+Beach_hut Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 Thanks for the Ding. Staying with Switzerland (sort of), what was scandalous about the Toblerone Affair? (Shades of nowadays) Quote
+Beach_hut Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 Bumping with a clue. Our story is set in Sweden, but there are many many parallels in British news over recent times. Quote
+Just Roger Posted May 13, 2014 Posted May 13, 2014 A complete guess following your clue. An MP was claiming sweeties on his expenses Quote
+Beach_hut Posted May 13, 2014 Posted May 13, 2014 A complete guess following your clue. An MP was claiming sweeties on his expenses That's the Ding. Mona Sahlin, a Swedish Politician (and lady, as Paul said) was accused of using a working expense account to fund personal expenses. The affair got its name after Toblerone bars were included on the expenses claim. Over to Roger. Quote
+Just Roger Posted May 15, 2014 Posted May 15, 2014 (edited) Goodness. That really was a complete guess - possibly revealing my opinions of politicians. Anyway onward and upward to something different. Midhurst White ; Norfolk Grey; Staffordshire Blue; Which is the odd one out and to avoid it having a 33% chance of a correct guess you must say why it is the odd one out. Edited May 15, 2014 by Just Roger Quote
+Simply Paul Posted May 15, 2014 Author Posted May 15, 2014 Staffordshire Blue is a cheese, the others are horses. Or pigs? Or butterflies..? Quote
Pajaholic Posted May 16, 2014 Posted May 16, 2014 Norfolk Grey is a breed of chicken. Assuming SP's assertion re Stafford Blue is correct, I suspect that Midhurst White is either a type of cheese or a breed of poultry -- to me it sounds more like poultry; so I'll guess that Stafford Blue is a cheese and the other two are breeds of poultry? Quote
+Just Roger Posted May 16, 2014 Posted May 16, 2014 No. You have one of the 3 correctly identified but I'm not saying which one. Quote
+Simply Paul Posted May 16, 2014 Author Posted May 16, 2014 Norfolk Grey is a breed of chicken and so is a Staffordshire Blue. Midhurst White is... not? Quote
+Just Roger Posted May 17, 2014 Posted May 17, 2014 Not quite there yet. Norfolk Grey is indeed a chicken A Staffordshire blue is not A Midhurst white is also not (You are right that far) So what are the blue and the white? Clue: They would do a lot of damage if you tried to eat them - especially to your teeth. Quote
+Just Roger Posted May 17, 2014 Posted May 17, 2014 Much closer - but no. Think man-made cuboids 8.5" x 3.5" x 2.5" Quote
tony and carina Posted May 17, 2014 Posted May 17, 2014 Bricks. and first to jump can set next Q Quote
+Simply Paul Posted May 17, 2014 Author Posted May 17, 2014 Ha! Excellent. *Of course* they are. Ok, name the film: "They changed the spelling. Now it's like Hobbs, the cricketer." Quote
+Just Roger Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 Bricks. and first to jump can set next Q Well done T&C - that's a DING Staffordshire Blues are a very hard engineering brick and there are millions of them all over the railways in bridges viaducts and other structures. Midhurst whites are a very soft brick mainly used in side as they erode quickly in the weather. Over to SP Quote
+Simply Paul Posted May 22, 2014 Author Posted May 22, 2014 Bump for this, with an extra clue. Sci-fi film by Hammer. Quote
+Simply Paul Posted May 24, 2014 Author Posted May 24, 2014 US title: Five Million Years to Earth. Quote
+Clue-72 Posted May 25, 2014 Posted May 25, 2014 Is it "Quatermass and the Pit"? Was Hobbs the name of the tube station? Quote
+Pharisee Posted May 25, 2014 Posted May 25, 2014 Is it "Quatermass and the Pit"? Was Hobbs the name of the tube station? That film is on the TV this afternoon... 15.:55 on the Horror Channel ( Sky 316, Virgin 149 & Freesat 138) As kid, I watched it as a serial on the television (also The Quatermass Experiment and Quatermass II which preceeded it )... Mostly from behind the sofa Quote
+Simply Paul Posted May 26, 2014 Author Posted May 26, 2014 Is it "Quatermass and the Pit"? Was Hobbs the name of the tube station?A martian DING! for that. Hobbs End was the fictional tube station where 'things were unleashed' in this excellent movie version of the 1958-59 Nigel Kneale penned BBC-TV series of the same name. I'm lucky enough to have both on DVD. Over to you! Quote
+Clue-72 Posted May 29, 2014 Posted May 29, 2014 Thanks for the DING! It was the Hammer hint that jogged my memory. Next question... What was the first excursion arranged by travel entrepreneur Thomas Cook in 1841? Quote
+crb11 Posted May 29, 2014 Posted May 29, 2014 A train trip on the Midland Mainline, I think from Nottingham to Loughborough and back. Quote
+Beach_hut Posted May 31, 2014 Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) That's a DING! for Beach Hut. Thanks very much. Quick and hopefully straight-forward question next. What English word derives from the Italian word for 'to turn a somersault'? EDIT: apologies, I've re-checked my sources and seen I've worded the question incorrectly. Sorry Pajaholic. Edited May 31, 2014 by Beach_hut Quote
Pajaholic Posted May 31, 2014 Posted May 31, 2014 "Fall" is "cadere" or "cascare". However, several languages have similar forms for the same semantic and so the following could have derived from the Italian (or another language from the same root): From cadere, we have cadence, cadenza, etc. From cascare, we have cascade etc. Quote
+Beach_hut Posted June 3, 2014 Posted June 3, 2014 Bump with a clue - the verb and word begin with T. Quote
+Simply Paul Posted June 3, 2014 Author Posted June 3, 2014 Tumble? Sounds like it could be Italian in origin. Quote
+Beach_hut Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Tumble? Sounds like it could be Italian in origin. You're very warm - think of gambling. (Sorry, I asked this question very badly ) Quote
+Beach_hut Posted June 5, 2014 Posted June 5, 2014 You're all not quite there. SP's answer was very warm.... Tumble, gambling.... Quote
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 Trifecta (an Aussie gambling term that may be derived from Italian. Just maybe) Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 I gave in and googled and I still don't know Quote
+Beach_hut Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 Tombola it is. Ding to MBF (assuming you didn't google before your earlier post? Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 I did guess Tombola before googling (which didn't come up with Tombola in any case). Anyway as I'm off on Hols tomorrow this will have to be a quick and easy one: On my hols I'm going to visit La Corbière Lighthouse, so where am I off for my Hols? Quote
+crb11 Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Feels like it ought to be the Channel Islands, so I'll guess Jersey. Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Feels like it ought to be the Channel Islands, so I'll guess Jersey. Ding, that's the one, it's off the S/W corner of jersey! Planning to do the EarthCache at the lighthouse at some point. Quote
+crb11 Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Finally got one! Following on from the theme: a Jersey naturalist is best known for a book set on another island. Where? Quote
+TheOldfields Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Mrs O says Corfu. (We definitely know the naturalist at least....) Quote
+crb11 Posted June 8, 2014 Posted June 8, 2014 A Ding! to Mrs O. Gerald Durrell, founder of Jersey Zoo, wrote My Family and Other Animals. Quote
+TheOldfields Posted June 8, 2014 Posted June 8, 2014 Thank you very much. In what mathematical way does Christmas equal Halloween? Quote
+crb11 Posted June 9, 2014 Posted June 9, 2014 31 in octal is 25 in decimal, i.e., 31 OCT = 25 DEC Quote
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