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...But first, another for the OP (i.e. Simply Paul): Are electronic resources OK provided they're not on the Internet? For example, would using a calculator or spreadsheet to answer my previous question be permitted?
I think the general rule would be yes, unless the question-poser asks for them not to be used to answer their specific question.

 

For dodgydaved, it sounds celestial to me. But not famous. Thus small and celestial. Dwarf planet?

 

Edit: I googled to check myself. I'm wrong, but not 100% :)

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...But first, another for the OP (i.e. Simply Paul): Are electronic resources OK provided they're not on the Internet? For example, would using a calculator or spreadsheet to answer my previous question be permitted?
I think the general rule would be yes, unless the question-poser asks for them not to be used to answer their specific question.

Thanks. That was what I thought but another poster seemed to think otherwise, hence my request for clarification.

 

For dodgydaved, it sounds celestial to me. But not famous. Thus small and celestial. Dwarf planet?

 

Edit: I googled to check myself. I'm wrong, but not 100% :)

As I'm posting, it's worth a guess. From the current SciFi trend, I'll guess that it's a planet central to a 'classic' SciFi novel. However, if that's so I suspect that the author and/or the novel would be needed for the ding.

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Who, what or where is, or was, Hesikos?

 

That was a BBC TV children's sci-fi adventure more years ago than I care to calculate!!... I can only remember that there was a 'disembodied' voice that was the 'Voice of Hesikos' :(

 

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I'll give you that John, I heard it first as a radio serial :lol:

 

Sorry, forgot the all important DING!

 

Thinking about it... I recon that must have been around the early to middle '50s... Ho hum :(

 

Anyway.... keeping with the television sci-fi theme... The BBC dramatised three "Quatermass" stories. The first was "The Quatermass Experiment", the last was "Quatermass and the Pit" but what was the second called?

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I'll give you that John, I heard it first as a radio serial :lol:

 

Sorry, forgot the all important DING!

 

Thinking about it... I recon that must have been around the early to middle '50s... Ho hum :(

 

Anyway.... keeping with the television sci-fi theme... The BBC dramatised three "Quatermass" stories. The first was "The Quatermass Experiment", the last was "Quatermass and the Pit" but what was the second called?

 

Quatermass 2 :laughing:

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Pharisee

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I'll give you that John, I heard it first as a radio serial :lol:

 

Sorry, forgot the all important DING!

 

Thinking about it... I recon that must have been around the early to middle '50s... Ho hum :(

 

Anyway.... keeping with the television sci-fi theme... The BBC dramatised three "Quatermass" stories. The first was "The Quatermass Experiment", the last was "Quatermass and the Pit" but what was the second called?

 

Quatermass 2 :laughing:

 

Indeed it was... Simples :lol: I watched it as a wee sprog from behind the sofa 'cos it was so scary.

 

DING to Keehotee !!

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Ding to SP!!
Sticking with robots (sort-of) name the three 'bots from Silent Running. An old, random favourite of mine :)

Huey Duey and Louie (sp?)

 

LOVE that film!

A-ring-a-ding-ding! A fun Silent Running fact: Douglas Turnbull, who directed it, did the special effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Saturn-ring fly-through was going to be in the earlier film, but unlike the novel version, for the movie of 2001 the mission ended at Jupiter. So he recycled the idea for Silent Running.

P.S. Thanks Keyhotee.

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I knew it was right - my wife is a big fan.

 

Something a little different for the next question, but anyone who's seen Only Connect will be familiar with the idea. I'm going to give you three clues (one at a time) and you have to tell me what comes fourth in the sequence. As usual first correct answer in my opinion gets the ding, but I'll allow one guess per person per clue.

 

First Clue: Kairouan

 

Remember I want to know what comes fourth in the sequence...

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Mecca ?

 

DING

 

Mecca is the holiest city in Islam.

 

Kairouan in Tunisia is said to be the 4th holiest city, but it's not unique in that claim. The 2nd holiest is Medina.

 

Over to MartyBartfast

 

I think I saw that Q on Only Connect, and IIRC the team got it after 2 clues as well.

 

Anyway, this will be trivial for some.

 

If you've got the back off a standard UK 3 pin '13 Amp' plug, and are looking at the exposed terminals, identify the pins as below:

 

    [ ]
     A


[ ]       [ ]
B         C

 

Note, as well as Google being disallowed as per the OP, you're also not allowed to take a plug apart to check this (for health and safety reasons :) )

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Mecca ?

 

DING

 

Mecca is the holiest city in Islam.

 

Kairouan in Tunisia is said to be the 4th holiest city, but it's not unique in that claim. The 2nd holiest is Medina.

 

Over to MartyBartfast

 

I think I saw that Q on Only Connect, and IIRC the team got it after 2 clues as well.

 

Anyway, this will be trivial for some.

 

If you've got the back off a standard UK 3 pin '13 Amp' plug, and are looking at the exposed terminals, identify the pins as below:

 

    [ ]
     A


[ ]       [ ]
B         C

 

Note, as well as Google being disallowed as per the OP, you're also not allowed to take a plug apart to check this (for health and safety reasons :) )

 

If you're looking at it with the back removed, A is Earth, C is Line & B is Neutral

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I know there's an Elephant Island in Aswan, but I'm not sure if it's also known as Elephanta.

 

Edit: There IS a cache on Elephant Island. That wasn't there last time I went. I could be right then

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Isn't Elephanta Island in the South Atlantic,if I'm right it's where Shackleton rowed to after being stranded on the Antarctic pack ice.

 

Actually he rowed to South Georgia from Elephant Island (another one, not the one in Aswan:P ).

 

And I was thinking of Elephantine Island so I got that wrong as well.

 

Having just Googled Elephanta I know we're both wrong.

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