The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[SlytherinAlex]

As those are my dates, father in bed on the night of 28th but pronouced dead on the 29th

From timbuckley.com:

 

Coroner's Report, Dr. Joseph H. Choi: Timothy Charles Buckley III died on June 29, 1975 at 9:42pm from acute heroin/morphine and ethanol intoxication due to inhalation and ingestion of overdose.

 

So you were a couple of years out I think. Well done to imajica though. I though that was a tough question.

 

a.

[+2202]

As those are my dates, father in bed on the night of 28th but pronouced dead on the 29th

From timbuckley.com:

 

Coroner's Report, Dr. Joseph H. Choi: Timothy Charles Buckley III died on June 29, 1975 at 9:42pm from acute heroin/morphine and ethanol intoxication due to inhalation and ingestion of overdose.

 

So you were a couple of years out I think. Well done to imajica though. I though that was a tough question.

 

a.

 

Trping error I am afraid, saw Tim Buckley June 1974

Radio 1 and 2 full of Jeff Buckley last night.

[+Simply Paul]

Well I'll give it a DING

As those are my dates, father in bed on the night of 28th but pronouced dead on the 29th

I'll take the DING under any circumstances, I just read a different month in the bastion of reliability that is The Sun

 

Ok. Who (allegedly) filmed themselves burning one million pounds in 1994?

They're justified, and they're ancient, and they drive an ice-cream van.

[+imajica]

 

Ok. Who (allegedly) filmed themselves burning one million pounds in 1994?

They're justified, and they're ancient, and they drive an ice-cream van.

Simply Paul has it

[+Simply Paul]

I'd better give the correct answer then - The KLF. I bet they're kicking themselves now.

 

Where was the world's fist set of traffic lights, as we understand them, sited? (The city will do, but if you can name the square too, you'll get a Dong - It's like a Ding, just bigger )

[+2202]

Lights or Signals SP?

Both are in cities and both in squares that I have been in.

I'll leave others to answer it though.

[+Woodchurch One]

Westminster Square, London

[+The Bongtwashes]

The first electric traffic light, in the UK at least, were in Prince's Square, Wolverhampton. Dunno about in the world though.

(The ones in Westminster weren't electric)

[+Simply Paul]

Lights, not signals. There's a three-sided reproduction sited near the original's location.

 

The Victorian Westminster device was more like a semaphore or railway signal system. If it helps, the ones I'm looking for were erected in 1924. If you think that's a bit late, earlier lights were manually controlled - these were automatic. That's efficiency for you.

[+MartyBartfast]

Lights, not signals. There's a three-sided reproduction sited near the original's location.

 

The Victorian Westminster device was more like a semaphore or railway signal system. If it helps, the ones I'm looking for were erected in 1924. If you think that's a bit late, earlier lights were manually controlled - these were automatic. That's efficiency for you.

 

My dad used to tell me that the first traffic lights in the UK were in Leeds, no idea which square/street though.

[+Carlos & The Birdie Crew]

A band of the time - The KLF?

[+Carlos & The Birdie Crew]

Ignore my response - I never scrolled the page down :I

[+Simply Paul]

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

 

Clue time: It's in Europe, but not the UK.

[Nediam]

Paris?

[+Simply Paul]

Wrong country. Try next door.

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

I thought there was a Trivial Persuit question which asked something along the lines of what blew up outisde the Houses of Parliament in the late 1800s (dunno exact date), killing a policeman?

 

Answer = worlds first set of traffic lights (which were presumably gas)

 

As for the lights you ask about, I have no idea! That's trivia for you!

[+Dobunnis]

I think I may have been there! Is it Potsdamplatz in Berlin?

 

Helen

[+Simply Paul]

A Dong (see above) for the T-girls! Yep, it's there alright. Ugly looking thing, but that's progress for you. Over to you Hels

[+Dobunnis]

Thanks Paul...

 

Since we are off to Cumbria first thing I will ask an easy one. If someone else can offer the ding to the first person with the correct answer it would be appreciated.

