OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

Cheers Nines. What did the builder of the Mersey Tunnel consider to be his most important invention ?

 

A quick way out of Liverpool.
A device for removing the stones from olives in preparation of martini
A hand held machine which provides infinite, clean, free power (sadly he didn’t draw the plans and after a bender in Widnes clean forgot how to put it together)
VAR

 

Good try Stan but......... We all actually like his invention.

 

The Alessi Parmigiano Reggiano grater
Alcopops
Hair extensions
Chicken tikka masala

 

The Central Line?

 

Nothing right yet. It was first used in Nottingham.

 

Traffic lights were first used in Nottingham...Hope I'm not right as I am driving all today..
At the World Cup
In London



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Your wishes are granted Beth - not traffic lights.

 

It is very definitely to do with football.

 

Football nets on goals?

Referees whistle?

Happy clappers as regularly seen at the Ruperts games?

 

Notts County were the first professional club. Did he help to found the club?

 

All yours Steels. John Alexander Brodie, who was the chief engineer building the Mersey Tunnel, invented goal nets and first used them in Stanley Park in 1889. They were first used in an official match in 1891 for a representative North vs. South game at Nottingham Forest's Town Ground - the first player to put it in the net was Fred Geary, who played for Everton. They were adopted by the Football League a year later. Interestingly enough the referee for the North vs South match was Sam Widdowson, who later invented shinpads. Before this time even international players got involved in 'Yes it was' 'No it wasn't' disagreements. Over to you.

 

It's worth pointing out for the sake of pedantry that there are three 'Mersey tunnels': The Mersey Railway tunnel (1886), the Queensway tunnel (1934), and the Kingsway tunnel (1971).

The Queensway tunnel had Brodie as chief engineer. However...

The original Mersey tunnel was built by John Waddell, who built Putney Bridge, loads of railways in and around Scarborough and Whitby, and worked on late victorian plans for a Channel Tunnel.

The Kingsway tunnel was built because the Queensway tunnel couldn't cope with the traffic levels and is the only one able to carry HGVs. Wikipedia doesn't name a specific engineer, but I would guess his most important invention might have had something to do with Shake 'N Vac.

 

According to Msritime museum of Liverpool, it was Basil Mott who was the engineer in chief of the project

 

Cheers Cologne....

Name the only rock ‘n roll song included on the Voyager Golden Records, which were included aboard the Voyager spacecraft that launched in 1977.

 

Johnny B. Goode from Chuck Berry I think. Preferred the reggae version of this by Peter Tosh.

 

Correct pal, apparently they thought it was a bit "edgy" for such a journey, listened to by adolescents but Carl Sagan, who was given the job of curating the playlists argued that there were millions of adolescents on Earth, why should they not have their music sent into space too - good man!!

All yours

 

Cheers Steels. Ok. What is mad honey and where does it come from ?