The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+mellers]

Well that's a DING to Mrs Marty - perhaps you can ask her to set the next question? 

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks, but Mrs MB isn't really that interested, so this from me keeping with the music theme but tying it into recent events.

 

What's the full name of the first movement of Holst's "The Planets Suite"?

[+mellers]

OK, so this is an answer I don't actually know, per se - but I'm going to have a logical stab based on some stuff I do know and the way the question was worded... (don't laugh at the result!)

 

Given that Perseverance only just landed on Mars, I'm going to guess Mars is the first planet piece. I know Mars is the Roman God of War - and given that I know Jupiter was the bringer of Joy, my full answer is going to be a mismatch of all those 3 snippets

 

How about "Mars the bringer of war"?

[+MartyBartfast]

6 minutes ago, mellers said:

How about "Mars the bringer of war"?

That's a big DING Mellers, and it's one of the most evocative pieces of music IMO,  listening to it really portrays the menace and portent of doom of war!

 

 

 

[+mellers]

Which Berkshire town has the UK headquarters of Mars (them what makes the choccy bars)?

[+colleda]

On 2/2/2021 at 5:01 PM, Boggin's Dad said:

 

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

A while ago I read a book Longitude by Dava Sobel that was about Harrison. A good read.

[+mellers]

On 2/22/2021 at 7:31 AM, mellers said:

Which Berkshire town has the UK headquarters of Mars (them what makes the choccy bars)?

Time for a couple of hints, I think. Poet John Betjeman wrote a poem about this town which begins...
"Come, friendly bombs and fall..." and the TV series, 'The Office' was set in the sales office of a paper company there.

[+MartyBartfast]

Gotta be Slough then 

which is odd for 2 reasons:

    1: I thought it was Newbury or Reading;

    2: I didn't think Slough was in Berks!

You live and learn!

[+mellers]

DING! Over to Martybartfast.

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks, this should be a quick one:

What links these 4 great things:

The Great Wall of China

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

??

[+colleda]

On 2/28/2021 at 9:14 PM, MartyBartfast said:

Thanks, this should be a quick one:

What links these 4 great things:

The Great Wall of China

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

??

Great?

[+MartyBartfast]

3 hours ago, colleda said:

Great?

I was looking for something more than that, in the Geocaching news recently...

[+searcherdog]

Various 7 wonders?

[+MartyBartfast]

15 minutes ago, searcherdog said:

Various 7 wonders?

Indeed, they're all part of the ongoing Wonders promotions,

 

Your turn.

[+searcherdog]

Thank you.

It's possibly time for a harder question.

Mars Bars have been produced in many versions and sizes but when was the first Mars Bar made in Slough?  

[+MartyBartfast]

On 3/2/2021 at 3:43 PM, searcherdog said:

Thank you.

It's possibly time for a harder question.

Mars Bars have been produced in many versions and sizes but when was the first Mars Bar made in Slough?  

 

I'll have a guess at 1920's

[Blue Square Thing]

On 3/2/2021 at 3:43 PM, searcherdog said:

Thank you.

It's possibly time for a harder question.

Mars Bars have been produced in many versions and sizes but when was the first Mars Bar made in Slough?  

 

This happened to be covered on a slightly old Food Programme I listened to yesterday - a recording of Roald Dahl gave it as 1932 I think.

[+searcherdog]

1932 gives a Ding! to Blue Square Thing.

[Blue Square Thing]

So, as I got my answer by chance by listening to the Food Programme on Radio 4, lets see if anyone else has ever listened to it.

 

Can you name one of the current regular presenters of the Food Programme?

[Blue Square Thing]

On 3/10/2021 at 7:34 PM, Blue Square Thing said:

So, as I got my answer by chance by listening to the Food Programme on Radio 4, lets see if anyone else has ever listened to it.

 

Can you name one of the current regular presenters of the Food Programme?

Well, that's clearly too obscure.

How about any Masterchef presenter instead.

[+MartyBartfast]

1 hour ago, Blue Square Thing said:

Well, that's clearly too obscure.

How about any Masterchef presenter instead.

Greg Wallace or John Torrode.

 

[Blue Square Thing]

On 3/19/2021 at 7:36 AM, MartyBartfast said:

Greg Wallace or John Torrode.

 

Of course - lots more from other places around the world I imagine as well.

 

The Food Programme is presented by Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino btw. Worth catching if you have any interest in food...

 

Over to you.

[+MartyBartfast]

Thanks.

History round:

Who was the last Tudor monarch ?

[+mellers]

Elizabeth I

[+MartyBartfast]

1 minute ago, mellers said:

Elizabeth I

Ding, that was a quick one!

[+mellers]

What were the names of Elizabeth's half-siblings (they were related by their father Henry VIII) who were also Tudor monarchs?

[+colleda]

On 3/22/2021 at 2:39 AM, mellers said:

What were the names of Elizabeth's half-siblings (they were related by their father Henry VIII) who were also Tudor monarchs?

Edward and Mary?

[+mellers]

That's a DING for colleda. Over to you!

[+colleda]

Thanks. During COVID there have been so many documentaries on TV and umpteen of them about the various royals.

Question.

What valuable substance was brought to England from France in 1939 and stored/hidden in Windsor castle?

[+MartyBartfast]

I'll try a guess at some particular wine/Champagne...

[+colleda]

4 hours ago, MartyBartfast said:

I'll try a guess at some particular wine/Champagne...

Not wine or champagne or anything edible.

[+colleda]

Time for a hint - or two. Norway. Japan.

[+colleda]

On 3/24/2021 at 10:32 AM, colleda said:

What valuable substance was brought to England from France in 1939 and stored/hidden in Windsor castle?

Correction. It was in 1940. The planned movement of the substance was 1939 but it arrived in 1940.

[+colleda]

Time for another hint.

Not edible but if you drank it you may put on weight.

[+Boggin's Dad]

Something rings a bell about a mission into Scandinavia involving a source of heavy water, I think it was something to do with preventing Germany using it in the development of nuclear weapons. I also recently read a book about the search for superheavy element, and there was a dismantling of Japanese research facilities in the aftermath of World War 2

I am going with deuterium or tritium oxide aka Heavy Water

Edited April 1, 2021 by Boggin's Dad

[+colleda]

Ding.

Heavy Water, D2O, is correct. Shipped to England from France to keep it out of Nazi hands.

Over to BD.