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mellers

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Time out.

A new rule: If a Dingee fails to ask a question one week after bing Dinged, anyone can step in with a fresh question.

A reminder of the other rules: Questions should be Pub-Quiz level and Internet searches aren't allowed to find the answer... unless things drag-on and the Questioner ok's Googling (or similar). It's also fine to ask friends or family - so long as they don't look up the answer online either - and books are alright to check. The various QI ones seem a good bet ;)

Game on!

Invoking Simply Paul's adjudication from a few weeks ago, I'll set a new question if that's OK with everyone.

 

A nice easy one to ease us back in to the swing...

What are the names of the two mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics)?

Fianccetto

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Which long distance boat race, held over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, is 125 miles long, has 77 portages and finishes on the tidal portion of the River Thames, opposite the houses of Parliament. (The non-stop version of this race is the longest non-stop boat race of its kind in the world.)

Fianccetto

+Fianccetto

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Is it as simple as The Thames Challenge?

 

Would love to give you a ding but the first 55 miles of the race are on different waterways (both rivers and canals).

 

The name of the challenge gets shortened to 2 letters, the initials of the start and finish of the race. X-Y So will accept the correct letters and the type of boat involved. (checking paper maps is allowed, online maps not allowed).

 

Another minor clue, because if you were near one of the waterways last weekend, you might have seen some participants (a red herring otherwise.): When we walked around Reading on Saturday we saw a lot of the participants, some singles, some doubles. This is just over half way, they have to go through the town centre and it is at Reading they join the Thames. A race number with the name of the race is clearly fixed to each boat.

 

Going to work today, will check back when I get home.

dodgydaved

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Devices to Westminster.

 

Used to be a kayak/canoe only race, don;t know if it still is - first heard of it back in the 60's when a scout in Bath - came across it early one morning in the 70's when moored up in a narrow boat on the Thames whilst looping the GU, Thames, Oxford canal.

 

Kept us awake half the night!!

 

DDD

Fianccetto

+Fianccetto

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Devices to Westminster.

 

Used to be a kayak/canoe only race, don;t know if it still is - first heard of it back in the 60's when a scout in Bath - came across it early one morning in the 70's when moored up in a narrow boat on the Thames whilst looping the GU, Thames, Oxford canal.

 

Kept us awake half the night!!

 

DDD

DING!

(Devized to Westminster)

Some do it in 4 stages, but for the non stop race they carry on all through the night.

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dodgydaved

dodgydaved

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Devices to Westminster.

 

Used to be a kayak/canoe only race, don;t know if it still is - first heard of it back in the 60's when a scout in Bath - came across it early one morning in the 70's when moored up in a narrow boat on the Thames whilst looping the GU, Thames, Oxford canal.

 

Kept us awake half the night!!

 

DDD

DING!

(Devized to Westminster)

Some do it in 4 stages, but for the non stop race they carry on all through the night.

 

 

OK, at the present I am on Holiday in aq location I sometimes communicated with some of you a few years ago!

 

Sooooooo where are the Grutas Maravilla?

 

Back on Thurs flying from Sevilla (clue) mind I want the town!!

dodgydaved

dodgydaved

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There seem to be no takers for my Aracena question so try this one, asked in last night's Comrades Club Quiz:

 

The Bank of England was founded in 1694 and issued the first English banknotes (of a sort) the same year - but who was the first English monarch to have their portrait on an English banknote?

mellers

+mellers

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There seem to be no takers for my Aracena question so try this one, asked in last night's Comrades Club Quiz:

 

The Bank of England was founded in 1694 and issued the first English banknotes (of a sort) the same year - but who was the first English monarch to have their portrait on an English banknote?

Elizabeth II?

dodgydaved

dodgydaved

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There seem to be no takers for my Aracena question so try this one, asked in last night's Comrades Club Quiz:

 

The Bank of England was founded in 1694 and issued the first English banknotes (of a sort) the same year - but who was the first English monarch to have their portrait on an English banknote?

Elizabeth II?

 

Ger DOING!!!!!!!!!

 

over to you mellers!

