The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

New Home

Mulled wine?

Quazzie

New Home wrote: »

Mulled wine?

That's the answer I have.

You're up Homeo

New Home

Tomorrow, I'm afraid. I'm off to bed.

Steve, in case you had missed it earlier, it's because males would have lost their antlers by Christmas. However, Srameen forgot they're magic, so...

Steve

New Home wrote: »

Steve, in case you had missed it earlier, it's because males would have lost their antlers by Christmas. However, Srameen forgot they're magic, so...

Sorry, I replied and didn't realise there was another page so had to ninja delete.. doh. :rolleyes:

feargale

Which Pope famously said: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Which Pope famously said: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"?

I'm guessing, Alexander.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I'm guessing, Alexander.

Correct. Compliments of the season to all.

Beasty

Is he not 87.5% incorrect?

:pac:

feargale

Beasty wrote: »

Is he not 87.5% incorrect?

:pac:

Ok, Beasty, assuming you have the remainder you owe us one eighth of a question :pac:

New Home

I still owe a question, and the answer to the Amélie one (and therefore another question to replace that one). Hope nobody died while holding their breath waiting for me...

First thing first: Michael Bolton tried to get into a band, but failed: name that band, please.

New Home

Second thing second:

Hipolito, the failed poet, wrote:

"Sans toi, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois." (Without you, the emotions of today would be the dead skin of another time.)

Now, for the day that's in it, if you can, please write the full lyrics to Good King Wenceslas (only resorting to memory).

feargale

New Home wrote: »

I still owe a question, and the answer to the Amélie one (and therefore another question to replace that one). Hope nobody died while holding their breath waiting for me...

First thing first: Michael Bolton tried to get into a band, but failed: name that band, please.

Beatles?

New Home

Nooooooo........

looksee

Good king Wenceslaus looked out
On the feast of Stephen
When the snow lay round about
Deep and crisp and even

Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
when a poor man came in sight
Gathering winter fuuuuuuu-el.

Hither page come stand by me
Tell me what thou see-est
Yonder peasant who is he
where and what his dwelling

Sire he lives a good league hence
Underneath the mountain
Right beside the forest's fence
By St Agnes fouuuuuuu-ntain.

Bring me flesh and bring me wine
Bring me pine logs hither
Thou and I will see him dine
Ere the night grows colder.

Forth they ventured King and page
Forth they went together
Gainst the rude wind's wild lament
And the bitter weaaaaather.

Sire the night is colder now
I can go no longer

Then garbled bits and it fizzles out with

In his master's steps he trod
where the snow lay deeper
Heat was in the very sod
Where the king

Hm, thought I knew it all, obviously I don't!

New Home

A very good effort! Some of the bits I knew differently, but you can have it!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

I still owe a question, and the answer to the Amélie one (and therefore another question to replace that one). Hope nobody died while holding their breath waiting for me...

First thing first: Michael Bolton tried to get into a band, but failed: name that band, please.

I thought Bolton said it was just an urban myth but it was, supposedly, Ozzie Osborne's band whose name I think was Black Sabbath or one of those noise machines.

New Home

"Good King Wenceslas"

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the Feast of Stephen
When the snow lay 'round about
Deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Gath'ring winter fuel

Hither, page, and stand by me,
If thou know'st it, telling:
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?"
"Sire, he lives a good league hence,
Underneath the mountain
Right against the forest fence
By Saint Agnes' fountain."

"Bring me flesh and bring me wine
Bring me pine-logs hither
Thou and I shall see him dine
When we bear them thither."
Page and monarch, forth they went
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind's wild lament
And the bitter weather.

"Sire, the night is darker now
And the wind blows stronger
Fails my heart, I know not how
I can go no longer."
"Mark my footsteps, good my page
Tread thou in them boldly
Thou shall find the winter's rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly."I

n his master's step he trod
Where the snow lay dinted
Heat was in the very sod
Which the Saint had printed
Therefore, Christian men, be sure
Wealth or rank possessing
Ye, who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYLuA9xHcsQ

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I thought Bolton said it was just an urban myth but it was, supposedly, Ozzie Osborne's band whose name I think was Black Sabbath or one of those noise machines.

