The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Simply Paul]

"Biggles: Adventures In Time" I think.

A rip-snorting chocks-away of a Ding for a film containing such tally-ho and pip-pip dialogue as:

 

[Debbie and Chuck enter Jim's hotel room to find Jim dressed as a nun, and with a gun on the chair]

Chuck: Religious Transvestite Bank robber. That one's not even in the book.

 

And:

 

Biggles: Quick! Untie us before they realise you're not a God, you're just an American.

 

To say nothing of:

 

[Having travelled to 1986, Biggles has climbed behind the controls of a police helicopter]

Jim Ferguson: You can't fly this. You don't know how.

Biggles: If you can fly a Sopwith Camel, you can fly anything.

 

Over to you!

[+Beach_hut]

Turns out my guess was far less random than the real answer

[+Simply Paul]

Turns out my guess was far less random than the real answer

I'll have you know Biggles is famous for being Peter Cushing's last film in a long and (mostly) distinguished career!

[+Clue-72]

Thanks for the ding, now for the next question...

 

Who were Billy Gilbert, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Roy Atwell, Scotty Mattraw and Eddie Collins?

[+Simply Paul]

One of them was the second known voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but that hasn't helped me much.

[+Clue-72]

One of them was the second known voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but that hasn't helped me much.

 

It might have helped more than you realise!

[+Team Noodles]

One of them was the second known voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but that hasn't helped me much.

 

It might have helped more than you realise!

This made me count, and although I am one short i'll take a shot.

 

Voices of the 7 dwarfs?

[+Clue-72]

That's a DING! for Team Noodles!

 

Billy Gilbert - Sneezy

Pinto Colvig - Sleepy and Grumpy

Otis Harlan - Happy

Roy Atwell - Doc

Scotty Mattraw - Bashful

Eddie Collins - Dopey

[+Team Noodles]

That's a DING! for Team Noodles!

 

Billy Gilbert - Sneezy

Pinto Colvig - Sleepy and Grumpy

Otis Harlan - Happy

Roy Atwell - Doc

Scotty Mattraw - Bashful

Eddie Collins - Dopey

Sweet!

 

Staying with the theme(ish):

 

Which one of the dwarfs would UK cachers connect to a well known series of caches and lot of statistics?

:D

[+Clue-72]

Would it be Doc - for drsolly's Chiltern Hundred series?

[+Team Noodles]

Would it be Doc - for drsolly's Chiltern Hundred series?

nope

[+RJx2]

We thought drsolly and his Chiltern Hundred series was a good guess. If it's incorrect, then we know that there is a cacher called BaSHful, but we don't know how it fits with a cache series or the statistics.

[+MartyBartfast]

We thought drsolly and his Chiltern Hundred series was a good guess. If it's incorrect, then we know that there is a cacher called BaSHful, but we don't know how it fits with a cache series or the statistics.

 

Bashful does the techie stuff behind the stats page for the Church Micro series.

[+Team Noodles]

We thought drsolly and his Chiltern Hundred series was a good guess. If it's incorrect, then we know that there is a cacher called BaSHful, but we don't know how it fits with a cache series or the statistics.

 

Bashful does the techie stuff behind the stats page for the Church Micro series.

 

DING

[+MartyBartfast]

What TV program used (maybe still does FAIK) Soul Limbo by Booker T & the MGs as it's theme tune.

[+MTH]

I'm not sure the BBC show much cricket these days, but it used to be the theme music to the Test Match coverage,

[+MartyBartfast]

That's a quick DING.

[+MTH]

A youth spent watching cricket on TV when I wasn't outdoors playing cricket or watching other sport on TV.

 

In a similar vein, and because it's one of the best theme tunes ever, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.is credited with which classic C4 theme tune from the 1980s.

[+martin&lindabryn]

A youth spent watching cricket on TV when I wasn't outdoors playing cricket or watching other sport on TV.

 

In a similar vein, and because it's one of the best theme tunes ever, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.is credited with which classic C4 theme tune from the 1980s.

 

Just a guess but "Countdown"

[+MTH]

I'm not sure Countdown would qualify as one of the best theme tunes

 

There's a clue in my first sentence - it's more of a sporting theme.

[+martin&lindabryn]

I'm not sure Countdown would qualify as one of the best theme tunes

 

There's a clue in my first sentence - it's more of a sporting theme.

 

That will teach me to read the question properly

[+Simply Paul]

Sport, Channel 4, 80s... All I can think of is Channel 4 Racing (horses), but I'm pretty sure that's wrong.

