for carmine... and an E number... I want both answers!?

After seeing other posts, I guess that there's two more-common names because, as an amateur artist, I know it as Crimson Lake (R514) and, although I knew that cochineal was a red food colouring, I didn't know it was also called carmine until seeing those other posts.

 

Mrs P's cookbooks couldn't shed light on the E number, but then it struck me that a manufacturer's site might. So I wandered over to Alibaba.com and drilled down through Chemicals > Food & Feed Additives > Food Additive Products > Food Colorants and then paged through the list (136 pages of 50 products per page) rather than use the site search (which might be considered 'Googling') to find two: E120 and E124, with E120 coming from crushed beetles and E124 being the synthetic version.

 

Edited to add: A lot of synthetic replacements for natural food additives have undesirable qualities. So having not used any search engines to get the answer, I turned to Google to check whether E124 is one of those - and it is! I'm glad that I'm not a vegetarian because E124 is made from coal tar and banned in the USA because it's a suspected carcinogen that produces adverse reactions from asthmatics and those with an aspirin intolerance!

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NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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There's a more common name for carmine... and an E number... I want both answers!?

After seeing other posts, I guess that there's two more-common names because, as an amateur artist, I know it as Crimson Lake (R514) and, although I knew that cochineal was a red food colouring, I didn't know it was also called carmine until seeing those other posts.

 

Mrs P's cookbooks couldn't shed light on the E number, but then it struck me that a manufacturer's site might. So I wandered over to Alibaba.com and drilled down through Chemicals > Food & Feed Additives > Food Additive Products > Food Colorants and then paged through the list (136 pages of 50 products per page) rather than use the site search (which might be considered 'Googling') to find two: E120 and E124, with E120 coming from crushed beetles and E124 being the synthetic version.

 

Edited to add: A lot of synthetic replacements for natural food additives have undesirable qualities. So having not used any search engines to get the answer, I turned to Google to check whether E124 is one of those - and it is! I'm glad that I'm not a vegetarian because E124 is made from coal tar and banned in the USA because it's a suspected carcinogen that produces adverse reactions from asthmatics and those with an aspirin intolerance!

DING!

 

I don't eat much E124... but that said, tobacco has been "suspected of being a carcinogen that produces adverse reactions from asthmatics" and lots of other people for quite some time now, but I guess there's not much money to be made taxing synthetic food colourings!

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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DING!

 

I don't eat much E124... but that said, tobacco has been "suspected of being a carcinogen that produces adverse reactions from asthmatics" and lots of other people for quite some time now, but I guess there's not much money to be made taxing synthetic food colourings!

E124 (Ponceau 4R) isn't addictive in the same way that tobacco products are, so high taxation would probably have much the same effect as banning it (which is what they've done in the USA). That said, there are vegetable-based red colourings available (e.g. Amaranth - E123, Beetroot - E162) although some of them (e.g. E123) seem worse than even E124. FWIW, my post-answer research turned up http://ukfoodguide.net/enumeric.htm, which might be a good resource for anyone concerned about E numbers.

 

So, on to the next question and keeping to the theme of pigments: The pigment 'sepia' used in fine art and retouching of early photographs comes from what source?

NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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DING!

 

I don't eat much E124... but that said, tobacco has been "suspected of being a carcinogen that produces adverse reactions from asthmatics" and lots of other people for quite some time now, but I guess there's not much money to be made taxing synthetic food colourings!

E124 (Ponceau 4R) isn't addictive in the same way that tobacco products are, so high taxation would probably have much the same effect as banning it (which is what they've done in the USA). That said, there are vegetable-based red colourings available (e.g. Amaranth - E123, Beetroot - E162) although some of them (e.g. E123) seem worse than even E124. FWIW, my post-answer research turned up http://ukfoodguide.net/enumeric.htm, which might be a good resource for anyone concerned about E numbers.

 

So, on to the next question and keeping to the theme of pigments: The pigment 'sepia' used in fine art and retouching of early photographs comes from what source?

