The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+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.

[+Pajaholic]

Thanks (Although I still think Marty was correct).

 

For the next ding, and staying with Colonial names, what was the pre-independence name of present-day Sri Lanka?

[+martin&lindabryn]

I believe that it was known as Ceylon

[+Pajaholic]

DING! Ceylon it was.

 

Over to martin&lindabryn...

[+martin&lindabryn]

thanks for the Ding, now lets have a change of tack.

Say what you see

[+hal-an-tow]

oops, double post

Edited May 15, 2016 by hal-an-tow

[+hal-an-tow]

PinG PonG

[+martin&lindabryn]

PinG PonG

that's a ping to you, and pong for your question

[+hal-an-tow]

Thank you.

Playing the same game, and popping the ball back over the net,a gentle backhand to mid-table ,with hardly any spin ...

 

Got, got, got, got, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero.

[+martin&lindabryn]

4 got 10 hero

 

or

 

forgotten hero

[+hal-an-tow]

4 got 10 hero

 

or

 

forgotten hero

 

A speedy return ! Point to you , your serve !

[+martin&lindabryn]

thanks for the ding,

now for a change

in 1824 Michael Faraday invented what to help him with his experiments with hydrogen?

[+speakers-corner]

Was it the Faraday Cage (shield) that is in every car. Protects you against lightning.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Was it the Faraday Cage (shield) that is in every car. Protects you against lightning.

 

I've Googled this and your answer is not correct SP.

[+martin&lindabryn]

I think it may be time for a clue.

the item I am looking for is often seen at birthday parties.

Edited May 24, 2016 by martin&lindabryn

[+MartyBartfast]

balloon

 

ETA: by which I mean a rubberised flexible balloon which grows significantly as you pump gas into it, as opposed to the "pig's" bladder type which probably existed for thousands of years and was oft employed by morris men and footy players of old.

Edited May 24, 2016 by MartyBartfast

[+martin&lindabryn]

the ding goes to Marty for his extended answer

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks, here's a quick one to keep it moving:

 

When Shackleton's expedition was stranded in the Antarctic he made a famous voyage in a lifeboar to seek help, which were the two islands he stopped at on that?

[+me N u]

Possibly Elephant Island (where the majority of the party stayed) and South Georgia after the epic open boat journey.

[+Pajaholic]

FWIW, I asked a work colleague about this. He confirmed Elephant Island but not South Georgia. That said, he related how Shackleton had mistreated the expedition shipwright, Harry McNish, after McNish had questioned some of Shackleton's dodgier decisions, including dragging the lifeboats across the ice earlier. In the end, those who survived owed their lives to the skill and efforts of McNish -- yet he was excluded from those awarded a Medal even though he was probably the real hero of the expedition. If it were not for him, the modifications he made to the boats and equipment, and his continued repair efforts, the entire expedition would surely have perished.

[+MartyBartfast]

Well my research said Elephant Island & South Georgia, so I'll give the DING to "me N u".

[+Pajaholic]

I didn't dispute South Georgia -- my colleague just didn't know that part of the answer. I posted to give McNish's story!

[+me N u]

Thank you for the ding - the expedition story was covered in a TV documentary whose name we are unable to remember but it is the sort of thing we like!

 

Staying with Antarctica for the next question, the Shackleton led expedition was attempting to be the first to cross the continent via the South pole - who led the expedition that eventually succeeded?