The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+speakers-corner]

hmmm, let me guess - got it - Footballs coming home, no, thats the song.

[+Optimist on the run]

On 7/8/2018 at 10:14 AM, colleda said:

England?

 

England is correct of course. Ding to colleda...

[+colleda]

OK. Thanks. What does Liverpool cathedral and red phone boxes have in common?

[+Boggin's Dad]

As a stab in the dark, Were they both designed by the same architect?

 

if it is not that I do not have a clue

[+speakers-corner]

Designed by Giles Scott who also designed Waterloo Bridge, Battersee Power Station. Most of his work was with churches.

[+colleda]

2 hours ago, Boggin's Dad said:

As a stab in the dark, Were they both designed by the same architect?

 

if it is not that I do not have a clue

DING to Boggin's Dad.   This came up on Great British Rail Journeys a week or so ago, with that Portillo bloke. Love seeing all those places he gets to.

[+Boggin's Dad]

 

Thank you for the DING - I guess this question has been proved incorrect in light of recent events, but however it does remain topical:

 

Who is known for the quote: “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."?

[+speakers-corner]

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Edited July 11, 2018 by speakers-corner

[+TheOldfields]

I'll have a guess at Brian Clough.

[+RJx2]

Hope this is OK... In an attempt to move this thread on, I've looked up the answer. Sorry, TheOldfields, It isn't Brian Clough.

[Blue Square Thing]

Gary Lineker? Perhaps? Someone modern anyway I think...

[+RJx2]

According to Google, that's a ding to Blue Square Thing. (And apologies to Boggin's Dad for taking over their question.)

[Blue Square Thing]

Gosh.

 

Norwich is twinned with four cities. Name any one of them (bonus dings obviously apply if you can do all four - the fourth is a reasonably recent addition).

[+speakers-corner]

Koblenz is one of the cities. Been there twice for Mega Events.

[Blue Square Thing]

DING to speakers-corner

 

As the signs say: Welcome to Norwich, a Fine City. Twinned with Rouen, Koblenz, Novi Sad and, apparently not officially, El Viejo (El Salvador)

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the Ding.

Name the 2 European Capitals of Culture for 2018

[+grimpil]

Leeuwarden, Netherlands & Valetta, Malta

[+speakers-corner]

Sorry about the delay, we are enjoying the fine weather (40°) on Malta.

A ding for grimpil.

[+grimpil]

Thanks for the ding.  It does seem this topic has gone sluggish over the summer.

 

How many services are available when you dial 999 in UK?  Name them.  Not all are available in every area.

[+me N u]

Ambulance, fire, police and coastguard?

[+Optimist on the run]

6 - As above plus mountain rescue and mines rescue.

[+grimpil]

A ding for Optimist on the run.

 

Mines Rescue is correctly Cave & Mines Rescue.

 

It is surprising how many people don't know the six services - but as said it depends where you live.  No point calling Coastguard in Wolverhampton, or Mountain Rescue on the Norfolk coast!

[+Optimist on the run]

Thanks. Now for a canal question - where is the longest flight of locks in the UK?

[+searcherdog]

Tardebigge Flight on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal?

[+colleda]

Darn, beat me to it searcherdog. We've done quite a few locks in our time but haven't done those yet.

[+searcherdog]

We arrived at the locks towards the end of my first week on a narrowboat.. Our steersman expected us to take hours and meet lots of boats coming down. We were lucky and didn't have to wait at any lock.  I prepared and opened, our steersman had the narrowboat and my colleague closed. We were supposed to have a break half way up but we were doing so well that we just carried on. The incentive was a hot shower and dinner at the top!   Definite feeling of achievement on completion plus an enjoyable week trying something new.

[+colleda]

10 hours ago, searcherdog said:

We arrived at the locks towards the end of my first week on a narrowboat.. Our steersman expected us to take hours and meet lots of boats coming down. We were lucky and didn't have to wait at any lock.  I prepared and opened, our steersman had the narrowboat and my colleague closed. We were supposed to have a break half way up but we were doing so well that we just carried on. The incentive was a hot shower and dinner at the top!   Definite feeling of achievement on completion plus an enjoyable week trying something new.

It's quite surprising, and satisfying, how quickly you can get through a flight when there is no congestion and you get a rythm working.

[+Optimist on the run]

Ding to searcherdog. I'll be walking/caching along there later today, walking from Alvechurch to Bromsgrove. Not done them by boat though - yet.

[+searcherdog]

Thanks Optimist on the run. 30 locks raising the canal 67 metres in just over 2 miles.

Next question.....

Which food

- is not grown in the UK

- was first sold as a luxury item in 1901

- was classified as an essential food during wartime rationing

- is apparently now eaten by most people at least once a week

- has been loosely connected to geocaching since 2010?

 

 

[+Optimist on the run]

21 hours ago, searcherdog said:

Thanks Optimist on the run. 30 locks raising the canal 67 metres in just over 2 miles.

