+MartyBartfast Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Mount Everest, as a result of an earthquake. Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 I thought you would know that and I just thought it was a great question and will be using it in one of our monthly quizzes. over to Marty Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 What would you do with a Knurr and Spell? Quote
+koselig Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 You play with them but I can't remember what they are- remember something about Easter??? Some sort of game. Quote
+speakers-corner Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 You play with them but I can't remember what they are- remember something about Easter??? Some sort of game. It is a game also called trap and ball I think. I made one for my children some yrs ago. Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 You do indeed play with them, so DING to koselig. The knurr is a wooden toggle that is flicked into the air and you whack it with the spell, which is a stick with a wooden block on the end. Quote
+koselig Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Thanks for the ding. Staying on the games theme- what board game contains Jake the Jailbird? Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Is that the name of the man in the jail on the Monopoly board Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 thanks for the ding staying with names Where would you find the world famous rooster, named Cornelius? Quote
+civilised Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 thanks for the ding staying with names Where would you find the world famous rooster, named Cornelius? I'll give it a try - at the beginning of a Pathe News film? Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 sorry civillised no ding for you this time Quote
+Boggin's Dad Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Could it be the star of the 'chick-flick' by the creators of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run? Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 I'm going to guess on the front of a box of Kellogs cornflakes. Quote
+Pharisee Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 How about the stainless steel monstrosity on the round-a-bout on the A24 at Dorking. Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 (edited) I'm going to guess on the front of a box of Kellogs cornflakes. that will be a good guess from Marty over to you Edited June 19, 2015 by martin&lindabryn Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 I'm "Strong to the finish, 'cos I eats me spinach" who am I What's my girlfriend's name? and who is my arch enemy? Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 1 Popeye the Sailor Man 2 Olive Oyl 3 Bluto when I used to watch the cartoons on TV as a child, though the name was inexplicably changed to Brutus at some point. I think it may have been when the series changed channel. Quote
+MartyBartfast Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 That's a Ding, and yes he was always Bluto to me too :-) Quote
+UncleMalcy Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Well, as the topic seems to have no open question (sorry if I have breached protocol), but for all Monty Python fans.... Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended? Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Erm..... I just came in after an afternoon caching and an evening motorbike cleaning (It's the Banbury Run tomorrow) to find out that I had been awarded the DING. Thanks very much, MartyBartfast. To avoid confusion I waive my right to set the next question and will let UncleMalcy's question stand. Quote
Pajaholic Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 I'll guess at Rene Descartes. However, the protocol is for the person who answered the previous question (i.e. got the "DING") to set the next. So if I'm correct, I'll give way to Hellfire1917... Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 A noble offer, Pajaholic, and I thank you for it. But if your answer's right, then please go ahead and set the next question. I'll be out all day and unable to check in anyway until quite late. And then we'll be back on track. Thanks, mate! Quote
+UncleMalcy Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Strangely, I knew deep down I was elbowing my way in... I just can't rests a quiz!! Thanks for letting me play, and have a go with my favourite line from Monty Python. No not Descartes..... Quote
Sharpeset Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Strangely, I knew deep down I was elbowing my way in... I just can't rests a quiz!! Thanks for letting me play, and have a go with my favourite line from Monty Python. No not Descartes..... I know Emmanuel Kant featured in the song, so I'll go for him (I know nothing about his philosophy!) Quote
+UncleMalcy Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Kant - no. It's from the sketch where the old lady (Terry Jones) is on stage answering quiz questions for ridiculous prizes... "answer this for a blow on the head. I'm offering a poke in the eye..." etc. Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Henri Bergson, now do I get the blow to the head Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 thanks for the ding from the pub quiz again and a round called dog days. Which very famous dog was found in an abandoned German bunker in WWI? Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Rin-tin-tin. and that will get you the Ding back over to you Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) Thanks for the DING. I work as a WW1 battlefield guide, so I sort of have to know the answer to that one! My question is - who was this VERY famous soldier? He might be more recognisable from one his more formally-posed photos. I'll post the more formal photo as a further clue later, if needed. Edited June 22, 2015 by Hellfire1917 Quote
+northking Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Is there an image in the link that I can't see? Just see the word 'smiler' In which case is it Albert Smiler Marshall Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Apologies, northking - I was struggling to work out how to post the photo! No - it isn't Albert "Smiler" Marshall. Quote
+UncleMalcy Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Hmm, I think he's too young, but is this an early Lord Kitchener? Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Not a young Lord Kitchener, no. The photo was taken around October, 1915, just after the soldier enlisted. Quote
Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 I'll guess "Mad Jack Churchill" because of him famously saying that people are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them! Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 I'll guess "Mad Jack Churchill" because of him famously saying that people are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them! Sorry - not him. This soldier didn't survive the war. Quote
Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Hmmm ... In developer mode, that image comes back as "binyon1.jpg" -- so I thought it might be Lawrence Binyon (the poet from whose work is taken the dedication made before the Last Post each Rememberance Day): They shall not grow old as we who are left shall grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. ISTR he wrote that after the Great War, i.e. he survived and so it can't be him. However, it's Armed Forces week and so I'll still take the opportunity to give him a mention. Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) Sorry, Paja, but it's not Binyon. But you have come the closest yet. He WAS a poet. Here's the more often seen photo of him. In the original photo, he was in the Artists' Rifles. Here he is as an officer in the Manchester Regiment. Edited June 22, 2015 by Hellfire1917 Quote
Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 The only other poets I can think of are Rudyard Kipling and Wilfred Owen. ISTR that Kipling survived so I'll try Wilfred Owen. Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 The only other poets I can think of are Rudyard Kipling and Wilfred Owen. ISTR that Kipling survived so I'll try Wilfred Owen. And the *DING* goes to Pajaholic. Over to you................ Quote
Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Thanks. Keeping with the WW1 theme ... The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the First World War, but which two countries were the first to declare war? Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 First - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia 28th July 1914 Second - Germany declared war on Russia 1st August 1914 Quote
Pajaholic Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 FWIW, the two countries I was looking for were the constitutional 'members' of the Austro-Hungarian empire: Austria and Hungary, who (as Austria-Hungary) declared war on Serbia. So Hellfire1917 gets the DING! Over to you ... Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 Thanks for the *DING*. Here's my question. What is the great historical legacy of Abraham Darby, which can still be seen today? (Specifically, he was Abraham Darby III within his family). Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 (edited) that will be the first cast iron bridge which spans the river seven. and there is a cache at the base of it The Queen visits Ironbridge Edited June 23, 2015 by martin&lindabryn Quote
+Hellfire1917 Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 that will be the first cast iron bridge which spans the river seven. and there is a cache at the base of it The Queen visits Ironbridge And it's a *DING* for the iron bridge. Over to you............. Quote
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 thanks for the ding According to a famous film, what is the word that is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say". Quote
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