The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+MartyBartfast]

: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.

[+martin&lindabryn]

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"?

[+civilised]

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

[+martin&lindabryn]

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

[+civilised]

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?

[+MartyBartfast]

The only person I can remember who I think was in that film is Kenneth Brannagh, though no idea which character he played.

[+civilised]

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

[+MartyBartfast]

What is calculated/estimated using the "Drake Equation" ?

[+Simply Paul]

The number of (contactable?) alien civilisations in the galaxy/universe. The numbers look a lot better since we started finding lots of exoplanets.

[+MartyBartfast]

That's a DING to SP.

[+Simply Paul]

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?

[+Pharisee]

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?

[dodgydaved]

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:

[+martin&lindabryn]

"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.

[+Simply Paul]

"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

[+martin&lindabryn]

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?

[+Just Roger]

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

[+Simply Paul]

There's also one of the UK's oldest caches on the island.

[+martin&lindabryn]

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

[+Just Roger]

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?

[+Simply Paul]

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

[+Just Roger]

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.

[+Clue-72]

I'm guessing those other 3 words would be "Prime Minister of" Canada.

[+Just Roger]

The "of" is right but still 2 words to go.

 

SP said something important - it ranks above a mere PM.

[Team Noodles]

El Jefe

 

[+Just Roger]

No! It's in English and both words start with the same letter.

[dodgydaved]

No! It's in English and both words start with the same letter.

 

I can't keep shtum any more - Governor General

[+Just Roger]

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

[dodgydaved]

Right you are then - new tack =

 

In 1944 Helen Duncan was the last case of a woman being tried and convicted in the U.K. for what crime?

[+MartyBartfast]

I think this is witchcraft.

 

If it's the one I'm thinking of she was arrested in Portsmouth/Gosport for doing a seance where she gave details of a Royal Navy ship which had been torpedoed but which hadn't been released by the War Department, they arrested her on charges of Witchcraft, but the suspicion is there was some leak/espionage involved and the Govt just wanted to keep her banged up and out of the way for the duration.

[dodgydaved]

I think this is witchcraft.

 

If it's the one I'm thinking of she was arrested in Portsmouth/Gosport for doing a seance where she gave details of a Royal Navy ship which had been torpedoed but which hadn't been released by the War Department, they arrested her on charges of Witchcraft, but the suspicion is there was some leak/espionage involved and the Govt just wanted to keep her banged up and out of the way for the duration.

 

 

That's the one Marty - over to you!!

[+MartyBartfast]

OK, here's a question with a couple of links to the last one.

 

John Nevil Maskelyne was a well known debunker of mediums/psychics but his grandson, who was a famous stage magician, had another role during WWII, what was it and what was his name?

[+Simply Paul]

Clue please!

[+MartyBartfast]

His name was Jasper Maskelyne, and there is some controvesy over the scale of the contributions he made, but no dispute that he was in there doing this stuff at some level....

[+Pajaholic]

I don't know his name, but ISTR that he was involved in the subterfuge that fooled the Germans into thinking that the D-day landings would take place at Pas-de-Calais rather than Normandy. Fake tanks, empty tents, 'fake' radio traffic all helped. WRT his name, I'll guess 'Nevil' but with no confidence.

[+MartyBartfast]

I don't know his name, but ISTR that he was involved in the subterfuge that fooled the Germans into thinking that the D-day landings would take place at Pas-de-Calais rather than Normandy. Fake tanks, empty tents, 'fake' radio traffic all helped. WRT his name, I'll guess 'Nevil' but with no confidence.

 

I suspect you missed my post just before yours where I told you his name but you're right, he worked for the secret service. Depending on who you believe he was responsible for the inflatable tanks and cardboard cut out planes which deceived Germany in the D-Day landings, which was a rerun of tactics he'd used in North Africa, he was also responsible for creating an illusion which led to Germany bombing an empty lagoon off North Africa instead of Alexandria Harbour.

 

Over to you.

[+Pajaholic]

Thanks - FWIW, we 'crossed', i.e. you posted yours while I was writing mine!

 

Moving to a more recent conflict - the Falklands 'war' - what, in broad terms, was Operation Algeciras. Bonus points for naming the units involved.

[+Pharisee]

Was that the operation involving the multiple refuelling in-flight of the bombers that took out the airport at Port Stanley? No idea what the units were but I believe they stopped off at Ascension Island.

[+Pajaholic]

That was

- probably the most complicated wartime refuelling schedule ever!

 

Operation Algeciras was the other way round - i.e. an Argentine attack on UK forces.

[+Pajaholic]

As a week has passed since I posted the question, in accordance with SP's modified rules, you have my permission to use Google, Wikipedia, etc. to help answer this question.

[+Beach_hut]

Did Argentina attack Gibraltar?

[+Pajaholic]

That'll get you the ding!

 

More specifically, an Argentine commando unit made a failed attempt to place limpet mines on HMS Ariadne while she was in Gibraltar harbour.

 

Over to Beach_hut!

[+Beach_hut]

That'll get you the ding!

 

More specifically, an Argentine commando unit made a failed attempt to place limpet mines on HMS Ariadne while she was in Gibraltar harbour.

 

Over to Beach_hut!

 

Many thanks.

 

Gibraltar's football team recently became members of UEFA. Who were their opponents in their first match as a fully-fledged international football team?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Kosovo?

[+Beach_hut]

Kosovo?

 

I can't see that those two played each other but in any case Kosovo aren't in UEFA or FIFA. Guess again

[+MartyBartfast]

Guessing that there's some sort of irony involved, I'll guess at Spain.

[dodgydaved]

I know the answer - didn't google, but I have family on Gib - is that allowed? :)

 

 

speelink

Edited March 30, 2014 by dodgydaved

[+Beach_hut]

I know the answer - didn't google, but I have family on Gib - is that allowed? :)

 

 

speelink

If you know the answer without googling, go for it..

[dodgydaved]

I know the answer - didn't google, but I have family on Gib - is that allowed? :)

 

 

speelink

If you know the answer without googling, go for it..

 

OK then draw with Slovakia - but It was in Portugal - Faro - not at the Victoria Stadium. Dave N tells me all their home EUEFA matches could be/will be played in Faro.

[+Beach_hut]

And that's the DING! Over to dodgydaved