The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

February 9, 2016

Gotcha!

In which case, I'll say baseball...

February 9, 2016

Nope! A quick google tells me that the career highest earner was Alex Rodriquez, who earned circa £262 million over his career. The person I'm looking for was from much earlier and earned more than £9 billion equivalent in today's money over his career!

February 10, 2016

Nope! A quick google tells me that the career highest earner was Alex Rodriquez, who earned circa £262 million over his career. The person I'm looking for was from much earlier and earned more than £9 billion equivalent in today's money over his career!

To reinvoke QI, chariot racing?

February 10, 2016

A quite interesting Ding to Optimist on the run. Read all about it, courtesy of the Daily Mail

Over to Optimist on the run...

February 10, 2016

Ok...

On the subject of chariots, what links "Bring me my chariot of fire", a fictional oil tycoon, a sci-fi hero and a Scooby-Doo character?

February 11, 2016

Just a guess, but I'm going to say it's the name Blake. I know that William Blake wrote the words to " Jerusalem" and there was a "Dynasty" character called Blake Carrington.

Edited February 11, 2016 by Hellfire1917

February 11, 2016

Ding to Hellfire - there's also Roj Blake from the BBC 70's series Blake's 7, and Daphne's surname is Blake in Scooby-Doo.

February 11, 2016

Thanks, Optimist. Here's my question.

Alexander Selkirk (1676 - 1721) was the inspiration for which famous literary character?

6.2k · February 11, 2016

Thanks, Optimist. Here's my question.

Alexander Selkirk (1676 - 1721) was the inspiration for which famous literary character?

Robinson Crusoe, and Daniel Defoe is buried about 200 yards from where I'm sitting right now :unsure:

February 11, 2016

Thanks, Optimist. Here's my question.

Alexander Selkirk (1676 - 1721) was the inspiration for which famous literary character?

Robinson Crusoe, and Daniel Defoe is buried about 200 yards from where I'm sitting right now

Got it in one! Get under your goatskin sunshade and compose the next question!

6.2k · February 11, 2016

Sticking with the nautical theme, onboard ship what would you do with the "bitts" ?

February 11, 2016

Attach a rope or spring to it for mooring purposes! (A bitts is a 'double bollard')

6.2k · February 11, 2016

Aye Aye captain, your go.

February 11, 2016

Arrr, Oi thankee, Bucko.

Continuing the theme, in ship mooring terms, what is the difference between a rope and a spring?

February 13, 2016

I think a rope goes more perpendicular to the ship's lenght to stop it moving sideways away from the dock and a spring goes fore and aft to prevent it moving forwards and backwards along the berth. Not sure though.

If this is correct please set the next question for me as ironicallyI will be able to find out first hand tomorrow.

February 13, 2016

Close enough. A head rope goes from the bow and leads forward; a stern rop goes from the stern and leads aft; breast ropes are perpendicular. A head spring goes from the bow and leads aft; an after spring goes from the stern and leads forward. So, DING (and bon voyage, I suspect!)

You've asked for someone else to set the next question. So changing topic, what links Stéphane Grappelli, Giuseppe Guarneri and Nicolo Amati?

February 14, 2016

Were they Godfathers in the Mafia?

February 14, 2016

There's one name there that I think I recognise so I'll say Pianists

February 14, 2016

Were they Godfathers in the Mafia?

On the basis of the one name I recoqnise I'd say music, but guessing you want something more specific, so I'll go with the violin

February 14, 2016

DING to Sharpeset!

Stéphane Grapelli was a famous jazz violinist. Nicolo Amati was one of the famous violin makers of Cremona and the grandson of the person who pretty much invented the violin by adding a fourth string. Giuseppe Guarneri was also from Cremona and made violins at about the same time as Antonio Stradivari. Some rate Guarnerius violins over Stradivarius instruments.

Over to Sharpeset...

February 14, 2016

Thanks - sticking with music, and appropriately for today: "If music be the food of love, play on.." comes from which of Shakespeare's plays? Bonus kudos for who says it...

February 14, 2016

I seem to remember that's from Twelfth Night.

February 14, 2016

I seem to remember that's from Twelfth Night.

It certainly is: a theatrical DING to you sire

February 15, 2016

Thanks for the 'ding!'. I'll post my question as soon as I've come up with it.

February 16, 2016

The K2, K6 & K8 are all versions of what iconic British item?

6.2k · February 16, 2016

Ding Ding, Ding Ding.... Phone boxes.

February 16, 2016

"Put your money in the slot caller..."

Of course you're right @MartyBartfast.

