dodgydaved Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Right - controversy about to unfold. :( I am giving the Ping-Pong-Ding to Pharisee - 'cos table tennis is the answer I have. I had to google to find out what wiff-waff was: and of course googling is not allowed in this thread :lol: Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Right - controversy about to unfold. :( I am giving the Ping-Pong-Ding to Pharisee - 'cos table tennis is the answer I have. I had to google to find out what wiff-waff was: and of course googling is not allowed in this thread :lol: Ta... I have no idea what "wiff-waff" is either. I thought Boris was more likely to "wiffle-waffle" Anyway... on with the show. A 19th century mathematician and Anglican Deacon wrote a fantasy novel (and it's sequel) that is still read by millions. Any idea what the first book's title is? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) Ta... I have no idea what "wiff-waff" is either. I thought Boris was more likely to "wiffle-waffle" Anyway... on with the show. A 19th century mathematician and Anglican Deacon wrote a fantasy novel (and it's sequel) that is still read by millions. Any idea what the first book's title is? Philistines! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiff_Waff - Anyway, I think you're looking for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (rather than the shortened title, Alice in Wonderland) which spawned Alice Through the Looking Glass. The Deacon was Charles Ludwich Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Edited February 19, 2014 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Ta... I have no idea what "wiff-waff" is either. I thought Boris was more likely to "wiffle-waffle" Anyway... on with the show. A 19th century mathematician and Anglican Deacon wrote a fantasy novel (and it's sequel) that is still read by millions. Any idea what the first book's title is? Philistines! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiff_Waff - Anyway, I think you're looking for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (rather than the shortened title, Alice in Wonderland) which spawned Alice Through the Looking Glass. The Deacon was Charles Ludwich Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Absolutely right... DING to you, Paul. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Thanks for that. Since I live close to Oxford I've a bit of an unfair advantage. A slightly cryptic one: What from 1977 links Alice with Brazil? Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I am probably wrong, as I usually am. But wasn't Alice the name of the song sung by Smokie? And thus I guess it was released in 1977. Well around then anyway. But the Brazil part has me even more perplexed. Was Brazil, the film, released in 1977? I doubt that very much as too early I'd say. Oh well. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 You are luc warm Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 (edited) You are luc warm Base purely on JoLuc's theory and a bit of de Bono...... Alice was song by Smokey Some time in the 70's, Ronnie Biggs escaped to Brazil. Biggs was a bandit, so possibly the link between Alice and Brazil is the film Smokey and the Bandit?? Edited February 24, 2014 by Sharpeset Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 Sorry to say that link wasn't where JL was warm. It was the film Brazil - which was on TV as I was posing the question - I was referring to, but that was from 1985, not '77. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 For some reason I'm thinking of Alice Cooper. He didn't have a song by that name from that year, did he? I'm presuming the film is a red herring unless I read it wrong? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Terry Gilliam directed Brazil, and he would have been doing lots of stuff round '77. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 And a quick scoot through Terry's back catalog on IMDB reveals a link with Alice and 1977, but won't reveal here in case it's a breach of the "googling" rule. Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 In that case would it be that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and also wrote Jabberwocky which was a film directed by Terry Gilliam who also directed Brazil? Not sure what year Jabberwocky came out though... Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 28, 2014 Author Share Posted February 28, 2014 In that case would it be that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and also wrote Jabberwocky which was a film directed by Terry Gilliam who also directed Brazil? Not sure what year Jabberwocky came out though...With some help from MartyBartfast that's a Ding! for Clue-72. Jabberwocky is a poem from Alice through the Looking Glass, and inspired a cracking pythonesque film (directed by Gilliam in 1977) of the same title. Well done. Over to you! Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Thanks for the DING ( and thanks for the nudge in the right direction MartyBartfast ) Next question... For which writer was the name Gerald Wiley a pseudonym? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Ronnie Barker. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 After watching a BBC documentary recently on Ronnie Barker I know that he used Gerald Wiley to submit scripts for Frost on Sunday and the Two Ronnies Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Two very quick correct answers posted at the same time.. but the DING has to go to MartyBartfast for just getting there first. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Two very quick correct answers posted at the same time.. but the DING has to go to MartyBartfast for just getting there first. If I hadn’t written a detailed answer I would have beaten him But I’m not bitter honest LOL Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 I've been bitten by that before, so don't mess about these days! Anyway, onwards: In the film "Ice cold in Alex", what was the nickname they used for the abmulance? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Taking no chances this time Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 :lol: :lol: That is of course correct, the ambulance was an Austin K2/T which were in regular use in WWII and were known as Katies for obvious reasons. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Sticking with the WW11 theme. At which conference did top Nazi leaders meet to decide on what they called "the final solution of the Jewish question"? Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Sticking with the WW11 theme. At which conference did top Nazi leaders meet to decide on what they called "the final solution of the Jewish question"? Wannsee Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Sticking with the WW11 theme. At which conference did top Nazi leaders meet to decide on what they called "the final solution of the Jewish question"? Wannsee hats a DING for you Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 hats a DING for you Thanks for that ! In the 2001 film ‘Conspiracy’, based on what happened at the Wannsee Conference, who took the role of Reinhard Heydrich? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 The only person I can remember who I think was in that film is Kenneth Brannagh, though no idea which character he played. Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 The only person I can remember who I think was in that film is Kenneth Brannagh, though no idea which character he played. DING to you Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 What is calculated/estimated using the "Drake Equation" ? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 The number of (contactable?) alien civilisations in the galaxy/universe. The numbers look a lot better since we started finding lots of exoplanets. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 That's a DING to SP. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Thanks MB. Since I'm off to mainland Europe's most northerly point for a spot of caching and an event in July, where would I have to go to find what's usually given as Europe's most southerly point? For a bonus warm feeling of smugness, what unusual object would I find there? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I was in Gibraltar last year... that's fairly way down south. If I remember correctly, Europa Point is at the bottom and there's a big cave there although I never got around to visiting it. That may be the most southerly point on the European mainland but I don't know if some of the Mediterranean Islands would be more southerly or count as part of Europe? Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I was in Gibraltar last year... that's fairly way down south. If I remember correctly, Europa Point is at the bottom and there's a big cave there although I never got around to visiting it. That may be the most southerly point on the European mainland but I don't know if some of the Mediterranean Islands would be more southerly or count as part of Europe? I would have agreed with John on this - until I thought about it - unusual thing - a mosque, a cricket pitch, a lighthouse, a cache - so I googled it - well there you go! :lol: Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 "Rule 1 No googling! Rule 2 - Try and keep your question at the level someone in a pub quiz might be able to answer..." Now as Goggling is not allowed and I didn’t know the answer and there is no mention off geocaching.com, I looked for Europe’s most southerly cache and found this one. “GC2C49R Trypiti - The Southernmost of Europe”. The island of Gavdos is located about 36 km south of Crete in the Libyan Sea and is the southernmost island in Europe, and by looking at the gallery the cache page, I can deduce that there is a large chair near GZ. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 "Rule 1 No googling! Rule 2 - Try and keep your question at the level someone in a pub quiz might be able to answer..." Now as Goggling is not allowed and I didn’t know the answer and there is no mention off geocaching.com, I looked for Europe’s most southerly cache and found this one. “GC2C49R Trypiti - The Southernmost of Europe”. The island of Gavdos is located about 36 km south of Crete in the Libyan Sea and is the southernmost island in Europe, and by looking at the gallery the cache page, I can deduce that there is a large chair near GZ. Googling excludes most ways of looking info up online, but GC.com isn't one of them, so a deep south Ding! to you. The island is just south of Crete and at its southern tip, on the cliffs, there is a large sculpture of a chair for reasons unknown Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you for the ding and sorry for the slow response, with the next question. What group is usually considered to have started on 1 August 1907, with a camp run on Brownsea Island? Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you for the ding and sorry for the slow response, with the next question. What group is usually considered to have started on 1 August 1907, with a camp run on Brownsea Island? That was the boy scouts Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 8, 2014 Author Share Posted March 8, 2014 There's also one of the UK's oldest caches on the island. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Thank you for the ding and sorry for the slow response, with the next question. What group is usually considered to have started on 1 August 1907, with a camp run on Brownsea Island? That was the boy scouts that's a ding over to you Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Thank you for the ding and sorry for the slow response, with the next question. What group is usually considered to have started on 1 August 1907, with a camp run on Brownsea Island? That was the boy scouts that's a ding over to you Thanks. John Buchan, the novelist, had a day-job in the latter half of the 1930's. What was the Job? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 8, 2014 Author Share Posted March 8, 2014 I know he went off to do something important in Canada near the end of his life, but I couldn't tell you what the role was Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 I know he went off to do something important in Canada near the end of his life, but I couldn't tell you what the role was Canada is right but it needs another 3 words before it. Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I'm guessing those other 3 words would be "Prime Minister of" Canada. Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 The "of" is right but still 2 words to go. SP said something important - it ranks above a mere PM. Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 No! It's in English and both words start with the same letter. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 No! It's in English and both words start with the same letter. I can't keep shtum any more - Governor General Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 No! It's in English and both words start with the same letter. I can't keep shtum any more - Governor General Hurray a ding at last. He was indeed Govenor General under his "real" name of Baron Tweedsmuir. Over to you Quote Link to comment
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