Pub Quiz thread

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I have to give this to Frenchie...... who worked out the omnium....

Our rider Hayter won the omnium in the European Championships In Glasgow last w/e

 

All yours Frenchie.

 

OK.

Where would you have found the first escalators installed in London in 1898?

 

At Harrod's I think ?

 

That was quick cologne, and correct. Over to you.

 

Cheers Frenchie. What word(s) did the people who objected to Mr. Jacquard's invention give to the English language ?

 

Is it Luddites?

 

You're on the right track Andy, but this is a bit earlier.

 

Bit of a guess, but is it the word ‘program’?

 

Nope, sorry Andy.

 

Is it "Little Black Dress?"

 

Nope, sorry Dave.

 

First clue - the word I am looking for is the same as the name of a Black Sabbath album. Second clue......think of footwear.

 

Sabotage? The looms were often wrecked...?

 

That's it Fez. His invention was a punch card which enabled looms to produce intricate designs which, previously, had been done manually. The workers were naturally up in arms about this. The French workers of this period wore wooden clogs which were called Sabots - one theory is that they used these to jam the machines, the other being that a large group of men wearing wooden clogs whilst taking strike action would obviously make a lot of noise. At any rate the words Sabotage, and Saboteur come from the name for their clogs. Over to you.

 

It was the Black Sabbath reference that done it!

Give me a couple of hours and I'll get a question up!

 

How, specifically, were Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor "immortalised" in 2013?

 

Did they have asteroids named after them? I know Freddy Mercury has. I always thought that that was unfair as he already has a planet named after him.

 

Not asteroids. And not off-world.