1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Pub Quiz thread

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

  1. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 16, 2011
    Messages:
    14,952
    Likes Received:
    4,851
    You can get both a Rossini cut of beef and a Beef tenderloin Napoleon but I'm struggling with the writer - both served at 'The Conan Doyle' in Edinburgh ?
     
    #12641
  2. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    You're moving in the right direction but just have the wrong type of food. If I had given the writer's name, the answer may have been obvious - all three have a type of dish named after them.
     
    #12642
  3. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 16, 2011
    Messages:
    14,952
    Likes Received:
    4,851
    Ah - him of the five towns ? A smoked haddock omelette is called 'Eggs Arnold Bennett' - which leads to Omelette Rossini - so, two out of three not being bad I'll guess that Napoleon had something to do with omelettes as well ?
     
    #12643
  4. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    You're correct. Napoleon's connection is the Easter Monday tradition of a 'thousands of eggs' omelette in the French village of Bessieres - apparently inspired by him enjoying an omelette served up to him so much there that he ordered a giant one be cooked and served to his troops.
    Over to you.
     
    #12644
  5. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 16, 2011
    Messages:
    14,952
    Likes Received:
    4,851
    Cheers BB. What was special about Armando Rodrigues de Sa and his moped ?
     
    #12645
  6. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    #12646
  7. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 16, 2011
    Messages:
    14,952
    Likes Received:
    4,851
    #12647
    yorkshirehornet likes this.
  8. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    What was recorded in September?
     
    #12648
  9. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    :emoticon-0159-musicIt might as well rain until...:emoticon-0159-music
     
    #12649
  10. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    well it is weather related!
     
    #12650

  11. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    The hottest September in the world since records began?
     
    #12651
  12. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    You got it.... chilly now though!

    over to you
     
    #12652
  13. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    A quickie - what did Aldous Huxley inspire musically?
     
    #12653
  14. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    Was it anything to do with Rick Wakeman and Brave new World?
     
    #12654
  15. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    You've confused me there - I've never heard of an album Brave New World. Grave New World, yes - that was The Strawbs, but after Rick Wakeman had left them I thought. But no - this particular connection happened about five years before he joined The Strawbs.
     
    #12655
  16. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    Was it:

    Conceived as a studio project and conceptually inspired by the world of sci-fi novelist Aldous Huxley, Brave New World was created by Reinhart Firchow (recorders, flutes, ocarina, Stylophone, percussion, vocals), John O'Brien-Docker (guitars, organ, percussion, vocals, wind chimes) and Herb Geller (flutes, cor anglais, saxophones, organ). They where aided by Dicky Tarrach (drums, percussion), Lucas Lindholm (bass, bass fiddle, organ, piano) and Esther Daniels (voice). Irishman John O'Brien-Docker had previously played on Die City Preachers and Marcel, and also recorded as Inga & John - Inga was, of course, Inga Rumpf of Frumpy fame. He also played with Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore, who would later be known as Slap Happy. Reinhart Firchow had also been around for a while and would later form Kaarst. Herb Geller was an accomplished jazz musician who had been playing and recording in several jazz outfits since 1954. Their album, originally released on Vertigo in 1972, featured an eclectic mixture of styles, blending medieval music, folk, electronics, jazz and rock in pure krautrock eclectic lore in the line of Annexus Quam, Achim Reichel orTomorrow's Gift.

    First ever reissue, housed in a glossy laminated gatefold cover reproducing the phenomenal original artwork and an insert with notes, and it's limited to only 500 copies!
     
    #12656
  17. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    No - that album was released in 1972. What I'm thinking of happened in the mid 60s - and wasn't an album, it was to do with a particular band.
     
    #12657
  18. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    So nothing to do with Rick Wakeman?
     
    #12658
  19. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    31,088
    Likes Received:
    8,223
    Ah...
    Or was it the Doors
    naming themself after the Doors of Perception?
     
    #12659
  20. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    35,210
    Likes Received:
    13,935
    You got it...

    Over to you.
     
    #12660

Share This Page