The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+colleda]

Decimal currency. That was my guess too as I remember it being about two years after here in Oz - 14/2/1966. I worked in a bank at the time.I still have a couple of thousand pennies and ha'pennies that I often drop in caches, including on my trips along UK canals.

[+me N u]

Over to searcherdog - decimal 5p and 10p coins were introduced into circulation.

[+searcherdog]

Shilling (5p) and florin (10p) coins remained in circulation for a while after decimalisation.

When did the last one cease to be legal tender?  - Just the year unless you can remember precisely!

[+MartyBartfast]

I was watching a Youtube video about how the coins have changed size over the years. I think they went out when the newer smaller 10p & 5p coins were introduced.

Gonna guess mid 90's is so 1996...

[+searcherdog]

Not 1996. Next guess?

[+hal-an-tow]

I well recall trying to explain to my Gran how the newfangled 'p' not 'd' worked ... and I still own books with 2/6d prices on the back cover , so I'll have a guess at 1975

[+searcherdog]

Definitely not 1975. Keep guessing.

[+Aguila317]

There were certainly 10p nickel coins in circulation when I worked in Cash-in-Transit in 2012. 

[+searcherdog]

Are there any more ideas?

The ding will go to the nearest miss tomorrow unless we have more guesses today.

[+mellers]

1 hour ago, searcherdog said:

Are there any more ideas?

The ding will go to the nearest miss tomorrow unless we have more guesses today.

Right. Well as were truly at the guessing stage,  I'll go for 1989.

[dodgydaved]

I'm going to go earlier than "D"-day in the hope that the florin was phased out and replaced by the 10p much earlier - so...........1968!!

 

[+searcherdog]

And the answers ....

The first decimal coins were introduced starting 23rd April 1968

Decimalisation was 15th February 1971

The shilling remained until 31st December 1990 leaving the florin as the last remaining old coin.

The new size smaller decimal coins were introduced in 1992

The florin ceased to be legal tender on 30th June 1993

So the DING (or should that be jangle of coins) goes to MartyBartfast with good logic and only a few years out.

 

 

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

A three part question, first one to give me all three correct gets the DING, so please name:

1. The highest mountain in the world, i.e. the one with the peak highest above sea level.
2. The highest mountain in the world, i.e. the one with it's peak highest above the Earth's centre.
3. The tallest mountain in the world, i.e. the one which has the greatest vertical distance from its base to its peak.

 

 

[+me N u]

We are fairly confident about 1 and 3 and the country for 2 but unfortunately not the name.

[+MartyBartfast]

On 5/1/2020 at 1:38 PM, me N u said:

We are fairly confident about 1 and 3 and the country for 2 but unfortunately not the name.

OK, as nobody's come out with three any correct answers yet I'll give the DING  for 2 out of 3

Edited May 4, 2020 by MartyBartfast

[+me N u]

Let’s see if our confidence is misplaced ?

 

1) Mount Everest

 

2) We think it’s in Ecuador, and the distance from the earths centre is due to the earth not being a perfect sphere and bulging slightly at the equator, but we have no idea of the name.

 

3) Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

[+MartyBartfast]

1 hour ago, me N u said:

Let’s see if our confidence is misplaced ?

 

1) Mount Everest

 

2) We think it’s in Ecuador, and the distance from the earths centre is due to the earth not being a perfect sphere and bulging slightly at the equator, but we have no idea of the name.

 

3) Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

 

Correct in all respects, 2 is  Chimborazo

 

Over to you

[+me N u]

At least we didn't fall flat on our faces - thank you MartyBartfast.

 

Staying with geography, what is the name of the largest landlocked country?

[+colleda]

Mongolia?

[+MartyBartfast]

I think it's one of the "stan"s so how about Khazakstan?

[+me N u]

Ding to MartyBartfast - Kazakhstan is the info. we had.

Edited May 6, 2020 by me N u
Edited to correct for fat fingers.

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

Today is VE day, but what date is VJ day?

(I'm looking for the UK date, some countries have it on different dates).

 

[+colleda]

This one is close to home as my father fought the Japanese in New Guinea. It was 15 August after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It may have been still 14th in UK I'm guessing due to time zone differences. The actual surrender document was signed in early September (the month of my father's birthday) on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo.

My mother's birthday was on Armistice Day 1921,  November 11.

[+MartyBartfast]

17 hours ago, colleda said:

It was 15 August

Ding to colleda, for August 15th.

