The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Gift?

[+speakers-corner]

A Ding for Yorkshire Yellow.

 

Gift in English means poison in German.

Edited July 20, 2016 by speakers-corner

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Wow! What a lucky guess! I did learn German in year 3 at school. but don't know if I had that stored somewhere in the back of my mind.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

The silver once mined in which Devon village is found in some of the Crown Jewels?

 

(Note - Feel free to consult a map if you're not overly familiar that part of the world. I may 'point you in the direction' of the correct location if/when needed, by reference to previous guess(es))

[+speakers-corner]

North devon, Ilfracombe

[Pajaholic]

AIUI, all silver won from that part of the N. Devon coastal belt is known as "Combe Martin Silver", no matter whether it was actually mined in Combe Martin. So I suspect that YY might be looking for "Combe Martin". However, I suspect that Speakers Corner is technically correct in that case as the silver might well have come from Ilfracombe!

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Combe Martin = ding!

[Pajaholic]

Thanks.

 

Staying with Hele Bay etc. -- Back in the 1950s and 1960s, there used to be a paddle steamer ferry service between Ilfracombe and which Welsh landmark?

[+speakers-corner]

The shortest and direct Connection should be Swansea

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Barry Island?

[Pajaholic]

I'm going to give the DING to Speakers Corner as the landmark lies within "Greater Swansea".

 

For completeness, the landmark is The Mumbles -- specifically, Mumbles Pier (51.568995, -3.976743)

 

Over to Speakers Corner

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding Pajaholic.

 

So moving to another County. A town, a gorge and something edible, what is the name I am looking for.

[Pajaholic]

Cheddar?

[+speakers-corner]

And the ding (a very fast one) goes back to Pajaholic.

[Pajaholic]

Thanks. Staying on the subject of cheese ...

 

For the next ding, name the Cornish cheese made from cows' milk, and wrapped in stinging nettles, which become part of the rind as the cheese matures.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Yarg.

[Pajaholic]

Very quick DING to Yorkshire Yellow.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

The Scoville scale measures what?

[+Beach_hut]

The Scoville scale measures what?

 

Chilli heat.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Ding.

[+Beach_hut]

OK, here's one for you...

 

What does the Norwood Scale measure?

[+Beach_hut]

OK, here's one for you...

 

What does the Norwood Scale measure?

 

Bumped with a clue. It relates to the human body.

[+speakers-corner]

Ill start at the top. The size of the head?

Edited July 30, 2016 by speakers-corner

[+Beach_hut]

OK, here's one for you...

 

What does the Norwood Scale measure?

 

Ill start at the top. The size of the head?

 

Very warm...

[+hal-an-tow]

A warm head ? Could it be wearing .... a hat ?

Hat sizes are weird, but I think they are probably simple inches rather than a fancy scale, but I'll say hat.

[+Beach_hut]

Another clue - it can't relate to the entire population.

Edited July 31, 2016 by Beach_hut

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Bra sizes?

[+Beach_hut]

Bra sizes?

Getting colder now...

[+speakers-corner]

Hmm,head, not hat, amount of hair, baldness?

[+Beach_hut]

Hmm,head, not hat, amount of hair, baldness?

That's close enough for a ding - the Norwood scale is a measure of male pattern baldness.

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding beach_hut.

 

Where or what is the mandibula.

[dodgydaved]

Thanks for the ding beach_hut.

 

Where or what is the mandibula.

 

 

Lower jaw bone.

[+speakers-corner]

DING! for DD

[dodgydaved]

DING! for DD

 

Cheers Kidder,

 

How about a location for......... McBurney's Point

[+speakers-corner]

never heard of it.

[+martin&lindabryn]

I seam to remember hearing this term when my son had his appendix out.

so my guess will be the appendix location

[+Boggin's Dad]

The most southern location on mainland Australia?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Isn't the mandible the jaw?

[+martin&lindabryn]

Isn't the mandible the jaw?

 

yes. but that was the last question

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Sorry, forgot to refresh the page before posting.

[Pajaholic]

The most southern location on mainland Australia?

That'd be Wilson's Promontory, in Victoria (a couple of hours drive from where my son now lives). That said, it does sound like it should be in Australia, so I'll guess at the most northerly point on mainland Australia!

[dodgydaved]

I seam to remember hearing this term when my son had his appendix out.

so my guess will be the appendix location

 

A cuttingly good answer from martin&lindabryn. Two thirds of the way down a line between the umbilicus and the superior iliac spine (and I don't think I have trotted that description out since about 1965!)

[+martin&lindabryn]

Thanks for the ding

For winning, which TV game show would you be awarded?

A toy, a tankard or the BFH. And for a bonus ding, what was the BFH

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

That sounds like the darts based show "Bullseye". Not sure what the "BFH" was though.

[+martin&lindabryn]

well that didn't take long to get the ding BFH was bus fair home

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Thanks for the ding and for reminding me what the initials BFH stood for.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Your next question: -

 

Before adopting its current name, which band was known as 'Pectoralz' and then 'Starfish'?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Quiet on this one...

 

Would you like a clue?

[+hal-an-tow]

Quiet on this one...

 

Would you like a clue?

 

Hmm, looks like you've hit a topic which is not a specialist mastermind subject for the usual suspects on the thread !

I dunno, the final 'z' on the earlier name suggests something quite recent, so I'm afraid I can't even make a semi intelligent guess.

[Pajaholic]

I've heard the name "Starfish" as a pop rock band, but I can't remember what they renamed themselves to. If pushed, I'd try Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Maroon 5, Coldplay, The Script, etc. Eeny-meeny-miny-moe ... I'll guess "The Script"!