The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+colleda]

50 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

I suspect that's gonna be Her Maj' Queen Elizabeth II

 

Close but no.

[+colleda]

On 11/28/2020 at 10:46 AM, colleda said:

Thanks.

Question:

Who has, on more than one occasion,  been referred to as "nambawan pikinini bilong Misses Kwin"?

Time for a hint?

nambawan = number one = first

pikikinini = piccaninny = child

bilong = belonging to = of

Misses = missus

Kwin = queen

 

[+RJx2]

50 minutes ago, colleda said:

Time for a hint?

nambawan = number one = first

pikikinini = piccaninny = child

bilong = belonging to = of

Misses = missus

Kwin = queen

 

Well... that has to be Prince Charles.

[+colleda]

1 hour ago, RJx2 said:

Well... that has to be Prince Charles.

Correct.

[+RJx2]

Thank you.

In what month was Prince Charles born?

[+mellers]

I want to say November... because I've been watching the latest series of the Crown and I think it may have come up. But this is only a tentative guess.

[+RJx2]

8 hours ago, mellers said:

I want to say November... because I've been watching the latest series of the Crown and I think it may have come up. But this is only a tentative guess.

Well done... he was born on 14th November 1948.

Over to you.

[+colleda]

8 hours ago, mellers said:

I want to say November... because I've been watching the latest series of the Crown and I think it may have come up. But this is only a tentative guess.

That was one month before me - same year. I was lucky not to have been named Charles or Phillip. I was the eldest child of my parents. Next was a my sister named Elizabeth, then another sister named Margaret.

[+mellers]

Aha! I also remember now where I heard the info lately,.. It was on the latest C4 Diana documentary (yes, I know, another one!) where they mentioned she agreed that her original interview with Martin Bashir should be aired on his birthday, so many years ago. 

Sticking with November and its etymology:

Who or what is the month of November named after?

[+colleda]

I'm guessing the word November has Latin roots possibly for the number nine as in the ninth month at some stage in early history, Roman? Especially as October makes me think of "eight".

[+mellers]

DING!

November was the ninth month of the Roman calendar and the name comes from the Latin novem meaning "nine".

[+colleda]

What historical event occurred on the Great Western Railway (England) in November 1840?

[+colleda]

On 12/1/2020 at 7:28 AM, colleda said:

What historical event occurred on the Great Western Railway (England) in November 1840?

Is it time for a hint?

[+Boggin's Dad]

Is it adoption of the same time across the network, rather than using local time from sundials?  
 

I'm sure there will be a formal name for it, but I hope I have the gist of it

 

Edited December 19, 2020 by Boggin's Dad

[+colleda]

Yep. UK towns once set their own times depending on sunrise/set which was a bit chaotic for people trying to know what time trains were running from various places in the early days. It brought about the standardisation of time across the country set to GMT.

Your turn BD.

[+Boggin's Dad]

Timing is everything!

 

On that subject timing is essential for navigation, we use it on our GPS receivers to accuracy of feet.

 

In the past there were many shipwrecks due to the inability to calculate longitude. Who was the man who designed/invented the first seaworthy clock that could accurately keep time in the varying temperature and sea condition? Bonus points if you can tell me the value of the prize he won

 

 

[+MartyBartfast]

It was Harrison who produced the first Marine chronometer, not sure of his first name but James rings a bell.
I don't know what the prize was but it was a LOT of money.

[+colleda]

I recall seeing a docco about this some time ago but I'm hopeless at remembering names. Early versions of chronometers were to large, and sensitive,  to be practical. This makes me wonder if the prize required compactness and portability. I'll go check with uncle Google to refresh my memory.

[+Boggin's Dad]

On 12/31/2020 at 2:53 PM, MartyBartfast said:

It was Harrison who produced the first Marine chronometer, not sure of his first name but James rings a bell.
I don't know what the prize was but it was a LOT of money.

 

A ding to you MartyBartFast

 

It was John Harrison, The prize was £20000, quite a lot of money today, let alone in the mid 1700s

 

This is memorialised by the Show of Hands tune, here played at Abbotsbury in Dorset

 

Over to you

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

 

Sticking with Harrison, one of his watches formed the storyline for  a popular TV show where it resulted in a change in fortune for the main characters, which show was it?

[NickPick]

On 2/2/2021 at 9:03 AM, MartyBartfast said:

Thanks.

 

Sticking with Harrison, one of his watches formed the storyline for  a popular TV show where it resulted in a change in fortune for the main characters, which show was it?

 

Longitude?

[+MartyBartfast]

2 minutes ago, NickPick said:

Longitude

Nope.

[+grimpil]

"Only Fools and Horses"

[+MartyBartfast]

1 minute ago, grimpil said:

"Only Fools and Horses"

 

Luvly Jubly

(to anyone not in the know it's the one where Del & Rodney found a Harrison watch in their lockup which sold for £millions)

 

Over to you.