[+colleda]

Thanks MB.

What type of animal is a Land Mullet?

[+colleda]

On 5/13/2020 at 2:59 PM, colleda said:

Thanks MB.

What type of animal is a Land Mullet?

I guess a hint may be in order?

 

A type of reptile.

[+MartyBartfast]

Is that one of those mud skipper things, that looks like a cross between a fish and a newt and uses it's "fins" to drag itself across the mud?

 

[+colleda]

10 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

Is that one of those mud skipper things, that looks like a cross between a fish and a newt and uses it's "fins" to drag itself across the mud?

 

Nope. I believe that's an amphibian, like a mud skipper or axolotl. Think reptilian.

[+colleda]

No takers for the Land Mullet?

Answer: It is the largest of the skink family of reptiles growing up to 50cm long.

 

I have another question in its place.

 

What type of creature(?) is a cockentrice?

[dodgydaved]

5 hours ago, colleda said:

No takers for the Land Mullet?

Answer: It is the largest of the skink family of reptiles growing up to 50cm long.

 

I have another question in its place.

 

What type of creature(?) is a cockentrice?

It is a government briefing - a load of C**k , written in a trice!!

[+MartyBartfast]

6 hours ago, colleda said:

No takers for the Land Mullet?

Answer: It is the largest of the skink family of reptiles growing up to 50cm long.

 

I have another question in its place.

 

What type of creature(?) is a cockentrice?

It's one of those dishes which consists of one animal stuffed inside another animal(s), and then roasted, sort of like a Russian doll roast; I don't know whether it has specific animals, if so I don't know which.

[+colleda]

1 hour ago, dodgydaved said:

It is a government briefing - a load of C**k , written in a trice!!

I think that's a cockemuptrice you're thinking of.

[+colleda]

1 hour ago, MartyBartfast said:

It's one of those dishes which consists of one animal stuffed inside another animal(s), and then roasted, sort of like a Russian doll roast; I don't know whether it has specific animals, if so I don't know which.

You're close.

It's the front half of one animal joined to the rear half of another, stuffed and roasted. Popular in Tudor times.

But what two animals were they?

[+me N u]

We think the front was a pig/piglet but not a clue on the rear end - have seen it mentioned on one of the food history programmes.

[+colleda]

16 hours ago, me N u said:

We think the front was a pig/piglet but not a clue on the rear end - have seen it mentioned on one of the food history programmes.

That's close enough. Front half was a suckling pig to which a turkey was sewn in at the back. Perhaps the origin of pigs that fly?

That's close enough for a ding to me N u to keep this moving.

[+me N u]

Didn’t expect the ding, but thank you!

 

A simple question now - how many equations did Stephen Hawking include in “A brief history of time”?

[+me N u]

Has nobody else got a copy?

 

Here's a hint - it's somewhere between zero and two ?

[+colleda]

One, perhaps?

[+me N u]

7 hours ago, colleda said:

One, perhaps?

 

Ding to colleda.

 

 

In the introduction to the book, Stephen Hawking informs that he was told “he would lose half the readers for every equation he included” but thought that Einstein's e =mc2 was well known enough to include.

[+colleda]

On 6/9/2020 at 4:55 PM, me N u said:

 

Ding to colleda.

 

 

In the introduction to the book, Stephen Hawking informs that he was told “he would lose half the readers for every equation he included” but thought that Einstein's e =mc2 was well known enough to include.

Thanks me N u

 

What historical event was originally known as "the incident on Griffin's wharf".

Edited June 11, 2020 by colleda

[+MartyBartfast]

This is a pure guess, but I'll go for the Boston Tea Party.

[+colleda]

A soggy ding to MB. Yes, it was to become known later, in the 1800s, as The Boston Tea Party;.

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

How are Bartholemew and Wiseman better known?

[+Optimist on the run]

Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise

[+MartyBartfast]

21 minutes ago, Optimist on the run said:

Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise

Yes indeed sunshine, your go.

[+Optimist on the run]

Thanks. Which English monarch was on the throne when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas?

[+colleda]

I'm guessing one of the early Henrys. Number 2?

[+Optimist on the run]

Later than Henry II

 

[+MartyBartfast]

Well we were well into colonising when Elizabeth I was on the throne, so maybe it was her dad - Henry VIII ?

[+searcherdog]

And I'll split the difference with Henry V