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Layinghen · 10-06-2015 07:55PM

Ok

How many men have walked on the moon?

BrensBenz · 10-06-2015 07:58PM

Layinghen wrote: »

Ok

How many men have walked on the moon?

12.

Layinghen · 10-06-2015 08:00PM

Won't ask you to name them:D:D

The floor is yours......

BrensBenz · 10-06-2015 08:23PM

Layinghen wrote: »

Won't ask you to name them:D:D

The floor is yours......

Pet subject of mine. Did you know that 3 men have visited more than once, either orbiting or actually landing?

What is the name of the musical instrument, believed to be one of the oldest in the world, shown on Egyptian tombs from around 5,000 years ago?

Samaris · 10-06-2015 08:43PM

BrensBenz wrote: »

Pet subject of mine. Did you know that 3 men have visited more than once, either orbiting or actually landing?

What is the name of the musical instrument, believed to be one of the oldest in the world, shown on Egyptian tombs from around 5,000 years ago?

Hm..is it a lyre?

BrensBenz · 10-06-2015 10:22PM

Samaris wrote: »

Hm..is it a lyre?

Close, but the experts say lyres came later.

Samaris · 10-06-2015 10:29PM

Not quite sure if the yoke I'm picturing is a lyre or not, tbh - a U-shaped thingie with five or six strings, generally played on the lap? I'll bow out of further guesses though, since I won't guess the name of it!

garancafan · 10-06-2015 11:47PM

The lute?

Jellybaby1 · 11-06-2015 12:29AM

Sorry I'm late. I've had a hectic day with this and that, odds and sods, bits and bobs, thingamajigs and watchamacallits. Anyway I'm way behind here now. The Egyptians were mad into their music, couldn't get enough of it, and dancin', loved an 'oul dance those Egyptians, but if you were at an Egyptian dance you would only be asked to dance if you were wearing seven veils. Never understood the reasoning behind that meself.........:o They did have lutes and lyres but they had lots of other musical instruments too, things with strings, and things you blow into, and things you bang. But......I'll say trumpet.

Pulsating Star · 11-06-2015 01:05AM

Or maybe even a horn section :pac:

OldGoat · 11-06-2015 08:47AM

Drums are much older but I think the answer you are looking for is the sistrum, a kind of rattle.
My missus has ventured into bellydancing (a natural progression from pilates apparently) and I've been inundated with Greek and Arabic music lately including the above mentioned rattle along with her zills (finger cymbals) and the twanging of a rebab.

BrensBenz · 11-06-2015 10:16AM

Sorry again if I've worded the question badly. The instrument I'm thinking of is the oldest depicted, in this case by Egyptians and possibly folks living in what is now Iran. It certainly isn't the oldest instrument - that surely must be some sort of drum from Africa.

The instrument in mind is quite complex (capable of a range of notes), similar to but perhaps not quite as portable as a lyre and yonks earlier than a lute. Also, the lyre's frame is fairly symmetrical while this instrument, while elegant, isn't symmetrical a tall a tall.

As for Egyptian dancing, I wasn't aware that they had more than one dance, a la Bangles.

Pulsating Star · 11-06-2015 11:24AM

A tall harp then?

BrensBenz · 11-06-2015 02:28PM

Pulsating Star wrote: »

A tall harp then?

Correct! Our favourite, simple, old faithful harp! You're up, PS.

Some time ago, I overheard some loolah arguing that the harp is our national symbol because "we invented it!!! See? It's on our coins and...and...and...Guinness!"

The attached is not the depiction I found at the time but gives some idea. What a history this (for me) beautiful instrument has!

One of the earlier (wrong) suggestions was a lute. Did yiz know that a person building or repairing lutes, guitars, violins, etc. is called a luthier and not a guitarier or a violinier? Ohhhhhhh drat and double drat! I could have asked that whenever I get another question right.

Pulsating Star · 12-06-2015 12:26AM

BrensBenz wrote: »

Correct! Our favourite, simple, old faithful harp! You're up, PS.
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:)Well you did put it on a plate in the end!

