Pub Quiz thread

[Bolton's Boots]

How far back are we going here??? I can find its origins etc

Back to the days when flyting was the popular pastime of the day - around 500 years ago.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Back to the days when flyting was the popular pastime of the day - around 500 years ago.

Got it by googling flyting!!! I thought it was a typo!!


Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often ... between William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy in front of James IV, which includes the earliest recorded use of the word **** as a personal insul

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Got it by googling flyting!!! I thought it was a typo!!


Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often ... between William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy in front of James IV, which includes the earliest recorded use of the word **** as a personal insul

That's it. I've no idea why it was called flyting - seems an odd name - but I wouldn't mind going back in time to listen to some of the battles.

Over to you.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What was said to be miles and miles and miles but later analysed as 40 yards?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

sport.... well sort of

 

[yorkshirehornet]

In a satellite setting

 

[yorkshirehornet]

A 'drive' was involved

 

[yorkshirehornet]

neither blue nor cheesey

 

[J T Bodbo]

I'll regret this. It was a golf shot, played out of a bunker by that celebrated golf pro Alan Shephard. Owing to covid restrictions at the time there was only 1 spectator. However, he did have to play one-handed, which might have affected the length of the shot. Or maybe it was because they were on the moon at the time.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

I'll regret this. It was a golf shot, played out of a bunker by that celebrated golf pro Alan Shephard. Owing to covid restrictions at the time there was only 1 spectator. However, he did have to play one-handed, which might have affected the length of the shot. Or maybe it was because they were on the moon at the time.

Yes... eloquently put!!

Over to you.........................

 

[J T Bodbo]

Sorry for a delay in responding. I cannot complain about being too busy, or away , just didn't look.
Anyway. Where was 34B ? (It's not saucy !) It's not very exciting either, but there we are.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Sorry for a delay in responding. I cannot complain about being too busy, or away , just didn't look.
Anyway. Where was 34B ? (It's not saucy !) It's not very exciting either, but there we are.

There's a hotel of that name in Paris?

 

[colognehornet]

Sorry for a delay in responding. I cannot complain about being too busy, or away , just didn't look.
Anyway. Where was 34B ? (It's not saucy !) It's not very exciting either, but there we are.

There's a formula 34b for the German tax declaration for those working in forestry

 

[J T Bodbo]

There's a hotel of that name in Paris?

There might be, but I didn't know. Not that one. (BTW, is isn't just down the street from 221B).

 

[J T Bodbo]

There's a formula 34b for the German tax declaration for those working in forestry

There might be, but I think that's a bit obscure by any standards. It's (or was) a location in the UK

 

[J T Bodbo]

There was also a 34A. Any help ?

 

[J T Bodbo]

And if you carry on, you will get to 52A

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Are these codes for railway sheds?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Bridges over canals are numbered. Something to do with them?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

railway bridges?