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

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

No, Velcro is loads of tiny hooks, thousands of them.

Ok. God's gift to thousands of strippers then .

Rubecula

What is a Desire Line and where would you find it?

feargale

garancafan wrote: »

Ok. God's gift to thousands of strippers then .

Ffs it's the next life ye should be thinking about.

looksee

feargale wrote: »

Ffs it's the next life ye should be thinking about.

He is - all those virgins

looksee

Rubecula wrote: »

What is a Desire Line and where would you find it?

Its a freefone number for all those strippers? :pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Rubecula wrote: »

What is a Desire Line and where would you find it?

We call the worn tails, when hill walking, desire lines or desire paths. They're the paths made by foot traffic of man or beast. The worn path in grass where people cut a corner rather than use the winding footpath is a desire path too.
You're probably thinking of something else though.

Rubecula

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

We call the worn tails, when hill walking, desire lines or desire paths. They're the paths made by foot traffic of man or beast. The worn path in grass where people cut a corner rather than use the winding footpath is a desire path too.
You're probably thinking of something else though.

Well that is the sort of thing I meant, it shows a path away from official pathways where people (or other creatures desire to walk.

Your turn, but beware the Christmas lapse in contributers just now.

garancafan

I think the honour still resides with Srameen but he may well be resting after his latest walk so may I throw in a filler-in suitable for very auldwans 'n' auldfellas:-

If I were using a mashie, a niblick, or a jigger what would I be doing?

abff

Playing golf around 100 years ago.

garancafan

Your hole. You're up.

abff

Why is Atlantic City of interest to board game enthusiasts?

looksee

Is that where Monopoly was created?

abff

looksee wrote: »

Is that where Monopoly was created?

Close enough. It's the city whose streets were used in the original version of the game. Your turn.

looksee

The fruit of an oak tree is an acorn and of a horsechestnut, a conker. What is the fruit of an ash tree called?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

We call them mast around here.

looksee

Sorry Srameen, mast is from beech trees

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Sorry Srameen, mast is from beech trees

Not around here. Keys is a term used for ash seeds in many areas but for some reason here they were ash mast and beech mast. Lord knows why.

looksee

Ok so, keys is the answer I was looking for, over to you!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Ok so, keys is the answer I was looking for, over to you!

My PhD is in the Nature field so unfair of me to jump in.

Can't think of a question.

I'll be back....

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ok.

What have Dinah, Electra, and Tab in common?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Ok.

What have Dinah, Electra, and Tab in common?

OK, ran this one by a friend today and he says it's much to hard as it stands.

So, it's a literary connection.

abff

Is it something to do with Eugene O'Neill?

looksee

I think Dinah was the name of Alice's cat in Alice in Wonderland, dont know about the others.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

I think Dinah was the name of Alice's cat in Alice in Wonderland, dont know about the others.

That's enough.

Dinah you have. They other two are Old Possums Book of Practical Cats and Watership Down. But Cats they all are.

Well done.

looksee

Well there's a thing! That was a long shot

Rubecula

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

My PhD is in the Nature field

....

Would it be rude of me to ask where you did your studies?

I studied at Liverpool Poly (John Moore's University as it is now)

Sorry folks back to the quiz

abff

I'm glad that was one of the easier questions! I'd hate to have to try to answer one of the hard ones!

Rubecula

abff wrote: »

I'm glad that was one of the easier questions! I'd hate to have to try to answer one of the hard ones!

Drosophila melanogaster for example? lol

looksee

Um, yes a question...

looksee

London Bridge fell down (well, ok, it was pushed) in the 1960s. What happened to it?

Rubecula

Is this the one bought by an American and rebuilt in the Arizona desert?

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

London Bridge fell down (well, ok, it was pushed) in the 1960s. What happened to it?

It was demolished (because it was sinking) and sold to an American, as Rube has said, and reconstructed. It is a myth, however, that he thought he was buying Tower Bridge. The old bridge over the Thames was rebuilt.

Rubecula

This one may take a bit of specialist knowledge or even a google search/

James the first of England was also James VI of Scotland and proclaimed himself as King of Great Britain, but who was officially given the title of Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain?

feargale

Rubecula wrote: »

This one may take a bit of specialist knowledge or even a google search/

James the first of England was also James VI of Scotland and proclaimed himself as King of Great Britain, but who was officially given the title of Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain?

Queen Anne on the Union of England and Scotland.

In which modern day country did Scotland in the 1690s establish a colony which failed, resulting in the bankruptcy of Scotland and in weakening opposition to the Act of Union 1707?

feargale

"feargale wrote: »

In which modern day country did Scotland in the 1690s establish a colony which failed, resulting in the bankruptcy of Scotland and in weakening opposition to the Act of Union 1707?

Come on dudes. Surely there are one or two in this thread who were around in the 1690s??!!

garancafan

Ok then. A wild guess at Australia - purely on the basis of Perth.

feargale

garancafan wrote: »

Ok then. A wild guess at Australia - purely on the basis of Perth.

Nope

Rubecula

Chile?

feargale

Rubecula wrote: »

Chile?

No.

I said "establish." Some might say "attempted to establish" is more appropriate. I'll stick with "established."

Ken.

I love history and absorb it like no other subject. The answer is Panama.

Rubecula

Oops I do know this one but I will say nothing just yet as I am trying to remember the name it was called It was a "scheme" I think.

feargale

ken wrote: »

I love history and absorb it like no other subject. The answer is Panama.

Correct.

Rubecula

That is what I was thinking Ken It was called the Darling Scheme or The Daring scheme or something like that



edit: just checked on google it was the Darien Scheme LOL close but no cigar

Ken.

Darien scheme. Someone else can ask a question. I can't think of one now.

feargale

Rubecula wrote: »

That is what I was thinking Ken It was called the Darling Scheme or The Daring scheme or something like that

The Darien Scheme. The Isthmus of Panama was previously called the Isthmus of Darien.

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise —
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
- John Keats.

garancafan

We're back! after the DDoS attack.

Where was this little ditty first performed?

For a bonus point - Who is the mezzo-soprano soloist (of whom I am an ardent fan)?

feargale

garancafan wrote: »

We're back! after the DDoS attack.

Where was this little ditty first performed?

For a bonus point - Who is the mezzo-soprano soloist (of whom I am an ardent fan)?

In Dublin. ( in 1742? ) In Fishamble Street or St. Michan's Church, not sure which.

And Halleluyah indeed after our hours of darkness. Would it be in order to access A&A to say " Praise the Lord"?





P.S. I interpret the thanks as confirmation that I'm right. I'm away for a few days so let someone else post a question. Incidentally, who is the soprano?

Ken.

I know it premièred in Dublin in the 1740's. The soloist is beyond me.

Ken.

I know it premièred in Dublin in the 1740's. The soloist is beyond me. I'll guess Sarah Brightman cause she's the only opera singer I know.

garancafan

feargale wrote: »

In Dublin. ( in 1742? ) In Fishamble Street or St. Michan's Church, not sure which.

And Halleluyah indeed after our hours of darkness. Would it be in order to access A&A to say " Praise the Lord"?





P.S. I interpret the thanks as confirmation that I'm right. I'm away for a few days so let someone else post a question. Incidentally, who is the soprano?

Question answered. You would be up but for your going away - so the space is open for another question from anyone.

The (somewhat esoteric) question on the mezzo still stands.