The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+colleda]

Hmmm. Winner is MIA perhaps?

To keep this going.

 

Q. What part of the American Bald Eagle is "bald".

[+mellers]

Its feet?

[+colleda]

28 minutes ago, mellers said:

Its feet?

Sorry, no ding.

[+MartyBartfast]

Nothing?

Perhaps it was named as such because the white head feathers make it look bald from a distance...

[+colleda]

Nope, not white head feathers

Hint: Mellers was close.

[+me N u]

On 9/26/2019 at 12:34 PM, mellers said:

Its feet?

 

On 9/26/2019 at 10:30 PM, colleda said:

Nope, not white head feathers

Hint: Mellers was close.

 

We'll hazard a guess at its legs then.

[+colleda]

11 hours ago, me N u said:

 

 

We'll hazard a guess at its legs then.

Correctamundo. DING!!

Me N u

2 u

[+me N u]

Thank you.

 

We'll stick with animals for the next question-

 

what is the common (according to the Oxford English dictionary) plural of mongoose?

[+colleda]

1 hour ago, me N u said:

Thank you.

 

We'll stick with animals for the next question-

 

what is the common (according to the Oxford English dictionary) plural of mongoose?

Mongooses?

[+me N u]

Ding to colleda!

 

That is the common plural, the uncommon being mongeese.

[+colleda]

10 hours ago, me N u said:

Ding to colleda!

 

That is the common plural, the uncommon being mongeese.

A lucky guess. I assumed it could be similar to the plural for platypus - platypuses.

OK, one for train buffs or spotters maybe.

 

London has the worlds oldest underground rail. What city has the second oldest?

[+Optimist on the run]

Budapest is one of the oldest I think.

 

[+MartyBartfast]

Something in the back of my memory is saying Chicago...

 

[+colleda]

8 hours ago, Optimist on the run said:

Budapest is one of the oldest I think.

 

Not that one.

[+colleda]

1 hour ago, MartyBartfast said:

Something in the back of my memory is saying Chicago...

 

Not that one either.

[+colleda]

A hint?

East of UK.

[+colleda]

Another hint.

Europe or Asia?  Hmmm.

[+Optimist on the run]

I Googled the answer a few days ago - Budapest is the second oldest underground railway in the sense of a Metro, but you're correct that there is another railway that is underground and even older. It's not one I'd heard of before.

[+Boggin's Dad]

 

 

On 10/8/2019 at 10:43 PM, colleda said:

A hint?

East of UK.

 

Ipswich? Norwich?

 

On 10/15/2019 at 10:41 PM, colleda said:

Another hint.

Europe or Asia?  Hmmm.

 

I suspect my previous guesses are incorrect, so I will go with Istanbul.

 

 

 

[+colleda]

5 hours ago, Boggin's Dad said:

 

 

 

Ipswich? Norwich?

 

 

I suspect my previous guesses are incorrect, so I will go with Istanbul.

 

 

 

A ding goes to BD.

The Istanbul Tunel opened Jan 1875 making it the second oldest urban underground after London.

 I was there a year ago and stayed at a hotel quite close to it but did not use it. The trams were sufficient for my needs.

[+Boggin's Dad]

Which company makes the most tyres in a year?

 

[+mellers]

This one is going to be a toy company, so I'll say Lego.

[+Boggin's Dad]

2 hours ago, mellers said:

This one is going to be a toy company, so I'll say Lego.

 

Ding to mellers

 

318 million in 2011, compared to 190 million for the next best - Bridgestone 

[+mellers]

Who is widely accepted to be  the inventor of the adhesive postage stamp?

[+mellers]

Am surprised that this has stumped the usual crowd... perhaps my childhood interest in stamp collecting has led me to believe this bit of pub trivia is more well-known than it actually is. 

 

Here is the chap in question (on a stamp appropriately, enough) 


He was knighted and his DoB-DoD are: 1795 - 1879
The first stamp to utilise his idea was the Penny Black. 

[+colleda]

I knew the penny black was the first but the rest is a guess. Robert Peel?

