The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

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19 hours ago, Optimist on the run said:

Bumping this thread. I admit to having Googled the answer, and I really don't think anyone's going to guess it. It's not a place I've heard of anyway.

 

...............and according to Wikipaedia it is only believed he was buried there - no marked grave!

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To move this on the answer is here.

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3MP63_the-architect?guid=5c18d206-e8dd-4d1e-8303-263742af41

perhaps this one is easier.

How did the term "One for the road" come about?

I learned this one in London last week (that's a hint).

[+me N u]

As nobody else has had a go.

We are not sure of the exact meaning or the exact area in question, but believe it has something to do with convicts being taken to the public execution area and being allowed to stop for "a final refreshment" en route.

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On 17/10/2017 at 3:28 AM, me N u said:

As nobody else has had a go.

We are not sure of the exact meaning or the exact area in question, but believe it has something to do with convicts being taken to the public execution area and being allowed to stop for "a final refreshment" en route.

That's close enough for a ding.

On our recent visit to London we were told, by a tour guide, that it refered to prisoners being taken by wagon to the gallows along the road from newgate prison to Tyburn (somewhere near Marble Arch). They were, it was said, allowed to stop at a pub for one last drink - "one for the road". If a prisoner chose not to take up the offer he remained "on the wagon" .

Over to you.

[+me N u]

Thank you for the ding - next question

Whose appreciation society is called "Sons of the Desert"

[+Boggin's Dad]

Lawrence of Arabia?

[+me N u]

Sorry, not Lawrence of Arabia

[+Optimist on the run]

Omar Sharriff? 

[+me N u]

Nope, not Omar Shariff either.

 

[+me N u]

Here is a hint - it is a duo.

[+hal-an-tow]

As that was the title of a Laurel and Hardy film, I assume it's theirs ...

[+me N u]

Thats a DING to hal-an-tow!

[+hal-an-tow]

Ta.

Nice easy seasonal question:

There are three British mammals that hibernate, one is the hedgehog ( a fascinating creature, I've fostered disabled ones for the local wildlife hospital ) but what are the other two ?

[+Optimist on the run]

I suspect the dormouse is one, but I'm not sure about the other. I'll take a guess at moles.

[+hal-an-tow]

50% correct !

[+me N u]

We think bats also hibernate but not sure which species!

[+hal-an-tow]

Well, judging from the answers it seems a third creature (cachers) should be added to the hibernating mammal list !

As Optimist on the Run was the sole responder to actually suggest 2 beasties, I award him the ding.

The correct answer was dormice and bats.

I'm off to curl up in a pile of leaves now ...

[+Optimist on the run]

Right - having found SideTracked Stratford upon Avon this morning, here's another higher/lower question: How many plays did Shakespeare write (according to common consensus)?

[+speakers-corner]

I think he wrote about 40 plays. But not sure about the exact number.

[Sharpeset]

This was in a quiz I did a couple of weeks ago  - I think the answer given was 38 so I'll go with that

 

[+Optimist on the run]

 

On ‎12‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 6:29 AM, speakers-corner said:

I think he wrote about 40 plays. But not sure about the exact number.

 

On ‎12‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 0:16 PM, Sharpeset said:

This was in a quiz I did a couple of weeks ago  - I think the answer given was 38 so I'll go with that

 

Lower than both of these.

[+speakers-corner]

Then I shall start the countdown, I'll go for 37.

[+Optimist on the run]

 

1 hour ago, speakers-corner said:

Then I shall start the countdown, I'll go for 37.

37 is correct. Although there are some other plays which are disputed, or considered lost, the definitive list according to shakespeare-online.com is as follows:

A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V, Henry VI part 1, Henry VI part 2, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Pericles, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night

Edited November 13, 2017 by Optimist on the run

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding on that one.

Staying with theatre.

Name another famous playwrite (one of four) from the Elisabethan times

[Sharpeset]

Ben Jonson

 

[+speakers-corner]

15 hours ago, Sharpeset said:

Ben Jonson

 

OK he wasnt one of the four I was looking for but he was a playwrite in the Elisabethan times. Over to you.

[Sharpeset]

Now that I've googled, I see my error... oops. Anyway, happy to accept the Ding, and changing tack completely....

Who invented Cats Eyes? 

[+hal-an-tow]

Percy Shaw.

My grandad worked for a Birmingham manufacturing company during WW2, and told the tale of one of his bosses, who told him he should be open to considering new ideas: Apparently said boss while working 'oop North' had a chap come to see him and try to persuade him to take on his brilliant new idea ...  Percy Shaw with cats eyes . That boss was still kicking himself years later ....

[Sharpeset]

DING! ... but you knew that of course ! ....what might have been..... :

 

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Thanks for the ding , it's not often I can be confident enough of my answers to formulate the next question as soon as I press 'submit' !

But I did, and as I was thinking of grandad, he can provide the next question.

100 years ago almost to the day, grandad's regiment was ordered away from the Ypres area and sent off to fight in a different country entirely, one where, to everyone's relief, mud would feature far less in their lives.

Name that country !

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By the way, in case anyone thinks it's a trick question, grandad was in the British army !

[+speakers-corner]

Turkey, Konstantinople

[+speakers-corner]

or was it Gallipoli

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No, and no !

This particular bit of the Great War seems to have slipped into relative obscurity ...

[+me N u]

What was then known as Mesopotamia?

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Nope !

[+speakers-corner]

I think this is the time where the Anzacs with the British Army were fighting against the Turkisch and German armies in the middle east, but I am not sure where.

[+hal-an-tow]

Still nope !

Here's a photo of the soldier in question, no helpful clues though, photo was taken in the backyard in Brum before he went off to war.

 

[dodgydaved]

Palestine?

[+hal-an-tow]

No, not Palestine.

Here's a little extra info to focus the educated guesses: the regiment didn't leave Europe  (insert your own brexit joke here)

[+me N u]

Russia?

After the revolution, sent to support the White Russians.

[+hal-an-tow]

Nope.

[Sharpeset]

Not sure if the timing is right but I know my Grandfather was sent off overseas around the time of the Easter Uprising so I'll guess your Grandad was with mine in Ireland... 

[+hal-an-tow]

Sorry, another no for Ireland !

[+colleda]

Pakistan?

[+hal-an-tow]

Not Pakistan , as I said yesterday, they didn't leave Europe.

[+Boggin's Dad]

How about Finland. Not much mud, but plenty of ice!

[+hal-an-tow]

Finland ... I like the idea (plus it reminds me of a Monty Python song ) and I imagine frozen mud would be easier to negotiate than that mire so deep  that men and horses could drown in it on the Somme, , but afraid not ...

Plenty of European countries left to choose between

[+RJx2]

Greece?

[+hal-an-tow]

Not Greece.