MartyBartfast

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OK topical question for today, so I expect lots will know this:

 

Name the ship which responded to the Titanic's distress signal and sailed to pick up survivors, and the ship which was much nearer but did not respond to the signal.

mellers

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Ah... Mrs B came to my rescue!!

 

What was the product that appeared in the first UK TV commercial in 1955?

 

Chris

I'm going to say toothpaste... do you need a brand?

mellers

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I think most of us will know of, or have at some time heard, the famous operatic aria by Puccini called Nessun Dorma. The most famous bit, is probably at the end when the tenor sings "Vincero, vincero, vincer-o" (pronounced vinchero).

 

What does 'Vincero' mean in English?

MTH

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I'm sure this was on the Horizon programme about black holes that I watched a few weeks ago and then deleted. However I can't remember the answer, other than it wasn't Einstein.

 

This is going to bug me until someone gets it right...

Dobunnis

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Who first conceived the principle of relativity?

 

Not really a good question as which theory are you asking about and it is disputed anyway. Ultimately Einstein based his theory on numerous works and did not reference any of them!

 

Galileo stated the original theory of relative motion but that is the one everyone knows: the speed between two objects is just the sum of the velocities.

 

Maxwell used Faraday's experimental results to develop his equations and unfortunately these do not satisfy the Galileon transformations. So the ether was born and questions were asked as to which theory was correct.

 

Around the same time Lorentz developed his transforms which are what the special theory of relativity relies on.

 

Michelson (and Morley) then showed the speed of light was constant and disproved the ether model so confirming the Lorentz transforms.

 

Then Einstein came along and took all the credit. He did develop the general theory pretty much on his own although relied heavily on some mathematics on multi-dimensional topology developed around the same time.

 

So take your pick: Galileo, Maxwell, Lorentz, Michelson, Einstein or a combination of the above,

 

Helen

Betelgeuse

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Which was why the question was carefully worded and avoided the word 'theory' - but a good response and you get the DING! ;)

 

Galileo Galilei was the answer I was looking for, he was the first recorded person to conceive the principle of relativity.

Dobunnis

+Dobunnis

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Which was why the question was carefully worded and avoided the word 'theory' - but a good response and you get the DING! ;)

 

Galileo Galilei was the answer I was looking for, he was the first recorded person to conceive the principle of relativity.

 

Sorry, I tend to get pedantic when a physics question appears ;) I am sure the principle was known before Galileo (although there were so many competing ideas I am not sure who by specifically) but I agree he is the first to have published the work and formulated the mathematics.

 

OK, a music question...

 

Which album has spent the longest continuous period in the American Billboard Top 200 Album Chart?

 

Helen

mellers

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Which was why the question was carefully worded and avoided the word 'theory' - but a good response and you get the DING! ;)

 

Galileo Galilei was the answer I was looking for, he was the first recorded person to conceive the principle of relativity.

 

Sorry, I tend to get pedantic when a physics question appears ;) I am sure the principle was known before Galileo (although there were so many competing ideas I am not sure who by specifically) but I agree he is the first to have published the work and formulated the mathematics.

 

OK, a music question...

 

Which album has spent the longest continuous period in the American Billboard Top 200 Album Chart?

 

Helen

My first guess would be something like Thriller

mellers

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Brother Hood of Man's Greatest hits ?

I'll see your Brotherhood of Man's Greatest Hits and raise you "A While New World" by Peter Andre and Katie Price on the strength of these reviews alone!

Dobunnis

+Dobunnis

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Dark side of the Moon, I believe.

 

That's a DING for Keehotee. I thought it may have lasted a bit longer than that but at least it led to multiple answers.

 

Thriller is the biggest selling album of all time but Dark Side of the Moon spent 736 weeks in the Billboard Top 200 from 1973 to 1988! Second place is Bob Marley and the Wailers' Legend which charted for about half that time.

 

Helen

keehotee

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Oooh I know this one!

 

Well sort of.

 

I know the characters but not the name of who played them :(

 

All of them???? :laughing: :laughing: :rolleyes:

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