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Posted by Katy R (U14748743) on Thursday, 22nd September 2011
Good evening everyone,
Just to let you know, Im on holiday tomorrow so wont be kicking the quiz off in the morning. Feel free to continue using this thread though...
See you next week
Katyhost
Where would you shop for these, and why?
A much travelled Venetian merchant.
The famous conveyance of an FRS who fought the Dutch at Camperdown.
A homonym of the first count of Normandy.
And, for posters over 50 only I imagine, Miltiades long-running victory.
TP
, in reply to message 2.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
Are we drumming up business for the dentist here TP?
Well, in deference to yourself, I left out the deep fried Roman god of war.
TP
, in reply to message 4.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
OK, then I'll go for nos 1 and 4, Polos and Marathons. The other 2 will need to be supplied by another sweet toothed poster.
Of course. We won't have to wait long for the others in such as star spangled message board.
TP
I think that the first Count of Normandy is Rolo/Rollo
Hats off to that poster! So, who was (as far as I know) the only FRS to command a ship of war in battle?
TP
Capt. Cook sailed against the French in his early naval career… and much later was engaged by the royal society to take astronomical readings on his voyage of discovery… can’t remember which one… and I’m not sure if he was elevated to be a FRS… just a humble suggestion….
Hi bandick
No, not Cook but almost as good a navigator.
Also you've got to turn it into a chocolate bar!
Best wishes,
TP
, in reply to message 10.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
The exploits of Capt. Curly Wurly FRS are known only to a few of us esoterics, TP.
Could the vessel have been HMS Snickers? HMS Milky Way? HMS Choccolate Cream? HMS Crunchie?
Or perhaps, as a long shot, HMS Bounty?
Mmm, as ever with the weekly quiz, I'm on HMS Flake whilst others here are aboard HMS Smartie.........
Yes OK Ur-L HMS Bounty it is. William Bligh commanded HMS Director at Camperdown.
By the way if you're ever short of a Pub Quiz team to be in you can have my place.
Regards,
TP
, in reply to message 13.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
I was aboard HMS Galaxy but I got hungry.
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle ..............
Whilst we are on the subject, the confectioner was also the source of a Mumbai lunchbox, a light afternoon snack, and an easy-to-make fridge cake, all sharing a name.
Identify, please.
Hi ferval
The contributors to this quiz are inevitably to be compared to a tube of multicoloured chocolate beans!
TP
, in reply to message 16.
Posted by Vizzer aka U_numbers (U2011621) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
In the comedy film 'Carry On Up the Khyber' I seem to remember the habit of stopping everything for 'tiffin' raised a titter.
, in reply to message 18.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
A comedy? No, surely an authentic account of the Raj, what do you think Tas?
Was that the same low titter that ran round the room, Ur-l?
, in reply to message 19.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
Sorry Viz and Ur-l, I got confused, too much sugar obviously!
Tiffin.
That's the one. Always used to feature, along with Fry's Five Boys, in one or more of my Xmas Selection Boxes as a child. One Aunt gave all the younger members of the family the exact same style tin of Bluebird toffees with a picture of a doggie on the lid for many years. As time passed, the toffees grew more and more sugary with age, until the last lot were more like fudge than toffee. I reckon she must have bought a gross of them in the January sales (she did all her Xmas shopping in the previous January sales. No "sell by" dates in those days.)
, in reply to message 21.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
Oh great, now I'm racking my brains to remember the descriptions of the Five Boys.
Was the first one anticipation or expectation and the last delectation?
Not sure that's how I remember them, though
, in reply to message 22.
Posted by Vizzer aka U_numbers (U2011621) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
The Seventeenth Century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei controversially claimed that Mars (like all planets) was heliocentric. He also identified the Milky Way. Which later American astronomer, however, revealed that the Milky Way was just one Galaxy among many?
Edwin Hubble.
, in reply to message 25.
Posted by Vizzer aka U_numbers (U2011621) on Friday, 23rd September 2011
That's him Ur-Lugal.
I can never hear his name without thinking of the three sisters in a cavern with a boiling cauldron from Act VI Scene I of the Scottish Play.
Over to you.
Edwin Hubble was the first user of the 200-inch reflector at Mount Palomar, and has, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope named after him - but what name is the Palomar telescope known by?
, in reply to message 27.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Saturday, 24th September 2011
It's called after the guy who had it built, the Amrican astronomer George Hale.