 

Tomorrow (June 2nd) is the 150th aniversary of the birth of a famous composer... but which one?

 

Helen

[+Simply Paul]

A guess: Holst.

[+Dobunnis]

A guess: Holst.

 

A good guess but no

[+Simply Paul]

I have now googled (they'd have been my second guess, dammit!) and am in a position to Ding the correct answer.

[+The Other Stu]

If we're going for British Composers, I'd guess Elgar?

[+Simply Paul]

No one said British...

 

 

 

...but it's a Ding! for Team Phoebe anyway! Yep, tomorrow will be Elgar's 150th birthday and he's looking good for his age. Over to TP.

[+The Other Stu]

It's camping season and as all I seem to do is look at forecasts and weather, I thought I'd ask a weather related question.

 

Since records began, the highest 24 hour rainfall of 279mm was recorded in July 1955.

Scarily, it's not that far from a camping event that happened!

 

Now the question is......

 

Where abouts did this happen?

 

Where's the nearest cache (to keep it on topic)?

[Nediam]

It's camping season and as all I seem to do is look at forecasts and weather, I thought I'd ask a weather related question.

 

Since records began, the highest 24 hour rainfall of 279mm was recorded in July 1955.

Scarily, it's not that far from a camping event that happened!

 

Now the question is......

 

Where abouts did this happen?

 

Where's the nearest cache (to keep it on topic)?

Capel Curig in Wales?

 

(Always seems to get a lot of rain)

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

No one said British...

 

 

 

...but it's a Ding! for Team Phoebe anyway! Yep, tomorrow will be Elgar's 150th birthday and he's looking good for his age. Over to TP.

 

Rats! I was at a concert, but would have known that as a certain GeoDog is registered with the Kennel Club under the name Enigma Eduardo of Ealing !!!!!! However, GeoDog himself has to wait three more weeks for his birthday.

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

Since records began, the highest 24 hour rainfall of 279mm was recorded in July 1955.

Scarily, it's not that far from a camping event that happened! Where abouts did this happen? Where's the nearest cache (to keep it on topic)?

The centre of the thunderstorm was over close to GCGGB1 Kismet Hardy in the upper catchment of the River Wey, close to the Hardy Monument on Black Down. The resulting flash flood from 2 hours of intense rainfall burst through the village of Upwey and you can still see the tide mark inside St Laurence's church in Upwey.

 

However it wasn't all bad news as the huge pulse of sediment into the Radipole Lake helped to create the marshes in the centre of Weymouth which are now one of the RSPBs landmark reserves.

 

Oh I supose I should put my hand up and say all the research for this was done back in November 2006 while preparing for a a series of caches along the Wey Valley Way, which apart from the one close to the mouth of the river was never placed.

[+The Other Stu]

I'll give you a DING for that. It's about 3.7 miles out from where I was quoted (Martinstown as opposed to Portesham).

 

That's a helluva lot of rain in 24 hours! I hope the next time that happens, I'm not camping nearby!

 

Over to you....

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

I'll give you a DING for that.

Over to you....

Sticking with the meteorological theme:

• Which settlement in the British Isles has the least hours of sunshine each winter (as it misses out on direct sunlight for 83 days each year), and what is the nearest GeoCache to this place?
  

[+minstrelcat]

I'm guessing you are talking about somewhere on Shetland, being the nost northerly part of the British Isles. I don't know which specific settlement you mean without googling it but the nearest cache is likely to be Can you hear me mother, Britains most northerly cache.

 

We visited the cache in 2004 and were the second to find - after it had been there a year!

 

Lisa

[+Simply Paul]

I'm not sure there's anywhere that far north in the UK. The sun is more likely hidden by hills or a mountain around midwinter than by the curve of the Earth, with the community in a valley at its foot. Must be a big hill and a deep valley to keep the sun out for 83 days a year. A very interesting question, but as I don't know of any such community, it's not one I'll be giving a sensible answer to. I look forward to hearing the correct answer - sounds like an amazing place.

