The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

Can I play?

If so... Which State was Walnut Grove in? (Walnut Grove, home of the Ingalls family on Little House on the Prairie).

And if yiz won't let me play... I'm telling on yiz.

looksee wrote: »

Yes you can play, and as a wild guess - Idaho?

Nope!

You were right Jellybaby:)

Here's one - in which country did the ukulele originate?

USA (I have no idea, only experience of ukulele was George Formby 'I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the the street' etc, but I doubt it was invented in Lancashire!)

Much temptation here to google but Ill resist the urge and say that the ukulele originated in Latin America....somewhere

Layinghen wrote: »

Ok Looksee I'm going to be bold now and ask which part of the USA?





Where is Brens when you need him????????

In fairness I was guessing and I looked it up after I posted. I won't elaborate as I see where you are coming from

This might be too much my specialist subject but what have Heron, Snipe, Dragon, Scorpion, Albacore all got in common?

looksee wrote: »

USA (I have no idea, only experience of ukulele was George Formby 'I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the the street' etc, but I doubt it was invented in Lancashire!)

Wrong Wrong - I know this - Please Teacher, I know this:
Mr. Formby tried a ukelele but it wasn't loud enough. He actually played a "banjolele" - steel strings rather than the ukulele's gut strings and a larger and round body. And yes, he was very proficient!

Think the ukulele comes from Hawaii because, whenever I play mine, Mrs. BrensBenz does a hoola dance.

BrensBenz wrote: »

Wrong Wrong - I know this - Please Teacher, I know this:
Mr. Formby tried a ukelele but it wasn't loud enough. He actually played a "banjolele" - steel strings rather than the ukulele's gut strings and a larger and round body. And yes, he was very proficient!

Think the ukulele comes from Hawaii because, whenever I play mine, Mrs. BrensBenz does a hoola dance.

Well there's a thing! I didn't know that!

looksee wrote: »

Knots? Or maybe sails?

Great guesses and very close! Probably an unfair question because youse aren't interested in boats so I'll tell you that the Heron, Snipe, Dragon, Scorpion, Albacore are all types / designs / "classes" of popular sailing boats, all sailed and raced in the British Isles.

Am I on the Naughty Step now or am I allowed another question?

Which clarinetist achieved international fame despite losing the top of a finger when, as a youngster, he crashed a sleigh?

Eeden wrote: »

Hi if you don't mind, can I join in? The only internationally famous clarinet player I can think of is Benny Goodman (I think he was a clarinet player...?)

Mr. Goodman was indeed a gifted clarinetist but he had a full set of fingers. The musician I'm thinking of often sang (not well, but adequately) with his band and hailed from the OoooArrr region of England.

Ahh, muffler. I knew that was in my brain somewhere! methinks you've got it!

muffler wrote: »

You know, I heard this before but Im damned if I can recall who it is though. The only clarinet player that Im familiar with is the old "strangers on the shore" guy, Acker Bilk

Correct! Top of the class and collect your apple!
Now you get to ask another question.