Pub Quiz thread

[Bolton's Boots]

Over to you BB

Cheers dave...

What links Bath and Ajax?
And it's not the cleaner used to clean one...

 

[colognehornet]

Is this to do with the 'Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad', which sees a fight between Ajax and Homer ? At any rate nothing to do with Amsterdam.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Is this to do with the 'Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad', which sees a fight between Ajax and Homer ? At any rate nothing to do with Amsterdam.

No - a little more 'down to earth' you might say.

And a little more 'inventive'...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

No - a little more 'down to earth' you might say.

And a little more 'inventive'...

mmm....

 

[Bolton's Boots]

mmm....

Had forgotten about this.

It's to do with a 16th century invention by a namesake of an MP from Watford.

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

Flush toilets perhaps?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Crapper?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Flush toilets perhaps?

Nearly there...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Sir John Harington’s New Ajax (The True Roots of the Modern Day Flush Toilet)

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Sir John Harington’s New Ajax (The True Roots of the Modern Day Flush Toilet)

That's it - Sir John Harrington who built his own house in Bath, and installed his invention, the Ajax - which so impressed Elizabeth I that she ordered one.

Over to you..

 

[yorkshirehornet]

That's it - Sir John Harrington who built his own house in Bath, and installed his invention, the Ajax - which so impressed Elizabeth I that she ordered one.

Over to you..

That was a good one

What yorkshireman was over the top at 62?

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

Surely no Yorkshireman is over the top at 62? Even in the grave they're still going strong

 

[colognehornet]

Is it Alan Hinkes (62) who became the first Briton to scale the World's 14 highest mountains ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

No... think numbers..

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Clue: I am getting to the point

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Last clue ( surely)

62 points???

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

The fellow with the most points on his licence who's still driving?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The fellow with the most points on his licence who's still driving?

Yes he is from Yorkshire..... well done.. over to you...

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

Cheers Yorkie

What links the portrayal of an English king and an American humourist?

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

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