The Quiz marque 2

New Home

Fore ****'s sake? :pac:

IrishZeus

Wasn’t it got to do with caddies going ahead to find the balls and the golfer would shout fore to warn them?

(I play golf and remember this being told to me after what might have been a tipple or two too many )

OldGoat

Zeus has it. In the days of yore a golfer would have a couple of caddies, one to carry the clubs and another who would walk out in front, calling out the lie of the land and spotting the ball when the golfer twacked it. That lad was the fore-caddy (fore as an abrivation of forward). When players miss-hit and launched the ball towards the unfortunate lad they would (occasionally) call a warning of FORE!

IrishZeus

Folks, my apologies, forgot to post a question.

For what is Horton Smith known?

Winner first masters... and maybe another year but not going to Google

IrishZeus

StevieHardesty wrote: »

Winner first masters... and maybe another year but not going to Google

Correct. Won the inaugural Masters in 1934.

Your question.

Totally unprepared for that, even if I was sure of the answer.

My question... Can I pass please?

Thread open to anyone with more imagination than me

looksee

Sorry Stevie, no passes If you answer a question you ask one, come on, you can do it!

No passes...? (I refer the good Moderator to post #359 )

OK - easy one as my brain has gone stir crazy: What is Cookie Monsters' first name?

Steve

Sid...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_MUD16EIk

I had to come up with questions for a family pub quiz over zoom, this thread rocks!!

ok, question:

A man was found dead alone in the desert, there were no footprints or tyre tracks. He had an unopened package with him. Whatever was in the package was the cause of his death. What was it?

IrishZeus

Steve wrote: »

Sid...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_MUD16EIk

I had to come up with questions for a family pub quiz over zoom, this thread rocks!!

ok, question:

A man was found dead alone in the desert, there were no footprints or tyre tracks. He had an unopened package with him. Whatever was in the package was the cause of his death. What was it?

Parachute?

Sid it is.... I pass the crown

Steve

IrishZeus wrote: »

Parachute?

Too easy I guess

The floor is yours..

looksee

StevieHardesty wrote: »

No passes...? (I refer the good Moderator to post #359 )

OK - easy one as my brain has gone stir crazy: What is Cookie Monsters' first name?

This quiz has no rules and as moderator I reserve the right to change them whenever I feel its necessary. :cool:

Anyway that was then, stuff happened and we got tough ... though I have just realised the mod warning polite and good-natured request was in the first post of the previous thread .

IrishZeus

What is cherophobia?

New Home

Fear of nails? If not, I've another idea. Or two.

IrishZeus

New Home wrote: »

Fear of nails? If not, I've another idea. Or two.

Let’s hear the other idea. Or two

Steve

Fear of being cheerful?

New Home

Fear of hair (chero, as in cheratine?) or fear of angels (as in cherubim)?

Or... back to the drawing board?

IrishZeus

Steve wrote: »

Fear of being cheerful?

I’ll give you this one - it’s a fear of happiness/being happy!

You’re up!

IrishZeus

New Home wrote: »

Or... back to the drawing board?

You can join me in the corner for the adult colouring session New H

New Home

IrishZeus wrote: »

You can join me in the corner for the adult colouring session New H

Too difficult, I can never stay within the lines... can I do "join the dots" instead? I've a ruler, too...

Steve

IrishZeus wrote: »

I’ll give you this one - it’s a fear of happiness/being happy!

You’re up!

Thankfully, I don't have it...

So, in the movie The Empire Strikes Back, what line does Darth Vader say to Luke just before chopping his hand off?

Hint: It's to do with his parental status.

looksee

No, I am your father!

I have never seen the Empire Strikes Back, but this is one of those lines that everyone knows. I am shocked by the hand cutting business.

Steve

Well done looksee,

I'm gonna have to think of harder questions...

That was a famous Mandela effect one where most people think it was "Luke, I am your father..." chop..

Your turn.

looksee

All of these flowers are poisonous, except one. Which one from this list is in fact edible - and tasty in a salad?

Daffodil
Poppy
Foxglove
Oleander
Peony
Clematis
Bluebell
Rhododendron
Larkspur
Hydrangea
Lily-of-the-Valley

New Home

Poppy!

You can also cook the young shoots/leaves, aside from using the seeds for cakes, etc.

looksee

Hm, we are both right and both wrong apparently

According to the Thomson and Morgan website list of edible and poisonous flowers

'All poppies are poisonous. However the seeds produced from Papaver somniferum and Papaver paeoniflorum can be eaten. The seeds of other species are not edible.'

and (from Tasmania)

​​Crude poppy material at any dose is highly poisonous. The alkaloids are extremely toxic and can cause convulsions, asphyxiation and death.

Using any part of the poppy, in any way, is life-threatening; people in Tasmania have died from doing this.

Any ingestion of poppy plants should be treated as an emergency

However I have found reference to eating the young plants as you quoted but in reference to field poppies (Papaver Rhoeas) I didn't know about that one, and T&M would be talking about the alkaloid type poppies that we grow in the garden, and that was my understanding about poppies.

So you are correct (I wouldn't chance it tbh!) but there is another edible one in there, do you know it?

New Home

Eaten tons of it as a child (cooked, though) and so did all the previous generations.

I wouldn't be sure about the others, out of those, I DEFINITELY know about 3 (maybe even 4), 4 more I've no clue about, so my guess would be in the remaining three. Pass, so.

looksee

Take it away then New Home, I'll leave the question up in case any one else wants to have a guess (or indeed, knows ) - no harm in having a couple of questions going!

New Home

Will you tell me, please?

I'll post a question shortly.

looksee

Its Peony - https://practicalselfreliance.com/edible-peony/ I have to add the disclaimer that I have never eaten peony, the occasion to eat flowers really doesn't seem to come up that often. I did also find an article that said peonies are deadly toxic, but that's the internet, most people seem to be confident they can be eaten, and are actually nice!

feargale

Does anyone know where I might get the questions and answers of the 2020 Mastermind final, shown a few days ago?
Thanks.

New Home

feargale wrote: »

Does anyone know where I might get the questions and answers of the 2020 Mastermind final, shown a few days ago?
Thanks.

This is the closest I could find: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hy35/mastermind-20192020-31-grand-final

New Home

I owe a question - what does the name China actually mean? (It's not pronounced China in any of the Chinese languages, as far as I know, anyway).
I'm not referring to the pottery, I'm referring to the country, by the way.

keane2097

Land of the Qin dynasty maybe?

New Home

No, not what I was looking for.

feargale

The Middle Kingdom?

P.S. Do I get a bonus point for offering "mate" as in Cockney "me old china plate"?

New Home

You do.

Your go, Feargale.

feargale

What is the only capital city which is named after an Irishman?

keane2097

feargale wrote: »

What is the only capital city which is named after an Irishman?

No idea but love the question.

New Home

feargale wrote: »

What is the only capital city which is named after an Irishman?

I know I used to know this, but it's gone now and it's bugging me!! Murphy's Law, I guess.

keane2097

Wellington!

feargale

keane2097 wrote: »

Wellington!

Correct. Question, please.

keane2097

What does an arctophile collect?

New Home

Bears? :eek: Is that even legal???

keane2097

Not quite

New Home

Oh.

Phew!

feargale

Teddybears

Take it away New Home. I would have given the same answer as you if I were as learned in Greek.

New Home

Ah dddammittt!! I never put two and two together...

Nah, it's yours (and I'd have to think of a question and, like, the effort! :P)