The observatory near Tallinn, which I visited earlier this year, is also called after the same guy. It was built while Stalin was in power and Estonia was a reluctant soviet. Calling the observatory after Hale was (and still is) regarded as a brave bit of defiance. The Soviets wanted to call it after the Estonian Bernard Schmidt, who also contributed to Palomar's telescope array. His relatives found this distasteful and led the campaign to name it after Hale.
It's called after the guy who had it built, the Amrican astronomer George Hale.
The observatory near Tallinn, which I visited earlier this year, is also called after the same guy. It was built while Stalin was in power and Estonia was a reluctant soviet. Calling the observatory after Hale was (and still is) regarded as a brave bit of defiance. The Soviets wanted to call it after the Estonian Bernard Schmidt, who also contributed to Palomar's telescope array. His relatives found this distasteful and led the campaign to name it after Hale.Β
Hale it was. Your go!
, in reply to message 29.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Sunday, 25th September 2011
Come on Nordmann, we're waiting!
, in reply to message 30.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Monday, 26th September 2011
OOh, ok.
How do we now best remember an ex-Civil War soldier, a failed mule trainer, a failed sugar planter, a failed waiter, a failed lawyer and competent chess player?
May we be given the clue of which Civil War? Both Oliver Cromwell and William T Sherman could be described as failed lawyers, although I can't imagine either as even successful waiters.
Regards,
TP
On the other hand George Orwell was an ex-Spanish Civil War soldier and he was, more or less, a failed waiter in Paris, or was it London.
TP
, in reply to message 33.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Monday, 26th September 2011
With Sherman you're in the correct Civil War, and even on the correct side. But if it's generals you're thinking of then I would advise you to direct your considerable investigative journalistic skills on an examination of his colleague Philip Sheridan, though with an emphasis on those who served under him, I suggest.
There's a clue in there ...
Oh dear! Where are those military historians when you need them?
The only one of Phil Sheridan's subordinates I know for certain is General Custer. But I think he joined the Union Army immediately after finishing bottom of his year at West Point. I don't think that there was time for him to train mules and so forth.
Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur, served in the Valley Campaign of 1864 and so must have had Sheridan as a commanding officer. He probably was a failed lawyer since so many generals were. But I can't imagine him as a waiter?
Any help available? I've shot my bolt.
TP
, in reply to message 35.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Tuesday, 27th September 2011
Mule-minding might have been a better description than mule-training, and his career in that branch only lasted a day or so. However even this was longer than his subsequent career as a sugar planter, which nevertheless was the one that rather ironically led to his good fortune and wealth in later life in a whole other career. No awards for guessing what that must have been!
There's a clue in there ... (military historians need not apply themselves too much to the poser)
Hi Nordmann
Not Colonel Saunders then! I take it we are looking for an American sweet manufacturer; I wish I had eaten more American sweets. Great question.
TP
, in reply to message 37.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Tuesday, 27th September 2011
Sweet was never a word used to describe him, as far as I know
, in reply to message 38.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Tuesday, 27th September 2011
Though yellow was!
Nordmann:
Are you entering your collected postings for any literary prizes this year?
, in reply to message 40.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Tuesday, 27th September 2011
No way hose (pardon the pronunciation).
Anyway, my German ain't that good.
No way hose (pardon the pronunciation).
Anyway, my German ain't that good.Β
Pull the other one - it's a cracker.
, in reply to message 42.
Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Wednesday, 28th September 2011
Hi Nordmann
I'm afraid that if the last exchange contained the solution to your question I am still too dull to work it out. Help please?
TP
, in reply to message 43.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Wednesday, 28th September 2011
The last exchange confused me too
Ok - as well as many who have shared this guy's final profession, others who might have had special need to thank him in the past include, amongst others, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr Seuss), Rodgers and Hammerstein, Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Norman Mailer.
, in reply to message 44.
Posted by Sambista (U4068266) on Wednesday, 28th September 2011
OK lets try and improve the hint.
PUL the other one. ITZER cracker.
, in reply to message 45.
Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Wednesday, 28th September 2011
OK I'm there: Joseph Pulitzer maker of pipe organs.
Very good.
TP
, in reply to message 46.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Wednesday, 28th September 2011
Editor of organs surely?
Yepp - that's the fellow.
, in reply to message 47.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Wednesday, 28th September 2011
I will never, ever ask Nordmann to set a question again. I retire utterly defeated by every nuance of his.
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