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January 30, 2017

Random guess - 361 feet?

January 30, 2017

Not as high as that...

January 30, 2017

another Random guess - 340 feet?

1.1k · January 31, 2017

Can I join in on the guessing game. Ill go for 350 feet.

January 31, 2017

Both guesses too high...

January 31, 2017

try again with 330ft

January 31, 2017

321 feet?

January 31, 2017

Although Yorkshire Yellow is closer, the ding goes to martin&lindabryn as the first to get within 20 feet, as per question. The correct height is 315 feet (96m).

January 31, 2017

thanks for the ding,

What was created by Victor Lardent for The Times newspaper in 1931?

January 31, 2017

The crossword?

6.2k · January 31, 2017

Guess: The font: Times New Roman

January 31, 2017

the two answers I was expecting. but MartyBartfarst has the right answer with "Times New Roman font"

over to you

6.2k · February 2, 2017

Thanks.

What supposedly happened on Sunday October 23rd 4004 BC, and who was it that worked out that date?

February 3, 2017

Thanks.

What supposedly happened on Sunday October 23rd 4004 BC, and who was it that worked out that date?

I think it was a mediaeval monk, possibly Augustine, who calculated that was when God created the world, according to Genesis.

6.2k · February 3, 2017

Thanks.

What supposedly happened on Sunday October 23rd 4004 BC, and who was it that worked out that date?

I think it was a mediaeval monk, possibly Augustine, who calculated that was when God created the world, according to Genesis.

Close enough, it was Archbishop Ussher in the C17th. He went back through the chronology in the bible to work out the day when the world was created.

Your go.

February 4, 2017

Thanks. I was driving through the village of Acton Trussell in Staffordshire today - the fictional village of Stackton Tressel was supposedly based on it. Who were Stackton Tressel's two most famous residents?

February 5, 2017

Thanks. I was driving through the village of Acton Trussell in Staffordshire today - the fictional village of Stackton Tressel was supposedly based on it. Who were Stackton Tressel's two most famous residents?

Hinge & Bracket .

I believe one of the duo has died , and the remaining chap ( yes, for those not familiar with them , chap !)no longer performs in that particular persona .

I always think of them when I see roadsigns for Marston Trussel round here ...

February 6, 2017

Ding - Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, played by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe. Patrick Fyffe was born in Acton Trussell, and based the fictional village on his birthplace.

February 6, 2017

300 feet?

Sorry - missed the last posts! Whoops!

Edited February 6, 2017 by Beach_hut

February 11, 2017

Ding - Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, played by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe. Patrick Fyffe was born in Acton Trussell, and based the fictional village on his birthplace.

Sorry for the delay , I've been wrestling with the puzzles of a certain visually 9mpaired rodent ( and losing ...)

So , what links a Victorian explorer and writer with a more recent star of the silver screen ?

February 16, 2017

Ding - Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, played by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe. Patrick Fyffe was born in Acton Trussell, and based the fictional village on his birthplace.

Sorry for the delay , I've been wrestling with the puzzles of a certain visually impaired rodent ( and losing ...)

So , what links a Victorian explorer and writer with a more recent star of the silver screen ?

No takers ?

OK, a little extra detail then :

Both individuals were male, both are deceased (OK, not a surprise for the Victorian chap ...) and both were British, although only the explorer/writer/translator was English. Apart from being dead male brits they share something very obvious.

February 17, 2017

We'll have a guess at they share a name - Richard Burton - one was a Victorian explorer of Arabia who went to mecca although not a muslim and the other the welsh actor.

The penny dropped whilst reading a book about early travellers in Arabia (we lived in Saudi Arabia for a while and have several books on the region) whilst listening to Jeff Waynes War of the worlds narrated by the Welshman, otherwise we would not have had a clue!

February 23, 2017

We'll have a guess at they share a name - Richard Burton - one was a Victorian explorer of Arabia who went to mecca although not a muslim and the other the welsh actor.

The penny dropped whilst reading a book about early travellers in Arabia (we lived in Saudi Arabia for a while and have several books on the region) whilst listening to Jeff Waynes War of the worlds narrated by the Welshman, otherwise we would not have had a clue!

Ding!

