The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+speakers-corner]

Ok, Ill give the Ding to Sharpeset.

What I was looking for was football and Bernhard "Bert" Trautmann. 1956 FA Cup Final, he broke his neck in the 75th Minute after colliding with Peter Murphy (Birmingham City). He carried on until the end of the game. 3 days later he was diagnosed with having dislocated 5 vertebrae, the second of which was broken.

Over to you.

[Sharpeset]

Thanks: Sticking with football. On Boxing Day 1999, which Premier League team was the first in PL history to field a starting eleven with no British players?

[+speakers-corner]

The team that played against Dynamo Kiew yesterday - Chelsea.

[Sharpeset]

Goal! 

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the Ding and sorry for the delay.

Staying with football, and I think a quick answer will come with this.

 

In which team did Bobby and Jack charlton play together?

[+MartyBartfast]

England, including the 1966 world cup squad.

 

[+speakers-corner]

Ding, over to you.

[+MartyBartfast]

 

Who painted this:

 

 

[dodgydaved]

Holbein - beautiful trompe l'oeil of a skull.  It hung on the wall of my opticians when I used to go there about 70 yrs ago!!

[+MartyBartfast]

That's a Ding to DDD, and for the (tenuous) caching connection, there's a puzzle cache in London based on the picture (https://coord.info/GC21CD7).

[dodgydaved]

 

Another well known trompe d'oeil - but where is it please?

Edited March 19, 2019 by dodgydaved
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[+searcherdog]

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire ?

[dodgydaved]

That's the place!  Over to Searcherdog :)

 

[+searcherdog]

I know of three names for the brightest star in the night sky. 

Can you name one of them?

[+Boggin's Dad]

Polaris

 

[+Optimist on the run]

Sirius, or Dog Star.

[+searcherdog]

Apparently Polaris is ranked within the top 50 brightest stars but Sirius / the Dog Star / Alpha Canis Majoris is the brightest.

So that's a bright ding to Optimist on the run.

[+Optimist on the run]

Staying with space...

 

It's nearly 50 years since Apollo 11. Who was the third man to walk on the moon?

[+Optimist on the run]

On 3/26/2019 at 11:26 AM, Optimist on the run said:

Staying with space...

 

It's nearly 50 years since Apollo 11. Who was the third man to walk on the moon?

This must be harder than I thought. Time for a hint - the name I'm looking for is P _ _ _   C _ _ _ _ _

[+speakers-corner]

This threw me for a while until I asked my son-in-law (a USAF Pilot). It was Charles "Pete" Conrad, commander of Apollo 12.

[+Optimist on the run]

9 hours ago, speakers-corner said:

This threw me for a while until I asked my son-in-law (a USAF Pilot). It was Charles "Pete" Conrad, commander of Apollo 12.

Ding! Over to you...

[+speakers-corner]

Thanks for the ding ootr.

 

Staying on the Topic for a quick answer. Who led the design of the Saturn V rocket?

[+MartyBartfast]

I suspect that was Werner Von Braun, ex lead on the German V1/2 programmes.

[+speakers-corner]

Ding, over to you marty

[+MartyBartfast]

According to the Bible, how many people went on Noah's Ark?

[+colleda]

1 hour ago, MartyBartfast said:

According to the Bible, how many people went on Noah's Ark?

eight? Noah, Japhet, Ham , Shem and their wives?

[+MartyBartfast]

That's a big wet DING to Colleda.

[+colleda]

wow. didn't expect that. It was a guess from a line of a rhyme I heard years ago. "Where Noah, Japhet, Ham and Shem probably look after them". I don't remember the rest of it. Then I thought about the 2x2 so added their partners.

I'll have to think something up and it won't be football related.

[+colleda]

Which two waterways are linked by the Anderton lift?

[+grimpil]

Trent & Mersey Canal and River Weaver.  A remarkable piece of engineering & well worth the ride!

[+colleda]

A ding to grimpil. I have great memories of riding that lift on a Black Prince narrowboat alongside another boat named Lord Byron's Maggot. Maybe I could have used that as a question, 'what is Lord Byron's Maggot'. Anyways, over to grimpil.

[+grimpil]

Cheers Colleda!

 

OK staying with a waterways theme try this one.

