Pub Quiz thread

[Bolton's Boots]

Obviously wasn't Benskins - Watney's Red Barrel?

 

[Supsale]

Almost as foul, but any beer is better than lager

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Almost as foul, but any beer is better than lager

Depends where you are really - after a hard day's slog in the Queensland sun, nothing - repeat, nothing - beats an icy Fourex.....

Was Watneys the right answer?

 

[wear_yellow]

Double Diamond
Manns Brown
Light & Bitter
Ind Coope Bitter (awful drink)

 

[geitungur akureyrar]

Guiness

 

[Supsale]

Double Diamond, correct

 

[wear_yellow]

Blimey, I'm on a roll.....

Which Greek is attributed to the earliest documented biological studies?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Just guessing. Hippocrates?

 

[wear_yellow]

Nope...

 

[Bolton's Boots]

That well-known vivesectionist, discoverer of the Eustachian tubes - Alcmaeon......

 

[wear_yellow]

Nope - a clue - Lesbos

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Aristotle.... and I never would have got that

My sister in law lives on lesbos.... married a greek tourist policeman she met on the acropolis when she was a dizzy blond and now exiled to lesbos....

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

Aristotle.... and I never would have got that

My sister in law lives on lesbos.... married a greek tourist policeman she met on the acropolis when she was a dizzy blond and now exiled to lesbos....

Had a very good holiday on Lesbos perhaps 30 years ago now. No bank in our little place so I had a wallet full of drachma and managed to lose it on a remote beach. It was handed in to a local police station the same afternoon, still stuffed full of cash. The Greek couple who handed it in were most offended when I offered them a reward. We slipped into Turkey off a small boat and bought cheap leather jackets and some jewellery which was sold by weight rather than design. Happy days...

 

[wear_yellow]

Well done Yorkie, go to the top of the class sir...

I saw a great programme on BBC4 about Aristotle and his Biological investigations on Lesbos a few weeks - totally fascinating.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Had a very good holiday on Lesbos perhaps 30 years ago now. No bank in our little place so I had a wallet full of drachma and managed to lose it on a remote beach. It was handed in to a local police station the same afternoon, still stuffed full of cash. The Greek couple who handed it in were most offended when I offered them a reward. We slipped into Turkey off a small boat and bought cheap leather jackets and some jewellery which was sold by weight rather than design. Happy days...

Well done Yorkie, go to the top of the class sir...

I saw a great programme on BBC4 about Aristotle and his Biological investigations on Lesbos a few weeks - totally fascinating.

Interesting place not touristy... and just across the water from Ayvelik in Turkey..... I once did a month travelling in Turkey... an amazing place with great history and ancient sites..

now for my question:

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Whose cat could be called the living dead?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Well done Yorkie, go to the top of the class sir...

I saw a great programme on BBC4 about Aristotle and his Biological investigations on Lesbos a few weeks - totally fascinating.

Point of order here - Alcmaeon's work pre-dates Aristotle's by around 130 years - in fact Aristotle used him as a reference in some of his work....

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Whose cat could be called the living dead?

Erwin Schrödinger's?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Erwin Schrödinger's?

Yes... too easy eh... BUT I almost asked for an explanation of if too that everyone could understand!

Over to you

 

[Bolton's Boots]

What unique claim can Armenians make?