Whilst the much married Welshman is probably better known, the Victorian explorer was a particularly fascinating example of a bonkers Englishman abroad, and is well worth a little googleage to read about some of the things he got up to. Why some script writer hasn't pounced on his life story I don't know ...unless some of his adventures are still too outrageous...

I'm very pleased someone got it without any further clues, and from listening to an excellent album too !

Over to you

February 24, 2017

Thank you - it was just a fluke!

Hopefully this question isn't too obscure or controversial.

Cumbria, how many lakes are in the Lake District?

February 24, 2017

If by 'lakes' you mean large bodies of water, then it has to be somewhere in the teens.

If you're being sneaky, then my answer would be 'one'. As I recall, only one of the bodies of water in the Lake District has the word 'lake' in its name - Bassenthwaite Lake.

February 25, 2017

If by 'lakes' you mean large bodies of water, then it has to be somewhere in the teens.

If you're being sneaky, then my answer would be 'one'. As I recall, only one of the bodies of water in the Lake District has the word 'lake' in its name - Bassenthwaite Lake.

Ding to Yorkshire Yellow - not too sneaky a question.

One is the answer we were looking for, Bassenthwaite Lake is the only lake, the other bodies of water are all 'mere', 'tarn' or 'water'.

February 25, 2017

Ta for the 'ding!'.

And your next one: -

The lawnmower - who invented it, where and when?

March 8, 2017

Okay, perhaps too tricky then?

I'll 'withdraw' that question and post another shortly.

In case anyone's interested, the answers are Edwin Budding, Thrupp (just outside Stroud, Gloucestershire), 1830.

March 8, 2017

By my reckoning, there are eight cities in the UK whose names are the only one to begin with that particular letter of the alphabet.

Name six of them for the ‘ding!’.

March 8, 2017

It depends on how you define "city". AFAICT, the most common definitions are "a conurbation that has a cathedral" and "a conurbation granted city status by royal charter". In either case, AFAICT, there are fewer than 100 cities in UK, so 8 is a significant proportion and hence the letter concerned must be a 'common' one. I couldn't think of 6 beginning with either A or B, so I'll try C and hope there are exactly two that I've missed: Cardiff, Chester, Coventry, Canterbury, Cambridge, Carlisle (I'm not sure of the last, but I could only think of those six!)

March 8, 2017

I'll guess at B - Bristol, Birmingham, Belfast, Bath, Bradford, Brighton.

March 8, 2017

L?

London, Leicester, Lincoln, Lancaster, Liverpool and Leeds. (Littlehampton and Little Snoring as optional backups.)

March 9, 2017

Hmmm... I read the question differently. I thought that we were asked to name six of the eight cities that have a unique first letter. Having checked Wikipedia, I can't attempt an answer but I counted eight cities that qualify. Maybe a clarification is needed.

March 9, 2017

Thanks RJz2 for clarifying the question. If your interpretation is correct I'll go for the following:

Aberdeen, Oxford, Peterborough, Rochester, Truro, York, and possibly Inverness and Newcastle (I'm not sure if Inverness is a city, and Northampton may also be one). There's probably also Kingston-upon-Hull if you use its full name.

March 9, 2017

Forgot to add that if Hull is considered to be K-U-H, then Hereford is probably unique as well. OTOH Newcastle definitely isn't (I forgot about Nottingham - doh!)

March 9, 2017

Looking at this logically, I can discount any letter for which I can identify two cities. So the following are discounted: A (Aberdeen, Armargh), B (Bath, Bristol), C (Cardiff, Chester), D (Durham, Derby), E (Edinburgh, Exeter), G (Gloucester, Glasgow), L (Liverpool, Leicester), N (Norwich, Newcastle), P (Plymouth, Portsmouth), R (Reading, Ripon), S (Swansea, Southampton), W (Winchester, Wolverhampton)

I can't think of any cities that start with F, I, J, Q, U, V, X and Z

That leaves H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York), which gives 6. I've lost two somewhere -- but hopefully I've given enough.

