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Posted by islanddawn (U7379884) on Friday, 4th March 2011
It is really not Friday without a quiz, here is an easy one to get things going
According to legend who was the only person who looked at Lady Godiva as she rode naked through Coventry?
It was Tom the tailor wot dunnit.
Really, I'm surprised no-ones answered this - it's SO easy!
KOTR
I only posted the question 3 minutes ago, give people time!
It was delibrately easy, your go then GH.
Oops - didn't look at the OP properly & didn't realise it had only just gone up!
Anyways - I've answered. Makes a change for me to be the first answerer
KOTR
OK - speaking of legends:
Which northern city was spared from slaughter after intervention by a ghost during the English Civil War?
KOTR
There doesn't seem to be nayone about at the mo, so will pop off now and give peeps a chance to answer.
TTFN
KOTR
Maybe there are plenty of us around, and we just don't know the answer!
Temps would be my bet to know. She's good at this kind of thing.
Looks like GH has disappeared again, so if anyone is interested in a quiz and wants to set a question go ahead.
OK, here's one for all the battleship, boiler and steam engine fans out there:
kennel
back-bag
whelk-shell
atifet
(1) These are all types of what?
(2) Name an aficionado of each one.
(3) Why would two of (2) have had reason to sympathise with Bishop John Fisher, although one may well have thought it an excellent joke at first?
Here's a clue (I happened to encounter the answer to the Q when looking up details on Dean Richard's funeral so consider myself barred from answering.)
Which town did J B Priestly disguise, pretty thinly, as "Bruddersford" in his novels.
It's in Yorkshire.
Much of its name remains in his neologism.
Reckon that's a 50-50 chance.
Bradford?
Who was the ghost then?
She didn't leave her name, just repeated "Pity poor Bradford" all night to the Earl of Newcastle.
Away you go,Temperance : Question eagerly awaited ......
Thank you, Urnungal - see #9!
An atifet is a hat isn't it? It's a bit like those fascinator things that they wear at Ascot.
Not so much a *hat* as a kind of ...
...but you are definitely on the right lines, 1507George. What was distinctive about the atifet?
So which lady (for it's ladies' names I'm after) is often shown in an atifet? Not the Italian/French one - she was a cunning, vicious old devil. My lady was kind, trusting and sadly a wee bit daft ...
This is a stupid question - wish I'd never set it now. I'm going out in a short while, so George you set another one if you want.
Sorry.
SST.
Hoods? Fisher was one of KoA's advocates (helped cost him his life eventually), but wasn't she addicted to the older style gable hood?
Yes, they are all types of headdresses.
KoA did indeed favour the rather ugly gable style hood. Which one in my list was the alternative name for the gable headdress?
Poor old Fisher. He was a really decent chap. What was H8's little joke when Fisher was made a Cardinal? That should help.
He refused to allow the Cardinal's hat to be brought to England, saying he'd send the head to Rome instead. I suppose the gable hood does look a bit dog-kennelish.
OK, Urnungal - you can have it as I must sign out now.
1) kennel - Katherine of Aragon
2) back-bag - variation of the French Hood introduced by Anne Boleyn. The hair was caught up in a "bag" or snood. AB probably thought H8's joke - that the new Cardinal would have to wear his splendid new red hat on his shoulders as the head would be sent to Rome - was very funny. Wasn't so funny a year later.
3) whelk-shell - this was the name of the style favoured by Jane Seymour in the famous Holbein portrait. Absolutely no hair on display at all - that was for hussies - the shape of the style does indeed resemble a shell. Tried to post a picture, but I'm afraid the link's broken.
4) atifet - another type of hood, but quite different from the others. The atifet had a distinctive heart shape crescent at the front - much favoured by the soon -to -be -headless Mary, Queen of Scots. Catherine de Medici liked this style too.
What a dreadful girly question. Over to you then, Urnungal - you can all get back to your battleships now!
Looks like GH has disappeared again, so if anyone is interested in a quiz and wants to set a question go ahead.Β
Excuse me, Islanddawn! There were no answers to my question last night, when I went to bed. plus, i've been out all day & had other things to do when I got home. I can't be expected to stay on here all hours the bloke upstairs
sends.
And what do I find when I DO come back on? No tonly as my question been totally ignored, but others are being invited to set questions. It is as if I never appeared on this thread!
