OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

9999s you are right...someone 9999 or 4string take it away please

 

scarface

 

I know I don't get many but you don't have to make them that easy
(keep making them that easy)

 

to keep the movie theme going
What 71-year-old actor celebrated his Oscar win by doing a set of One-handed push-ups on stage?

 

no

 

Kirk Douglas?

 

Sorry - been away.

My quiz question is..........

What is the Caxton Curve and where is it?

 

night all
it was jack palance

 

Well it does not relate to baseball, but it appears that you could experience some trouble (on Saturdays') on the Caxton Curve:-

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http://underground-history.co.uk/woodlane.php

Interesting history read & photos:-

I believe the answer is: the sharpest curve on the London Underground, Shepherd's Bush?

"The Eastbound line out of Shepherd's Bush was never meant to be in permanent and heavy use and was hastily constructed to bend sharply under the west bound so that it could travel mostly under land already owned by the Underground - the Central Line's depot. Indeed, this is the sharpest running line curve on the entire underground network, known as Caxton Curve, with a 200 foot radius. This also explains why trains make such a racket as soon as they leave Shepherd's Bush..." (so do the football supporters)

 

Name this recently restored sculpture cut into the chalk hill?

Name the nearest town to it?

What figure is depicted on the horse?

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Is this the one a little north of Weymouth which was restored for the Olympics? The rider was, I believe, George III, can't give the actual name though.

 

Osmington White Horse - 2/3 ain't bad! You're up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmington_White_Horse

I think this might be the restored version?

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Deteriorated: The Osmington White Horse as it looks today (2009) 20 years after Anneka Rice's botched attempt to restore it

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Former glory: An old postcard shows how the White Horse once looked before Anneka Rice's restoration

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Botched job: Anneka Rice pictured during her days as presenter of Challenge Anneka

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eka-Rice-quick-fix-20-years-ago-restored.html

 

Whose autobiography ends with the line "Oh well, I started out with nothing and I pretty well still have most of it left"?

 

Hmmm, its the title of a Seasick Steve song so I'll go for him.

 

Not him mate, a little closer to home

 

as it happens you cant say fairer than that
is the last line in stans book