Pub Quiz thread

Not a dough cutter. It is a utensil.

 

Mrs Fez sez... Butter ball maker.

 

Sorry for delay - probs with PC. Won't shut down properly, so I have difficulty in restarting it. Anyway, not a butter ball maker.
The piece just above the bell slides up the 'mast'. The spring means it will drop quickly once let go.

 

Could it be a boiled egg cutter by any chance?

 

Exactement !

 

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This one shouldn't take long. Why is this unique?

 

It's a type of car ferry. The uniqueness may be that it's a turntable ferry which may be manually operated.

 

Quite right Cologne. It is the last manual turntable car ferry in Britain.

 

Cheers Frenchie. What does the ''Forrest Hall'' have to do with a march of 15 miles involving 20 men and horses (four of which died).

 

The journey took 11 hours and was at night - very much of an up and down thing.

 

Has a loose connection to the last question.

 

Porlock Weir launch to rescue the Forrest Hall - the Lifeboat had to be hauled overland to a launching place to rescue it, the rudder of the Forrest Hall was broken and out in a F9 storm. Quite a remarkable achievement dragging the boat from Lynmouth over Portislock hill and across Exmoor.
The horses might have survived if many of the volunteers hadn't turned back halfway leaving the tricky downhill trek.

 

All yours Fez This was all done at night in January 1899 starting by getting up Countisbury Hill in Lynmouth (one in three and a half at one point), and ending with going down Porlock Hill (one in four). The lifeboat weighed 10 tons. They re enacted the whole thing a hundred years later with a better road.

 

Haven't forgotten... hopefully post one later this evening.

 

brilliant question !

 

Who am I?

A child of the 18th Century,
A poet and life's a gas,
My fame is elemental,
Letters from Berzilius!
Copper bottom not so fine,
Photographs so near!
My fame extends past Sunderland,
The Light it gives a cheer,
That most famed invention,
To allay a miner's fear....

 

Humphry Davy?

 

Took me longer to think up the rhyme! Gave it away in the second half...
He was quite the poet, wrote an essay on uses for "laughing gas", discovered several elements, his copper bottomed boat ideas failed but it laid the groundwork for other discoveries, coulda-shoulda done more with photographic prints... But probably best known for the Davy Lamp which probably saved countless lives, on view outside of the Stadium of Light.
All yours.

 

You're right - the last two lines gave it away. I hadn't a clue until I read them...

Which George did England stubbornly hang onto until the 1850s?

 

George had been so-named 70 years earlier in England, but the rest of the world knew him by another name - one from mythology.