[+Optimist on the run]

Hill? Not sure of his first name. There's a monument to him in Shrewsbury.

[+mellers]

36 minutes ago, Optimist on the run said:

Hill? Not sure of his first name. There's a monument to him in Shrewsbury.

 

I'll give that to Optimist on the run.

It's Sir Rowland Hill.

 

Over to you matey.

[+speakers-corner]

9 hours ago, colleda said:

I knew the penny black was the first but the rest is a guess. Robert Peel?

 

Sir Robert Peel created the modern police force.

[+colleda]

4 hours ago, speakers-corner said:

 

Sir Robert Peel created the modern police force.

That was a total stab in the dark. I knew about the Peelers. The night before I'd been watching a program on the box about Victorian Britain and his was the only name I could think of except for Brunel but discounted him as he was an engineer.

[+speakers-corner]

I saw the Question a bit late. I knew the answer as I have been a stamp collecter since I was About 7. Got lots of stamps from the old colonies.

[+Optimist on the run]

Next question: The two commonest elements in earth's atmosphere are Nitrogen and Oxygen. What element comes third?

[+MartyBartfast]

I think Argon is a surprisingly high percentage...

[+Optimist on the run]

3 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

I think Argon is a surprisingly high percentage...

Ding. It makes just under 1% of our atmosphere.

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

What was the "Bedford Level Experiment" and what did it "prove"?

[+colleda]

3 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

Thanks.

 

What was the "Bedford Level Experiment" and what did it "prove"?

The earth is not flat?

[+MartyBartfast]

31 minutes ago, colleda said:

The earth is not flat?

That's a ding, though the  original experimenter claimed it proved that the Earth IS flat, and a surprising number of people still believe it!

Unfortunately it's a little far away from me, but it would be a great place to do an Earthcache based on the curvature of the Earth

[+colleda]

3 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

That's a ding, though the  original experimenter claimed it proved that the Earth IS flat, and a surprising number of people still believe it!

Unfortunately it's a little far away from me, but it would be a great place to do an Earthcache based on the curvature of the Earth

I'll have to look it up and make a note in my "Things To Do Next Time in UK" book. So far, Tony Robinson and Michael Portillo have been providing some good ideas.

Hmm. Time to think up another question.

[+colleda]

What make and model (optional) motorcycle was TE Lawrence riding when he died?

[+speakers-corner]

Triumph Bonneville?

[+MartyBartfast]

Pretty sure  it was a Brough Superior.

[+colleda]

2 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

Pretty sure  it was a Brough Superior.

A big V ding. An SS100 Brough Superior.

Over to Marty

[+MartyBartfast]

Ta.

Who owned a toad called Touchwood ?

[+colleda]

17 hours ago, speakers-corner said:

Triumph Bonneville?

Triumph Bonnies weren't made until the early 60s, TE Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia, died in 1935. The Bonneville part of the name was in reference to the Bonneville Salt Flats in the US where many  speed trials were done.

[+MartyBartfast]

On 10/25/2019 at 6:40 PM, MartyBartfast said:

Ta.

Who owned a toad called Touchwood ?

 

Hint: It's a TV question.

[+MartyBartfast]

On 10/27/2019 at 6:29 PM, MartyBartfast said:

 

Hint: It's a TV question.

 

1970's UK Children's TV.

[+spooky_luke]

5 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

 

1970's UK Children's TV.

 

Catweasel?

[+MartyBartfast]

6 minutes ago, spooky_luke said:

 

Catweasel?

That's the chap, your go.

[+spooky_luke]

Thanks.

 

Where will you find New London Bridge?

[+colleda]

The old one was in London. If you mean the old one that was sold to an American and rebuilt as the "new" London Bridge then that is in Arizona where I passed through about three years ago but didn't get to see it. Or there is another I don't yet know about.

I was on a bus tour and traveling many miles a day so stops were short. I remember stopping in Seligman AZ which was on the old Route 66. Sadly I didn't get any caches in AZ but got some in other states.