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The Quiz marque 2

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First thread gave us our first full house in O&O, new thread starts here...

Starting, appropriately, with Srameen's question:

What links Lady Balfour, Mozart and Chopin?

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OldRio

I immediately thought of the Star Trek theme. Also Jimmy Page played one. But that is the Theremin.

feargale

IrishZeus wrote: »

In Donegal, we just call them all sheep.

That's no way to talk about Donegal people.

feargale

looksee wrote: »

And midges get called midgets, and builders call lintels lentils, but however I will bow to the weight of evidence and ask another question...I do seem to have a gift for questions with ambiguous answers though!

I have to protest that Hiberno-English has as valid a place in the world as American, Australian or South African English. What the English call a stoat we call a weasel. The Queen would insist that there are no weasels in Ireland, only stoats.

looksee wrote: »

What is a Theorbo - a general idea will do, you don't have to get technical! Hint, think music.

I think we all need a clue about the orbo. Nobody here seems to know what an orbo is.

looksee

Clue - It is related to a lute - but what is the noticeable difference.

(then have a look on Youtube, its amazing)

New Home

Is it an electronic lute? Or a water-operated one? Oh!!! Oh!! I know!!! Is it a vegetable instrument?!?

looksee

No, no, no.

New Home

Darn, darn, darn.

New Home

Ok, I still don't know the answer, but for the sake of keeping the thread going I'll attempt another answer. Going by the "Theo" part, I'm taking a leap and say that it's God, as in theology, so is it a musical instrument played by the gods?

Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?

nompere

New Home wrote: »

Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?

Eddie the Eagle?

New Home

No.

looksee

Oops, sorry, I had forgotten about this, thanks for taking up the baton (see what I did there

) New Home?

A Theorbo is a huge lute with a very long neck and two sets of strings - the added strings are low register, bass strings - that makes the most amazing sounds. It was used in the Baroque period.

I will see if I can come up with another question, but we should have two going for interest. I have no idea about ornithology and winter sports though!

feargale

New Home wrote: »

Ok, I still don't know the answer, but for the sake of keeping the thread going I'll attempt another answer. Going by the "Theo" part, I'm taking a leap and say that it's God, as in theology, so is it a musical instrument played by the gods?

Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?

Hunting the wren?

New Home

No. No hunting.

New Home

No. No hunting involved.

feargale

New Home wrote: »

No. No hunting involved.

Robin? At the Sochi Winter Olympics the Russians were hellbent on robbin' every medal they could.

New Home

Fnar! No. Think French.

looksee

William Morris was well known as an interior decorator, also as a socialist and environmentalist. However he did not entirely follow through on his beliefs when practising his chosen career. In one respect in particular his family's business and his own-produced decorating supplies combined to create what dangerous - ie killing people dangerous - situation?

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Lead paint?

looksee

Sucks teeth! You are kinda in the right area, but that's not it.

Asbestos?

No!

CYANIDE?!? :eek:

So close....but no. And anyway, cyanide what?

New Home

That thingy... you know... like... whatchamacallit?

New Home

It was Mr Morris with the slow release cyanide on the wallpaper paste. In the library.

looksee

It wasn't cyanide, and it wasn't the paste, but you are close.

New Home

Arsenic in the wallpaper paint itself? In the music room?

looksee

Ta-daaaa! You have it.

Arsenic was used to get the colour green in lots of things in Victorian times. It was especially dodgy in wallpaper though as the dampness of the houses caused some sort of gas (I'd have to check that up) to be formed that spread the arsenic around. They also used it to get a particularly popular, nasty virulent shade of green in clothing dyes and lots of other things. People kind of knew about it but it was treated a bit like believing in climate change, ah sure what harm? And it just so happened that Morris's family had arsenic mines, their fortune came from them and Morris's design business was funded by them. He used a lot of green in his wallpapers.

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In nature, what's fasciation? You may answer in pictures, if you so wish.

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Thats when lots of little shoots grow out of a branch, isn't it?