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Simply Paul
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Beach_hut

+Beach_hut

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I'm assuming this question is too tricky then...

I'll leave it hanging and offer the following alternative: -

The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by whom for what?

 

Bump. Can we have a clue?

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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FWIW, the OP (Simply Paul) implied that the question setter can permit Googling should a question drag:

 

In a post of 25th February 2012, the OP wrote:

 

Questions should be Pub-Quiz level and Internet searches aren't allowed to find the answer... unless things drag-on and the Questioner ok's Googling (or similar).

 

So you can authorise Googling for a question that drags and hence keep the thread moving.

 

HTH

hal-an-tow

+hal-an-tow

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BUMP !

It's weeks since the last question was set, then a second question, neither are apparently going to be answered. We could cheat and google ( and I believe we wouldn't be the first to do so :( )but we won't, and it would be a shame for the thread to die.

 

So, if there are no sudden answers , no new and do-able question from the last setter, or any objections I'll set a new question after the weekend to get the ball rolling again.

dodgydaved

dodgydaved

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I have googled it - talk about niche knowledge - I wonder if the setter could reconsider the rule about the questions being at a level that would be normally asked in your local pub quiz! :) :) :) :)

Yorkshire Yellow

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Boggin's Dad, seeing as my question has been adjudged to be too niche, I'll give you the 'ding!' for economics.

 

The prize is awarded for "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".

 

Over to you...

Boggin's Dad

+Boggin's Dad

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Boggin's Dad, seeing as my question has been adjudged to be too niche, I'll give you the 'ding!' for economics.

 

The prize is awarded for "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".

 

Over to you...

 

Thanks for the Ding

 

I have a question along similar lines, hopefully one or two people might know this one....

 

What is the name of the prize given to mathematicians under the age of Forty by the International Mathematical Union? It is awarded to up to four winners, every four years. The most recent meeting being held in Soeul in 2014.

 

Good Luck

Beach_hut

+Beach_hut

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Sorry I missed the Ding.

 

It's Mr & Mrs :) (both generally cache together but Mr BH that posts on forums)

 

Question to continue with: Mamma Mia was #1 in the U.K. at the beginning of 1976. What was unusual about the song that preceded it at #1?

Beach_hut

+Beach_hut

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So - end of 1975. Was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody a Christmas number one around then? A ground-breaking single, though I don't know what was specifically unusual about it.

That's the song. Think about the connection to the song in the question....

Beach_hut

+Beach_hut

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The lyrics contain the title of its successor? (Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go ...)

 

That's what I was after. Ding for you. (and a bonus virtual point for Optimist on the Run)

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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Thanks. FWIW, other unusual things about "Bohemian Rhapsody" are that, at about six minutes long, it's about twice the length that was considered normal for a single at the time and it's one of the few 'pop chart' singles not to fit into a single genre.

 

Staying with music, and hoping that this isn't too niche! What is the standard tuning of a 5-string violin (i.e. to which notes are the strings tuned?)

hal-an-tow

+hal-an-tow

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I guess that a clue's in order. A 5-string violin combines the ranges of standard viola and violin. That is, the fifth string is tuned the same as the lowest string on a viola.

 

Right.

Music is not a poular round in this pub quiz is it ? We all go off to the bar for a refill ...

 

I know nothing whatsoever about the tuning of any string instrument apart from the guitar (EADGBE if I recall my long off teenage years correctly). But with 8 notes and 5 strings, ( as with the guitar there may be repetition though ... but not two leetrs the same next to each other I guess, and always a sequence ) Let's try some random guesses starting with the above for no good reason ...

EADGB , ADGBE , DGBEA GBEDA , BEADG , ABCDE , BCDEF , DEFGA , EFGHA , FGHAB , GABCD , ACEFG , CEFAG , ABCDE , BCDEF , CDEFGA , DEFGA, EFGAB, FGABC, ooh, I want to put GAGB something :laughing: GAGBA , GAGBC, GAGBD , GAGBE, GAGBF ... or is it some 5 letter word made of those 8 letters perhaps ? FADED, FACED, DECAF ,BADGE, CADGE, CAGED ?

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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To keep the thread going I'll give you the ding as both CADGE and CAGED have the right notes, but in the wrong order. Starting at C an octave below middle C, it's tuned in fifths CGDAE. Over to you ...

hal-an-tow

+hal-an-tow

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Well, thank you,

I don't think I so much answered the question as bludgeoned it into surrender ...

 

Which immediately suggests the next question:

Who said

"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."

And to whom ?

 

Bonus smart alec points for giving the questioners version of the questioned persons name as well as the proper one.

Pajaholic

Pajaholic

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They had at least two, but I suspect you're looking for Bring Me Sunshine.

That'll get you the DING! FWIW, any of the other tunes mentioned in their Wikipedia page would have also got the ding. However, "Bring me Sunshine" (together with that wacky dance) is the one that I suspect most people remember.

 

Over to MartyBartfast...

hal-an-tow

+hal-an-tow

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Thanks.

 

A straight up classics question:

 

Name King Lear's daughters......

Cordelia, Regan and Goneril ? ... or was that The Sweeney ...

Rats ! too slow ! Leave the poor joke outnext time :laughing:

Beach_hut

+Beach_hut

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Thanks for the Ding and apologies for the delay in questioning...

 

Next question..... Laura Dern, Sharon Stone, Carrie Fisher, Jamie Lee Curtis, Melanie Griffith and Brooke Shields were all reputedly under consideration for which role, ultimately played by Linda Blair? (There is a link!!)

Beach_hut

+Beach_hut

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The only thing I know Linda Blair for is the child in The Exorcist, so I'll say that, as I think they're all of the right age.

 

I'll need a name for the DING, I think... (it does link back to the previous question) a first name at least

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MartyBartfast

+MartyBartfast

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The only thing I know Linda Blair for is the child in The Exorcist, so I'll say that, as I think they're all of the right age.

 

I'll need a name for the DING, I think... (it does link back to the previous question) a first name at least

 

OK, I guess she was called Regan ?

hal-an-tow

+hal-an-tow

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What is the name of the children’s book which was written by Prince Charles and published in 1980?

 

Arrgh, it's somewhere lurking at the back of my mental filing system ... something Scottish, and I can't help but see an image of groundskeeper Willie off the Simpsons ... was it "The old man of <insert Scots place name here> " ? Loch something ? Lochinvar ? No that was young Lochinvar ...

 

For goodness sake, someone please answer it, that's going to bother me until the answer appears.

martin&lindabryn

+martin&lindabryn

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What is the name of the children’s book which was written by Prince Charles and published in 1980?

 

Arrgh, it's somewhere lurking at the back of my mental filing system ... something Scottish, and I can't help but see an image of groundskeeper Willie off the Simpsons ... was it "The old man of <insert Scots place name here> " ? Loch something ? Lochinvar ? No that was young Lochinvar ...

 

For goodness sake, someone please answer it, that's going to bother me until the answer appears.

 

with the help full quoit from Hal-an-tow which has jogged my memoty and to put him her out of his her torment. old man of lochnagar

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