+crb11 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Ding! 456 times. He got 123 in the second innings - only player to score a triple century and a century in the same match. . Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Thanks :-) Here we go with another celebrated (ish) sporting Gooch. Nicky Gooch is a British Olympic medallist in which sport? Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 He is/was a (short track?) speed skater, wasn't he? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 He is/was a (short track?) speed skater, wasn't he? There's the DING! Over to you. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 What links the public enquiry into the 1987 Cleveland child abuse scandal and the film 'A passage to India'? Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 What links the public enquiry into the 1987 Cleveland child abuse scandal and the film 'A passage to India'? Nigel Havers ? Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Nigel Havers ? Nearly there - what's the other part (side) of the connection? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Nigel Havers ? Nearly there - what's the other part (side) of the connection? His dad Sir Michael Havers?, one time Lord Chancellor, and currently being discussed in relation to the Baroness Butler-Sloss enquiry into 1980's abuse scandals. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Close enough for a 'Ding!'. Baroness Butler-Sloss, nee Havers, is Nigel's Aunt. Over to you MartyBartfast... Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 What was the name of Ivor the Engine's dragon friend? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Idris the Dragon Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Well that was quick! Your turn. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Thanks for the ding Which film had the most extras? Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Was it Cleopatra with Liz taylor? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Ghandi? and you thought I was quick Ding Ding Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 It's been a while since we had a picture round, so here goes: Title, and name of the artist please: Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 rembrandt night watch Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 This is like Ping-Pong Your go. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 This is like Ping-Pong Your go. LOL Back to films, which film reputedly holds the record for the most cars crashed in one days filming and at what estimated cost? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 I think that's Blues Brothers (1980) but the cost would be pure guess-work: $2.8m at the time? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I think that's Blues Brothers (1980) but the cost would be pure guess-work: $2.8m at the time? That was the film I thought it was. I double checked first just in case and found that there has been a more resent film with this claim to fame And the costs were a lot higher Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 In that case, something from the Fast and Furious franchise? Working in the dark now Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 In that case, something from the Fast and Furious franchise? Working in the dark now sorry no Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Is it the animated film CARS? So no actual cost. This is a pure bad guess as I haven't seen the film. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Is it the animated film CARS? So no actual cost. This is a pure bad guess as I haven't seen the film. #No sorry, they are real cars According to director John Moore “Someone showed me the numbers on the car chase and soup to nuts,” he said. "You put it all together, it was like an $?? million sequence.” And that doesn’t even include “several” Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUVs demolished in the filming along with a few of the German automaker’s heavy trucks like the Unimog and Zetros Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) John Moore? Sounds like A Good Day To Die Hard. Edited to add: I just Googled to check and I'm way out. A Good Day To Die Hard 'only' wrecked 132 cars. The film that holds the record wrecked an astonishing 532! A Good Day To Die Hard only comes third as SP's answer (Fast and Furious) wrecked 260! Edited July 16, 2014 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) John Moore? Sounds like A Good Day To Die Hard. Edited to add: I just Googled to check and I'm way out. A Good Day To Die Hard 'only' wrecked 132 cars. The film that holds the record wrecked an astonishing 532! A Good Day To Die Hard only comes third as SP's answer (Fast and Furious) wrecked 260! The movie that holds the record for the most cars crashed in a single film is a favorite subject of debate -- and an honor of dubious distinction -- among car enthusiasts. Depending on which website you want to believe, I asked for which film reputedly holds the record for the most cars crashed in one days filming and at what estimated cost? The answer I was looking for was “A Good Day To Die Hard” with an estimated cost of $11 million, So over to you A Good Day To Die Hard 132 cars destroyed. If ever there was a movie that didn't need a sequel, let alone four, it was Die Hard. Alas, 25 years after John McClane first entered the Nakatomi Plaza, we find ourselves talking about the fifth, and worst, Die Hard movie to date. Man, does he have some bad luck. 132 vehicles were destroyed in the making of this film, and a further 518 were badly damaged. Fast And Furious 260 cars destroyed in Fast Five. All told, more than 900 cars have been destroyed since the very first Fast and Furious film, The Fast and The Furious. Over 554 minutes of film, that's one car destroyed every 37 seconds. 260 of those cars were destroyed in the latest film, Fast Five. We already know that 400 cars were used in the making of Fast and Furious 6, but just how many survived remains a mystery. Rumour has it, over 100 cars met a sticky end in just one sequence Transformers 3 532 cars destroyed in Transformers 3. Technically, every one of the 532 cars "destroyed" in the making of Transformers 3 was already fit for the scrapheap. The cars had been donated to director Michael Bay because they were flood damaged, and therefore needed to be scrapped by law anyway. Edited July 16, 2014 by martin&lindabryn Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks for the unexpected ding! While racking my brains for a question that I don't think has been asked already, I overheard an interesting fact on TV that should make a good question. So... ... What are the official languages of Switzerland? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks for the unexpected ding! While racking my brains for a question that I don't think has been asked already, I overheard an interesting fact on TV that should make a good question. So... ... What are the official languages of Switzerland? French, German, Italian and there's another local one. I think it might be Romance or something like that? Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Close enough for the ding. That local one is Romansh. Over to Beach_hut. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks my question is about something someone said about Switzerland: You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. For the ding can you tell me either what film the quote is from, or who wrote that bit? Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks my question is about something someone said about Switzerland: You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. For the ding can you tell me either what film the quote is from, or who wrote that bit? The Third Man and reputedly that bit was written by Orson Welles, who spoke the line Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 The Third Man and reputedly that bit was written by Orson Welles, who spoke the line Double Ding to you :-) Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 The Third Man and reputedly that bit was written by Orson Welles, who spoke the line Double Ding to you :-) Thanks for that Immediately to the east of Switzerland, and bordered also by Austria, is Liechtenstein. This country is unusual in many ways but perhaps its most uncommon feature is that it’s doubly landlocked i.e., the country itself has no access to the sea, and nor do any of its neighbours. There are only 2 countries that have this feature; Liechtenstein is one – what is the other? Only UN members count. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Pure guess Luxemburg Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 First visit in ages, and one I think I know having been there. Uzbekistan. Surrounded by Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan plus probably a few more. Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 First visit in ages, and one I think I know having been there. Uzbekistan. Surrounded by Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan plus probably a few more. And I thought it was a hard one the ding is yours Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Thanks. I'm tempted to ask which country I forgot to mention in my answer, but won't! Instead, which country has the longest coastline? Possibly the complete opposite of landlocked :-) Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Gonna guess Norway due to the lovely crinkly edges! Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Sorry, nothing to do with Slartibartfast's award winning design. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Canada gets the Ding. They have almost twice as much coastline as anyone else. Mark Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Starsky and Hutch used an iconic red and white car in the television series. What was the make and model? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 It was a Grand Tourino, not sure of the spelling, and I don't know who made it so I'll guess General Motors. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Ford Gran Torino? Spot on.... DING to you! Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Thanks. Staying on the subject of cars, Toyota established a new lap record at the Nürburgring earlier this month. To within 5, what is the new record? Edited July 21, 2014 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) I'm going to say seven minutes. If that 5 is to within 5 minutes, I'm onto a winner I think I googled. As Quiz Master, I'm calling foul. You need to explain the question in further detail Pajaholic! Edited July 21, 2014 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 No... 5 is not minutes ... and I'd give the game away if I specified the units! Quote Link to comment
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