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YORE MAs pub quizz thread [NO CHAT!]

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  • #6452
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    latchyco wrote: »
    Assuming your correct to previous question old goat .

    Is it Rick Wakeman ? .

    Nope. But he is British. Famous for his writing rather then for his toe-dip into music. He wrote lyrics for Hawkwind and Blue oyster Cult.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6453
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    Correct!


  • #6454
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    Think you got the birth date wrong though...


  • #6455
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Halleujah by Leonard Cohen.

    Right song but always thought Leonard Cohen was Canadian ?

    ( havent looked on google to tell me otherwise )


  • #6456
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    The British guy is a new question (which I think I got also...)


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  • #6457
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    rojerdandry wrote: »
    The British guy is a new question (which I think I got also...)
    Yep you got Mr. Moorcock. Sorry about the date, typical OldGoat getting the question wrong just to make things more difficult. Michael Moorcocks actual birthdate is 18th Dec. 1939.
    Mia Culpa.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6458
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    A book that is divided into four parts - one was adapted for a film. First published in 1958, but written over a period of twenty years. Has been described as comical at the beginning but joyless by the finish. What is the title?


  • #6459
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    Film was made by Disney.


  • #6460
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    A Cartoon


  • #6461
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    The only collection of books I can think off is the Winnie The Pooh stories but I don't know the publication dates and as I've never read the originals I don't know if it has a joyless ending, though I imagine Pooh running out of honey or Tigger loosing his spring...or Eeyore having a good day.
    [Cue Eeyore Ma joke] :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #6462
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    Main character's name is Wart and he becomes a famous leader. I want the name of the book and not the movie remember...


  • #6463
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    The Once and Future King by T. H. White.


  • #6464
    Gaspode
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,007 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    And whose works did TS White copy base his stories on?


  • #6465
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    The works of Sir Thomas Mallory ... L'Mort d'Arthur


  • #6466
    rojerdandry
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭rojerdandry


    So are you asking next Mr. Trout?


  • #6467
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    rojerdandry wrote: »
    So are you asking next Mr. Trout?

    OK ... in keeping with my habit of asking questions that google cannot answer.

    What is the oldest computer in my attic ... and how old is it ?

    I'll settle for manufacturer and within 5 years ... full marks and a jammy dodger for more detail.


  • #6468
    Gaspode
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,007 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    I would guess that it is an Acer, from 1994


  • #6469
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    deswalsh wrote: »
    I would guess that it is an Acer, from 1994

    Not even close :cool:


  • #6470
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,268 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    A ZX81 from 1981?


  • #6471
    smashey
    Registered Users Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Commodore 64, 1982?


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  • #6472
    Gaspode
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,007 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    Zaph wrote: »
    A ZX81 from 1981?

    pfft, he wasnt even out of nappies in 81!

    I'll guess again at an Amiga of 1989 vintage, a hand-me-down from a generous if nerdy uncle, still currently adorned with HeMan and Shera stickers, wagon wheel crumbs, and an unidentifed brown goo under the CTRL key.


  • #6473
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    Zaph wrote: »
    A ZX81 from 1981?

    Nope ... I'd love one though.
    smashey wrote: »
    Commodore 64, 1982?

    Nope. Although I have one of those.

    Think older. More buttons. Less power.


  • #6474
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    deswalsh wrote: »
    pfft, he wasnt even out of nappies in 81!

    I'll guess again at an Amiga of 1989 vintage, a hand-me-down from a generous if nerdy uncle, still currently adorned with HeMan and Shera stickers, wagon wheel crumbs, and an unidentifed brown goo under the CTRL key.

    Nope ... although I have several Amigas :)

    Don't forget ... I was a child of the 70's.


  • #6475
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,268 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    A VIC-20? 1980-ish.


  • #6476
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    Zaph wrote: »
    A VIC-20? 1980-ish.

    Getting warmer ... but nope!


  • #6477
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,268 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Can't think of anything else from around then. An Acorn of some description?


  • #6478
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    Zaph wrote: »
    Can't think of anything else from around then. An Acorn of some description?

    Nope ... not the Acorn Electron, nor the BBC Model B ... wrong decade.


  • #6479
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    ZX80?


  • #6480
    mrmac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,967 ✭✭✭mrmac


    An Apple II, with a "genuine" floppy still in the drive!
    Still works!!
    Has a program of "Pong" on it which you carefully programmed in, but must admit you copied it from a book/magazine about "Basic" ;)

    Circa: 1978


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  • #6481
    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭trout


    mrmac wrote: »
    An Apple II, with a "genuine" floppy still in the drive!
    Still works!!
    Has a program of "Pong" on it which you carefully programmed in, but must admit you copied it from a book/magazine about "Basic" ;)

    As it happens, I do have an Apple IIe, with TWO floppy drives. There is a version of Breakout written in Pascal ... which takes 14 minutes to compile. And yes, I copied if from a book/magazine.

    It's not the oldest computer in the attic though. :cool:


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