The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Optimist on the run]

A question from Mogmother: What may be referred to as a maiden or a winterdyke, depending on where you live?

[+Optimist on the run]

Time for a hint perhaps: a household item, often but not always found in the kitchen.

[+martin&lindabryn]

thinking back to when I was a child. I will tack a guess at clothes hoers for drying clothes

[dodgydaved]

clothes hoers

 

That has got to be the best typo I have seen in ages and conjures up great images :lol:

[+martin&lindabryn]

I blame dyslexia and auto correct

[+Optimist on the run]

Ding to Martin and Linda.

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the ding

A very ironic video was the first one played on MTV 34 years ago. What was the title and artist?

[+Beach_hut]

Thanks for the ding

A very ironic video was the first one played on MTV 34 years ago. What was the title and artist?

Video killed the radio star by the Buggles

 

(And autocorrect nearly made that answer interesting too)

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the ding

A very ironic video was the first one played on MTV 34 years ago. What was the title and artist?

Video killed the radio star by the Buggles

 

(And autocorrect nearly made that answer interesting too)

over to beach hut for the big DING

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

As the thread has fallen by the wayside, I hope you'll all be happy for me to post a question: -

 

What's the name of the edible plant known by the nicknames "edible oyster" and "vegetable oyster", and why is it given these nicknames?

[+speakers-corner]

and why is it given these nicknames?

 

Because it tastes like oysters.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Yes.

 

And the name of the plant is?

[+speakers-corner]

Sorry, no idea.

[Sharpeset]

think there's an oyster mushroom - no idea if there's a more specific name

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Nope - it's a plant you're looking for.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Nope - it's a plant you're looking for.

 

..and the name begins with an 'S'.

[+speakers-corner]

googled it, now I know.

[+RJx2]

This would be salsify.

We've tried growing it but haven't been too successful. We know it is supposed to taste like oysters but we've never tried oysters so couldn't comment on that.

Salsify does have nice flowers, though!

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Ding!

[+RJx2]

Thanks for the ding.

What was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?

[+MartyBartfast]

Wasn't he Lewis Caroll?

[+RJx2]

Ding!

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

Where would you find the "loop of Henle"?

[dodgydaved]

In the mammalian kidney.

[+MartyBartfast]

A very quick DING to DDD.

[dodgydaved]

A very quick DING to DDD.

 

Cheers MartyB,

 

The pillars of the apprentice, journeyman and master are where?

[+Boggin's Dad]

This sounds very masonic to me, so I guess it would be one of those orders - perhaps Knights Templar

[dodgydaved]

This sounds very masonic to me, so I guess it would be one of those orders - perhaps Knights Templar

 

Perhaps, I couldn't possibly say - but where?

[+speakers-corner]

Da Vinci Code - Rosslyn

[dodgydaved]

Da Vinci Code - Rosslyn

 

Rosslyn Chapel, that would be it - A secretive handshake of a DING to SC!!

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding DDD. Staying with secret societies. What is the name of the secret society that americans see the symbol of every day.

[+MartyBartfast]

I think that's the all seeing eye and pyramid on their money, and I think it's a sybmol of the Freemasons.

[+speakers-corner]

The all seeing eye and the pyramid are right, but its not the freemasons that I was looking for. There is another Society linked to this Symbol.

[+Beach_hut]

The all seeing eye and the pyramid are right, but its not the freemasons that I was looking for. There is another Society linked to this Symbol.

 

It's the Illuminati?

[+speakers-corner]

The Ding goes to Beach_hut, well done, over to you.

[+Simply Paul]

Illuminati Confirmed!

[+Beach_hut]

Thanks for the ding. Next question and staying with money:

 

South Africa has Nelson Mandela on one side of their banknotes. What do they have on the other?

[+Boggin's Dad]

There are lots of wild animals in South Africa in the game parks, so I am having a stab in the dark with Elephants

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

The springbok?

[+Beach_hut]

You're both in the right ball park with animals. For the Ding, what do the animals on the different banknotes have in common?

[+Boggin's Dad]

Are they pictures of the 'big five' species that are the ones to see when on safari, maybe lion, elephant, rhinoceros, leopard and something else?

[+martin&lindabryn]

if its the big Five, they are

lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, and White/Black rhinoceros.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

As the question setter, Beach_hut, seems to be offline for a while at the moment, I've googled martin&lindabryn's answer and can say they are correct. I therefore award then a ding! on Beach_hut's behalf.

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the ding Yorkshire Yellow,

now staying with Africa. Victoria Falls, forms part of the border between which two country's?

[+me N u]

From geography classes a long time ago - Zambia and Zimbabwe?

[+martin&lindabryn]

From geography classes a long time ago - Zambia and Zimbabwe?

that's a ding to me N u

[+me N u]

Thank you - amazing what you remember from school!

 

Next question - what were the colonial era names of Zambia and Zimbabwe?

[+MartyBartfast]

I know that Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, so guessing it was divided into two to become Zimbabwe and Zambia.

[Pajaholic]

I suspect that Marty is correct. The Victoria Falls were entirely in Rhodesia, which was subdivided into Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia, split by the Zambezi. That is, present day Zimbabwe was Southern Rhodesia and Zambia was Northern Rhodesia. (But Marty deserves the ding IMO).

[+me N u]

We'll go for pajaholic's answer as that is what we were looking for when we set the question.