OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

[Shawswood]

Chariots of fire

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Correct Grinners, over to you

 

[Shawswood]

To whom is the following quote attributed;

'Oscar (Wilde) was not a bad man; you could trust him with a woman anywhere'.

 

[sb_73]

To whom is the following quote attributed;

'Oscar (Wilde) was not a bad man; you could trust him with a woman anywhere'.

Winston Churchill (100% guess)

 

[QPR999]

To whom is the following quote attributed;

'Oscar (Wilde) was not a bad man; you could trust him with a woman anywhere'.

His brother Willie Wilde?

 

[Shawswood]

His brother Willie Wilde?

Correct nines, his journalist brother Willie did say this at the time of Oscar's difficulties without a trace of irony.

 

[QPR999]

Ok, staying with Irish writers. Which Irish writer was born at 15 Marino Crescent, North Dublin?

 

[Sooperhoop]

James Joyce?...

 

[qprbeth]

Bram Stoker

 

[QPR999]

Bram Stoker

That's the one Beth. Abraham Stoker.

 

[qprbeth]

What is unique about the area around Cerro Jefe, near Panama City.

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

What is unique about the area around Cerro Jefe, near Panama City.

Is this the place mentioned on QI once where no one knows which sea the spring water eventually empties into?

 

[qprbeth]

Is this the place mentioned on QI once where no one knows which sea the spring water eventually empties into?

Nope

 

[sb_73]

Its in the only country in the world named after a hat?

More likely you can see both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans from it (if the Caribbean counts as part of the Atlantic).

 

[Shawswood]

Is it to do with geology?

 

[sb_73]

Having re-read the question and consulted Wiki, I reckon the area include a unique, prehistoric 'cloudforest' whatever that may be.

 

[qprbeth]

Its in the only country in the world named after a hat?

More likely you can see both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans from it (if the Caribbean counts as part of the Atlantic).

AND this is right.......But what is unusual about the movement of the sun...at this point.... avery interesting fact

 

[QPAAAAAGH]

You can see the sun rise over the Atlantic and set over the Pacific.

 

[Shawswood]

You can see the sun rise over the Atlantic and set over the Pacific.

You can do that in Tierra del Fuego too

 

[qprbeth]

You can see the sun rise over the Atlantic and set over the Pacific.

COMPLETELY WRONG....110% Wrong

You can do that in Tierra del Fuego too

Yes you can GC.

BUT the answer is exactly the opposite to what qpaaaaaaaaaaagh said


You can see sun rise on the pacific and set on the atlantic.
Only place/area that you can see this

Look at the structure of the Panama isthmus and you can see how it twists round...so that the pacific ocean is east of the Atlantic ocean (Caribbean).
Caribbean Sea is at the western end of the Panama Canal, while the Pacific ocean is at the Eastern end,

Now that is an interesting bit of trivia, even though I say so myself


But as I have been so horrid to QPAAAAAAAAAAAAGH, your turn