Q. What is the missing link between a little girl in Africa and the Beatles?

(Aside: was looking into the largest volcano question after and this link might be of interest
Tamu Massif
A rival to Olympus Mons here on earth? Especially as the mons did not have plate tectonics to contend with.)

Pulsating Star · 12-06-2015 12:41PM

Pulsating Star wrote: »

Q. What is the missing link between a little girl in Africa and the Beatles?

Yes, maybe a stupid question, so to add -

They probably owe her their existence and she definitely owes them her name. They never met. Her name?

looksee · 12-06-2015 01:13PM

Absolutely haven't a notion PS, be interested to find out!

Samaris · 12-06-2015 01:28PM

Yep, I'm lost as well. Although I suspect the "little girl in Africa" may not be an actual child?

Pulsating Star · 12-06-2015 03:36PM

Samaris wrote: »

Yep, I'm lost as well. Although I suspect the "little girl in Africa" may not be an actual child?

Maybe not like any you would have met.
Her name was inspired by a beatles song being played at the time she came to prominence , prominence now shared with another young "lady" who is slightly older. Although only 2.5 miles away from each other,they never met either.

BrensBenz · 12-06-2015 04:09PM

By any chance are these two archaeological remains of the earliest known female humans from Africa?

If so, Michelle? Lucy? Molly? Loretta? Eleanor? Sadie? Martha? Pam? Julia? (Mother) Mary? Prudence? Rita?

Lucy sort of rings a bell but, if not, I'll just go back to the beach and repair my lobster pot because I'm too thick for this stuff.

looksee · 12-06-2015 04:27PM

Ah yes, Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Good man Brens!

looksee · 12-06-2015 04:30PM

I don't think the success of the Beatles hinged on that particular song tho?

BrensBenz · 12-06-2015 04:46PM

looksee wrote: »

I don't think the success of the Beatles hinged on that particular song tho?

I just have the vaguest memory that part of a skull, thought to be the oldest human remains, was nicknamed "Lucy".

Possibly......we ALL owe our existence to Lucy (including The Beatles) and.....
Lucy owes her name to The Beatles.

I hope PulsatingStar doesn't take up setting crosswords!

looksee · 12-06-2015 05:13PM

40 something years ago I went into the local council offices in Embu in Kenya (1970 or 71) and was intrigued to see a skull on a shelf with a small sign beside it that said it was some incredible number of years old - loads and loads of 0's but I can't remember the actual number. I was totally fascinated, it was just sitting there, a museum piece!

BrensBenz · 12-06-2015 06:14PM

looksee wrote: »

40 something years ago I went into the local council offices in Embu in Kenya (1970 or 71) and was intrigued to see a skull on a shelf with a small sign beside it that said it was some incredible number of years old

I knew I met you before. That was me, on the shelf, as per......

Samaris · 12-06-2015 06:23PM

Wasn't Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds based on a drawing by John Lennon's son, Julian? Not that that changes that the remains were named after the song..Not sure who the other one is though.

looksee · 12-06-2015 06:28PM

Most common view was it was something to do with hallucinary drugs - specifically LSD - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (to labour the point).

Samaris · 12-06-2015 06:30PM

I'm pretty sure the Beatles did disprove that one (or at least claim that it wasn't so!).

That's the Julian picture. It's rather abstract.

Pulsating Star · 12-06-2015 09:46PM

Very good Brens, thats actually a relief. Twas too self indulgent.

Yes,Lucy, who since the early seventies has been known as " the missing link"
In 2009 Ardi turned up to share the limelight . I seem to be drawn to subjects which involve the passage of huge swathes of time.

Pulsating Star wrote: »

Q. What is the missing link between a little girl in Africa and the Beatles?

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Hit us!

BrensBenz · 12-06-2015 09:57PM

You know, I walked right past the "missing link" clue!

OK. I mentioned crosswords earlier. It looks as if we have some crosswordheads here so here is the only cryptic clue I ever solved......so it can't be very difficult:

GSEG - 9,4. (Two words, nine letters and four letters)

If no answers tomorrow, I have a great, Beatles related clue. Of course, if you supply the answer AND the Beatles clue, you will be entitled to gurrcake for life.

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