Over to you...

6.2k · February 16, 2016

What are the two regiments that form the Household Cavalry?

February 16, 2016

The Blues & Royals and ...?

February 18, 2016

The Blues & Royals and ...?

...The Life Guards?

6.2k · February 18, 2016

Yep, them's the ones.

Over to you....

February 18, 2016

'The Naval Temple': -

Where?

What?

February 18, 2016

Ooh, ooh sir sir ( or possibly miss , miss !)

At last, after dropping by here many many times and only ever seeing questions I can answer after someone else has got them ... I (vaguely) know this one !

Its a monument to Nelson I think, up a hill somewhere near Monmouth in Wales ... one of those things built from public subscriptions.Theres a cache around there and I looked at the listing when I was visiting the area a while ago, but never got to any outside Monmouth itself.

February 19, 2016

I'm going to award the 'Ding!' to @hal-an-tow, as they're close enough.

The Naval Temple is located on The Kymin, just outside Monmouth, and is a monument to a variety of Admirals and Vice Admirals.

Nelson and other visited in 1802, and that event is commemorated by the cache I think you might be try to recall, 'Breakfast with Emma and Horatio',

Over to you for the next question.

February 19, 2016

Thank you for that slightly muffled ding for being close , that was indeed the cache I'd looked at.

New question then:

Richard Dawkins and the 4th Dr Who (the long scarf & jelly baby one), who or what is the link ?

February 19, 2016

Thank you for that slightly muffled ding for being close , that was indeed the cache I'd looked at.

New question then:

Richard Dawkins and the 4th Dr Who (the long scarf & jelly baby one), who or what is the link ?

Something in the back of my brain is telling me that Rickard Dawkins is/was married to a Dr Who actress and I know Tom Baker married one of his companions in real life - I'm going to speculate this was the same person?

February 19, 2016

Beach_hut (ah , we meet again ! My question puzzled you far less than your puzzle caches confounded me :lol: ) gets a very fast nerdtastic ding there.

The actress Lalla Ward was a 4th Dr Who companion and later married Tom Baker who played that version of the character.

Later on she was introduced to my hero Richard Dawkins by their mutual friend (and another hero) Douglas Adams. They got married

Edited February 19, 2016 by hal-an-tow

February 22, 2016

Apologies for not checking in sooner. Here's the next question:

What's the connection between Doctor Who and TV series Rainbow?

February 23, 2016

A complete guess - did the lady who played 'Jane' in Rainbow also appear in Dr Who?

February 23, 2016

A complete guess - did the lady who played 'Jane' in Rainbow also appear in Dr Who?

I'll give you the Ding for that - it's not the connection I had in mind, but it's certainly correct.

I was thinking of Peter Hawkins, who was both the original voice of the Daleks, and the original voice of Zippy.

Over to YY

February 24, 2016

I didn't expect that...

Right then: - a Rube Goldberg machine is what, and the broadly equivalent UK version is known by which name?

Edited February 24, 2016 by Yorkshire Yellow

February 24, 2016

I love Rube Goldberg machines. They're overly complicated ways of achieving a simple task -- and there are competitions to see who can come up with the most steps, most elegant way etc. e.g. a machine that has rolling balls, dominoes, string-connected elevators etc. to turn the release of a single ball into the raising of a flag. In UK, these are better known as "Heath-Robinson" after the cartoons that illustrated them.

February 26, 2016

That's a multiple '

' for you, Pajaholic,

If you like these machines, or haven't heard of them and want; to see more, the one I know best is the one in the

of the song "this too shall pass" by the band OK Go.

February 26, 2016

Thanks. Perhaps better known is the Honda Commercial for the Accord:

. I'm fascinated by the lateral thinking that goes into some of those machines.

For the next ding, a change of subject -- a picture question this time: You can see the stump of an old lighthouse in the picture below alongside the present-day lighthouse that replaced it. Where can you see the tower that used to sit on top of the stump?

6.2k · February 26, 2016

One of the Eddystone rock lighthouses (Smeaton's I think) was rebuilt onland, so I'll guess that this is the current incarnation and the answer you're looking for is Plymouth Ho.

February 26, 2016

DING! Over to MartyBartfast.

6.2k · February 27, 2016

Which British TV show featured the characters Stan, Jack, Olive, Arthur among others?

February 27, 2016

"On the buses"?

6.2k · February 27, 2016

"On the buses"?

DING DING, all aboard, plenty of seats on top, hold tight please.

February 29, 2016

The late TV presenter Jill Dando, John Cleese and the actor Rupert Graves.

What's the connection?

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