The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[Pajaholic]

Thanks.

 

... on a related note: Which other Olympic Games (i.e. other than 1940 and 1944) were abandoned because of Word War, and which city was to have hosted them?

[+koselig]

Berlin should have hosted in 1916, but they were given twenty years later instead due to WW1.

[Pajaholic]

Berlin/1916 gets you the DING!

 

Over to koselig ...

[+koselig]

Thanks for the ding. Still thinking about the Olympics- Winter and Summer- Who was the first sports person disqualified and banned after drug testing was introduced in 1967?

[+UncleMalcy]

Thanks for the ding. Still thinking about the Olympics- Winter and Summer- Who was the first sports person disqualified and banned after drug testing was introduced in 1967?

 

 

I'm sure it was one of the Scandanavians who tested positive for alcohol in 68 (Good job I'm not a competitor). I may have to resort to Wiki as my memory won't store the Scandanavian names!! I think he was stripped of his medal.

Edited July 14, 2015 by UncleMalcy

[+koselig]

nearly there- anyone got a name? Yes it was for alcohol and somewhat strangely 15 people tested positive for tranquillisers and were not banned.

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding. Still thinking about the Olympics- Winter and Summer- Who was the first sports person disqualified and banned after drug testing was introduced in 1967?

 

 

I'm sure it was one of the Scandanavians who tested positive for alcohol in 68 (Good job I'm not a competitor). I may have to resort to Wiki as my memory won't store the Scandanavian names!! I think he was stripped of his medal.

I know it was a bronze medal. Dont know his name or what sport it was.

[+koselig]

Will give it 24 hrs to see if anyone else can add to the info you gave.

[+UncleMalcy]

Will give it 24 hrs to see if anyone else can add to the info you gave.

 

Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall (Swedish)

[+koselig]

That's the ding- well done.

[+UncleMalcy]

That's the ding- well done.

 

Thanks... I did have a little peek - does that make me a bad person??

 

An easy one then. Who is this??

 

Belarusian-born, she started training at age 8, entered a Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Knysh at age 9. First trainer was Elena Volchetskaya, an Olympic gold medalist but she was moved to Knysh's group a year later. Initially he found her "lazy and capricious" but he also saw potential in her great talent, unusually supple spine, and charisma. With him, she learned a difficult backward somersault on the balance beam. She debuted this at a competition in the USSR in 1969. In the same year, she completed a backflip-to-catch on the uneven bars; this was the first backward release move ever performed by a woman on bars.

Edited July 14, 2015 by UncleMalcy

[+civilised]

That's the ding- well done.

 

Thanks... I did have a little peek - does that make me a bad person??

 

An easy one then. Who is this??

 

My link

 

Clue : 1972

 

Had a little peek at what UncleMalcy ?

[+UncleMalcy]

That's the ding- well done.

 

Thanks... I did have a little peek - does that make me a bad person??

 

An easy one then. Who is this??

 

My link

 

Clue : 1972

 

Had a little peek at what UncleMalcy ?

 

I just couldn't dredge up the name (I don't find Swedish names easy - it took me a month to read "The girl with the dragon tattoo") so I had a little peek at Wikipedia.

[+civilised]

That's the ding- well done.

 

Thanks... I did have a little peek - does that make me a bad person??

 

An easy one then. Who is this??

 

My link

 

Clue : 1972

 

Had a little peek at what UncleMalcy ?

 

I just couldn't dredge up the name (I don't find Swedish names easy - it took me a month to read "The girl with the dragon tattoo") so I had a little peek at Wikipedia.

 

So your advice would be, whenever we don't know the answer, to search for it ?

 

I don't have time to look for the relevant quote from Simply Paul - something along the lines of no googling - but doesn't it seem contrary to basic fairness ?

 

Would you do this in a pub quiz ?

 

Is there any point in attempting to compete with you ?

[+UncleMalcy]

That's the ding- well done.

 

Thanks... I did have a little peek - does that make me a bad person??

 

An easy one then. Who is this??

 

My link

 

Clue : 1972

 

Had a little peek at what UncleMalcy ?

