The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[BOBBLES WORLD TOUR]

I'll stick with a Sci-Fi total guess.

Was it The Day The Earth Stood Still (the original film with Michael Rennie)

Early 50's and fab.

[+Simply Paul]

I reckon it's earlier than that, and the earliest I can think of is The Thing From Another World.

And you'd be correct! The 'vegetable man' alien (well done martin&lindabryn) from the 1951 film is set on fire with electricity. Thanks to his outfit and mask, it was possible to set the stuntman on fire, all over. The film was remade (ish) by John Carpenter in 1982 as The Thing. A classic Scifi Ding! to you.

[+Clue-72]

Thanks for the ding!

 

Who revealed, in 2005, that he had been the secret informant known as Deep Throat during the Watergate scandal of the 1970s?

[+Beach_hut]

I've got a name in my head.... Was he Mark Felt?

[+Clue-72]

That's a DING!

 

It was indeed Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI at the time of the Watergate break-in.

[+Beach_hut]

That's a DING!

 

It was indeed Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI at the time of the Watergate break-in.

Thanks for the DING. A question about something else 'Deep' now: what was the name of the hit that one-hit-wonder Deep Blue Something are known for?

[+MTH]

Yes, I remember the film.

 

it was Breakfast At Tiffany's

[+Simply Paul]

In anticipation of the next linked question, George Peppard in Battle Beyond the Stars

[+MTH]

That won't get the Ding when I get to ask the next question. Actually that sounds like an idea - guess the next answer before the question is asked! :-)

[+Beach_hut]

Yes, I remember the film.

 

it was Breakfast At Tiffany's

Yes that's a DING!

 

I'm curious what next question SP had in mind. George Peppard was in Breskfast at Tiffany's IIRC?

[+MTH]

A linked question then, but definitely not the one SP expected.

 

Who wrote the book on which the film Breakfast At Tiffany's was based?

[+civilised]

A linked question then, but definitely not the one SP expected.

 

Who wrote the book on which the film Breakfast At Tiffany's was based?

 

Truman Capote

[+MartyBartfast]

A linked question then, but definitely not the one SP expected.

 

Who wrote the book on which the film Breakfast At Tiffany's was based?

George Peppard (in Battle Beyond the Stars) ?

[+Fianccetto]

Truman Capote

 

Opps, I'm too late!

Edited December 3, 2013 by Fianccetto

[+MTH]

That's a Ding for civilised

 

sorry my response wasn't as quick.

[+MTH]

That's a Ding for civilised

 

sorry my response wasn't as quick.

[+civilised]

That's a Ding for civilised

 

sorry my response wasn't as quick.

 

Thanks

 

Truman Capote wrote a very famous true crime book based on a 1959 murder. In which US state did this murder take place ?

[+Clue-72]

I'll take a guess and go for Tennessee.

[+Clue-72]

Ooops, sorry... double post!

Edited December 3, 2013 by Clue-72

[+civilised]

I'll take a guess and go for Tennessee.

 

1 down - 49 to go

[+Simply Paul]

Was it anything to do with Black Dahlia, which was in LA, I think - ergo, California?

[+civilised]

Was it anything to do with Black Dahlia, which was in LA, I think - ergo, California?

 

The murder didn't become famous until Capote wrote about it - it wasn't the Black Dahlia and not in California - sorry.

[+Simply Paul]

In that case I think the word Blood is in the title, but that's all I've got!

[+Clue-72]

I'm pretty sure it was "In Cold Blood" and I have a feeling it was somewhere rural, so I'll take another guess and go for Kansas.

[+civilised]

I'm pretty sure it was "In Cold Blood" and I have a feeling it was somewhere rural, so I'll take another guess and go for Kansas.

 

Right on all counts - DING!

[+Clue-72]

Lucky guess! Thanks for the DING.

 

Who were:

 

John "Stumpy" Pepys,

Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs,

Peter "James" Bond,

Mick Shrimpton

and Joe "Mama" Besser?

[+martin&lindabryn]

thay will be, Spinal Tap

[+Clue-72]

Close, but not quite enough information to get the ding.

[+Simply Paul]

Fictional people in Spinal Tap when they died? Victims of the Curse of Spinal Tap, if you like?

[+Beach_hut]

Drummers in Spinal Tap if I recall?