Indeed it was (allegedly). Give me a toddler with a set of lids any day, but there's no accounting for taste (or lack thereof).

I thought it was an interesting question, considering Bolton's repertoire afterwards.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sticking with Wenceslas, what was unusual about his title of King?

looksee

New Home wrote: »

A very good effort! Some of the bits I knew differently, but you can have it!

Its really more that I mis-remember them

However, going forward with the same carol, what was St. Stephen's main claim to fame?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Its really more that I mis-remember them

However, going forward with the same carol, what was St. Stephen's main claim to fame?

First Christian martyr?

looksee

You have it Srameen!

Beasty

feargale wrote: »

Ok, Beasty, assuming you have the remainder you owe us one eighth of a question :pac:

OK, here goes

When did...…..?

looksee

18 January 1936.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Sticking with Wenceslas, what was unusual about his title of King?

Bump. Still outstanding.

New Home

King of Bohemia, IIRC, so perhaps more like a duke or a count or a marquis of some sort?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

King of Bohemia, IIRC, so perhaps more like a duke or a count or a marquis of some sort?

Very close.

New Home

Close to Bohemia? :pac:

Or was he just a Regent rather than an actual king?

Pkiernan

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Sticking with Wenceslas, what was unusual about his title of King?

He was made king posthumously.

Who killed him?

New Home

Something in my head tells me "a boar"... but it's probably the insomnia speaking....

Beasty

looksee wrote: »

18 January 1936.

Close, but not close enough...…………….

(you have the right century though, meaning there are only 36523 other options to consider)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Pkiernan wrote: »

He was made king posthumously.

Who killed him?

That's it. It was a posthumously awarded title. He was a Duke at the time of his death. I believe he was assassinated by a gang led by his brother.

Beasty

Pkiernan wrote: »

He was made king posthumously.

Who killed him?

Was it Stephen poisoning him in that feast he put on?

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

That's it. It was a posthumously awarded title. He was a Duke at the time of his death. I believe he was assassinated by a gang led by his brother.

"You too, Brutus?"

Beasty wrote: »

Was it Stephen poisoning him in that feast he put on?

*facepalm*


That's even worse than one of mine. Hats off to you, Beastly!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

"You too, Brutus?"

Very much so. Multiple stabbing with knives and then run through with a lance.

New Home

Well, it was a thorough job, they just wanted to make sure, can't fault them, really. It was his brother with the lance, wasn't it? Families, eh? :rolleyes:?

Beasty

New Home wrote: »

*facepalm*


That's even worse than one of mine. Hats off to you, Beastly!

Don't worry - I can do much worse....

New Home wrote: »

Well, it was a thorough job, they just wanted to make sure, can't fault them, really. It was his brother with the lance, wasn't it? Families, eh? :rolleyes:?

What's Lance got to do with it? I know he defrauded the Tour de France and the US Postal Service, but I don't think you can blame him for this one



:pac:

New Home

Beasty wrote: »

Don't worry - I can do much worse....


What's Lance got to do with it? I know he defrauded the Tour de France and the US Postal Service, but I don't think you can blame him for this one

:pac:

Don't you worry, Lance has a lot to answer for. :pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Keeping it seasonal.

According to tradition, what country did Gaspar, one of the three wise men or magi, come from?

Ted_YNWA

Syria?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Syria?

No, none of them from Syria,

New Home

Ethiopia?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

Ethiopia?

No.

IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Keeping it seasonal.

According to tradition, what country did Gaspar, one of the three wise men or magi, come from?

India?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

India?

That's it. Your question...

IrishZeus

James Lord Pierpont
Space
Medford Races

A connection, please.

IrishZeus

Bump

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

James Lord Pierpont
Space
Medford Races

A connection, please.

Based on only one of them.,...Jingle Bells????

looksee

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Based on only one of them.,...Jingle Bells????

Lol, I got that far, but no idea why or whether there might be a connection!

Beasty

T'was the first song played in space