The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+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.

[+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.