Pub Quiz thread

All yours Yorkie. They're not exactly noses as such but receptors for different smelling functions. One of these is for recognizing your nest ( something like breathing in and thinking - this must be Watford, another for recognizing the wife (smells like her), another for your food etc. etc., I believe another for direction (ie. that's the way to Luton). Take it away.

 

What baby boy has recently been born to two mothers?

 

Is this cute little Solly?

 

No.....not human

 

just like an ass

 

Donkey at a farm park in Scotland.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/czd36nn42npo

You got it..... both mothers thought it was theirs as one foal was born dead...and they both bonded with it

 

Since the early 14th Century, a symbol has been printed on some wine bottles. What is the symbol, and what does it denote?

 

Is it the Black Rooster? Printed on wine bottles in the Chianti Classico region of Italy, the rooster is the symbol of the Lega del Chianti, created by the Republic of Florence to control the Chianti territory.

 

No, this is French wine.

 

Thanks, yorkie.

 

His name is Solly!

 

Clue: A man built a large house for a summer retreat. He also started the vineyard, although this was not his first job.

 

Anything to do with the crest of the Duke of Burgundy.

 

No. There is part of a bridge still there.

 

Coat of Arms?? Bordeaux?

 

No.

 

Some thing that old pre printing?
Some sort of indentation on the bottle?

 

Apply some French to a clue above.

 

Anything to do with when there were Popes in Avignon.