The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+The Patrician]

Invasion of Sicily? Codename escapes me......

[+TheOldfields]

No ding for either of Market Garden or Sicily. I'm not specifically after the operation name... general aim/location will do the job.

[+MTH]

Is it the to do with the fake army to make Germany think the invasion would be around Calais?

[+TheOldfields]

Would get you a nice purple ding. The British ran a ring of double agents where one of their major tasks was to persuade the Germans that the invasion wasn't going to happen in Normandy. Both the upcoming Fourth Army attack on Norway and the First US Army Group attack on the pas de Calais were fiction as was the actual existence of the two armies.

 

Here is one of their tanks.

[+MTH]

Thanks. A bit of a lucky guess.

 

What was Major William Martin's role in WW2?

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks. A bit of a lucky guess.

 

What was Major William Martin's role in WW2?

 

Wasn't that the name they made up for the body that was dropped off Spain with fake papers to make Hitler think we were going to invade via Italy (I think), rather than Normandy? It was called Operation Mincemeat.

[+MTH]

Ding.

 

He was "The Man Who Never Was".

 

Operation Mincemeat is correct, but it was to make Germany think the allies would invade Greece and Sardinia rather then Sicily.

[+MartyBartfast]

What's the connection between:

 

Limbo

Lust

Gluttony

Greed

Wrath

Heresy

Violence

Fraud

Treason

[+MTH]

The Rake's Progress by Hogarth?

 

I'm sure some of them fit, but not sure about them all.

[+MartyBartfast]

Not The Rake's Progress, but I had to go look it up just in case it worked - interesting stuff.

[+Betelgeuse]

Dante's Inferno. I've never read it but I have read the Larry Niven sci-fi parody

[+MartyBartfast]

Dante's Inferno. I've never read it but I have read the Larry Niven sci-fi parody

Ding, they're the nine levels of hell in Dante's Inferno.

[+maxx borchovski]

I was going to say Russel Brand's bucket list...

[+Betelgeuse]

HMS Belfast has been moored in the Pool of London since 1971 as a museum ship. The forward six inch guns are aimed at a target some 12.5 miles distant on the outskirts of London to demonstrate their range.

 

What is the target?

[+Simply Paul]

As featured on QI - and this quiz before, I seem to recall - it's London Gateway (formerly Scratchwood) Services on the M1.

[+Pharisee]

HMS Belfast has been moored in the Pool of London since 1971 as a museum ship. The forward six inch guns are aimed at a target some 12.5 miles distant on the outskirts of London to demonstrate their range.

 

What is the target?

 

A quick shufty at a map puts Wembly at about the right location so at a guess, it's Wembly Stadium.

[+MTH]

I thought it was a service station as well, but South Mimms.

 

Pretty impressive for 70 year old technology.

[+Betelgeuse]

As featured on QI - and this quiz before, I seem to recall - it's London Gateway (formerly Scratchwood) Services on the M1.

 

Blimey, that was quick!

 

DING! to you sir.

[+Simply Paul]

As featured on QI - and this quiz before, I seem to recall - it's London Gateway (formerly Scratchwood) Services on the M1.

Blimey, that was quick! DING! to you sir.

That's just what she said...

 

Thanks very much.

 

Here's a semi topical one. The new series of An Island Parish began last night. Name the islands which have been the focus of the series, from the launch in January 2007 to last night's start of series 7. Don't include A Seaside Parish or A Country Parish

[+MartyBartfast]

I think one of them was St Marys, Scilly isles.

[+MTH]

And the latest is on Sark...

[+MartyBartfast]

One was on a Scottish isle, I'll have a guess at Barra.

[+Simply Paul]

Marty wins a Ding with two out of three. Credit to MTH for knowing the new series is set on Sark. Barra was the focus of series 5 & 6 and the Scillies, with St Mary's as the main island, featured in series 1-4. The original series producer sadly passed away - his voiceover style was one of the best things about the earlier series, I think. Anyway, over to MartyBartfast.

[+MartyBartfast]

I was assuming each series was filmed in a different place so I wasn't expecting that!