 

I just couldn't dredge up the name (I don't find Swedish names easy - it took me a month to read "The girl with the dragon tattoo") so I had a little peek at Wikipedia.

 

So your advice would be, whenever we don't know the answer, to search for it ?

 

I don't have time to look for the relevant quote from Simply Paul - something along the lines of no googling - but doesn't it seem contrary to basic fairness ?

 

Would you do this in a pub quiz ?

 

Is there any point in attempting to compete with you ?

 

You are, of course, entirely correct.

The answer to my last question was "Olga Korbut"

I will pass the baton to you, Civilised, and will withdraw from the forum with my tail between my legs, suitably scalded.

[+civilised]

I think it's best if it goes back to koselig so perhaps h/she could ask another question ?

[+koselig]

Thanks, didn't mean to cause controversy.

Which former Olympic sport required competitors to move backwards?

[dodgydaved]

Thanks, didn't mean to cause controversy.

Which former Olympic sport required competitors to move backwards?

 

I can think of 2, Tug-o-War, and Backstroke, aha, former, then Tug-o-War

Edited July 16, 2015 by dodgydaved

[+koselig]

Indeed yes, I thought about backstroke but in theory since you are swimming head first I consider that to be going forwards.

That's the ding to dodgydaved.

[dodgydaved]

OK, change of tack here, this is a pub quiz and this question was asked in "The Comrades" at the Friday night quiz a couple of weeks ago :-

 

Colonel Paul W Tibbets was a decorated US Bomber Pilot in World War 2, but his mothers name is better remembered, what was her name?

[+Hellfire1917]

Just a guess here, but didn't the pilot of the bomber that dropped the first atom bomb name his plane after his mother, Enola Gay?

[dodgydaved]

Just a guess here, but didn't the pilot of the bomber that dropped the first atom bomb name his plane after his mother, Enola Gay?

 

That's the one Kidder, a massive DING and over to you!

[+Hellfire1917]

Thanks for the DING. OK - staying with flying.

 

On the seafront in Dover there's a statue to a famous English pioneer flyer. Who is it?

 

Clues for those who don't live in Dover:

 

He was the first pilot to make a non-stop powered flight across the English Channel and back.

He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft.

He was probably the first powered aircraft pilot to smoke a cigarette in flight, having successfully rolled and lit it in the air.

 

Edits - to include the phrase "powered" and "powered aircraft" to disqualify early balloonists.

Edited July 17, 2015 by Hellfire1917

[Pajaholic]

I'll guess that it was either Charles Rolls or Henry Royce (originators of Rolls-Royce). I can't remember which was the pilot, so I'll plump for Charles Rolls.

[+Hellfire1917]

DING!

 

It was indeed the Hon. C. S. Rolls.

 

Over to Pajaholic.

[Pajaholic]

Thanks.

 

Another aviation question: Who was the first person to circumnavigate the World in a microlight?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

I have a 'feeling of knowing' for this one.

 

Almost certainly wrong, but I'll guess Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

[Pajaholic]

You are correct -- it wasn't Sir Ranulph Fiennes!

 

For info, the flight took 120 calendar days (80 flying days) in 1998 and was documented in a BBC series first aired in 1999 and repeated on Discovery channels several times since. The flight set a world record, beating the previous World record of 175 days for circumnavigation in an open-cockpit, single-engined aircraft set in 1924.

[Pajaholic]

I guess that we don't have as many microlight enthusiasts as I at first thought. To keep the thread moving, I'll authorise Googling. Please feel free to use an Internet search engine to help answer this question.

[+Beach_hut]

I guess that we don't have as many microlight enthusiasts as I at first thought. To keep the thread moving, I'll authorise Googling. Please feel free to use an Internet search engine to help answer this question.

In that case, the gentleman concerned is Brian Milton.

[Pajaholic]

DING! Over to you ...

[+Beach_hut]

Thanks

 

William de Cahaignes and his descendants see their name immortalised in the name of where in the UK? Although the spelling has changed somewhat over the years...

 

(there is a lateral link to the last question!)

