+mellers Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 The brand label of which drink features a bat? Bacardi? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 That would be a nice quick ding for mellers. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) That would be a nice quick ding for mellers. I reckon mellers is sitting there knocking back a few Bacardi's as we type ! Edited July 25, 2012 by MartyBartfast Quote Link to comment
+paulemma Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) The brand label of which drink features a bat? Edited July 25, 2012 by paulemma Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 That would be a nice quick ding for mellers. I reckon mellers is sitting there knocking back a few Bacardi's as we type ! hehehe! If a few typos start cropping up from now on, then you might be right. Fizz is more my tipple, though. In fact at the time I had to stay tea-total as I was working front of house at our local theatre. Back home now (it was a short show), I have to think of a new question... Let's make it theatre-related. What is the "Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre" (that's the one which awards shows, actors etc on Broadway) more commonly known as? Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Wild guess, but would that be the "Tony"? Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Wild guess, but would that be the "Tony"? Always worth guessing, that'll be a DING!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) Thanks -- FWIW, guessed from "Tony" being a diminutive of "Antoinette" and knowing that showbiz somewhere has a "Tony" award! Of course, that means I now need to set a question for which I'm not prepared; and I usually try to 'follow on' from the previous question -- so this ill-thought-out question is about showbiz: What do the characters Dr. Nicholas Garrigan and Capt Jean-Luc Picard have in common? Edited July 25, 2012 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Neither of them was played by Macaulay Culkin. Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Neither of them was played by Macaulay Culkin. That's a bit general to be worth a ding. However, you're almost on the right lines as it is about the actors who played those characters. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Ah. Both played Professor X. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart, that is. Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 That'll get you a DING! Dr. Nicholas Garrigan, a leading role from "The Last King of Scotland", was played by James McAvoy, who played Charles Xavier in X-Men First Class. Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, a leading role from "Star Trek, The Next Generation", was played by Patrick Steward, who played Charles Xavier in the previous X-Men movies So both characters have been played by actors who also played Charles Xavier. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Hooray! Let's stick with films.... name the film that James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Vincent Price all appeared in. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 ...the same film also featured Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis and Lana Turner. Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 I have a feeling that this is a relatively modern montage that contains lots of clips from older classics. This is particularly hinted at by the somewhat eclectic mix of genres those actors represent. Unfortunately, that sort of film isn't my cup of tea and so I have no idea of the title! Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Ah, well if Pajaholic is right, could it be "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 It could well be. DING. Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Lord Coe (Sebastian) has been instrumental in getting the Olympic Games to London this summer and is also famous as an Olympic gold medal-winning runner himself (1980 & 1984) in the 1500m. During the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a well-documented sporting rivalry between him and which other British middle-distance runner. Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Steve ovett DING!!! (and thanks to MTH for getting the answer so quickly and picking the bloke I meant!) I was browsing the interwebs afterwards (like you do) and spotted that some consider there to have been a small amount of rivalry between those two and Steve Cram as well, and I was bracing myself for someone saying that name and me having to extricate myself from a poorly-worded question situation! Phew! Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Sticking with the Olympics: The Devon And Somerset Wanderers are the reigning Olympic champions in which sport? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 DING to Pajaholic for cricket. They won the gold medal the only time cricket appeared in 1900. Only Britain and France (represented mostly by British ex-pats) competed. Cricket is possibly going to reappear in 2020, appropriately in the T20 format. Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Thanks. I'm gobsmacked that cricket hasn't been an event since the 1900 games. In a similar vein ... The Finn Yrjö Lindegren is the current Olympic champion at what event? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I'm guessing it's something weird. Since some non-sporting events used to be in the games I'll guess at Poetry. Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Well on the episode of QI I saw about the bizarre ones, I remember Stephen Fry mentioning Town Planning. Is it that? Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 DING! Yrjö Lindegren got the gold at the 1948 London Olympics for Town Planning for the Centre of Athletics in Varkaus, Finland. He designed the Centre for the Helsinki games that were cancelled due to WWII. Since the category was dropped after 1948, he remains the Olympic champion! BTW, I too got inspiration for this question from QI! Over to Mellers ... Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 With the Olympic opening ceremony barely only hours ago, one event has already been settled. Can you say which country has won the only Gold medal so far awarded of the 2012 games... (and for extra kudos - not required for the DING, which event it was). If this Q remains unanswered for a bit, the later translation will be... which country won the FIRST gold medal of the 2012 games! Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Chinese lady in 10m air rifle at Woolwich barracks I think................... Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Chinese lady in 10m air rifle at Woolwich barracks I think................... Thats a big ol' DING for dodgydaved with a huge helping of kudos on the side. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Ta Mellers! Philip Noel-Baker - one time Labour MP for Derby - was an Olympian (1920 1500m Silver) - But what other, very prestigious award did he hold? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 He was a tireless campaigner for peace and disarmament and won the Nobel peace prize. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 He was a tireless campaigner for peace and disarmament and won the Nobel peace prize. Way to go Betelgeuse and OVER to you!!!!!! DING Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Sticking with Nobel laureates, who was the first person to win two Nobel prizes? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I know that Churchill got a Nobel for literature. Did he also get peace? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 No - just the literature prize. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Marie Curie? That's a DING! for you Marie Curie won the Nobel prize for physics in 1903 along with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel for research on the phenomenon of radiation initially discovered by Becquerel. She won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1911 for discovering the radioactive elements radium and polonium and isolating radium. It took the careful processing of one ton of pitchblende to produce one tenth of a gram of radium chloride and further processing to isolate the metal from the salt. Over to you... Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Time for some history. Son of a King; father, grandfather, great-grandfather and uncle to Kings; but he wasn't king himself and neither were any of his brothers. Who was he? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 On reflection tthat might be a bit tough so, to make it a little easier, his eldest brother was the Black Prince. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM reported Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 John of Gaunt DING. His geneology is quite impressive: he was a direct decendant of William the Conqueror and a direct ancestor of every monarch since Henry VII in 1485 including the current queen. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Thanks for that. It would have been harder had it not been for the Beeb's recent "Hollow Crown" series! The Swallow Sidecar Company was founded in 1922 and changed to S.S. Cars Ltd in 1934. After the Second World War, due to the unfavourable connotations of the SS initials, the company was renamed...... To become which famous British motor manufacturer? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Thanks for that. It would have been harder had it not been for the Beeb's recent "Hollow Crown" series! The Swallow Sidecar Company was founded in 1922 and changed to S.S. Cars Ltd in 1934. After the Second World War, due to the unfavourable connotations of the SS initials, the company was renamed...... To become which famous British motor manufacturer? Think that was Jaguar Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Think that was Jaguar DING! Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Under SP's "one week" rule, I'll step in to get this going again with a nice easy one. How many GOLD medals did team GB win at the 2012 London Olympic Games? Quote Link to comment
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