The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+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.

[+spooky_luke]

12 minutes ago, colleda said:

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.

 

Correct - New London Bridge was sold and relocated to Lake Havasu City in Arizona.

 

Your turn

[+colleda]

Sorry. I realised I had another question before the on3 I just deleted.

 

It is. As of last Saturday, on which internationally known Australian landmark are tourists no longer allowed to walk or climb?

Edited October 30, 2019 by colleda
typos

[+me N u]

The rock known as Uluru (spelling?) formerly known as Ayers rock.

[+colleda]

13 hours ago, me N u said:

The rock known as Uluru (spelling?) formerly known as Ayers rock.

Take a ding for that.

I did  that walk/climb twice in 1985.

Over to you.

[+me N u]

Thank you for the ding unfortunately we haven't made it to Australia yet.

 

Which of the UK's national parks is the latest to be established?

[+searcherdog]

South Downs?

[+me N u]

13 hours ago, searcherdog said:

South Downs?

 

Quick ding to searcherdog, over to you 

[+searcherdog]

Thank you.

I was asked a question today but had to look up the answer. So, let's see if you can work out what connects strontium carbonate, calcium chloride, sodium nitrate, barium chloride, copper chloride and various other chemicals.

[+Boggin's Dad]

Are they ingredients of fireworks that give the colour?

[+searcherdog]

That would be a BANG!!!! to Boggin's Dad.

Strontium carbonate (red), calcium chloride (orange), sodium nitrate (yellow), barium chloride (green) and copper chloride (blue)

[+Boggin's Dad]

Who was on the throne when Guy Fawkes and his friends attacked the Houses of Parliament?

 

[+mellers]

From the fashion of the day that I can picture them all in, it feels like it should have been Elizabeth I

[+Optimist on the run]

James I?

 

[dodgydaved]

1 hour ago, Optimist on the run said:

James I?

 

........and VIth

 

[+mellers]

As Boggin's Dad seems to be AFK for the moment, (and it's been a week since the last answer was posed), I have googled the answer and wonder if everyone is OK with us giving a collective community ding to Optimist on the run, just to get the thread going again? He got it right!

[+Optimist on the run]

In the song often referred to as Daisy, Daisy, or Bicyle Built for Two, what is Daisy's rather apt surname?

Edited November 21, 2019 by Optimist on the run

[+speakers-corner]

22 hours ago, Optimist on the run said:

In the song often referred to as Daisy, Daisy, or Bicyle Built for Two, what is Daisy's rather apt surname?

After watching the Downton Abbey film two weeks ago and hearing the song being sung in it my brother and I remembered our mum singing it as well and so I remember that her name was Daisy Bell.

"Peddling our way down the road of life, I and my daisy bell"

[+Optimist on the run]

Ting-a-ling to speakers-corner. If i'd known it was in Downton Abbey (never watched it) I'd have set a harder question!

[+speakers-corner]

2 hours ago, Optimist on the run said:

Ting-a-ling to speakers-corner. If i'd known it was in Downton Abbey (never watched it) I'd have set a harder question!

 

One of the footmen that fancy Daisy (kitchen maid) was singing it.

 

Staying with the same theme. What grows in Mary's garden?

[+MartyBartfast]

Silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.

 

 

[+speakers-corner]

over to you, to you it goes,

over to you it goes.

well done

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

Whose greatest case was "The Penge Bungalow Murders" ?

[+grimpil]

Horace Rumpole - Rumpole of the Bailey

[+MartyBartfast]

 

25 minutes ago, grimpil said:

Horace Rumpole - Rumpole of the Bailey

Guilty my old darling.

 

Over to you.

[+grimpil]

Thank you.  You either know these things or you don't!

 

So - next question:

 

Sir Joshua Hoot QC was the long-suffering adversary of which champion of the common man?

[+grimpil]

Is anybody there?  Do you want a clue?  Maybe I will mislead you with a red herring . . . . or not?

[+searcherdog]

On 11/23/2019 at 6:29 PM, grimpil said:

You either know these things or you don't!

 

1 hour ago, grimpil said:

Is anybody there?

I don't know and I am here. 

 

 

[+speakers-corner]

2 hours ago, grimpil said:

Is anybody there?  Do you want a clue?  Maybe I will mislead you with a red herring . . . . or not?

The case is clear here. Im out of it, I googled the answer . Im sure I watched the series a LONG time ago.

[+colleda]

2 hours ago, searcherdog said:

 

I don't know and I am here. 

 

 

Me too.

[+grimpil]

2 hours ago, speakers-corner said:

The case is clear here. Im out of it, I googled the answer . Im sure I watched the series a LONG time ago.

Holy cow!  At least I am not now laughing alone at the memories!  I guess you probably have to be over 65 to have seen this.  Another time, another plaice (as they say).

[+speakers-corner]

not far off 65, a few yrs to go. Anyway the answer is here, somewhere. I wonder where

 

On ‎11‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 11:58 AM, grimpil said:

Is anybody there?  Do you want a clue?  Maybe I will mislead you with a red herring . . . . or not?

 

On ‎11‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 2:47 PM, speakers-corner said:

The case is clear here. Im out of it, I googled the answer . Im sure I watched the series a LONG time ago.

 

[+grimpil]

Not being a regular participant in this quiz thread I don't know the "etiquette" of when an unanswered question is abandoned & who sets the next challenge.  Cannot think of any further clues that would not make people feel right Herberts when the case is revealed . . . . 

[+speakers-corner]