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Posted

No guesses, ah well then, here's a wee clue - his real name was Ehrich Weiss.

 

Ding - your go again!

 

Yes but what was he better known as?

He was very lazy and hence was known as Idle Weiss.

Posted

Harry Houdini was a Ehrich Weiss, but I have no idea if he was this Ehrich Weiss..?

 

DING to SP! Apparently Harry Houdini was a keen aviator and performed the first controlled flight in Australia just north of Mebourne.

Posted
Ok, nice easy question. Where would you find a Tuba, a Velvet Snake and a Garden Gnome together?
In one of your 'films' - sorry, couldn't resist
Nope, but I like your thinking :lol:

Extra clue: You'll also find a stone figure of Snow White in the same place.

Posted (edited)

Stab in the dark...

 

I know that divers put gnomes in wast water, which the police then recover once in a while (why bother?) (why did 'police' disappear from my original post?)

Could they also put all those other things down there?

Edited by Guanajuato
Posted

Not totally sure about this one...

 

Isn't there a tuba and a gnome on the cover of the Beatles album - Sgt. Pepper (along with loads of other stuff)?

 

Don't remember a velvet snake or snow white though! :unsure:

 

JackieC

Posted

Not totally sure about this one...

 

Isn't there a tuba and a gnome on the cover of the Beatles album - Sgt. Pepper (along with loads of other stuff)?

 

Don't remember a velvet snake or snow white though! :unsure:

 

JackieC

 

Wait to see but I think you might be right Jackie cos I'm pretty certain SnowWhite is on the cover. I can't remember the velvet snake either.

Posted (edited)

The velvet snake is bottom left, by Sonny Liston's feet. JackieC is correct! Leo Gorcey, an actor, was in the original shot but was painted out when he asked for a fee. Ghandi also appeared, just above Diana Dors, but EMI asked for him to be removed too. Over to you JackieC.

Edited by Simply Paul
Posted

I googled to see if I was right so I now know the answer.....I wouldn't have guessed anyway but I can now hear the intro with that very quote. Brings back some nice, but way too distant, memories :unsure:

Posted

Well done to Martybartfast and Team Sieni, you're both correct. It was the Trumpton Clock. :unsure:

 

The opening lines to Trumpton are:

"Here is the clock, the trumpton clock,

Telling the time, steadily, sensibly,

Never too quickly, never to slowly,

Telling the time for Trumpton"

 

As Martybartfast got there first the "DING" goes to him. :)

 

Over to you Martybarstfast!

Posted

Up near Western Bank in Sheffield there used to be an old cinema where Professor Krebs investigated respiration in cells.

 

He discovered a cyclic process that became known as the Krebs cycle.

 

It is also called the tricarboxilic acid or CITRIC ACID cycle.

 

I failed my 2nd MB ChB Biochemistry exams (at Sheffield) because I could not for the life of me remember the sequence of enzymes in the cycle and so became a teacher and not a doctor :):):D

 

Which bode well for humanity :unsure::D:D:D:D:):D:D

Posted
taz' date='Jul 6 2007, 04:56 PM' post='2949182']

The musical "The Boys from Syracuse" is based on one of Shakespeare's plays.

 

Which one?

Comedy of Errors

 

 

That's a VERY quick DING verily gadzooks!!

Posted
taz' date='Jul 6 2007, 04:56 PM' post='2949182']

The musical "The Boys from Syracuse" is based on one of Shakespeare's plays.

 

Which one?

Comedy of Errors

 

 

That's a VERY quick DING verily gadzooks!!

 

 

 

.....it's been answered :D

Posted

And a very good answer it was too.

 

Now, wot's the question?

 

Go on, give us a clue (as to the question, I mean, not the answer).

 

I think the only question which needs answering now is:-

 

Where is [MF]taz?

 

'cos it's his/her turn to ask the next question.

Posted

Sorry didnt relise that I had to set the next question.

 

How many possible outcomes can their be from a game of chess, given that there is 64 squares and 32 chess units?

Posted
taz' date='Jul 10 2007, 02:17 PM' post='2956072']

Sorry didnt relise that I had to set the next question.

 

How many possible outcomes can their be from a game of chess, given that there is 64 squares and 32 chess units?

:D:D:P:D

 

I knew that facebook would be useful for something :D

MrsB

Posted

Is it 3?

 

Checkmate, stalemate and resignation?

 

That was quick I thought some may have posted some very big numbers first, or just said its infinate.

 

the anser is 3, Win, Lose and Draw... Checkmate, stalemate and resignation are just ways of getting to it but you could add Timed out and expired to that list, but as I was just looking for 3... ding ding ding.

Posted

Sorry, busy day at work yesterday

 

bit early really but.....

 

How many prisoners were released when the french revolutionaries stormed the Bastille?

Posted

Sorry, busy day at work yesterday

 

bit early really but.....

 

How many prisoners were released when the french revolutionaries stormed the Bastille?

3?

Posted

Well I know that there were only 7 people in the Bastille at the time it was stormed - so at a guess was it 7?

 

Thats a Ding, 4 forgers, 2 lunatics and 1 deviant

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