Pub Quiz thread

[andytoprankin]

Why is this in the news?

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s heart?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s heart?

More likely to be his missing spine, but no.

Although given that he is a climate denier you're probably not too wide of the mark.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Studying an ice core was the method used by scientists to determine the beginning/end of something, but a group of them has now agreed to use a different method - one involving a lake in Canada.

 

[Gordon Armstrong]

Is it something to do with crystals, is it suspended, or has it not changed for a long long time

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Is it something to do with crystals, is it suspended, or has it not changed for a long long time

The scientists involved are geologists - they'll be studying the silt in Crawford Lake near Toronto, hoping to confirm/mark the end of one thing and the beginning of another.

 

[Gordon Armstrong]

The end of the world and the beginning of a new one
The end of a certain ice age ?

You can probably tell that I've got nee idea

 

[Bolton's Boots]

The end of the world and the beginning of a new one
The end of a certain ice age ?

You can probably tell that I've got nee idea

The end of a certain age - not necessarily an ice one.
I'm sure you'd get an idea if you googled Crawford Lake.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

"The sediments found at the bottom of Crawford Lake provide an exquisite record of recent environmental change over the last millennia," says AGW secretary Simon Turner, a geoscientist at University College London."

Indicates when humans started to chnage our planet

 

[Bolton's Boots]

"The sediments found at the bottom of Crawford Lake provide an exquisite record of recent environmental change over the last millennia," says AGW secretary Simon Turner, a geoscientist at University College London."

Indicates when humans started to chnage our planet

Almost there - what ends and what begins? Or, to be more precise, what will it confirm that scientists believe happened around 1950?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for "human" and "new" — followed the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

The Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for "human" and "new" — followed the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age.

Over to you.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for "human" and "new" — followed the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age.

I have a feeling the human era wont last very long...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What is this film Yorkie will not be watching?

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[mustyfrog]

crap picture so no clue

 

[yorkshirehornet]

part of a bigger photo.... but the colour is significant

 

[Gordon Armstrong]

Blazing Saddles

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Blazing Saddles

noo... great film...

this film is just coming out....and i would almost never go to such a film

 

[Hornet-Fez]

That's Ken and Barbie.
I'll just have to watch it to see if it's as god awful as I suspect it is!!

(in a parallel universe I am Barry Norman and Mark Kemode rolled into one)

 

[yorkshirehornet]

That's Ken and Barbie.
I'll just have to watch it to see if it's as god awful as I suspect it is!!

(in a parallel universe I am Barry Norman and Mark Kemode rolled into one)

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You got it!

 

[mustyfrog]

wow that is seriously a movie?????