The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Hellfire1917]

Apologies, northking - I was struggling to work out how to post the photo!

 

No - it isn't Albert "Smiler" Marshall.

[+UncleMalcy]

Hmm, I think he's too young, but is this an early Lord Kitchener?

[+Hellfire1917]

Not a young Lord Kitchener, no. The photo was taken around October, 1915, just after the soldier enlisted.

[Pajaholic]

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!

[+Hellfire1917]

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.

[Pajaholic]

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.

[+Hellfire1917]

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

[Pajaholic]

The only other poets I can think of are Rudyard Kipling and Wilfred Owen. ISTR that Kipling survived so I'll try Wilfred Owen.

[+Hellfire1917]

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................

[Pajaholic]

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?

[+Simply Paul]

Austria and Serbia?

[+Hellfire1917]

First - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia 28th July 1914

Second - Germany declared war on Russia 1st August 1914

[Pajaholic]

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 ...

[+Hellfire1917]

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).

[+martin&lindabryn]

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

[+Hellfire1917]

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.............

[+martin&lindabryn]

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".

[+speakers-corner]

Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) 1964 Supercalafradulisticexpialidoses. It was the first film I ever saw in the Cinema.

[+martin&lindabryn]

Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) 1964 Supercalafradulisticexpialidoses. It was the first film I ever saw in the Cinema.

that's a Supercalafradulisticexpialidoses ding to you

[+speakers-corner]

Thank you for the Ding. Staying with the film, and again another song. Feed the birds ................, what is the rest of the line?

[+Beach_hut]

Tuppence a bag?

[+MartyBartfast]

Thank you for the Ding. Staying with the film, and again another song. Feed the birds ................, what is the rest of the line?

 

tuppence a bag.

[+koselig]

That depends which line of the verse you refer to. The most well known line is "feed the birds, tuppence a bag" however later in the verse she sings "feed the birds, that's what she cries"

[+speakers-corner]

I now pass the Ding to Beach hut. Well done

[+Beach_hut]

I now pass the Ding to Beach hut. Well done

Thanks.

 

OK, slight Julie Andrews-inspired left turn now - who composed the songs for The Sound Of Music?

[+koselig]

Rodgers and Hammerstein - usually Rodgers composed the music and Hammerstein wrote the lyrics for their joint works.

[+Simply Paul]

I'm thinking the Sherman Brothers, but was that just Mary Poppins?

[+Beach_hut]

That's the ding for koselig. SP, you're right insomuch as the Sherman Brothers composed Mary Poppins (I almost asked that!).

[+koselig]

Ok thanks- who was the oldest child in the Sound of Music?

[+martin&lindabryn]

Liesl Von Trapp

[+koselig]

It is indeed- that is the ding to martin

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the ding

now for a complete change of subject

 

In the Napoleonic wars, why did the French use poodles on the battlefield?

[+Simply Paul]

Their coats make good gun wadding, I imagine?

[+martin&lindabryn]

Their coats make good gun wadding, I imagine?

Sorry Paul, but that couldn’t be much furfur from the real reason. So no ding for you this time.

[+Simply Paul]

Well then.

i) They're delicious.

ii) As camp guard dogs (as in dogs guarding a camp...)

iii) For warmth and 'comfort'.

iv) For stereotypically waving in surrender.

v) They attract feas away from the soldiers.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

As beasts of burden? (i.e. 'porters').

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Or as messengers?

[+koselig]

Mascots?

[+martin&lindabryn]

None of the above

more to do with after a battle

[+Beach_hut]

Searching for bodies?

[+martin&lindabryn]

that's nearly a ding for Beach hut

Edited June 26, 2015 by martin&lindabryn

[+UncleMalcy]

Hmm, sniffing out / finding survivors amongst the dead bodies??

 

that's nearly a ding for Beach hut

[+martin&lindabryn]

Hmm, sniffing out / finding survivors amongst the dead bodies??

 

that's nearly a ding for Beach hut

 

thats a ding for uncle malcy

[+UncleMalcy]

Hurrah! Thanks for the ding

 

OK a nice easy one, in two parts. (This is a classic pub quiz question).

 

Who was the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated, and in which year??

[+civilised]

Hurrah! Thanks for the ding

 

OK a nice easy one, in two parts. (This is a classic pub quiz question).

 

Who was the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated, and in which year??

 

Spencer Percival - 1812 ?

[+UncleMalcy]

I knew it was too easy!

 

** DING ** to Civilised.

[+civilised]

I knew it was too easy!

 

** DING ** to Civilised.

 

It wasn't that easy - remembering the date was tricky

 

Thanks for the ding

 

At what age could women marry in England in 1928 ?

[+UncleMalcy]

I'm going to say 12. Shocking.

Edited June 29, 2015 by UncleMalcy

[+speakers-corner]

I think it was 21, when they came of age or if the parents gave thier consent it was 16. So thats what Im going for 21/16.

[+UncleMalcy]

I'll await Civilised's answer, but i think the law changed in 1928 or 1929 to raise the age to 16, but I have it in mind that before the law changed it was 12 for girls (I cannot put women) and 14 for boys (men - really?).