+Discombob Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 A gathering? A brotherhood? Quote Link to comment
+Jors Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 (edited) A gathering? A brotherhood? Keep going... Edited August 14, 2009 by Jors Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 A crowd or band? Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Like Discombob, I always thought it was a troop... but let's try a crouch of gorillas a grouch of gorillas or... or... I know! ... It's got to be "A mist of gorillas" MrsB Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 A gathering? A brotherhood? Keep going... How about a brood? Quote Link to comment
+Jors Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 A crowd or band? A band it is. It's a troop of monkeys, but Gorillas are Apes. Your turn CH! Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Which large Blue Chip SA company fell out of the ALSI Top 40 in the first 2 months of 2009 after being there almost since the ranking was introduced? Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Eskom? Eskom Blue Chip??!! Quote Link to comment
+Discombob Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 ok give me a clue then. What does blue chip mean? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 A big private company that has been one of the top companies in SA. This is an industrial manufacturer Quote Link to comment
+GEO936 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Taking a wild guess.....could it be a mining related company such as Anglogold Ashanti?? Quote Link to comment
+GEO936 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 (edited) Duplicate post deleted. Edited August 15, 2009 by GEO936 Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 none correct yet - not a Mining or metal company. Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 sappi? - they seem to be taking strain in the paper industry Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Pooks - you're it - it was Sappi. My ex compnay - so I watch it fairly closely and hope it recovers. Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 In order to keep the momentum of this thread going, I asked my sister in law who helped me back in post #1343 to set a question. She came up with two suggestions, both looked pretty obscure and out of the scope of this quiz to me, but then again I thought I should not underestimate the skills of this forum. So i decided to post both questions, the first person to get one of them right wins. 1. This gentleman had no reason to fight in WW1 – but his persistence paid off and he was immortalized in a poem. 2. She was the very first woman to use sex as a weapon and made a whole nation lay down their weapons Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 #2 - Kuma Satra? nope - greek Quote Link to comment
+DamhuisClan Posted August 16, 2009 Author Share Posted August 16, 2009 My guess would have been Cleopatra, but that is Egyptian Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 nope - greek Aprt from an old girlfriend, Jackie Onassis and Nana Moskouri the only other Greek woman hat I know is Venus!! Quote Link to comment
+GEO936 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Qu.2 : Was it Helen of Troy??? Qu.1 : Still thinking about that one! Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Qu.2 : Was it Helen of Troy??? Qu.1 : Still thinking about that one! Not Helen, but it is in the right direction. Never heard of the lady before this evening though. Quote Link to comment
+GEO936 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 nope - greek Aprt from an old girlfriend, Jackie Onassis and Nana Moskouri the only other Greek woman hat I know is Venus!! Hey cincol...you're giving your age away!! Is Nana Mouskouri still around and singing? Quote Link to comment
+GEO936 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Qu.2 : Was it Helen of Troy??? Qu.1 : Still thinking about that one! Not Helen, but it is in the right direction. Never heard of the lady before this evening though. Oh wow....can't believe that I eventually got somewhere "in the right direction"!! Would it be possible to ask for a clue? Like does she have a typical or unusual greek name? No chance of giving a letter in her name hey? Pretty please? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Not the Goddess Athena? Or was it Delilah? Cant think of WW1 maybe the unknown soldier? Quote Link to comment
+Team Ginger Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I also thought about Delilah, but then, she really only put one man down - though he was an army strong... ...and she wasn't Greek. No other ideas on my side. Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 On the WW1 guys - there were plenty of poets - but not imortalised in a single poem. Perhaps Siegfried Sasson was Swiss so he didn't have to fight? What about Nike - the female god of victory? Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 In order to keep the momentum of this thread going, I asked my sister in law who helped me back in post #1343 to set a question. She came up with two suggestions, both looked pretty obscure and out of the scope of this quiz to me, but then again I thought I should not underestimate the skills of this forum. So i decided to post both questions, the first person to get one of them right wins. 1. This gentleman had no reason to fight in WW1 – but his persistence paid off and he was immortalized in a poem. 2. She was the very first woman to use sex as a weapon and made a whole nation lay down their weapons I suspect that these questions are up Discombob's alley... but some pointers in the meantime 1. Irish and he happened to be a good cricketer as well. The name of the poet or any of the poems will also do as an answer. 2. Written by Aristophanes in 411BC Quote Link to comment
