Pub Quiz thread

[oldfrenchhorn]

Is this a character which appeared on either a banknote or a coin.

It is a coin, marking 75 years since the death of someone.

 

[colognehornet]

Is it the two pound coin with George Orwell on it.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Is it the two pound coin with George Orwell on it.

Indeed, it is. AII yours cologne.

 

[colognehornet]

Cheers Frenchie. Which two novels were inspired by a short visit overlooking the Etruria Valley.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Stoke??

Might be The Cone by H G wells?

 

[colognehornet]

Close enough Yorkie. The Cone and the War of the Worlds are known to have been inspired by a visit to the Potteries in 1888 (I say the Potteries because at the time the city of Stoke on Trent didn't exist). The inspiration for the cone is obvious, but the bursts of fire from the iron foundry furnaces planted the idea of interplanetary conflict in his mind and were a direct inspiration for some scenes. Over to you

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What did an American state organisation have an acre of in the 1990s...and what was the revolutionary change?

 

[andytoprankin]

What did an American state organisation have an acre of in the 1990s...and what was the revolutionary change?

Was it the site of a battlefield? To do with the American Revolution?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Was it the site of a battlefield? To do with the American Revolution?

No ..... this was indoors

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The change was technological

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Subject of Radio 4 programme

 

[colognehornet]

I know this might be a wild guess but anything to do with vertical farming

 

[yorkshirehornet]

I know this might be a wild guess but anything to do with vertical farming

no....something quite small.....but many many of them

 

[andytoprankin]

no....something quite small.....but many many of them

Is it some part of a computer system?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Is it some part of a computer system?

You are half way there...

Next clue... the FBI

 

[yorkshirehornet]

A change brought about by technology that made a lot of space and reduced workloads immediately...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Lots of bits of paper

 

[yorkshirehornet]

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[Bolton's Boots]

Looks like paper records of all their cases, which were progressively digitalised over a couple of decades.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Looks like paper records of all their cases, which were progressively digitalised over a couple of decades.

It is something specific and revolutionised this ........