[+MartyBartfast]

This is a bit scary as my first thought was Countdown, then C4 racing, maybe we're all being assimilated !!!

 

Anyway I'll have a way out guess at "Gamesmaster", it's kind of sport related

[+MTH]

None of those. It's a sport C4 started covering in the 1980s, but is now on ITV4.

 

To get a quick Ding, Great Britain has become rather good at this sport in the last few years!

[+Beach_hut]

The Tour de France coverage? Well, cycling generally!

[+MTH]

The Tour France gets the Ding. C4 started coverage in about 1985 or 86. Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are still covering it now!

 

over to beach_hut

[+Beach_hut]

The Tour France gets the Ding. C4 started coverage in about 1985 or 86. Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are still covering it now!

 

over to beach_hut

 

Why thank you :-)

 

On a related theme, Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only person to have achieved what in the space of a year?

[+Beach_hut]

Bumping with a clue.

 

The year was 1988. This particular achievement can't happen every year...

[+Simply Paul]

Gave birth on two Friday 13ths in a year?

[+Beach_hut]

Gave birth on two Friday 13ths in a year?

 

Good thought but nope. It's related thematically to the previous question.

[+The Duckers]

Did she win sporting medals for both former East Germany and Unified Germany in that year?

[+Simply Paul]

Gave birth on two Friday 13ths in a year?

Good thought but nope. It's related thematically to the previous question.

Cycling can make your bits burt. Giving birth twice in a year hurts...? Ok, I missed there was a link. Since German reunification happened in 1990 (the wall 'fell' in November '89) I know the Duckers can't be right. '88 was an Olympic year though, so did she win every Olympic heat and race she entered that year? (Doesn't quite fit with the wording of the question though. Humm...)

[+Beach_hut]

Olympics is getting warm. It's nothing to do with nationality. It's just dawned on me that it's also something that can no longer be achieved.

Edited September 23, 2013 by Beach_hut

[+Team Noodles]

Olympics is getting warm. It's nothing to do with nationality. It's just dawned on me that it's also something that can no longer be achieved.

I probably wont be getting anywhere but it might help someone else: as it's an Olympic year I am guessing she competed in both Summer & Winter Olympics that year. That was I think the last or second to last year before they switched it to the 2/4 year alternating scheme.

[+Beach_hut]

Olympics is getting warm. It's nothing to do with nationality. It's just dawned on me that it's also something that can no longer be achieved.

I probably wont be getting anywhere but it might help someone else: as it's an Olympic year I am guessing she competed in both Summer & Winter Olympics that year. That was I think the last or second to last year before they switched it to the 2/4 year alternating scheme.

 

Can't quite give the ding for that but you're nearly there...

[+Simply Paul]

I'd not thought of that. I think 1992 was the last time both were run in the same year. So did the lady in question win medals (gold?) in both competitions in 1988? Cycling and... Skiing?

[+Beach_hut]

I'd not thought of that. I think 1992 was the last time both were run in the same year. So did the lady in question win medals (gold?) in both competitions in 1988? Cycling and... Skiing?

 

That's a DING! The only person to win Summer and Winter Olympic medals in the same year.

[+Simply Paul]

I can't take the Ding when Team Noodles was essentially there. Over to them - or if they don't post in a few days, I do have a question in mind.

[+Team Noodles]

I can't take the Ding when Team Noodles was essentially there. Over to them - or if they don't post in a few days, I do have a question in mind.

neh, all yours.

[+Simply Paul]

I can't take the Ding when Team Noodles was essentially there. Over to them - or if they don't post in a few days, I do have a question in mind.

neh, all yours.

In that case, a German link: How old was Prince Albert when he died?

[+civilised]

I can't take the Ding when Team Noodles was essentially there. Over to them - or if they don't post in a few days, I do have a question in mind.

neh, all yours.

In that case, a German link: How old was Prince Albert when he died?

 

43?

[+Beach_hut]

I was thiningk around then. Going to go with 46?

[+Simply Paul]

No Ding yet

[+martin&lindabryn]

42?

[+Simply Paul]

42?

No need for unsure-face, that is the number I was after. Well done. Over to you

[+martin&lindabryn]

thanks for the ding.

In which year was Barack Obama first inaugurated as American President?

Edited September 28, 2013 by martin&lindabryn

[+Simply Paul]

2008, I think.

[+martin&lindabryn]

2008, I think.

 

Sorry no ding

[+Simply Paul]

Perhaps that was the year he 'won' the job then... I would guess again, but that would hardly be fair

[+Beach_hut]

2009 then.

 

EDIT: sorry Paul ;-)

Edited September 29, 2013 by Beach_hut