I thought the proper procedure was to answer a setter's question AND get confirmation of a correct answer, before setting the next question.
I think I am owed an explanation, ID.
KOTR
Have you seen posting 10?
Correct answer to your Q.
Would you like to set another one? It's sort of my turn, but I can't think of one offhand.
, in reply to message 20.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Saturday, 5th March 2011
A good example of why history of fashion is so important! Marks who is popular and who is not. Who is al la mode and who is old fashioned and more importantly what materials were being used....Lace banned during the Protectorate hit Flanders big time! Muslin from the "Indies" inspired so many Regency fashions. Dampneing it so that clung to the body and looked more "Greecian" caused many cases of pneumonia! But back to the 1780s the growth of paniers (Baskets, the width of the costume) caused disputes and duels, because they knocked people off pavements. So it goes on.
This is why "The Tudors" is so ridiculous, well one way, they never stick to fashion rules! Hair worn loose after marriage! Harlot! I shall crawl beneath my stone again. Sorry for this outburst!
, in reply to message 23.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Saturday, 5th March 2011
With due Defference, Your turn Grasshopper.......Sorry to interrupt.
OOPS! OMG!
I didn't read messages 10-12 properly!!!!!!!!
Appols to all! MY BAD!
Bradford was the correct answer btw.
Anyways, an interesting footnote to the ghost story. There is a theory, that the man changed his mind about murdering everyone (it was against the code of war, anyway), and he invented the 'ghost' in order to save face.
I am SO embarrassed now!
I'm a dozy insect!
KOTR
Nononononono - not my turn at all - I made a boo boo
<---------------- Does anyone think this smiley looks like it's got acne?
KOTR
, in reply to message 25.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Saturday, 5th March 2011
Good of you to admit it.
But are you setting a question, as kindly allowed by Urn?
Nononononono - some other lucky soul can set one
Hopping off now.
KOTR
"I thought the proper procedure was to answer a setter's question AND get confirmation of a correct answer, before setting the next question."
Indeed it is GH, if the questioner is going to remain on-line. If he/she is not (and the question is unanswered) then it is proper procedure to let people know if you are going to be away from the board for a good while and invite someone else to set another question in the meantime. The question can always be answered when you return, it is considered extremely inconsiderate to leave those who enjoy the weekly quiz twiddling their thumbs and waiting for a questioner to turn up.
, in reply to message 29.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Sunday, 6th March 2011
For resuscitation purposes only - a question.
What did Julius (not an emperor) Caesar have that might have been put to more effective use, had they had it, by King Flavius Odoacer (he who abolished the Roman title of Emperor in the west), Romanus II (who was indeed an emperor in Constantinople), Dame Thora Hird (Officer of the British Empire), and comedian Tommy Cooper (he who played the Liverpool Empire many times)?
Julius C had a Stannah stair lift? The things you learn!
, in reply to message 31.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Sunday, 6th March 2011
"Had they had it", I said.
I hear Hird at a rocket-powered Stannah De-Luxe Turbo Model Mark III, so that can't be it.
Since TH advertised Churchill rather than Stannah stairlifts, you may have the wrong model there.
What else do I remember about the old dame? Sister George? Some Songs of Praise type thing?
Tommy C - a fez? 'just like that'? A defibrillator on stage?
The others, well apart from JC who had pretty much the whole world, I know nothing, even though I'm not from Barcelona.
Nordmann, the gossip is true - you are the embodiment of evil.
Could I ask for a recount on Tommy Cooper? 15th April, surely, so not the Ides of March.
, in reply to message 35.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Tuesday, 8th March 2011
The Ides have it (even if one was actually the wrong month! Sorry 'bout that). All could have done with a sooth in good time.
Over to you ...
Could you explain the answer for me?
I'm sorry if I'm slow, but I have no idea what this is about.
Hi 1507George,
The answer is a soothsayer to say "Beware the Ides of March - or April."
They all died on the 15th March (2003, 963, 493), except
Tommy Cooper, who went to his Maker on 15th April 1984.
Why would the others have put it to more effective use than Julius Caesar?
The Ides aren't on the 15th in April. March, May, July & October they are on the 15th, the rest of the year they are on the 13th.
The others might have made better use of a warning, but there's no guarantee, of course.
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