curlingfan11 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Cray Wanderers, and their ground is Hayes Lane? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 And the ding goes to curlingfan11. Cray Wanderers was founded before 1860, but there are only records dating from 1860. The club is still active. Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Thanks. Here's an easy one. What country dominates curling? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 If ist just the UK then I think it is Scotland. If not then I think it is Canada. Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Ding! Canada is the answer Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 And the ding goes to curlingfan11. Back to Football again. Name the oldest club (Football League) still playing in England and the year they were founded. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I think that'll be Sheffield FC but I don't know the year. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Have a guess, its less than 1860 (Cray Wanderers). Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 It can't be much earlier - 1858? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 You are that warm, and going in the right direction Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 And the DING goes to Yorkshire Yellow. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Here's your next one - Marvin Lee Aday is better known as...? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Just gonna make wild, though obvious, guess: Lee Marvin ?? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 with, Bat out of hell, now in my head, that will be Meat Loaf Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Ding to M&LB. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Thanks for the ding no how about a picture round can you name this place and where it is? Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The Forbidden City in Beijing? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 that's a quick ding to YY Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 A lucky guess. Leave me a while to work out a new question. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 'Xanthophobia' is the fear or what? Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The colour yellow? Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 (edited) Thanks. What is an ocarina? Edited June 18, 2016 by curlingfan11 Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 An Aincetnt wind musical instrument. Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 AKA a "sweet potato", it's a musical instrument shaped a bit like an egg with a projection to form a mouthpiece. The body has finger holes. The instrument is played by blowing into the mouthpiece and changing the pitch of the sound by covering and uncovering the finger holes. Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 AKA a "sweet potato", it's a musical instrument shaped a bit like an egg with a projection to form a mouthpiece. The body has finger holes. The instrument is played by blowing into the mouthpiece and changing the pitch of the sound by covering and uncovering the finger holes. Ding! Curlingfan11 and I know each other. Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Ding! Sorry, didn't look at his for a while! Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I don't know what's going on here, but for days my post followed curlingfan11's question in my view of the thread. Today, I got notification that radicalmm had posted twice after curlingfan11 had given the ding -- yet one of his now appears before my reply and the other after; and both before curlingfan11's I'll set the next question on the basis that one of radicalmm's posts gave the ding to me -- and hope that I'm not stepping on someone's toes! Continuing with the musical theme: Christian Fredrick Martin, Bob Taylor, Orville Gibson and Clarence Leonidas Fender are all famous for the same thing. For the ding, what is that thing? Quote Link to comment
+subay Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Sounds to me like they all made guitars? Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Close enough. They all founded major guitar making companies. Over to subay... Quote Link to comment
+subay Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Thankyou, still on a musical theme, an instrument was donated to a London Station, what was it and who donated it? Extra ding for the station! Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Thats easy, a piano played by Elton John at St Pancras Station. I saw the videos of him playing it back in February this year. Quote Link to comment
+subay Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Ding, Ding ☺, and over to speakers corner... Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Thanks for the Dings. George Formby - what musical instrument did he play and name one of the famous songs he had written. Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Ukulele? A famous song is Leaning on a Lampost Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I don't know what's going on here, but for days my post followed curlingfan11's question in my view of the thread. Today, I got notification that radicalmm had posted twice after curlingfan11 had given the ding -- yet one of his now appears before my reply and the other after; and both before curlingfan11's I'll set the next question on the basis that one of radicalmm's posts gave the ding to me -- and hope that I'm not stepping on someone's toes! Continuing with the musical theme: Christian Fredrick Martin, Bob Taylor, Orville Gibson and Clarence Leonidas Fender are all famous for the same thing. For the ding, what is that thing? When I first posted it said that my post need to be reviewed first Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 And the Ding goes to radicalmm. Well done. Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Name the 5 most spoken languages in the world. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) English, French, Spanish, Manderin (Chinese) and Russish. Edited June 22, 2016 by speakers-corner Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 English, French, Spanish, Manderin (Chinese) and Russish. Close. You got 3 out of 5 Quote Link to comment
+subay Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 What about English, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Hindu??? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 English, Manderin, Russian, Hindi and Arabic. Quote Link to comment
radicalmm Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 subay and speakers-corner are so close! speakers-corner has4,out of 5! subay has3 out of 5. Hint: speakers-corner said the last one in sc's first guess Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 English Manderin Hindi Spanish Russian Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) Since we're asked to find the languages most spoken rather than the languages most common as 'first language', English and Mandarin have to be the top two. The next is probably Hindi (India is the most dense large country). We now have the empire languages: Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French and Russian. Spanish almost certainly is there as it's spoken in most of Southern America as well as being a second language in much of Europe. I'll go for Russian as the last simply because the USSR is the most recent large ex-empire. So, English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and Russian. Edited to add: one day I'll learn to post a synopsis first and edit later! Edited June 22, 2016 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Or English Manderin Hindi Spanish Arabic. Its one of the 2 guesses. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Hi Pajaholic Arabic or rather persish is spoken in a lot of arab countries as well as countries where they have migrated to. Quote Link to comment
+Pajaholic Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 @speakers-corner: I thought that each dialect of Arabic was its own language -- similar to the situation in Scandinavia (but I could be wrong!) Certainly the Islamic empire was vast, but it was also a long time ago and most of it has had the time to switch to other languages and/or for regional dialects to evolve into full-fledged languages in their own right? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 That could be said of the Chinese language. Just a thought. Anyway have a nice evening. Im off to bed. Quote Link to comment
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