Pub Quiz thread

[Agent Bruce]

Fiddle sticks, that's too hard at this time of night.

 

[Agent Bruce]

Okay, The Emperor Nero, famous for fiddling whilst Rome burned is famous for playing an early form of which musical instrument often thought to have been invented much nearer home?

If you want a long boring explanation of Nero's musical talents, you could always take a look at this.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CJ/42/4/Nero_Fiddled*.html

 

[canary-dave]

If you want a long boring explanation of Nero's musical talents, you could always take a look at this.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CJ/42/4/Nero_Fiddled*.html

It is nothing whatsoever to do with ANY form of stringed instrument!

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

I think it is bagpipes.

 

[canary-dave]

I think it is bagpipes.

Well done OFH, discovered in carvings of the Roman Empire of the day!

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

OK, what spice has been used as an intoxicant and snuff in the past?

 

[Supsale]

I believe it was Nutmeg. Remember my Mother use to grate a nutmeg on the top of hot milk, use to really help in getting a great sleep, must have been the nutmeg, not the warm milk that did that.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Correct Supsale. Over to you.

 

[Supsale]

Dominic Sibley of Surrey became the youngest ever player in modern cricket to score a double century. Who was the youngest ever double centurian?

 

[Agent Bruce]

Dominic Sibley of Surrey became the youngest ever player in modern cricket to score a double century. Who was the youngest ever double centurian?

That would be Javed Miandad in 1976.

 

[Agent Bruce]

Pass over to O F H.

 

[Supsale]

Sorry, not correct

 

[geitungur akureyrar]

Cricket, I will never understand this game.

 

[Jsybarry]

W.G. Grace is certainly the youngest in English cricket, but I'm not sure if that's the right answer.

 

[Supsale]

I had it as WG so over to you Jsy

 

[Jsybarry]

What and where is Milliways?

 

[canary-dave]

What and where is Milliways?

The restaurant at the end of the Universe!

 

[Agent Bruce]

The restaurant at the end of the Universe!

You've dined there before Dave?

 

[canary-dave]

You've dined there before Dave?

I travelled there in my Ford Anglia!

 

[Jsybarry]

Dave, which are you in? H2G2 or HP? Whichever one it is, you've got the answer right.