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OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

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  1. Rollercoaster Ranger

    Rollercoaster Ranger Well-Known Member

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    I've also seen them live many, many years ago. He reminded me of a rabbit on heat, he was bouncing his legs up and down more than Thumper.

    Cyanometer - How turquoise something is? No? Well I'm shocked!
     
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  2. Sooperhoop

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    I'll give you that one Roller, it was a swathe of coloured cards from almost white through to almost black used for measuring the blueness of the sky. They also use it for denim as well...
     
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  3. Rollercoaster Ranger

    Rollercoaster Ranger Well-Known Member

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    Really? Haha, something to thank HP for!

    Which King of England was crowned on Christmas Day?
     
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  4. Sooperhoop

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    William the Conquerer...
     
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  5. sb_73

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    beat me to it Sooper....
     
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  6. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    Clearly too easy.
     
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  7. Sooperhoop

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    Which British boxer was the first to appear striking the gong at the start of 'J. Arthur Rank' films?...
     
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    Our 'enry
     
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  9. qprbeth

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    Bombadier Wells or something like that from memory
     
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    Yep, Bombardier Billy Wells. Over to you Beth...
     
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    she must still be celebrating the boswinga news
     
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    Beth's forgotten about this thread, surprisingly.

    What was first conceived by Otto Jespersen, Paul Passy and Henry Sweet that I tend to use everyday when I'm at work?
     
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    you either want the comedian or this bloke

    The name of Otto Jespersen is a household word to all advanced students of English. Who has not again and again consulted the volumes of the Modern English Grammar, this inexhaustible mine of systematized knowledge, and found there just the information he wanted? Many teachers and scholars have received valuable impulses from the Growth and Structure of the English Language, Essentials of English Grammar, Philosophy of Grammar, and Language, the acme of Jespersen's scientific efforts. Many other books and papers may be mentioned in which he has shed new light on or definitely solved some linguistic problem, or in which he simply is the model teacher. So it seems natural that the Englische Studien, to which, by the way, he has contributed papers from the eighties on, should bring a mention of Otto Jespersen and his work.(1)
     
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    What Kiwi said.

    Or a fire engine.
     
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    OOOOps sorry lads...forgot about the thread...Wells was a bit of a guess never thought it was right....just got back from a quiz...we won.. suspect Stan is right as I think Passy might be a fire engine

    Stan will pay more attention tomorrow...sorry off to see the Bowie exhibition so that I can chat to Oddball on saturday
     
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    Hi Beth, you're up late. I guess my question was somewhat tenuous.

    Here's another clue. I use it to spell out ambiguous words.
     
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    So Kiwi had the right bloke...he was a linguist....but had to look it up, so not claiming it.....

    If no-one has set one by tomorrow am will do a question (yes 999s always up late on a thursday...always a bit wired after a match.............top of the table clash tonight..................please with knowing where the national museum of computing is situated)...if no one wants to set a question, that can be mine
     
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    Go ahead Beth, no real answer was forthcoming though, lol. I hope you had a great night. ( Seems like it, you lush! Lol x )
     
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    From the clues above, are those guys are credited with inventing/compiling the phonetic alphabet?
     
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    999s...never a lush on a Thursday, I have to drive 20 miles there 20 miles back...Diet coke all night!!
    Truely just wired by the tension and the match.

    So the answer to 999s question was that they developed the phonetic alphabet......odd that one of them had the same name as a make of fire-engine.


    So a question from last night.

    Where is the National Museum of Computing......

    Am afraid I have a day off and me and the little one are off to the Bowie exhibition.....but it is not a hard question...and he who knows he is right please take it away
     
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