Cuttlefish.

NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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Cuttlefish.

DING! (It's cuttlefish ink, to be precise).

 

Over to NattyBooshka...

When is a fish not a fish... what is a cuttlefish?

It's something similar to a squid, is it a Cephalapod (sp?).

DING!

 

I'd have taken Mollusc, but your answer is even more specific!

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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I'll guess that, pre computerisation, it was someone who ran around a stock or commodities exchange carrying the paperwork associated with brokerage deals.

 

That said, every time I see the word 'deal' it reminds me that, as a shipwright, we used to jokingly refer to any timber of unidentified species as 'deal' ('deal' being wood about which 'Chippy' didn't know a great deal!)

MartyBartfast

+MartyBartfast

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Deal is the name for the timber from the scots pine but is sometimes used generically for softwood, deal porters were dockers that specialised in handling bulk softwood. :)

 

DING

 

They were indeed, particularly prevalent in Surrey Docks, but were more or less a lost trade by the 1940's

Pharisee

+Pharisee

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My Dad was a 'carpenter and joiner' and spent the majority of his working life on building sites. As far as he was concerned, any timber that wasn't a 'hard wood' was 'deal' :)

 

Edited to add... when will I learn to just click on smilies instead of dragging them into a post?!!

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NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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Scotland Yard? (As was...before the 'New Scotland Yard'.)

Quite the opposite!!!

 

Newgate Prison

 

Ding!

Demolishing a prison to build a court always seemed a little strange to me!

 

Another prison in London, was a "hotel" for early travellers to Australia :blink: The demolition of the place started in 1892... On the site now stands the Tate Britain and the Chelsea College of Art and Design. The bricks from the prison were used to build a housing estate there too. Name the prison.

NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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Marshalsea?

 

Ding!

 

Dickens' father was imprisoned in Marshalsea for a debt to a baker. His book 'Little Dorrit' was based around Marshalsea.

 

Over to you :)

As for The Clink... possibly the oldest prison in the land (1150ish) yeah... it was it's name!

 

Maybe moving of the prison theme...

 

Charles Dickens had two middle names... what were they?

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Pharisee

+Pharisee

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Marshalsea?

 

Ding!

 

Dickens' father was imprisoned in Marshalsea for a debt to a baker. His book 'Little Dorrit' was based around Marshalsea.

 

Over to you :)

As for The Clink... possibly the oldest prison in the land (1150ish) yeah... it was it's name!

 

Maybe moving of the prison theme...

 

Charles Dickens had two middle names... what were they?

John Huffam

NattyBooshka

+NattyBooshka

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Marshalsea?

 

Ding!

 

Dickens' father was imprisoned in Marshalsea for a debt to a baker. His book 'Little Dorrit' was based around Marshalsea.

 

Over to you :)

As for The Clink... possibly the oldest prison in the land (1150ish) yeah... it was it's name!

 

Maybe moving of the prison theme...

 

Charles Dickens had two middle names... what were they?

John Huffam

DING!

 

Over to the man with the hat.

Pharisee

+Pharisee

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OK...

It's the second half of the 19th century, the British Raj is in full swing. In Nepal, the Colonel's daughter is days away from her 21st birthday. She asks the young officer she's in love with for a very special present. He gets it for her but it costs him his life.

 

What, exactly, was the present and who was the young officer ?

MartyBartfast

+MartyBartfast

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I'm going to have a wild guess that it's something to do with a "green eyed yellow idol, to the north of Catmandu" and that the officer was Youg Carew (sp), and that it was the emeralds from the idol, but I'm probably way off.

MartyBartfast

+MartyBartfast

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Either you googled like me....or I'm a heathen!! ;)

 

or mabe I'm older than you?

 

I didn't google, and I've got a vague memory of someone on a comedy program on the telly or radio doing it as a monologue, but I can't remember who it was.

 

Edit to add: I've just googled it and it seems I'm not quite right on the chaps name though.

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