The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+speakers-corner]

The Junkie guy that listens to music all the time

[+me N u]

Think his name is Otto, no idea on surname.

[+Boggin's Dad]

Me N u has it right, it is Otto Mann

 

Speakers-corner have the description right, however me N u have the ding, or maybe should it be a bong?

[+me N u]

Thank you for the ding/bong.

 

Next question - what colour are Bow street, vine street and Marlborough street on a monopoly game board?

 

 

[+MartyBartfast]

Orange, and I reckon one of the best value sets on the board.

[+me N u]

Ding to MartyBartfast  - and have to agree about being the best value too.

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

Name the area on the moon where the Apollo 11 mission landed.

[+mellers]

The Sea of Tranquillity?

 

[+MartyBartfast]

The Eagle has landed!

 

Over to  Mellers.

[+mellers]

Wide Sargasso Sea was a prequel for which famous novel?

[+colleda]

Kidnapped?

[+mellers]

Not Kidnapped.

[+colleda]

Trying to think of novels involving the sea. Moby Dick?

[+mellers]

Not Moby Dick.

The original more famous novel doesn't (as far as I recall) include much, if any, reference to the sea. Wide Sargasso Sea is a backstory for one of the characters... which is where the 'sea' bit comes in to it.

[+grimpil]

Jane Eyre

 

Written by Jean Rhys as a story of the early years of Mrs Rochester before she became the mad woman in the attic.

Edited January 25, 2019 by grimpil

[+mellers]

That’s a ding to grimpil

[+grimpil]

Thank you!

 

Staying on the literature theme here is a quote from a favourite book.  I often used to keep these words on my desk or as a screen saver, but where does it come from?

 

"I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours"

[+Optimist on the run]

Marx Brothers?

[+tyzack4]

17 hours ago, grimpil said:

Thank you!

 

Staying on the literature theme here is a quote from a favourite book.  I often used to keep these words on my desk or as a screen saver, but where does it come from?

 

"I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours"

Jerome K. Jerome.

[+grimpil]

You have to say where does it come from rather than who to qualify for the ding! ?

 

Edited January 26, 2019 by grimpil

[+tyzack4]

1 hour ago, grimpil said:

You have to say where does it come from rather than who to qualify for the ding! ?

 

Three men in a boat

 

[+grimpil]

And it's a well earned DING! to Tyzak.

[+tyzack4]

On a slightly less high brow literature theme, Sam Vimes is a Commander in which city?

[+mellers]

Ankh Morpork

[+tyzack4]

5 minutes ago, mellers said:

Ankh Morpork

Ding..., to mellers

 

[+mellers]

Cheers!

The fictional Ankh Morpork takes part of its name from the River Ankh which runs through the city... so

What was the historical name of the real-life area of land, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; a translation for which can mean literally "between two rivers".

[Sharpeset]

1 hour ago, mellers said:

Cheers!

The fictional Ankh Morpork takes part of its name from the River Ankh which runs through the city... so

What was the historical name of the real-life area of land, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; a translation for which can mean literally "between two rivers".

I remember this from my long gone uni days....the same name is used for an area of Oxford  - Mesopatomia

[+mellers]

Ding! Over to you, Sharpeset.

[Sharpeset]

Staying in Oxford, and sort of sticking with the geographical theme: which area of Oxford shares its name with a biblical city? 

 

[+mellers]

I don't know the city personally, but I seem to remember a reference from an Inspector Morse novel so my guess is 

Jericho,

[Sharpeset]

That's a very quick Ding!

[+mellers]

Thinking about Oxford... The word "Oxbridge" is a combination of the words, "Oxford" and "Cambridge" and refers to anyone who attended either university of the sort of culture which surrounds such institutions. What is the name for this type of word, which is a combination of two other words.

 

Other examples include "Chillax" (chill and relax) or "Brexit" (Britain and exit).

[+MartyBartfast]

Portmanteau.

 

[+mellers]

Ding! All yours, Marty.

[+MartyBartfast]

Oops, forgot about this.

 

Complete either of these well known  phrases:

"It's Friday, it's five to five. . . It's"

 

"It's Friday, it's five o'clock. . . It's"

 

(which one you go for may depend on your age).

[+mellers]

(Feeling my age by this point)

 

"Crackerjack"

[+MartyBartfast]

Ding to Mellers, who doesn't look nearly old enough to remember ?

[+mellers]

Thanks Marty.
Topical, now. What is the two word name of the groundhog used in America (specifically today), to predict the weather for the rest of the winter. Extra geocaching kudos to anyone who can spell the first part of his name correctly, although I'm not going to go all strict on you to insist on correct spelling for a ding!

[+tyzack4]

6 hours ago, mellers said:

Thanks Marty.
Topical, now. What is the two word name of the groundhog used in America (specifically today), to predict the weather for the rest of the winter. Extra geocaching kudos to anyone who can spell the first part of his name correctly, although I'm not going to go all strict on you to insist on correct spelling for a ding!

Punxsutawney Phil

 

or at least that was the name in the movie.

[+mellers]

tyzack4 gets a Ding AND kudos for a correct spelling. Over to you.

[+tyzack4]

Okay, here’s a chemistry based question.

T is the symbol for what element?

[+tyzack4]

18 hours ago, tyzack4 said:

Okay, here’s a chemistry based question.

T is the symbol for what element?

Another clue..... D is also the symbol for the same element.

[+me N u]

As far as we are aware, there are no chemical elements whose symbol is solely T or D - plenty of T+ eg Ti = Titanium or Ds = Darmstdtium (thanks to pointless for the latter).

[+searcherdog]

T didn't ring a bell, Deuterium shot into my mind when I saw the clue. I can see a google session approaching.

[+tyzack4]

7 minutes ago, searcherdog said:

T didn't ring a bell, Deuterium shot into my mind when I saw the clue. I can see a google session approaching.

Getting closer. One element has two other isotopes, each of which has their own symbol. So that’s three symbols for one element. I have given the isotope symbols: D and T. 

[+me N u]

The element is Hydrogen, symbol H - with T and D being the isotopes Tritium and Deuterium.

[+tyzack4]

6 hours ago, me N u said:

The element is Hydrogen, symbol H - with T and D being the isotopes Tritium and Deuterium.

Ding, over to you.

good answer.

[+me N u]

Thank you for the ding - our school days were not totally wasted

Next up, and a simple one

 

As I was going to St Ives,

 

I met a man with seven wives,

 

each wife had seven sacks,

 

each sack had seven cats,

 

each cat had seven kittens,

 

How many were going to St Ives?

[+MartyBartfast]

we only know 1 for sure - you.

 

Though Jonh Finnemore did a very funny sketch about it on his Souvenir Programme, where they met on a train going to St. Ives so in that case there were 2,753.

[+me N u]

And a  quick ding to MartyBartfast !