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colleda

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3 hours ago, Boggin's Dad said:

Spot on hal-an-tow a ding to you

 

More people die playing bowls than any other sport.

That gives me a great excuse to not take it up. The excitement must be too great. I'll stick to racing my sailboard against the other septuagenarians in my sailing club.

hal-an-tow

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4 hours ago, Boggin's Dad said:

Spot on hal-an-tow a ding to you

 

More people die playing bowls than any other sport.

Thanks.

According to family tales, I took my first steps on a bowling green (my parents ran a pub which had one at the time) and I have absolutely no intention of providing some sort of narrative symmetry by taking my last steps on one as well  ...

 

OK, my question :

Who said, on children's TV some years ago    "  @@@ it, the @@@@@  thing's stuck again ! "

Yes, quote censored for bad language here, as it was on the BBC .

 

hal-an-tow

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29 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

One of The Clangers, but not sure which one :P but when you watch the clip it fits perfectly to the soundtrack.

Ding ( or possibly swanee whistle tootle) to MartyBartfast.

 

'Twas Major Clanger himself, here's an account of the incident with the script and the mischievous use  Oliver Postgate put that sound clip to years later (about half way down the page) and QI showed the relevant clip. Mind you, in that QI episode Steven Fry says that the Clangers were in an episode of Dr Who , which is a bit misleading,  In one scene The Master was watching TV, and an episode of the Clangers was on the screen.

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14 hours ago, hal-an-tow said:

Ding ( or possibly swanee whistle tootle) to MartyBartfast.

Thanks, that leads me to my next question:

Which popular panel game has a round requiring the teams to play a tune on the  Swanee Whistle and Kazoo?

 

 

Boggin's Dad

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It is the most ridiculous quiz ever, I am not sure you would ever be able to pitch successfully nowadays. 

 

Before Jack Dee took over the chairmanship, who was the long term host?

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hal-an-tow

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17 hours ago, Boggin's Dad said:

It is the most ridiculous quiz ever, I am not sure you would ever be able to pitch successfully nowadays. 

 

Before Jack Dee took over the chairmanship, who was the long term host?

Humphrey Littleton (or should there only be one 't' in there ? )

What astonishes me about the show (apart from the straight faced Mornington Crescent running joke ) is how the utterly scurrilous chairman's remarks about the delightful Samantha ever got by the powers that be ...

hal-an-tow

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Ding to MartyBartfast,

special mention to searcherdog for not knowing, but in exactly the right way .

 

Oh, and I just got a letter from a  Mrs. Trellis of North Wales ... she wonders if it is true that German shoppers are stocking up on sausage and cheese to be prepared for the Würst Käse scenario ?

MartyBartfast

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OK changing tack to a somewhat topical subject:

The world record for the largest teleconference was set in 2012, dunring that call what was the maximum number of participants online for  a 10 second period? I'll give a leeway of 2000 either way.

 

 

 

speakers-corner

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Wow! Didnt expect that. It was just a guess. Thanks for the ding. Now I dont have a question für you all. Wait!

Change of subject - Football.

There have been 2 major disasters involving teams from the Premier League. When were they, just the years.

me N u

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Been thinking about this for a while now and finally came up with a possible 2nd answer so here goes

 

1957 Manchester United, Munich, West Germany (as was)

 

1985 Liverpool, Heysel stadium, Belgium.

speakers-corner

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Ill give the Ding to me n u for the teams.

What I was looking for was 1957 - Munich (Man U) and 1989 Hillsborough (Liverpool).

I didnt think of the Heysel Stadium disaster where Liverpool also was.

So over to you for the next question.

colleda

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As an antipodean the question was out of my knowledge range except that I had seen the air crash one on a tv docco. I could remember it involved an English team and occurred in Germany late 50s or early 60s.

One thing that stuck in my mind about that disaster is that after investigation, it was found that the passengers who survived were in rear facing seats. I think I also heard somewhere that US navy aircraft now have seats facing rearwards in case of such an event happening. As I have done a lot of flying I often wonder if it would be a good thing to have passenger seats facing the rear, it seems to make sense, after all, baby capsules in cars (here) are required to be rear facing.

Sorry about my mind rambling if its OT.

me N u

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Thank you for the ding, took us long enough to think of an answer and didn't even think of Hillsborough?

 

Hope this next question doesn't exclude the non British participants - which long running British TV programme's theme tune is "At the castle gate" by Jean Sibelius?

 

The piece of music in question 

 

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You tube link added.
colleda

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I have no idea so I Googled it and still have no idea except its a popular spot to visit and has a festival of some sort. Before doing that I thought it could be something along the line of SC's answer where in my state there is a spot somewhere on the east coast where you can see the sun across water.

MartyBartfast

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9 minutes ago, colleda said:

the east coast where you can see the sun across water.

DING to colleda. Hunstanton is on the East Coast, but the sun sets over the sea (The Wash) due to it's location, it's the only place on the English East Coast where this can be seen.

 

colleda

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Thanks MB. Hunstanton is another now another go-to place on my next UK visit list - whenever that will be.

 

Q. Where in UK did Jimi Hendrix play an underground gig?

grazoid

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6 hours ago, colleda said:

Thanks MB. Hunstanton is another now another go-to place on my next UK visit list - whenever that will be.

 

Q. Where in UK did Jimi Hendrix play an underground gig?

Easy for any fans - December '66 Chiselhurst  Caves.

 

colleda

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11 hours ago, grazoid said:

Easy for any fans - December '66 Chiselhurst  Caves.

 

I expected a quick answer so DING! Over to you grazoid.

The caves are on my London visit list.

colleda

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As grazoid is MIA I'll pose another question to keep the quiz moving along.

 

Q. What event took place late 1917 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that caused the deaths of approximately 2000 people?

colleda

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19 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

I think that was the explosion of a munitions ship, though no idea of the name of the ship. IIRC it was supposedly the loudest man made noise ever.

That's a big loud ding to MartyBartfast. It was between an empty cargo ship and a french ship carrying a load of high explosive. It was a very slow collision estimated at 1kt. Apparently some fuel drums on the deck  ship of the french ship ruptured. The spilt fuel ignited and made its way into the holds. Yes biggest and loudest bang (man made?) ever. Estimated force of a couple of kilotons. About 9000 people injured. Many thousands were made homeless.

 

Over to you MB.

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