OT - The Pub Quiz Thread
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Volare - I did hear it on Danny Baker last week which is why I didn't immediately answer, events in the real world then overtook me.
You are correct of course, Roller.
Did you hear Frank McLintock on DB's show this morning?
He said that he didn't want to leave Arsenal, but was quick to say that in his four years with Rangers we finished above Arsenal each year. He was a really interesting interviewee.
Cheers Stroller, I'll see if I can find it on some catch up service. If so I'll post a link.
In the mean time.....
Which sit-com broadcast by BBC TV in 1946 is said to be Britain’s first?
I think there was a show called Life With The Lyons or something similar, but wasn't that on the radio?
Both according to Wiki
"Life with the Lyons was a British radio and television domestic sitcom from the 1950s (1950–1961 on radio, 1955–1960 on television)"
Not the answer to this question though.....
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I've just been speaking with Sooper, he remembers it well and says it was called 'Pinwrights Progress.'
I've just been speaking with Sooper, he remembers it well and says it was called 'Pinwrights Progress.'
Is Sooper only talking to us through a proxy now?
He is right of course.
Pinwright's Progress was a British sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947 and was the world's first regular half-hour televised sitcom. The ten episodes, which aired fortnightly in alternation with Kaleidoscope, were broadcast live from the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace. Still photographs are all that remain of the show's transmitted form.
Pinwright's Progress was written by Rodney Hobson, produced and directed by John Glyn-Jones and the script editor was Ted Kavanagh, who also wrote the BBC radio comedy series It's That Man Again.
He is right of course.
Pinwright's Progress was a British sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947 and was the world's first regular half-hour televised sitcom. The ten episodes, which aired fortnightly in alternation with Kaleidoscope, were broadcast live from the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace. Still photographs are all that remain of the show's transmitted form.
Pinwright's Progress was written by Rodney Hobson, produced and directed by John Glyn-Jones and the script editor was Ted Kavanagh, who also wrote the BBC radio comedy series It's That Man Again.
I made that bit up, it was an outright attempt at ageism due to his (60th ?) birthday this week.
What metamorphic amphibole with the chemical composition (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2 (magnesium iron silicate hydroxide) has a name that suggests excited anticipation?
Cummingtonite.
I work with lots of chemists. This is about as close as they get to a joke.
You are of course correct. I bet it's their little 'in' joke. Do you play along and pretend you've never heard it before and politely chuckle?
I just ask where exactly they sit on the Asperger's spectrum and request them to make eye contact when they are talking to me.
What's the nearest National Trust property to Loftus Road?
I originally thought it would be Syon Park or Hogarth's house. But after some careful consideration as these aren't NT properties and realising who the poster that posted the question is, it therefore must be Carlyle's House in Chelsea SW3. A prodigy of the OP perhaps?
Spot on Nines, though I confess to being totally unfamiliar with Carlyle's oeuvre. I just did a search on the NT website.
You surprise me. I'd of thought he'd have been right up your street. Maybe you'd enjoy acquainting yourself to him.......
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29951.Thomas_Carlyle
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