[+grimpil]

That was a stroke of luck for me spotting the question as I only logged onto to here today for the first time in ages.  Prompted by the renewal of my annual subs.  Even though caching has been a low priority in recent months I still wonder where else I could get so much fun for £24.99 a year!  I just paid a roofer £25 for 10 minutes work to replace a cracked tile.

 

I'll go think of a new question - back soon.

[+IceColdUK]

1 hour ago, MartyBartfast said:

 

Luvly Jubly

(to anyone not in the know it's the one where Del & Rodney found a Harrison watch in their lockup which sold for £millions)

I thought it was a Victorian egg timer. ?

[+grimpil]

Staying with "Fools . . . " theme, try this one for size:

 

If you saw are a keen fan, or if you saw the re-run recently of "We Love Only Fools & Horses" you might recall that David Jason was not first choice to play Delboy.  He was third but who was the second choice.  A clue is that whilst IMHO he was perfect elsewhere as Pamela's husband I just cannot imagine his interpretation of Delboy would have resulted in such a national treasure character.

 

[+MartyBartfast]

1 hour ago, IceColdUK said:

I thought it was a Victorian egg timer. ?

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The watch is examined by experts, and all accept it to be the Harrison "lesser watch", a semi-mythical piece for which designs exist but there is no clear evidence the watch was ever made.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_on_Our_Hands

[+MartyBartfast]

On 2/4/2021 at 2:25 PM, grimpil said:

A clue is that whilst IMHO he was perfect elsewhere as Pamela's husband I

I'm pretty sure Jim Broadbent was first, and given this clue it must be Larry Lamb who was second...

 

[+grimpil]

LOL!  Almost but not quite!  First choice was Enn Reitel . . . But I'll give you the DING for actually getting the right name in Jim Broadbent as it seems no-one else is even guessing.

 

I was not aware of Larry Lamb having a screen wife called Pamela - so maybe I confused you.  The Pamela I intended was mother of Bridget Jones.

[+MartyBartfast]

9 hours ago, grimpil said:

I was not aware of Larry Lamb having a screen wife called Pamela - so maybe I confused you.  The Pamela I intended was mother of Bridget Jones.

Gavin & Stacy, he was Gavin's dad married to  Pamela (Alison Steadman)

 

I'll have a think for another one.

 

[+MartyBartfast]

Going a bit more high-brow.

 

Charring Cross is the point where distances to London are measured to/from, but the original  Cross itself  was one of  a set of 12  medieval crosses, why were the 12 crosses placed and for the bonus what are they collectively known as?

 

[+searcherdog]

Eleanor Crosses. One erected at each of the places her body stopped at night on the journey from where she died back to London.

Charing Cross is the best preserved and most of the others have disappeared.  

[+MartyBartfast]

1 hour ago, searcherdog said:

Eleanor Crosses. One erected at each of the places her body stopped at night on the journey from where she died back to London.

Charing Cross is the best preserved and most of the others have disappeared.  

Spot on, your turn.

[+searcherdog]

And onto music......

Which group with a palindromic name had a hit single that was also a palindrome?

Name both.

[+colleda]

The first bit was easy but had to go to my record collection for the song.

ABBA

S.O.S

 

 

[+searcherdog]

Over to colleda as "The winner takes it all"

[+colleda]

9 hours ago, searcherdog said:

Over to colleda as "The winner takes it all"

There's nothing to take.  No  prize Money, Money, Money.

 

[+colleda]

Staying with Abba theme.

Which Abba song spent ten weeks at #1 in Australia?

 

[+MartyBartfast]

I'll have a guess at Dancing Queen.

[+colleda]

14 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

I'll have a guess at Dancing Queen.

Not that one. Better known than that.

[+mellers]

On 2/12/2021 at 9:30 AM, colleda said:

Staying with Abba theme.

Which Abba song spent ten weeks at #1 in Australia?

 

Well I'll have a guess at the one which sent them to to the big time; 'Waterloo', then. 

[+colleda]

10 hours ago, mellers said:

Well I'll have a guess at the one which sent them to to the big time; 'Waterloo', then. 

Not that one.

At this stage I may have to show a hint.

[Sharpeset]

How about Mama Mia?

[+colleda]

40 minutes ago, Sharpeset said:

How about Mama Mia?

Ding! That's the one. Your turn.

[Sharpeset]

On 2/18/2021 at 12:20 PM, colleda said:

Ding! That's the one. Your turn.

Thanks - staying Down Under, who had a hit featuring the line "He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich?"

[+mellers]

That sounds like Men at Work (Land Down Under).

 

I think the line before was "I said do you speaka my language?!

[Sharpeset]

That's the Ding, over to you Bruce! 

Edited February 19, 2021 by Sharpeset

[+mellers]

Who won this year's UK Masked Singer (dressed as a sausage)?

[+MartyBartfast]

On 2/19/2021 at 8:24 PM, mellers said:

Who won this year's UK Masked Singer (dressed as a sausage)?

I have no idea as we don't watch it, but Mrs MB thinks it's Joss Stone.