+Team Noodles Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 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... Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 26, 2013 Author Share Posted September 26, 2013 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? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 26, 2013 Author Share Posted September 26, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 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? Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 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? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I was thiningk around then. Going to go with 46? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 No Ding yet Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 42? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 42? No need for unsure-face, that is the number I was after. Well done. Over to you Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) thanks for the ding. In which year was Barack Obama first inaugurated as American President? Edited September 28, 2013 by martin&lindabryn Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 2008, I think. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 2008, I think. Sorry no ding Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 Perhaps that was the year he 'won' the job then... I would guess again, but that would hardly be fair Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 (edited) 2009 then. EDIT: sorry Paul ;-) Edited September 29, 2013 by Beach_hut Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 That’s a ding Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, and was first inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. over to Beach_hut Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Thanks martin&lindabryn, OK, the tenuous link to the next question is the 20 January. That date is the birthday of which Doctor Who actor? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share Posted September 30, 2013 Let's start with the first - William Hartnell? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Let's start with the first - William Hartnell? Nope, not him. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Tom Baker? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Tom Baker? That's the ding! Tom Baker, born January 20, 1934. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Who's missing from this musical lineup: Django Reinhardt, Joseph Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, Louis Vola, ???????? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Stephan Grappelli? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Didn't last long, should have left one of the others out! DING Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 TBO, the only one I recognised was Django Reinhardt, who I knew did a lot of work with Grappelli. On the subject of fiddlers, which fiddler would you find in Union Station? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 I don't know her name, but I do know it's a lady. Quote Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 (edited) TBO, the only one I recognised was Django Reinhardt, who I knew did a lot of work with Grappelli. On the subject of fiddlers, which fiddler would you find in Union Station? That confused me for a moment then I realised you meant the band in which case it is Alison Krauss Helen Edited October 4, 2013 by Dobunnis Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 DING! Over to Dobunnis... Quote Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 It's been long time since we posted a question but here goes... Robert G Heft at the age of 17 famously managed to get the grade on a school project upgraded from a B- to an A by winning a bet with his tutor. What was the project about and how did he win? Quote Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 It's been long time since we posted a question but here goes... Robert G Heft at the age of 17 famously managed to get the grade on a school project upgraded from a B- to an A by winning a bet with his tutor. What was the project about and how did he win? No takers? Would it help to know the project was done in 1958? Helen Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 I *think* I know this one... did he die a couple of years ago? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 This was annoying me so I checked and I was right. But by checking, I've excluded myself. D'oh! I really am flagging at this quiz lark... Quote Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) This was annoying me so I checked and I was right. But by checking, I've excluded myself. D'oh! I really am flagging at this quiz lark... That at least suggests that it is known even if only in the darkest recesses of the mind That must be the longest we have had a question last and I am not trying to stitch you up either. I had a series of hints but never thought I would get to use them. So... does it help to know it was in the USA? Helen Edited October 10, 2013 by Dobunnis Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 This was annoying me so I checked and I was right. But by checking, I've excluded myself. D'oh! I really am flagging at this quiz lark... That at least suggests that it is known even if only in the darkest recesses of the mind That must be the longest we have had a question last and I am not trying to stich you up either. I had a series of hints but never thought I would get to use them. So... does it help to know it was in the USA? Helen When this question was first published, I thought I knew the name, but had no idea from where. But with the clues above, wasn’t he the creator of the stars and stripes flag. Quote Link to comment
+Dobunnis Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 When this question was first published, I thought I knew the name, but had no idea from where. But with the clues above, wasn’t he the creator of the stars and stripes flag. DING Heft designed the current U.S. flag in 1958 while living with his grandparents. He was 17 years old at the time and did the flag design as a high school class project. He un-stitched the blue field from a family 48-star flag, sewed in a new field, and used iron-on white fabric to add 100 hand-cut stars, 50 on each side of the blue canton. Heft originally received a B- for the project. After discussing the grade with his high school teacher, Stanley Pratt, it was agreed that if the flag was accepted by the United States Congress, the grade would be reconsidered. Heft's flag design was chosen and adopted by presidential proclamation after Alaska and before Hawaii were admitted into the union in 1959. According to Heft, his teacher honored their agreement and changed his grade to an A for the project. When Alaska and Hawaii were being considered for statehood, more than 1,500 designs were spontaneously submitted to President Dwight D. Eisenhower by Americans. At least three, and probably more, of these designs were identical to Heft's adopted design of the 50-star flag. Archived in the Eisenhower Presidential Center in Abilene, Kansas, only a small fraction of the proposed designs have ever been published. On December 12, 2009, he died from a heart attack at the age of 68. Over to martin&lindabryn... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Thanks for the ding Staying with flags. How many national flags are not rectangular and name the country/s Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Thanks for the ding Staying with flags. How many national flags are not rectangular and name the country/s Nepal's the only one I know isn't a rectangle, but it may just be the most famous... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Thanks for the ding Staying with flags. How many national flags are not rectangular and name the country/s Nepal's the only one I know isn't a rectangle, but it may just be the most famous... That’s a partial ding, there is at least another one Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Switzerland's is square. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Switzerland's is square.Squares are rectangles though..? Just ones with equal-length sides. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Now I have a dilemma as “Beach Hut and Simply Paul” have both got one right and as there are only two, who do I award the ding. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I'll accede to Paul on that one, his was most not rectangular after all! Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I'll accede to Paul on that one, his was most not rectangular after all! Thanks for that Beach hut. Its over to Simply Paul. Ding Ding Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) I'll accede to Paul on that one, his was most not rectangular after all!Thanks for that Beach hut. Its over to Simply Paul. Ding DingThanks for that. For the sake of completeness, the Vatican flag is also square. Staying with flags, the image below was taken from a place which has an unofficial flag of red, green and blue, split vertically into thirds, with red closest to the flag pole. It will help if you know what the picture is of. Edited October 12, 2013 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 I keep thinking of the little moon where the Clangers live. I'm sure it's not that but you know when a thought takes over your head... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Just a stab in the dark, is the image taken from the Hubble telescope Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 12, 2013 Author Share Posted October 12, 2013 No, it was shot from the ground. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Knowing your fascination with anything to do with space/astronomy, it's got to be somewhere 'out there' where mankind has plonked a camera and where there's either no atmosphere or it's transparent enough to permit photography. So that gives Mars, the Moon, Europa, and (perhaps) Ganymede. The subject has to be either a planetary satellite or a close-passing asteroid. The object in the 'background' could possibly be Earth. So my best guess is that the photo was taken from Mars and is of one of Mars's moons (further guessing: Phobos?) Quote Link to comment
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