The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

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.

[+hal-an-tow]

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 ?

[+Beach_hut]

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?

[+hal-an-tow]

Beach_hut (ah , we meet again ! My question puzzled you far less than your puzzle caches confounded me ) 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

[+Beach_hut]

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

 

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

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

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

[+Beach_hut]

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

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

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

[Pajaholic]

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.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

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.

[Pajaholic]

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?

 

[+MartyBartfast]

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.

[Pajaholic]

DING! Over to MartyBartfast.

[+MartyBartfast]

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

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

"On the buses"?

[+MartyBartfast]

"On the buses"?

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

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

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

 

What's the connection?

[+Boggin's Dad]

The only one I could have a guess at is that they were all born in the same place, but where that is I do not have any idea.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

They were, but you need to guess the place correctly to get the 'ding!'.

[+martin&lindabryn]

They were, but you need to guess the place correctly to get the 'ding!'.

 

Well, in that case the answer has to be Weston Super Mare, as I know John Cleese was born there.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Ding!

[+martin&lindabryn]

thanks for the ding

 

“A forgone conclusion”

is a commonly used phrase which was originally penned by which author?

[+Beach_hut]

thanks for the ding

 

“A forgone conclusion”

is a commonly used phrase which was originally penned by which author?

 

Shakespeare? He coined lots of words and phrases.

[+martin&lindabryn]

that didn't take long. the ding goes to you

[+hal-an-tow]

Random guess: If it doesn't sound biblical the usual suspect for having originated turns of phrase which become part of the language is Wm. Shakespeare ?

Drat, beaten to it again !

Edited March 4, 2016 by hal-an-tow

[+Beach_hut]

Next question, and on a slight variation to the theme, words often thought to be by Shakespeare, but they're not. Who are they by?

 

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach.

[dodgydaved]

Next question, and on a slight variation to the theme, words often thought to be by Shakespeare, but they're not. Who are they by?

 

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach.

 

I think they are the opening lines of one of the "Sonnets to the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning..

[+Beach_hut]

I think they are the opening lines of one of the "Sonnets to the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning..

 

How do I Ding thee? Let me count the ways...

[dodgydaved]

Right, sticking with quotes, a 20th century Hollywood humourist once said:

 

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."

 

Who was it?

[+Hellfire1917]

I think I know that one - Groucho Marx.

[dodgydaved]

Ding! (misquote) Edited March 6, 2016 by dodgydaved

[+Hellfire1917]

Thanks for the Ding!

 

My question is about two photos. The ship and the bridge are both named after the same person. Who is it?

 

[Pajaholic]

I know that P61 was built in Appledore by Babcock Marine. She's? LE Samuel Beckett, so I assume the bridge was named after the same person?

[+Hellfire1917]

Give that man a *DING*! Over to Pajaholic.

[Pajaholic]

Thanks. Following on the theme of famous, Irish poets/authors ...

 

Babcock also built Samuel Beckett's sister ship at Appledore. That ship, pennant number "P62", is also named after a famous Irish poet and author. For the next ding, what is his name?

 

A third vessel of the Samuel Beckett class is currently under construction and is also to be named after a famous Irish poet, who's name will get you a bonus point!

[+Hellfire1917]

Well this is just a guess, but it can only be either W. B. Yeats or James Joyce.

[Pajaholic]

James Joyce gets you the ding; William Butler Yeats gets you the bonus!

[+Hellfire1917]

Thanks for the ding!

 

Which is the only country to host the Summer Olympic Games while not winning a single gold medal at those games?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Belgium?

[+MartyBartfast]

Italy?

[+me N u]

Japan ?

[dodgydaved]

South Korea

[Pajaholic]

I too would have thought South Korea but I'll have a wild stab at this question to keep things moving since the ding has yet to be awarded.

 

Montreal 1976 was such a disaster (famously, the facilities weren't paid off until earlier this century) that I'll guess at Canada!

[+Hellfire1917]

Canada, via Montreal, 1976, is right! Over to you.

[Pajaholic]

Eek! I wasn't expecting that -- I thought I was just eliminating another candidate! Thanks for the ding.

 

In a related vein: what is the only country to have won at least one gold medal in every Summer Olympics?

[+speakers-corner]

USA

[+Boggin's Dad]

Great Britain

[Pajaholic]

DING to Boggin's Dad. FWIW, it couldn't have been the USA as they boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

 

Over to Boggin's Dad...

[+Boggin's Dad]

Well that was a good guess....

 

In one of those Olympics Great Britain only won a single gold medal. Who won it? And for a bonus point where, and what year?

[Pajaholic]

Darn it! I know the bits for the bonus points: Helsinki, 1952 (a sort of late edition of the 1940 Games cancelled because of WWII). Unfortunately, I have no idea who won that single gold medal. Perhaps the bonus info will help someone else get the ding!