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

.... The sun is more likely hidden by hills or a mountain around midwinter than by the curve of the Earth, with the community in a valley at its foot. Must be a big hill and a deep valley to keep the sun out for 83 days a year. .... sounds like an amazing place.

Mhh this looks like SPs onto the correct reasoning, and it is indeed an amzing place with several possible candidate GeoCaches to choose from.

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

Wild guess, after watching Countryfile this morning, I'll try Llanberis, with the cache as "A-Road Anarchy A4086 - Pass of Llanberis"

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

Mhh so we're looking for a steep sided glaciated valley, surrounded by mountains, probably somewhere a bit further north than Wales, where there is a concentration of GeoCaches, mhh I wonder if that might be on an inner hebridean island ....

[Nediam]

Somewhere in the Cuillins Of Skye?

[+2202]

Methinks that this could be an advert for Arran,......... and there are a couple of geographic contenders,........... and there are a number of caches that have the name of Jango & Boba Fett against them.

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

Methinks that this could be an advert for Arran,......... and there are a couple of geographic contenders,........... and there are a number of caches that have the name of Jango & Boba Fett against them.

Strange that no one has consulted the Guiness Book of Records as I'm sure I've seen a copy of a page from a previous edition in the local pub .....

[+2202]

I've been looking at my digital maps for contenders but difficult to locate a settlement thats at a head on a north facing glaciated valley. No Guiness Book of Records here to consult either.

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

I've been looking at my digital maps for contenders but difficult to locate a settlement thats at a head on a north facing glaciated valley. No Guiness Book of Records here to consult either.

Mhh maybe you should just take a peek at my Grocaching profile

[+2202]

Lochranza!!!!!!!!!!!

Cache

 

And reading the map I thought the location would not have been as open as it is.

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

Lochranza!!!!!!!!!!!

Cache

 

And reading the map I thought the location would not have been as open as it is.

DING!!! - though I think you would have been better to choose one of Big Rab's or Thunderbird30's caches which are down in the valley rather than Lunga 2 Cache which is ontop of a hill and gets direct sunlight on every day of the year. The actual designation of Lochranza as Britain's dullest (sic) place was made about 19 years ago at which time the local Met Office weather observer lived in a house tucked in close to a cliff. Subsequently a couple of different folk have been the weather observers and for most of us here we do see the sun through the year, but apparently Lochranza still holds the record.

[+2202]

Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?

[NickPick]

Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?

 

Do we also have to guess the ******* words? Is there any reason why they're ****'d out?

[+keehotee]

I'd better give the correct answer then - The KLF. I bet they're kicking themselves now.

Totally out of sync with the rest of the World I know - but it wasn't the KLF that burnt a million pounds - it was the K Foundation, an organisation founded by Bill Drummond et al using the profits from the KLF, The Time Lords, and the Justified Ancients of MuMu after those bands had all folded.

 

Crikey I'm a pedant aren't I - and sorry - would have been sooner, but I only lurk on here occassionally.....

Edited June 5, 2007 by keehotee

[+milvus-milvus]

Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?

 

Didn't you miss out "Pea Souper"?

[+chizu]

Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?

 

Didn't you miss out "Pea Souper"?

 

storms?

[+imajica]

I'd better give the correct answer then - The KLF. I bet they're kicking themselves now.

Totally out of sync with the rest of the World I know - but it wasn't the KLF that burnt a million pounds - it was the K Foundation, an organisation founded by Bill Drummond et al using the profits from the KLF, The Time Lords, and the Justified Ancients of MuMu after those bands had all folded.

 

Crikey I'm a pedant aren't I - and sorry - would have been sooner, but I only lurk on here occassionally.....

 

I could have sworn in my question that I'd put I'd accept any of their names, but I clearly didn't. I think I gave up after spending ten minutes working out the plural of alias so that I didn't attract any comments from lurking pedants

[+minstrelcat]

Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?

 

Burns?

[+2202]

Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?

 

Didn't you miss out "Pea Souper"?

 

Baz

Would you like to elucidate a bit further?