+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
dodgydaved Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I remember Worcester Cathedral on one once so - Elgar? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 (edited) Bit of a stab in the dark. Dickens? Good guess, Dickens was on the £10 note at roughly the same time, a bit earlier. I remember Worcester Cathedral on one once so - Elgar? Edward Elgar gets the ding! Edited August 20, 2014 by Beach_hut Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Many thanks for that. OK, what's the rather tenuous link between Elgar and a BOAC Comet airliner? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Is the airliner Nimrod (one of the Enigma variations)? Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Yup, the Nimrod (variation 10 I think) was based on the Hawker Siddely Comet! Over to you sir!!!! [] Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Yup, the Nimrod (variation 10 I think) was based on the Hawker Siddely Comet! Over to you sir!!!! [] I though De Havilland made the Comet. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Yup, the Nimrod (variation 10 I think) was based on the Hawker Siddely Comet! Over to you sir!!!! [] I though De Havilland made the Comet. You are of course correct John - my bad! Still the right answer though the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, and intelligence and early warning variations were developed by Hawker from the old De Havilland Comet. Hawker S were the successors to De Havilland! Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 What year was Halley's comet's last approach to the Sun? Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 1986 - seem to remember watching a TV programme about a spacecraft attempting to get close up pictures but something happened and it failed. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Ding! (I thought they'd got _some_ pictures from it though.) Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Continuing the space theme, and a question from a pub quiz we took part in - what were the first words spoken from the surface of the moon? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 The Eagle has landed - if it's when the craft was on the surface. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind - if it's when Armstrong was standing on the surface. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 having had this in on of our quizzes I will say "Houston, The Eagle has landed" Quote Link to comment
+sdg2g08 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Wasn't there something about 'Tranquility base here' before the more famouse eagle line Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 According to QI, the first words were part of commentary Buzz Aldrin gave as he brought the LEM in to land. Those first words were "Contact light". "Houston, this is Tranquility. The Eagle has landed." (or something similar) was uttered a short while after. Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) According to QI, the first words were part of commentary Buzz Aldrin gave as he brought the LEM in to land. Those first words were "Contact light". "Houston, this is Tranquility. The Eagle has landed." (or something similar) was uttered a short while after. We're afraid this is the closest to what we were after - radio protocol is to say who you are calling, followed by your callsign then the message. So it would be a DING, except nobody can hear a ding in space! Over to you Pajaholic Edited for spelling. Edited August 24, 2014 by me N u Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Thanks! Continuing with moons, what is the largest moon in the solar system? Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Ding! Over to sdg2g08... Quote Link to comment
+sdg2g08 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Chnage of theme Which author wrote the Sharpe Series Quote Link to comment
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