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

  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Phew! An interesting challenge!
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    What and where is this?

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  3. yorkshirehornet

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    Football related
     
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  4. Hornet-Fez

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    England team hotel in Qatar?
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

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    Non but it is off qatar
     
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  6. yorkshirehornet

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    looking down.....
     
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  7. J T Bodbo

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    I think it's a photo of the cruise ship where the England footballers partners stayed.
     
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  8. yorkshirehornet

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    good enough.. it is one of the cruise ships hotels...... over to you
     
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  9. J T Bodbo

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    As I feared - I have to dream up a question.
    OK. What is the name of the oldest surviving steam locomotive. And where is it, in case the question is simple ?!
     
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  10. colognehornet

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    By 'surviving' do you mean still in operation ? If not then it's Puffing Billy (used in a colliery in 1815) which is in the science museum in London.
     
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  11. colognehornet

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    If you mean still in operation as a steam train then it't the 'Fairy Queen', built in 1855, which is still in use as a tourist trip in a tiger reserve in India.
     
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  12. J T Bodbo

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    Too good - too quick. Yes , it's Puffing Billy and yes it's in the Science museum.
    Next time I win I'll have a devilish question on locomotive names - I promise !
    Well done , if not very challenging. Anyway, over to you.
     
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  13. colognehornet

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    Cheers Bodbo. A fun one - guessing is allowed. Here are twelve cities, the only way we have of identifying them is by the 3 most common family names found there. In order of popularity.

    A) Brown, Smith, Patel
    B) Williams, Johnson, Rodriguez
    C) Garcia, Smith, Lopez
    D) Smith, Brown, Tremblay
    E) Tremblay, Gagnon, Roy
    F) Diallo, Bah, Barry
    G) Smith, Campbell, Brown
    H) Yilmaz, Kaya, Demir
    I) Jones, Smith, Williams
    J) Smith, Jones, Kaur
    K) Lee, Wang, Chen
    L) Müller, Schmitz, Schneider

    and for a bonus M) Nagy, Kovacs, Toth

    A couple of these are quite easy some are more difficult, and two of them I didn't believe at first. The closest to twelve wins. They are all large cities.
     
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  14. yorkshirehornet

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    a) Leicester
    e) Paris
    g) London
    H) Istanbul
    I) Cardiff
    K) Hong Kong
    L) Berlin
    M) Budapest??


    sheer guesses
     
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  15. colognehornet

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    2 of these are correct Yorkie :azn:
     
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  16. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    To be more helpfull Budapest and Istanbul are spot on, London is in the wrong place, Schmitz is the local variant of Schmidt (but not in Berlin) and Martin is the most common family name in France. There is a clue by comparing D and E.
     
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  17. colognehornet

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    Other clues - C and K are geographically close to each other, as are D and E. City F is totally at variance with its host nation.
     
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  18. yorkshirehornet

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    A) London
    B) somewhere in the US
    c) somewhere in california or is it syndey
    D) Toronto
    E)Quebec
    f) Brussels
    g) Renfrew? Somewhere in Scotland Glasgow?
    h) Istanbul
    i) Chester
    j) Birmingham
    k)Melbourne
    l) Koln .... Scmitz seems to originate from a broadish area??
    M) budapest


    all guesses after a lot of comparing etc
     
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  19. colognehornet

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    I'll give you that Yorkie - only two are wrong. K) is San Francisco (hence the clue - close to C which is Los Angeles) B) suggested a less strong Spanish connection and is more likely to be in the north of the USA - in this case New York (Where was Boris Johnson born :angel:). Schmitz is the variation of Schmidt found in the Rhineland area - hence Cologne or Düsseldorf. So all you need is a big city (Chester is too small) with a Welsh family name at the top - in this case it's Liverpool. Lee, Wong and Chen are anglicized versions of Chinese names (in China they would be LI and Zheng) and San Francisco has the highest Chinese popoulation out side of Asia. The most surprising one for me was Brussels. So the full list was:
    A) London
    B) New York
    C) Los Angeles
    D) Toronto
    E) Quebec
    F) Brussels
    G) Glasgow
    H) Istanbul
    I) Liverpool
    J) Birmingham (Kaur is the female version of Singh)
    K) San Francisco
    L) Cologne
    M) Budapest

    Over to you <applause>
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    Very interesting.. .I also am surprised there is such a big sikh population in Birmingham.


    OK easy one.... who feels bad about what he did to a sea creature in the 70s
     
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