+Discombob Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 eh why would they be up my Ally. At pub quizzes whenever the history round comes up, I go to sleep!!! what about Ogden Nash for no.1 ? Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 eh why would they be up my Ally. At pub quizzes whenever the history round comes up, I go to sleep!!! what about Ogden Nash for no.1 ? I got the impression you are a bit of a literary man. Not Ogden Nash (who's he?) Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 OK - Wildred Owen; Rupert Brooke and Francis Ledwidge are the other WW1 poets I know apart from Sasson. Yeats was Irish - but I dont think he fought in WW1? Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 OK - Wildred Owen; Rupert Brooke and Francis Ledwidge are the other WW1 poets I know apart from Sasson. Yeats was Irish - but I dont think he fought in WW1? OK - I don't want to hold up this quiz too long. WB Yeats was the poet (is that the same person you are referring to?) - he did not fight in WW1 himself, but wrote poems about William Gregory, who did. Your turn Carbon Hunter! Some extracts from Wikipedia follow: William Robert Gregory was an Irish cricketer and artist. He was good enough at cricket to play once for the Ireland cricket team, taking 8/80 with his leg spin bowling in a first-class match against Scotland in 1912. He didn't score a run. His bowling performance in that match remains the tenth best in all matches for Ireland and the fourth best in first-class cricket for Ireland. His bowling average of 10.22 is the second best for Ireland in first-class cricket. He was killed in Italy at the age of 37 when an Italian pilot mistakenly shot him down. Robert's death had a lasting effect on W. B. Yeats, and he became the subject of four poems by him; In Memory of Major Robert Gregory, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Shepherd and Goatherd, and Reprisals. Lysistrata (Attic Greek ="Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays written by the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for its exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society and for its use of both double entendre and explicit obscenities. Quote Link to comment
+Discombob Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 eh why would they be up my Ally. At pub quizzes whenever the history round comes up, I go to sleep!!! what about Ogden Nash for no.1 ? I got the impression you are a bit of a literary man. Not Ogden Nash (who's he?) no, not a literay man either! Ah, Wilfed Owen was the guy I was thinking of!Ogden Nash was more of a nonsense poet eg. Free from flashiness, free from trashiness Is the essence of ogdenashiness. Rich, original, rash and rational Stands the monument ogdenational! Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 OK - I was referring to Yeats (William Butler) - but in all honesty that was not my part of my answer Good questiosn - actually a Wilfred Owen poem is the basis for my "Dulce et Decorum Est" cache in the Linden Police Station in Joburg at the Police Officers memorial. OK - here goes - What is the commonality between Umniati and Hunyani? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Seems like a clue is needed? This is Southern African related and the answer is NOT geographcial. Quote Link to comment
+Jors Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 OK - here goes - What is the commonality between Umniati and Hunyani? Hmmm.... sounds like the names of two young women of some Rhodesian tribe? Quote Link to comment
+gdesmedt1 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 OK - here goes - What is the commonality between Umniati and Hunyani? Hmmm.... sounds like the names of two young women of some Rhodesian tribe? haha.. that now resides in South Africa Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Rhodesia is correct, but the rest is not. Quote Link to comment
+GEO936 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Could it be that they are languages or ancient tribes? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Nope - more modern - like late 1970's. - manmade vehicles. Quote Link to comment
+Jors Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Era of the bush war and Selous Scouts, names of aroured vehicles, or tanks? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Era of the bush war and Selous Scouts, names of aroured vehicles, or tanks? Bush war - yes - tanks no - but i'll give it to you. It was the names of the 2 Vickers Viscounts of the Rhodesian Airlines that were shot down near Kariba. Many saw this as the final straw that broke the morale and it was widely criticised, but not by any of the major official channels as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and lead to the famous "Deafening Silence" sermon in Salisbury that eventually earned a Gold Record for the priest who delivered the sermon. jors - you're it. Quote Link to comment
+Jors Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Some wild guesses gets you there - sometimes - as might be the case for the next Q No doubt, we've all seen the survey (trig) beacons on top of mountains, buildings and even in backyards of urban houses. Mostly these trigs have a white pillar 1,2m high and a black vane 1,2m higher, but other objects like some church- and building towers are also included. These trigs have been surveyed very accurately, but because of advancing technology, only a chosen number of them are still being maintained by the government. Q: How many of these trig beacons do we have in South Africa? Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 (edited) Ok - let's take a wild guess here. Around 10,000 countrywide. But if you are wanting to know how many of the "chosen number" there are then I would guess about 20. Edited August 19, 2009 by cincol Quote Link to comment
+Jors Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Around 10,000 countrywide. nope. Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 7582 - as of 1 July 2009 (hee hee - does that sound educated - or does my blind optimism show?) Quote Link to comment
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