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Pub Quiz thread

Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. Jsybarry

    Jsybarry Well-Known Member

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    In the 1980s, BBC Manchester made a show turned down twice by the main BBC. What was the show and why were BBC Manchester able to make it?
     
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  2. Bolton's Boots

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    Red Dwarf?

    I believe it was only produced as BBC North had some budget left over after the scrapping of a Ben Elton comedy - the name of which entirely escapes me...
     
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  3. Jsybarry

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    Correct BB - the show in question was Happy Families.
     
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  4. Bolton's Boots

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    One year ago this week, a team of scientists found that when more than one photon was fired through a cloud of rubidium in a chamber cooled by lasers to just a few degrees above absolute zero, the photons teamed up and started interacting and behaving in a surprising and unexpected manner. Thus they had invented a fabled weapon.

    Which weapon?
     
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  5. NZHorn

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    Light sabres (or sabers, if you are an American scientist).
     
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  6. Bolton's Boots

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    Spot on NZ...
     
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  7. NZHorn

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    A rock gave birth to a bull killer on December 25th. Who was the bull killer?
     
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  8. Jsybarry

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    NZ, was this Dec 25th 2013 or another year? I've tried looking to see if any players who played for a team called the Bulls was murdered, but that doesn't seem to answer the question at all.
     
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  9. NZHorn

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    It was December 25th about 300 BC. The event is/was commemorated in what became Northumberland (and in other places too).
     
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  10. colognehornet

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    I would guess at Mithras - though I can't think of the Northumberland connection.
     
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  11. NZHorn

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    You are correct, Cologne. There is Temple of Mithras at Carrawburgh, near Hadrian's Wall.
     
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  12. colognehornet

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    OK...What did Christian fundamentalists in the USA attempt to have banned in schools in Colorado in 2002 ? If you know the answer then go ahead and set the next one - because I will not have internet access again until tonight.
     
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  13. zen guerrilla

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    Didn't they want the teaching of evolutionism banned, so creationism was the only explanation of how we got here.
     
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  14. geitungur akureyrar

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    π = 4. So geometry was easy.
     
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  15. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Nothing right so far.
     
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  16. Bolton's Boots

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    I seem to remember an acrimonious debate on Harry Potter novels in schools?
     
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  17. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    No, not Harry Potter BB though there have also been problems with this. What I am thinking of was also banned for Moslems in Malaysia.
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    Did they want to ban the ban on corporal punishment?
     
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  19. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Nope - A clue is that the fundamentalists opposed this because they said it contravened the separation of religion and the state.
     
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  20. colognehornet

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    Strangely enough this was also officially banned in Poland at one time - a friend of mine taught this there and was investigated by the police for it.
     
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