The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+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"!

[+Boggin's Dad]

Working backwards from Pajoholic's post - I will have a go at Coldplay,

 

Red Hot Chilli Peppers have been around for ever, so not necessary that contempoary, and Maroon 5 - well there's a guess for someone else.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Coldplay - ding.

[+MartyBartfast]

Calling Boggin's Dad.....

[+Boggin's Dad]

Well, I did not expect that stab in the dark to successful!

 

You have the choice of two questions, I will accept a correct answer for either:

 

Sticking with the music theme:

 

Where was I this weekend? And hence the late posting of this question.

 

Or

 

Which former member of the excellent Fairport Convention died earlier this year in June?

[+RJx2]

We saw a small poster on a lamp post today for Lakefest, so we'll try that.

[+speakers-corner]

a very wild guess - Glastonbury

[+Hellfire1917]

That has to be Dave Swarbrick.

[+Boggin's Dad]

A big DING for Hellfire.

 

It was the great Swarb, who we shall 'meet on the ledge'

 

And of course I was at Fairport's Cropredy Convention.

 

Over to you

[+Hellfire1917]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the forum. Been out all day.

 

My question is;

 

Just a minute or so after midnight, night of December 31st 1984/January 1st 1985, while in Parliament Square, London, what did Michael Harrison do? It was a 'first' for the UK.

[+MartyBartfast]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the forum. Been out all day.

 

My question is;

 

Just a minute or so after midnight, night of December 31st 1984/January 1st 1985, while in Parliament Square, London, what did Michael Harrison do? It was a 'first' for the UK.

 

Phoned someone to wish them Happy New Year? with a mobile phone?

[+Hellfire1917]

That's good enough for me, Marty. He called his father in the first mobile phone call made on a UK network. So that's a *DING* and it's over to you........

[+MartyBartfast]

That's good enough for me, Marty. He called his father in the first mobile phone call made on a UK network. So that's a *DING* and it's over to you........

 

I was given my first mobile a couple of years later to be on call for a bank over New Year, and that's the first thing I did with it

 

Anyway, next question:

 

Why was Maria de Cezar in the news in the last few days?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

That sounds like a Brazilian name.

 

Was she the hockey player whose partner proposed to her after a match?

[+MartyBartfast]

That sounds like a Brazilian name.

 

Was she the hockey player whose partner proposed to her after a match?

 

Part 1, right.

Part 2, wrong. This is not an Olympic competitor.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Okay.

 

In which case how about the bride to be who gatecrashed Dan Walker live on BBC4?

 

(and who has since invited him to her wedding!)

[+MartyBartfast]

It was indeed, so a big Gold medal to Yorkshire Yellow.

 

If anyone's wondering what this is about then have a look here, I think it was really funny and very well handled on both sides:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37077188

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Thanks for the ding.

 

Thinking ahead to the paralympics...

 

Channel 4's 'Last Leg' first started as a late night show when the 2012 paralympics were on.

 

The theme music is a version of Public Enemy's 'Harder than you think'.

 

Which song does the sample featured heavily in Public Enemy's come from and who is the vocalist?

 

If you're not familiar with the track, then by all means have a listen to it at

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

** bump **

 

(need a clue?)

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

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?

[+Beach_hut]

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?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

It's awarded for a subject which is classified as a social science.

[+Pajaholic]

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