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Posted by Katy R (U14748743) on Friday, 11th March 2011
Hello!
Its Friday, so that must mean quiz time... Sorry I wasn't around last week!
Q: What was the shortest war on record and how long did it last?
Have fun!
K
The British invasion of Zanzibar in 1896. Lasted about 3/4 of an hour.
Britain invaded to put an end to the slave trade there (though I'm sure its strategic position was an added bonus).
Tick! Wouldn't it be good if other wars were as short as that....
Over to you.
Katy
Does this make it the shortest quiz ever as well…?
Come on cloudy… set a question… play the game.
Does this make it the shortest quiz ever as well…?Ìý
Maybe the shortest, but not the quickest!
What connects:
i) a party invitation,
ii) a complaint about military brutality,
iii) a thank you letter for socks?
In case the question's a bit obscure, a clue:
They're all letters, but in whence did they arise?
I don't even pretent to be an historian but I know this. All information found on tablets at Vindolanda.
And because I don't pretend to be an historian someone else will have to set the next question...
In that case… is it they’re all signed at the bottom…?
Nah… didn’t think so.
Something about socks…
Are these letters found at one of the roman forts on Hadrian’s Wall…?
Is this to do with WW1?
I'm just guessing here, but is the "socks" a reference to the Jessie Pope poem, "Socks"?
I know Siegried Sassoon wrote a biting reply, but it was a poem, not a letter.
Haven't a clue really, just trying to get things moving!
How does this keep happening… when I replied, cloudy’s clue was 4 mins ago… I’ve just had another look… and Calendula has it… 12 mins before me… doesn’t make sense, does this mean I’m being modded… don’t understand it…?
Well done Calendula…
I didn't know Roman soldiers wore socks with their sandals. That has really distressed me. Must have been the ones from Germania.
Bad fashion sense or not hey wore socks in the winter Temp. Soldiers can't march with frostbiten toes.
The letters also confirm that they wore underpants. It's a breezy old life on the wall
Yes, it gets jolly chilly up there in Northumberland.
Seriously, this is interesting. Were Roman socks woolly knitted ones? Have the equivalent of Roman Sirdar click chunky patterns for socks ever been found?
Underpants!
What must the Picts have thought?
Must have been a disaster with the hemlines. I don't think Temp will ever over come the shock of it all.
"Were Roman socks woolly knitted ones? "
Yes I think they were Temp. Knitted lovingly by all the mums, sisters and wives. Don't know about knitting patterns though.
Perhaps the Christians were forced to knit socks for the legionnaires instead of being crucified.
So what's it to be Spartacus - Crucifixion or Crochetifixion?
Mmm wonder if Roman women could turn a heel in their socks, or did they just knit those horrible tube ones that always slip down?
I don't even pretent to be an historian but I know this. All information found on tablets at Vindolanda.
And because I don't pretend to be an historian someone else will have to set the next question...
Ìý
Spot on. If you don't want to ask a question, I'll turn it over to Bandick...
I didn't know Roman soldiers wore socks with their sandals.Ìý
That would have scared the locals! Fortunately, they also found loads of boots at Vindolanda proving the Romans didn't bring fashion shame on their Italian descendants.
Looks like they could knit some nifty patterns, I wonder if they used 4 needles and could graft the toe properly?
Looks like a nice herringbone design. Quite stylish with the right boot.
What's the Latin for sock then?
The upper crust also wore socks when dining. A slave usually removed their and the guests shoes, washed and dried their feet and then slipped warm socks on before they all reclined on the dining couch.
"What's the Latin for sock then?"
The dictionary says
Sock from Middle English socke, from Old English socc, a kind of light shoe, from Latin soccus, possibly from Greek sunkhis, sukkhos, Phrygian shoe.]
I've found the Latin for sock - it's boring old soccus - how disappointing.
So "Love the socks, Biggus Dickus," is "Vere amo tuos soccos, Bigge Dicke"?
That vocative doesn't look right.
Anyway, they're complaining on the S de M thread about all this silly Roman sock 'n' underpant chatter...
