Pub Quiz thread

[yorkshirehornet]

Some battle over Australia?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Some battle over Australia?

No, much closer to home.

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

They were both Lord Wardens of the Cinq Ports.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

They were both Lord Wardens of the Cinq Ports.

Quite correct Theo. All yours.

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

Cheers Frenchie.

What seemingly unlikely meeting of two famous people finally took place in London in 1964 after the pair had exchanged letters for several years?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

is it t s Eliot and Groucho Marx?

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

is it t s Eliot and Groucho Marx?

Well done, Yorkie...that's it. Sounds an unlikely meeting really. I believe they talked more about the films than about 'The Waste Land'!

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What cliff record was achieved about this time and no one has since gone higher

 

[NZHorn]

What cliff record was achieved about this time and no one has since gone higher

Summer Holiday or The Young Ones

 

[yorkshirehornet]

No.. the wrong cliff!

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[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

Must be Cliff Holton's WFC goal-scoring record...more than 40 in a season?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Must be Cliff Holton's WFC goal-scoring record...more than 40 in a season?

Yes over to you

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

What didn't begin with all the world in a hopeless jumble?

 

[Jsybarry]

The version of "Somewhere over the rainbow" used in the Wizard of Oz. As is the case with a lot of musical films, they didn't use the whole versions of all of the songs and they cut the first verse - the first line of which is "When all the world is a hopeless jumble".

 

[hornethologist a.k.a. theo]

The version of "Somewhere over the rainbow" used in the Wizard of Oz. As is the case with a lot of musical films, they didn't use the whole versions of all of the songs and they cut the first verse - the first line of which is "When all the world is a hopeless jumble".

That's the one...over to you JSB.

 

[Jsybarry]

Who links Rodrigo's "Concierto d'Aranjuez" with Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

mmm a hitch-hikers guide?

 

[Jsybarry]

You've worked out the Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area part. Rodrigo's "Concierto d'Aranjuez" has a famous mistranslation.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

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Is orange juice a link.... ? it is in the great cocktail

 

[Jsybarry]

I forgot that orange juice is part of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, but you are on the right lines. My initial question asked who is the link.