March 10, 2017

Looking at this logically, I can discount any letter for which I can identify two cities. So the following are discounted: A (Aberdeen, Armargh), B (Bath, Bristol), C (Cardiff, Chester), D (Durham, Derby), E (Edinburgh, Exeter), G (Gloucester, Glasgow), L (Liverpool, Leicester), N (Norwich, Newcastle), P (Plymouth, Portsmouth), R (Reading, Ripon), S (Swansea, Southampton), W (Winchester, Wolverhampton)

I can't think of any cities that start with F, I, J, Q, U, V, X and Z

That leaves H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York), which gives 6. I've lost two somewhere -- but hopefully I've given enough.

I think Ripon would count, as Reading is a town rather than a city.

March 10, 2017

Looking at this logically, I can discount any letter for which I can identify two cities. So the following are discounted: A (Aberdeen, Armargh), B (Bath, Bristol), C (Cardiff, Chester), D (Durham, Derby), E (Edinburgh, Exeter), G (Gloucester, Glasgow), L (Liverpool, Leicester), N (Norwich, Newcastle), P (Plymouth, Portsmouth), R (Reading, Ripon), S (Swansea, Southampton), W (Winchester, Wolverhampton)

I can't think of any cities that start with F, I, J, Q, U, V, X and Z

That leaves H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York), which gives 6. I've lost two somewhere -- but hopefully I've given enough.

Looking at this logically, I can discount any letter for which I can identify two cities. So the following are discounted: A (Aberdeen, Armargh), B (Bath, Bristol), C (Cardiff, Chester), D (Durham, Derby), E (Edinburgh, Exeter), G (Gloucester, Glasgow), L (Liverpool, Leicester), N (Norwich, Newcastle), P (Plymouth, Portsmouth), R (Reading, Ripon), S (Swansea, Southampton), W (Winchester, Wolverhampton)

I can't think of any cities that start with F, I, J, Q, U, V, X and Z

That leaves H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York), which gives 6. I've lost two somewhere -- but hopefully I've given enough.

I think Ripon would count, as Reading is a town rather than a city.

And I think Inverness would be the 8th one, as Optimist on the run suggested above.

March 13, 2017

So, summing up: Pajaholic contributes "H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York)."

Boggin's Dad adds :"I think Ripon would count, as Reading is a town rather than a city."

Optimist on the run plonks the cherry on top with "And I think Inverness"

That crowdfunded answer looks good to me! But who gets the ding ... now that's a conundrum for Yorkshire Yellow - it's going to be like infant school sports day ("You are all winners ... but ... ")

March 13, 2017

So, summing up: Pajaholic contributes "H (Hereford), K (Kingston-Upon-Hull), M (Manchester), O (Oxford), T (Truro), Y (York)."

Boggin's Dad adds :"I think Ripon would count, as Reading is a town rather than a city."

Optimist on the run plonks the cherry on top with "And I think Inverness"

That crowdfunded answer looks good to me! But who gets the ding ... now that's a conundrum for Yorkshire Yellow - it's going to be like infant school sports day ("You are all winners ... but ... ")

I think Pajaholic gets it - the Ding was for the first to name six of the eight

March 20, 2017

As it's more than a week since I posted my answer, I googled to confirm the above answers. Hopefully, the latest rule permits me (or anyone else for that) to jump in and post a new question to keep the thread moving. So, moving on to astronomy, a subject which I suspect interests some regulars on this thread:

In which constellation is the Horsehead Nebula to be found?

March 20, 2017

As it's more than a week since I posted my answer, I googled to confirm the above answers. Hopefully, the latest rule permits me (or anyone else for that) to jump in and post a new question to keep the thread moving. So, moving on to astronomy, a subject which I suspect interests some regulars on this thread:

In which constellation is the Horsehead Nebula to be found?

Orion, I think.

March 20, 2017

That'll get you the Ding! In the Northern hemisphere, it's just under Alnitak, which is the left-most of the three stars of Orion's belt.

Over to Optimist on the run...

Edited March 20, 2017 by Pajaholic

March 22, 2017

What is the name of the narrator of Moby-Dick?

6.2k · March 22, 2017

Call me Ishmael :-)

March 22, 2017

Ding to MartyBartfast

6.2k · March 23, 2017

Thanks.

Which is the only London underground line which is completely underground?

March 24, 2017

Waterloo and City. The Victoria is underground for all passenger trains, but has an above ground depot.

6.2k · March 24, 2017

Ding, back to you.

March 24, 2017

On a related note, what unusual arrangement can be found at Whitechapel station?

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