Sharpeset Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 What was the name of the brewery in Dorchester? Eldridge Pope Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ding, and over to Sharpeset. Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ding, and over to Sharpeset. Cheers! Which fictional literary character said "One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." ? Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ding, and over to Sharpeset. Cheers! Which fictional literary character said "One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." ? Bertie Wooster ? Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ding, and over to Sharpeset. Cheers! Which fictional literary character said "One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." ? Bertie Wooster ? Sorry, no Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Sherlock Holmes Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Sherlock Holmes No,sorry Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Dumbledore Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Dumbledore DING - I knew there would be some Potter fans out there somewhere.... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Thanks for the ding. Staying with films From our last pub quiz, which famous film has the last line "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner..." Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Thanks for the ding. Staying with films From our last pub quiz, which famous film has the last line "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner..." Silence of the Lambs ? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Ding. I thought that was an easy one Over to you Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Ding. I thought that was an easy one Over to you Thanks for the ding - although I resent the implication that I only get the easy ones The man who bought Avebury in Wiltshire in the 1930s, to allow him to excavate archaeologically the village and its surroundings, inherited the money to do so from his family business. On what was the business originally founded and best known for making? Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Was it a business derived from the toil, sweat and overlording of the local workers? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Is there any other sort? Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Me, me, I know! It was a jam/marmalade maker. Keiller's. Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Me, me, I know! It was a jam/marmalade maker. Keiller's. Absolutely spot on ! Alexander Keiller, well known playboy, speed freak, sexual adventurer and master amateur archaeologist, was responsible for making Avebury look how we see it today Have a ding ! Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 (edited) Ok here's mine. When Captain James Cook set off on his epic First Voyage, he was told he could look around for any possible Southern Continent, but that was secondary. Before that he had to locate a very precise spot on the earth (bit like Geocaching) and carry out a specific task. What was it? H Edit - I mean what was the task, not what was the precise spot. Edited December 4, 2014 by Hellfire1917 Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 View the transit of Venus across the sun, not sure where though, probably somewhere in the South pacific Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Give Me n u a ding - absolutely correct. He had to find Tahiti (one of only a few South Sea islands whose latitude and longitude were accurately known) and observe the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun. H Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Give Me n u a ding - absolutely correct. He had to find Tahiti (one of only a few South Sea islands whose latitude and longitude were accurately known) and observe the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun. H Thank you, staying on the same subject, observing the transit of Venus enabled astronomers to calculate what? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 The size of the universe Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 The size of the universe Not quite, on the right lines just too big a scale. Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 The size of the universe Not quite, on the right lines just too big a scale. the size of the sun? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The distance of the earth to the sun? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The diameter of the earth's orbit? Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The distance of the earth to the sun? DING to Speakers corner, once an accurate distance to the sun could be calculated then the size of the solar system could be calculated as Kepler had already calculated the relative distances of the planets from the sun in terms of earth - sun distance, known as 1 astronomical unit (AU. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Thanks for the DING me N u. Staying with astronomy and a two-part question. Where was Kepler born and who was the astronomer that was born 152 yrs later and about 45km away from where Kepler was born? Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 (edited) is the answer: 1 - Kepler born in Wiel der Stadt and 2 - Johann Meyer born 152 years later in Marbach, 1723? Tom Edited December 13, 2014 by Hellfire1917 Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 And the DING goes to Hellfire1917. Both towns are just down the road from where I live. Johann Mayer Mayer he submitted amended tables to be sufficiently accurate to determine longitude at sea within about half a degree to the British government. This was the beginning of accurate navigating. Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Thanks for the DING! Staying with astronomers/scientists. In 1642 one great astronomer/scientist died and another was born. Who were they? H Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Galileo (January) and Newton (December), almost a year apart. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I don't know the answer, but it wasn't those two. Either Galileo died in 1642 and Newton was born in 1643 (Gregorian calendar, in use in Italy) or Galileo died in 1641 and Newton was born in 1642 (Julian calendar, in use in England). Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Well, I bow to crb11's calendar knowledge, which is greater than mine, but give a DING to speakers-corner as those were the two I was looking for. H Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Thanks for the Ding. When will Halley's Comet next be seen in the inner solar system? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Well, it's got a cycle of 75 years, and I remember its last visit around 1986, so I'm going to say 2061 Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 The cycle is 75-76yrs, so Ill give you a DING for that. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The cycle is 75-76yrs, so Ill give you a DING for that. Thanks for the Ding. What's the technical name for this event, when an asteroid/comet/similar reaches its closest point to the sun? And What is the name for the opposite, when it is at its furthest from the Sun? Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The cycle is 75-76yrs, so Ill give you a DING for that. Thanks for the Ding. What's the technical name for this event, when an asteroid/comet/similar reaches its closest point to the sun? And What is the name for the opposite, when it is at its furthest from the Sun? The former is perihelion - so I am guessing the latter is something like apihelion? (Which my spellchecker did not like, so I will drop the "I" and say) aphelion (which it did!!) Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The former is perihelion - so I am guessing the latter is something like apihelion? (Which my spellchecker did not like, so I will drop the "I" and say) aphelion (which it did!!) That's a DING dong merrily on high for you :-) Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The former is perihelion - so I am guessing the latter is something like apihelion? (Which my spellchecker did not like, so I will drop the "I" and say) aphelion (which it did!!) That's a DING dong merrily on high for you :-) Let me try to stick with the theme. What is the simple etymology of the name "comet"? Basically looking for a three word phrase where the longest word has 4 letters (or a variation on it!) Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I thought the word came from Latin (maybe Greek) words for "long haired star" but that can't be the answer you're looking for. H Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I was looking for "with long hair" so your reply was a valid variation as I asked and so a great big hirsute DING to you!! Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Thanks, dodgydaved. Now for something completely different. What was the name of Alexander the Great's horse? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Totally don't know the spelling, but it's something like Beucephalus. Quote Link to comment
+Hellfire1917 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 MartyBartfast, the DING! is yours. Your question....... Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 By what name is Hiram K. Hackenbacker more commonly known? Quote Link to comment
+civilised Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 By what name is Hiram K. Hackenbacker more commonly known? Groucho Marx Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Brains from Thunderbids Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Brains from Thunderbids That's a big F.A.B. to martin&lindabryn. Quote Link to comment
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