Pajaholic Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) IIRC, that's still (after all this time) one of Gresley's A4s -- Mallard. Edited as I've just noticed this is a two-part question. WRT when, I know it was shortly before the start of WWII, so I'll go for 1938. Edited May 10, 2015 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 And the DING goes to Pajaholic. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks. Staying with the age of steam... The last locomotive BR commissioned shared its name with an early Stevenson loco. What was its name? Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks. Staying with the age of steam... The last locomotive BR commissioned shared its name with an early Stevenson loco. What was its name? (The) Rocket? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 The only other one I know was the Locomotion. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Wrong Stevenson, the early locomotive I'm looking for was built by R Stephenson & Co in 1839 and was one of a dozen or so of a broad-gauge class built for the Great Western Railway. A replica of another locomotive of that class can be seen at Swindon Steam Railway Museum. The last BR steam locomotive commissioned was built in 1960 and got her name from a competition to come up with the best name. AFAICT, she is the only British main line locomotive to be chosen for preservation before she finished construction and she can currently be seen at the National Railway Museum in York. Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Wrong Stevenson, the early locomotive I'm looking for was built by R Stephenson & Co in 1839 and was one of a dozen or so of a broad-gauge class built for the Great Western Railway. A replica of another locomotive of that class can be seen at Swindon Steam Railway Museum. The last BR steam locomotive commissioned was built in 1960 and got her name from a competition to come up with the best name. AFAICT, she is the only British main line locomotive to be chosen for preservation before she finished construction and she can currently be seen at the National Railway Museum in York. That was the Evening Star Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 That'll get you the DING! Over to Sharpeset ... Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks - I remember seeing it in steam a few years back when loaned to Swindon. Jumping sideways, which celestial body is commonly known as the Evening Star? Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I have an inkling that it is not a star, but rather the planet Venus. Quote Link to comment
Sharpeset Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Venus it is - DING to you! Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 A change of subject. America states have nicknames for example The Sunshine State for Florida So a question: Which state is known as Peaches, or the Peach State? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 That should be Georga just north of Florida. Sunshine State is actually on the bottom of the licence plates in Florida. Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Ding Spot on, other than the missing 'i' in Georgia. I once won £80 in a pub quiz with that answer/question, a bit of a lucky guess at the time for me. Sorry I cannot offer the same. Over to you Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Thanks for the Ding for Georgia. Staying with the subject. The state of Virginia is nicknamed Old Dominion, after who was Virginia named. Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 As a bit of an educated guess, Queen Elizabeth, who is also known as the Virgin Queen. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 And there goes the Ding Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 This weekend is the Monaco Grand Prix, so a related question: What is the area of this rather small country? Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I would guess at about 12 square miles. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 I reckon about 2 square miles. Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 You are all over estimating the area, so less than one square mile. Closest one tomorrow night wins. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 I rounded it up to the sqr mile. 0,8 sqr mile is also rounded up. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Less than a square mile?!? Since a square mile is just over two square kilometers, that's what I'll guess: 2 km2 Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 You are all over estimating the area, so less than one square mile. Closest one tomorrow night wins. About 0.5 square miles then? Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 It's a bit of a tie-break with Pajoholic and speakers corner. Both 0.02 out. Correct answer is 0.78 sqr mile or 2.02 sqr km. So I know technically one is slightly closer, but for a bit of fun it is a DOUBLE DING, and the winner is 'fastest finger first' so whoever gets the next question in first wins. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Speakers-corner posted the answer before I did. So over to speakers-corner... Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 My thanks to Boggin`s Dad for the Ding and thanks to Pajaholic for passing it on. Staying on the subject. Name all of the Grand Prix circuits in the UK. Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I can come up with five: Brooklands, Aintree, Silverstone, Brands Hatch and Donnington I believe all of these have hosted grand prix, with Donnington being the European race rather than the British but it is still in the UK. Classic race won by the great Ayrton Senna. Might have missed one.... Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I dont think Brooklands was an F1-Circuit but the others were and they were the ones I was looking for. So well done to Boggin`s Dad. Aintree 1955 - 1962 Brands Hatch 1964 - 1986 Donington Park 1993 Silverstone 1950 - Today Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Thanks Speaker-corner for the ding I guess that Brooklands was a Grand Prix circuit in the pre-F1 era, so it could or could not be counted. For a bit of a change of subject matter: How many men have walked on the moon? And bonus points for any that you can name. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 12 (IIRC). Notable amongst these: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shephard and then I must miss loads before we get to Eugene Cernan, who was the last. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 (Alan Bean and Pete Conrad on Apollo 12, AS and Edgar Mitchell on 14, James Irwin and Scott something/something Scott on 15, Charles Duke and John Young - who also flew the Shuttle - on 16 and EC and Harrison 'You Don't Know' Schmitt on 17.) Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Thanks! Rumour has it that more people have walked on the moon than have gone to the deepest place in our oceans. For the ding, where is the deepest place in our oceans, and how many have gone there? Bonus points for naming them! Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Challenger Deep which is located in Mariana Trench, As to who has been there I have no ideas Quote Link to comment
+Boggin's Dad Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Isn't there a geocacher who has placed a cache both in space on the ISS, and in the deepest bits of the ocean too. I think he goes by the name Lord British. Afraid I do not know how to enter a hyperlink to him on an iPad Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 GCG822 Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents is this the one you were thinking about Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 That cache is 'only' about a fifth as deep as the Challenger Deep -- nonetheless, it's gotta be one humdinger of a cache to log! In the interests of keeping this thread going, I'm giving martin&lindabryn the DING. For the record, only three people have been to the bottom of the Challenger Deep: Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in Trieste in 1960; and James Cameron in Deepsea Challenger in 2012. Over to martin&lindabryn Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 thank you for the ding now for a change of subject Name the only female competitor at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal who didn't have to undergo a sex test? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 thank you for the ding now for a change of subject Name the only female competitor at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal who didn't have to undergo a sex test? Go a feeling that was Princess Anne. Don't think the organisers wanted to start World War III Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 thank you for the ding now for a change of subject Name the only female competitor at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal who didn't have to undergo a sex test? Go a feeling that was Princess Anne. Don't think the organisers wanted to start World War III That’s a royal ding for Pharisee Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 That's a royal ding for Pharisee Thank you... Here's your music starter for 10 Which English rock band released an album entitled "Demons and Wizards"? Extra kudos if you know the year it was released. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'll guess at Marillion. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Wild guess at Rainbow. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Nope... neither of them but a very well known group Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'll take a stab at it being an early Uriah Heep album. Very 'eavy, very 'umble was their first and ISTR it being one or two after that -- so early 1970s (1972?) Quote Link to comment
+koselig Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 (edited) Uriah heap - may have been 1972 ish Edited June 5, 2015 by koselig Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) I'll take a stab at it being an early Uriah Heep album. Very 'eavy, very 'umble was their first and ISTR it being one or two after that -- so early 1970s (1972?) That's a kudos laden DING to you. It was their 4th album, released in early '72. Edited June 6, 2015 by Pharisee Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) Thanks. Same year but the album is "Machine Head". For the ding, who are the band? Edited June 6, 2015 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
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