Next question.....

Which food

- is not grown in the UK

- was first sold as a luxury item in 1901

- was classified as an essential food during wartime rationing

- is apparently now eaten by most people at least once a week

- has been loosely connected to geocaching since 2010?

 

 

Rice? I'm not aware of geocaching connections though.

[+searcherdog]

Sorry, no.

[+speakers-corner]

oranges or bananas

[+colleda]

On 18/08/2018 at 6:37 PM, searcherdog said:

Thanks Optimist on the run. 30 locks raising the canal 67 metres in just over 2 miles.

Next question.....

Which food

- is not grown in the UK

- was first sold as a luxury item in 1901

- was classified as an essential food during wartime rationing

- is apparently now eaten by most people at least once a week

- has been loosely connected to geocaching since 2010?

 

 

Not frogs or pigeons then.

Hamsters maybe?

[+searcherdog]

Sorry for the delay. I've been stuck in a field with 34 kids and the forum site refused to accept my password.

No to speakers-corner. Definitely no to colleda.

A clue?

Suitable for vegetarians.

[+Optimist on the run]

Baked beans?

[+searcherdog]

That would be a bean-go! for Optomist on the run then.

And the loose connection to geocaching starts with the invention of the screw topped fridge pot which seem to be very popular cache container as you can camo paint or tape it easily.

[+Boggin's Dad]

I think it was one of my favourites as a child, but years since I have had any - I reckon it might be Peaches

 

 

[+Optimist on the run]

Sorry, Boggin's Dad, I've already got it! Actually the beans connection goes back to the earliest cache, as a tin of beans was apparently one of the things hidden in it.

 

Next question: Name the most famous pupil of Linbury Court.

[+searcherdog]

I didn't know about the bean tin connection so thank you to Optimist on the run for the additional info.

 

And I haven't even the faintest glimmer about Linbury Court.

[dodgydaved]

Got to be Jennings and his pal Derbyshire.........

 

 

[+Optimist on the run]

6 hours ago, dodgydaved said:

Got to be Jennings and his pal Derbyshire.........

 

 

Ding! In the novels by Anthony Buckeridge.

[dodgydaved]

Cheers my freind:

 

In the line in `Casablanca` which is often misquoted as `Play it again, Sam`, what song is Sam asked to play?

[+colleda]

Let's get the wrong answers out of the way first. "As Time Goes By"?

[dodgydaved]

On 30/08/2018 at 10:23 PM, colleda said:

Let's get the wrong answers out of the way first. "As Time Goes By"?

 

I believe this is the correct answer - it is certainly the one I was expecting, confirmed by a quick check in Wikipaedia.  AFAIAC the ding goes to Colleda, over to you kidder!

[+colleda]

Thanks for the ding. It seemed too obvious and I thought it was a trick question but I couldn't think of anything else

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My question, an easy one. What is antimacassar and where would you find it? Oh, that's two questions innit.

[+hal-an-tow]

According to my late lamented Grandma an antimacassar was a piece of cloth draped over the back of a sofa or upholstered chair, in the 'front room' (the posh one only used for visitors.and high holidays). Sort of tea towel sized, I believe it was something to do with keeping gentleman's hair oil off the best furniture, at at Grandma's house the antimacassars were embroidered, sort of decorative, and had long outlasted the hair oil  fashion which I'd guess was probably popular in her youth, she was born around 1900

 

[+colleda]

10 hours ago, hal-an-tow said:

According to my late lamented Grandma an antimacassar was a piece of cloth draped over the back of a sofa or upholstered chair, in the 'front room' (the posh one only used for visitors.and high holidays). Sort of tea towel sized, I believe it was something to do with keeping gentleman's hair oil off the best furniture, at at Grandma's house the antimacassars were embroidered, sort of decorative, and had long outlasted the hair oil  fashion which I'd guess was probably popular in her youth, she was born around 1900

 

That's a ding for you. As you said, to protect upholstery of chairs and sofas from hair oil which was known a Macassar Oil. Very Victorian.

[+hal-an-tow]

Thanks for the ding,

now an easy question , and one that was asked in an actual pub qui a couple of years ago, but the team around me didn't believe I knew the answer so preferred a guess, and gave a wrong answer instead. They were people with encyclopedic knowledge of TV soap operas, spectator sport and pop music, friends of a neighbour of mine. Yes, It still rankles  ...

What is the most common origin of the bristles of a camel hair brush ?

[+colleda]

There's something in the dark recesses of my mind that suugests I've come across this question before. Some animal totally unrelated to a camel but for the life of me I can't recall what it was. So I'm guessing its possibly fox?

[+Optimist on the run]

No doubt saying camels would give a QI-style claxon, so I'll say badgers. I'm pretty certain badger hair was used for shaving brushes, but I don't know about hairbrushes.