 

What/where is the oldest canal in the UK that is still in use?

[dodgydaved]

Bridgwater?

[+grimpil]

Nope!  That was the answer I expected to get.  You need to navigate further east & much further back in history.

[+grimpil]

Has everyone sailed away?  Or are you all up a creek without a paddle?  I learned this interesting fact from a quiz last year & it did have almost everyone (including me at the time) stumped, which is probably why I have remembered it.

 

I don't recall seeing Timothy & Pru on this one.  

[+searcherdog]

No, I've been out caching ;-))

I think I half know but can't be precise enough so am waiting for somebody to answer correctly.

[+MartyBartfast]

8 minutes ago, grimpil said:

Has everyone sailed away?  Or are you all up a creek without a paddle? 

Up the creek. I reckoned I knew how old (ish) it was going to be and when I googled it I was right, but I've never heard of it.

[+grimpil]

When I learned of it last year I looked it up on a map & realised I had seen it many years ago on a visit to the area.  Had not known then of it's ancient origin.  Cannot really give any more clues without giving it away so if no-one gets it I will hand over to MartyB in 24 hours.

[dodgydaved]

19 hours ago, grimpil said:

Nope!  That was the answer I expected to get.  You need to navigate further east & much further back in history.

 

Ding lightbulb moment!  Roman canalised Fossdyke Lincoln way!!!

[+grimpil]

And it's an eleventh hour ding to dodgydaved!  MartyB sadly pipped at the post!

 

Yes - The Fossdyke Navigation runs for nearly 18km from Torksey Lock at the River Trent junction to the City of Lincoln.

[dodgydaved]

Going back to the Bridgewater canal - the original boats there, working out of the Worsley mines, had a strange nickname.  What was it and, for a kudos point, why?

[+Optimist on the run]

I have to admit, I've now Googled for an answer, and still can't find anything. Perhaps a hint would be helpful.

[+MartyBartfast]

The only nick names I can come up with for canal craft are  "Tom Puddings" - which were what un-powered barges were called around Yorkshire when me mam were a lass, no idea of the origin though.

[+searcherdog]

And I knew why but only part of the what so I googled too.

[dodgydaved]

7 hours ago, Optimist on the run said:

I have to admit, I've now Googled for an answer, and still can't find anything. Perhaps a hint would be helpful.

 

I just googled Bridgwater Canal and got the wrong one!  Googling Bridgwater Worsley Canal gave me a wikipaedia entry with a very brief mention of the vessels concerned'

 

MartyB mentions the Tom Puddings - cube like craft pushed or pulled in long chains by a motor - and searcherdog says he knew the why but only part of the what.

 

I am off on my hols soon so I'll give you the answer - They were called Starvationers - because the ribs of the vessel were built strongly to cope with the wear and tear of hauling minerals, and they stuck out!

 

Here's a tie breaker - much easier I think - for Optimist, MartyB and searcherdog:

 

The longest flight of locks on an English Canal is, I believe, the Caen Hill Flight.

 

On which canal is it?    3......2.......1.....GO!

[+MartyBartfast]

Kennet and Avon.

 

We once picked up a boat from a marina at the bottom of the flight but went the other way towards Bath & Bristol 'cos it looked like a lot less effort.

[dodgydaved]

6 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

Kennet and Avon.

 

We once picked up a boat from a marina at the bottom of the flight but went the other way towards Bath & Bristol 'cos it looked like a lot less effort.

 

That's the one, a windlass rattling Ding to MartyB!!

 

[+searcherdog]

32 minutes ago, dodgydaved said:

 

Here's a tie breaker - much easier I think - for Optimist, MartyB and searcherdog:

 

The longest flight of locks on an English Canal is, I believe, the Caen Hill Flight.

 

On which canal is it?    3......2.......1.....GO!

 

The only longest flight I know is the Tardebigge flight near Worcester. I opened and closed every one of the 30 locks and walked (err, ran) most of the 2+ miles as our boss was quicker than me.   I haven't experienced the Caen Hill flight so pass.

[+MartyBartfast]

What happened at Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938?

[+Optimist on the run]

LNER A4 Pacific Mallard broke the world speed record for steam trains, reaching 126mph. The record still stands.