 

Anyway

 

Who are the two human characters in this statue, and where was it taken.

(bonus ding for the 4 legged friend's name too)

 

[dodgydaved]

I reckon its Desparate Dan and Minnie the Minx, and I would suggest at the home of the comic in Dundee perhaps.

[+Pharisee]

I reckon its Desparate Dan and Minnie the Minx, and I would suggest at the home of the comic in Dundee perhaps.

 

I concur with Dave about the two characters but wouldn't know the location. Was thge mutt's name 'Gnasher'?

[+MartyBartfast]

Ding to DodgyDaveD.

 

Dong to Pharisee, Gnasher was Dennis the Menace's dog and he was all spiky/hairy. This one is Desparate Dan's dog who was apparently called Dawg (though I can't remember it myself).

[dodgydaved]

Cheers, Marty!

 

In what sort of a setting might you find a Kaldo, an LD and even, perhaps, a Bessemer?

[+Simply Paul]

I know the Bessemer process was a breakthrough in producing quality steel from fragile iron, so I'll guess at a foundry.

[dodgydaved]

I know the Bessemer process was a breakthrough in producing quality steel from fragile iron, so I'll guess at a foundry.

 

That's the one SP - over to you!

[+Simply Paul]

Thanks. I've googled the others for the curious; they're other, more modern types of furnace.

 

Next question. I'm landing at Chek Lap Kok Airport; where am I visiting?

[+MartyBartfast]

Has an eastern sound to it so I'll guess Nepal (perhaps going to Everest).

[+maxx borchovski]

You would be visiting Hong Kong.

[+Simply Paul]

A Ding-a-roo for MaxxB! It's on a manmade island and is a lot safer than the old airport which was basically 'in town'.

[+maxx borchovski]

Mary Shelly wrote her famous Gothic novel Frankenstien in 1818, what is the book's full title / subtitle?

[+mellers]

It's subtitled The Modern Prometheus

 

... I learned that on this quiz!

[+maxx borchovski]

Is 7 minutes for a DING a record? If it is then mellers you have a record!

[+mellers]

What's the American version of "Strictly Come Dancing" called?

[+MTH]

I have a feeling it's called Dancing with the Stars

 

 

Neither watched either show - complete rubbish. Lot's of nobodies doing something I'm not interested in really badly.

Edited November 22, 2012 by MTH

[+mellers]

I have a feeling it's called Dancing with the Stars

 

 

Neither watched either show - complete rubbish. Lot's of nobodies doing something I'm not interested in really badly.

Well, you certainly get a DING for the answer but I'm not sure it's true to say that they all do it badly.

 

I think that part of the appeal to some is that some of them improve and end up doing it rather well. However there is no requirement to be interested in, like or watch either programme for the DING.

 

Over to you.

[+MTH]

Only my opinion. of course. Moving on.

 

Bruce Forsyth's wife, Wilnelia, was Miss World in 1975, but where did she represent?

[+Pharisee]

Only my opinion. of course. Moving on.

 

Bruce Forsyth's wife, Wilnelia, was Miss World in 1975, but where did she represent?

 

I have no idea but I'll have a complete guess at one of the Scandanavian countries... Norway?

 

They say 'Money can't buy you happiness' but by the cringe,,,, it'll get you some cracking crumpet!!

[+MTH]

I have no idea but I'll have a complete guess at one of the Scandanavian countries... Norway?

 

Nope.

[+MartyBartfast]

She's Definitely not scandinavian!

 

Costa Rica ?

[+MTH]

Costa Rica ?

 

Closer, but no cigar (and that isn't a clue!!!)

[+MTH]

A clue: the question deliberately didn't ask "which country"

[+MartyBartfast]

A clue: the question deliberately didn't ask "which country"

 

OK last guess for me then

 

Puerto Rico (SP?)

[+MTH]

Puerto Rico

 

DING !

[+MartyBartfast]

What is, or was, SR-N1 ?

[+mellers]

The team mellers 1st Lt tells me it was the first hovercraft (he's good at stuff like that!)