+Pan314159 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Seriously? There's people who haven't heard of momentum? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 ... And a question that featured in at least two TV quiz shows (QI and Only Connect) isn't fair fodder for this thread? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Presuming I got the answer right, I'll ask the next question, and it's about pubs. Reputedly the oldest pub in England, dating from 1189. For the ding, tell me either the name of the pub or the city it's located in. And the one I'm thinking of has a religious connection. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Got to be in Nottingham - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem - AFAIR under the castle rock. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Got to be in Nottingham - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem - AFAIR under the castle rock. And that's the ding! Great cache nearby too, as I recall. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Nottingham was the legendary home of Robin Hood - but where is his 2IC Little John allegedly buried? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 St Michael in Hathersage. Having lived and worked in the area, I should know the answer to this question Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Da-da diddely- da -da daaa! wheesh plunk ding! Over to you! Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 thank you for the ding Archaeologists claim there is evidence of human habitation dating back at least 11,000 years, in the oldest, continually inhabited city but which one? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 If you asked for the oldest currently inhabited city, I'd have gone for Jericho. However, contemporary archeoblogical evidence supports the biblical tale of the sacking of Jericho and that it was abandoned for a time afterwards - dating that to somewhere between 2,000 and 1,000 BC. So Jericho fails the "continously inhabited" criterion. ISTR that Damascus is nearly as old, so that's what I'll plump for! Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 If you asked for the oldest currently inhabited city, I'd have gone for Jericho. However, contemporary archeoblogical evidence supports the biblical tale of the sacking of Jericho and that it was abandoned for a time afterwards - dating that to somewhere between 2,000 and 1,000 BC. So Jericho fails the "continously inhabited" criterion. ISTR that Damascus is nearly as old, so that's what I'll plump for! Damascus will get you the ding. over to you Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Thanks. Staying with Old Testament times: The plagues, the pillars of fire and smoke, and the parting of the sea described in the Exodus have been ascribed to a geological event. Your task is to name that event! Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Thanks. Staying with Old Testament times: The plagues, the pillars of fire and smoke, and the parting of the sea described in the Exodus have been ascribed to a geological event. Your task is to name that event! The second and third parts sound like the forming of new land by way of volcanic activity but I'm not sure how the first part would fit in to that. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I think it's the volcanic eruption of Thera (the same one that is attributed to wiping out the Minoan civilisation). Most of the plagues come about through dust in the atmosphere affecting local climate. Colin Humphries, who wrote the book (or at least a book) claiming all this, happens to be a friend and colleague, but I still don't find it very convincing! Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 That'll get you the DING! The plagues were attributed both to dust and to the result of seismic activity .. With the first born allegedly due to a combination of CO2 released by seismic activity and it being customary for the eldest male child to sleep nearest to the door. Over to crb11 ... Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 A third Old Testament one: the book of Psalms is the longest both in number of chapters and number of verses, but which is longest in terms of words? (In the original Hebrew, although I expect the English translations wouldn't differ.) Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 OK, I'm guessing - so I'll start at the beginning and try "Genesis"? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Genesis is the second longest. (Wasn't expecting this to be that difficult - it's one of the better known books.) Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Corinthians? As I've heard of it Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Exodus is the best of these three, but only #6 overall. (Sorry, this is harder than I expected.) You're looking for one of the prophetic books (named after the prophet in question.) Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Another guess: Isaiah? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Is it the book called Divrei-Hayamim bet or as the western gentiles say Chronicles two? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I should know this as my father was a vicar Jeremiah Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 A full peal of bells to Rev Jr! Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Thanks for the ding Now somthing from UK TV game shows. Some shows used to give out very distinctive consolation prizes to their runners up. Can you tell the game show from this consolation prize? A toy, a tankard or a BFH. Also what did BFH stand for? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 (edited) Bullseye .. Bus fare home! Edited August 13, 2014 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 quick 180 for Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Thanks. In which quiz show were contestants invited to, "Come on down!"? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 The Price is right. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Ding! Over to MartyBartfast... Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 What, specifically, do these places have in common: Bistro Illegal Slim's Throat Emporium The Evildrome Boozarama Ziggie's Den if Iniquity Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 All Bars in one of my favourite books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 All Bars in one of my favourite books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Well that's true, but there are other bars in HHGTTG which don't appear in this list, be more specific..... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Well in that case you must be after the fact that they all serve Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Well in that case you must be after the fact that they all serve Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, You get a DING and the mother of all hangovers, they are the places that serve the best Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters in the Universe... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Thanks for the head splitting ding (you could have said it quieter though.) the advertising slogans "Obey your thirst" was used to sell what?? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Sprite. DING DING over to you Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) In what way might Adam Smith (the economist) be a member of the group Queen, possibly inspired by HG Wells. Edited August 15, 2014 by crb11 Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Hmm. Too hard again, perhaps. Here's a clue: what body part is Adam Smith most famously associated with? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Disqualifying myself by having looked him up in wikipedia, but are you talking about him having a big nose? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 No - that was new to me. It's a fictitious body part. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I will disqualify myself as well and try for the invisable hand. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Yes, it's the invisible hand. What might that have to do with Queen (or HG Wells)? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Queen sang of the Invisible man, and HG Wells wrote of the Invisible man? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Yes - and an invisible hand is part of an invisible man. Ding! (I'll set an easier one next time...) Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Yes - and an invisible hand is part of an invisible man. Ding! (I'll set an easier one next time...) Why thank you. Staying on Adam Smith, he currently graces one side of the £20 note. Who preceded him in this capacity? Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Bit of a stab in the dark. Dickens? Quote Link to comment
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