[+Clue-72]

And the DING! goes to Beach Hut for remembering that they were all indeed drummers with Spinal Tap before they each met a tragic end.

[+Beach_hut]

And the DING! goes to Beach Hut for remembering that they were all indeed drummers with Spinal Tap before they each met a tragic end.

 

Thanks for the Ding although SP deserves some of the credit.

 

Here's my question - what's the connection between Spinal Tap and the House of Lords?

[BOBBLES WORLD TOUR]

One is a band of dimwits that don't deserve their place in society!

Edited December 10, 2013 by JoLuc

[+Simply Paul]

One I know. One of the members (Guest?) is also a Lord. He's married to Jamie Lee-Curtis, which makes for some fun photos of him in Erim robes and she in a short tight black dress and killer heels to match the killer legs.

[+Beach_hut]

One I know. One of the members (Guest?) is also a Lord. He's married to Jamie Lee-Curtis, which makes for some fun photos of him in Erim robes and she in a short tight black dress and killer heels to match the killer legs.

 

That's the DING! Christopher Guest is actually the 5th Baron Haden-Guest through his British father. He inherited the family barony and was a member of the House of Lords, although no longer, following the abolition of hereditary peers.

 

Over to Paul.

[+Simply Paul]

Thanks for that.

Speaking of long legs, in which city would you find a cache attached to a giraffe - that country's most 'favorited' cache?

[+Beach_hut]

Somewhere in Africa - Kenya?

[+Simply Paul]

Kenya isn't a city, but even if it were, you're in the wrong continent I'm afraid

[Pajaholic]

ISTR something about a cache in a Lego giraffe. I'd need to Google to get the name of the city, but I'll guess it's whichever city "Legoland" is in Denmark!

[+Simply Paul]

Closer, but still no cigar. You're right about it being a Lego giraffe though

[+Pharisee]

Closer, but still no cigar. You're right about it being a Lego™ giraffe though

 

Hang about... When I was in Berlin in July, I seem to remember walking past some Lego animals. Can't remember if there was a giraffe, though, and I didn't look for a cache there. In fact didn't look for many caches at all.

[+Simply Paul]

Closer, but still no cigar. You're right about it being a Lego™ giraffe though

Hang about... When I was in Berlin in July, I seem to remember walking past some Lego animals. Can't remember if there was a giraffe, though, and I didn't look for a cache there. In fact didn't look for many caches at all.

You should have paused at the giraffe in Berlin -at the Sony Centre, Potsdamer Platz- as that's where Germany's most favoured (aka 'favorited' [sic]) cache is. A nano. Ah, the irony

 

Ding to you John. And a bonus Happy Christmas. In fact...

 

Happy Quizmas, one an all!

[+Pharisee]

Thank you, Paul.... I did manage to find a couple of caches in Berlin. There were a couple close to the World Clock that come to mind.

Anyway... on with the quiz...

 

Sax Rohmer wrote the books.

Christopher Lee played the villain in the movies.

Nayland Smith was the 'good guy'

 

What was the name of the actress that played the villain's daughter in the aforementioned movies?

 

mwwaaahhhh........ The world will hear from me again!!

Edited December 23, 2013 by Pharisee

[+Simply Paul]

I'll take a guess at the Polish actress Ingrid Pitt

[+Pharisee]

I'll take a guess at the Polish actress Ingrid Pitt

 

Nope......

[+Pharisee]

If it helps any, the villain was Fu Manchu

[+Simply Paul]

Seems we may need a clue. Is it a European/British actress, rather than an Asian one?

[+Pharisee]

As Fu Manchu was 'Oriental'... It's a good bet that his daughter was too. You're looking for the name of a Chinese actress who was 'quite big' back in the day. She trained at RADA, starred in the West End musical... 'The World of Susie Wong' and was a 'Bond girl' in 'You Only Live Twice' and 'Casino Royale'. She also played 'Juicy Lucy' in 'The Virgin Soldiers'.

 

Is that enough info. to be getting on with?

[+Pharisee]

Ok... I'm going away for a few days and won't be using the internet and as no-one (apart from Paul) seemed particularly bothered, I'll abandon this one.

The answer was Tsai Chin.

 

Somebody else can set a new question......

[+Simply Paul]

Oh course! Tsai Chin! It's obvious once you know...

 

Sticking with Chins, Detective Chin Ho Kelly is from which book/play/tv prog/film/comic/other media?