[Sharpeset]

Thanks

 

William de Cahaignes and his descendants see their name immortalised in the name of where in the UK? Although the spelling has changed somewhat over the years...

 

(there is a lateral link to the last question!)

 

Milton Keynes maybe?

[+Beach_hut]

Milton Keynes maybe?

 

In a roundabout way, you're right. (See what I did there?)

 

Ding to Sharpeset.

[Sharpeset]

Milton Keynes maybe?

 

In a roundabout way, you're right. (See what I did there?)

 

Ding to Sharpeset.

 

Thanks! Don't get me started on MK roundabouts!

 

Near to MK is a music venue closely associated with a recently-deceased legendary jazz musician. For the ding name either the venue, the musician, or his wife...

[+Hellfire1917]

The only jazz musician who has wife that I can name is John Dankworth, married to Cleo Laine. Is that any good?

[Sharpeset]

DING

 

That's the pair - they founded the Stables at Wavendon (and I went to school with their son...)

[+Hellfire1917]

Thanks for the DING. I know nothing about Jazz, but remember the names Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine from my school days. I know nothing about MK either, beyond the fact that the trains I take to Euston sometimes stop there. So I'm going to ask about a different town.

 

I'm writing this in France, in the town of Epernay, which is the centre of the production of.......... What?

[+martin&lindabryn]

As the wife has a higher wine certificate she knew this

Epernay, is the center of the production of Champagne

Edited July 24, 2015 by martin&lindabryn

[+Hellfire1917]

And it's a bubbly DING to martin&lindabryn.

 

I'll be sampling a few vintages tomorrow so for now - over to you.

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the ding

 

Wenlock and Mandeville have been described as a "drunken one night stand between a Teletubby and a Dalek". Who are Wenlock and Mandeville?

[+Boggin's Dad]

They were there mascots used at the 2012 Geolympix mega event in Oxford, organised by the originator of this post, SimplyPaul. No, hang on a minute, I think it was that much smaller gathering in London, in the same year with a similar name - The Summer Olympics.

[+martin&lindabryn]

They were there mascots used at the 2012 Geolympix mega event in Oxford, organised by the originator of this post, SimplyPaul. No, hang on a minute, I think it was that much smaller gathering in London, in the same year with a similar name - The Summer Olympics.

I started reading your answer, and was thinking you have it wrong.

But then reading further I began to chuckle to myself.

That’s a ding to you

[+Simply Paul]

Ha! Don't make Geoff angry. He's back you know...

[+Boggin's Dad]

Apologies to Geoff, look forward to seeing him again new year.

 

Sticking with the Olympic theme. Which metals are used to make the alloy bronze?

[Pajaholic]

Depending on variant, copper with up to 30% tin. Some variants have other metals .. e.g. Ni Al Br also has nickel and aluminium in addition to copper and tin.

 

Edited to add: I suspect that my answer might not be complete enough Ni Al Br is only one variant. Other possible metals alloyed with copper and tin to form bronzes are phosphorous, iron, arsenic, silver etc. Even zinc can be included in a bronze (although copper and zinc usually make brass). Basically, copper alloyed with anything other than just zinc is a bronze.

 

If you really meant, "which metals make up the bronze used to make Olympic bronze medals?", IIRC this is usually an alloy of copper and tin with a small amount of zinc added to make the alloy easier to cast.

Edited July 28, 2015 by Pajaholic

[+Boggin's Dad]

A very thorough answer there.

 

I was only really looking for copper and tin; although as mentioned lots of other metals can be added to the alloy to modify its properties, so a gold DING for you there

[Pajaholic]

Thanks.

 

Staying on the subject of copper: Which UK town or city was nicknamed "Copperopolis" in the 18th and 19th centuries?

[+Pharisee]

Having just watched the recent Poldark series that I recorded a while back, they were complaining about copper being mined more cheaply in Wales So I'll have a guess that it was somewhere on the South Wales coast... Swansea?

[dodgydaved]

Thanks.

 

Staying on the subject of copper: Which UK town or city was nicknamed "Copperopolis" in the 18th and 19th centuries?

 

Swansea?