Yes well instead of complaining he could have asked a question, and it would have put an end to the silly women's talk.
would someone like to set a question... got a bit of trub with the internet again...
an easy one to keep things going...
Poole in Dorset is the national headquarters of the RNLI… but where is the
oldest lifeboat, what’s its name and how many approx has it saved.
I think the boat is the one I saw in Redcar last year, but I forget the name and number of lives saved.
Grasshopper
Oops - gave myself the wrong sign-off!
KOTR
you have the right location GH...
Haven't they still got the original C19th pulling boat there?
Hopping off to my pit.
Nite peeps
KOTR
an easy one to keep things going..Ìý
It's only easy when you know the answer, and it's still before midnight.......
Hi UG… was still there last year when I passed thu…
Ferval… it is an easy one… just no ones interested… another crap question…
What happened to the quiz last week…
I don't think that no one's interested bandick, I just think they might have more exciting things to do on a Friday night.
OK I'll have a wild guess, she's the Lady Felenna ( my spellchecker is suggesting 'fellator!") Worthington Rowebottom and she saved 2 men and a soggy dog.
no ones interestedÌý
Gerroff, you daft thing.
There's folk out here watching all this, very closely. One slip - and you'll be sorted.
Proper.
Now - get on with it!
PS = Bandick. What I said was meant, not as criticism (heaven forfend!), but simply as a few words of encouragement.
All thr best Old Sport!
Oldest lifeboat in the world the Zetland
...Romans, socks, underpants, being told off...What fun!!!
It's like being back at school!
, in reply to message 41.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Saturday, 12th March 2011
Why did you give out the answer bandick? I'm sure that when folk came back to the board today after being out enjoying themselves last night, someone would have come up with it.
Give us another one please, or someone else if you're otherwise occupied.
"...Romans, socks, underpants, being told off...What fun!!!
It's like being back at school!"
Cheeky boy, go and stand in the corner.
Hi ferval… see, no one interested. Someone could have set another question…
I had to go off early this morning… had so much trub with my PC… I wanted to get it fixed, or give it a Vikings funeral… so strange how so many said ‘pwheew’… and shook their heads… ‘it’s old… it’ll cost more than it’s worth to fix it’ as they were shuffling a space beneath their desks to store it. And they looked so shocked when I asked for it back’. They all wanted to know what I was about to do with it… to cries of ‘oh don’t do that… we’ll dispose of it properly for you’ yeah... I bet they would.
So alongside all the flatpack foxes and hedgehogs you see on our roads… rests my PC…
And I’ve got a new one… just finished setting it all up… doesn’t do anything more than the old one… I’d have expected it to make dinner, or at least a cup of tea…
Aren’t those swine in Papa Charlie World rude… they expected me to spend £1200 on a juke box they recommended… about three times more than I expected… and when I told them that… they walked away, commenting I was wasting their time… so I went to Mr. Tes & Co’s food emporium… and got just what I wanted… at the price I wanted… Scunnered in one place… delighted in the other… now’s time to play… RIP the old jukebox.
Is anyone going to set a question?
, in reply to message 44.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Saturday, 12th March 2011
The board was really quiet last night and, to be fair, your question was one that folk either knew the answer to or didn't. No way of getting there by deduction or guessing by lucky chance.
I can't think of a question right now and I'm off to read a bedtime story to my visiting wean but I'll come back later.
Beware when you ask someone to set a question, bandick - it might be me .......
Don’t you dare threaten me… just do it…!!!!
OK. The Zetland was replaced (to the locals disgust) with a self-righting boat.
Who designed the first British self-righting lifeboat, and for what is he more famous?
Oh nuts! It's just been on Radio 4.
Question withdrawn!
Ok… so question withdrawn... but is this the chap from a little village just outside Scarborough… there’s a sign on the side of the road saying ‘the home of aviation’… damned if I can remember his name, or the name of the village… but I’m sure he invented a self-righting lifeboat, spoked wheels you could adjust like a modern bike wheel and… the forerunner to a tank track…? i think he's recognised as the father of aviation...? wish he’d have invented better road signs coz I couldn’t find the place again.
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