Pub Quiz thread

[andytoprankin]

Now I'm in a quandary - between the two of you, you have the answer. I'll let you fight each other for the next question.

As people tend to assume that light comes from directly above them, cartographers light their maps with the sun positioned above the map, which makes sense. But, as art teachers would attest to, hill shading (and in my experience, most still life paintings) follows the convention of top left lighting because of a quirk of human perception - using any other directional light source causes multistable perception illusions - which cause the features of a map to appear inverted.

Try explaining that to primary school kids,as I've had to!!

Go for it, ofh.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

A easy one then.
Which country has the largest land border with France?

 

[NZHorn]

A easy one then.
Which country has the largest land border with France?

Is this one of those trick questions for which the answer is Brazil?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Is this one of those trick questions for which the answer is Brazil?

You got it in one NZ.

 

[NZHorn]

Ok. Following this theme, Frenchie. To drive from Brazil to Paramaribo, in the former Dutch colony of Suriname, you have to go through French Guyana. What do you have to do on that journey that you have never had to do, because of Napoleon, when driving from France to the Netherlands?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Ok. Following this theme, Frenchie. To drive from Brazil to Paramaribo, in the former Dutch colony of Suriname, you have to go through French Guyana. What do you have to do on that journey that you have never had to do, because of Napoleon, when driving from France to the Netherlands?

Change the side you drive on?

It wasn't until Napoleon conquered the Netherlands that the Dutch started driving on the right

 

[NZHorn]

Change the side you drive on?

It wasn't until Napoleon conquered the Netherlands that the Dutch started driving on the right

That's it, Yorkie. Suriname and Guyana are the only independent countries in South America that drive on the left.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What para first has now been sadly thwarted?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Current news headline involves this

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Taliban..............

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Rescue mission to bring home stranded Britons?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

no... this is sport..... .and a big clue to which sport in the first clue

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Ahh - the first woman from Afghanistan to compete in the Paralympics now can't because she's trapped in Kabul?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Ahh - the first woman from Afghanistan to compete in the Paralympics now can't because she's trapped in Kabul?

Yes ...over to you..............

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Cheers Yorkie

A quickie - what was the significance about the moment David Warner swatted a boundary off Ben Stokes in an Ashes Test match a few years ago?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Not the quickie I thought it would be.

The test match in question was at Trent Bridge in August 2015.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Was it the millionth ball in test cricket?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Was it the millionth ball in test cricket?

I'll give it to you. It was actually the millionth ball in test cricket in England - just a slight difference.

Over to you

 

[yorkshirehornet]

ok.... A TOPICAL ONE THIS:
WHO IS THIS?

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[Bolton's Boots]

That looks like a young Rolling Stone...

The drummer who died last week - Charlie Watts?