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

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-03-2016 10:32AM

Moldova, Paraguay and Philippines all have a different design obverse v reverse.

Aaah...as I type.... I think I recall changes over the years. Possibly only Paraguay remains.

feargale · 20-03-2016 12:52AM

looksee wrote: »

Goodness that sounds complicated to manufacture,

Not at all. It just takes two tailors one working on each side. Of course, since they can't see each other they have to be careful not to stab each other.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Moldova, Paraguay and Philippines all have a different design obverse v reverse.
Aaah...as I type.... I think I recall changes over the years. Possibly only Paraguay remains.

Correct. Only Paraguay remains.
Philippines 1898-1901.
Moldova 1990-2010.
Soviet Union 1923-1991 ( though not in practice )
Presently Transdnistria and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, but they are not internationally recognised.
If your first guess had been right we would have invited you to help yourself to triple marks. Take it away, Autumn Harsh Cloud.

Rubecula · 20-03-2016 01:06AM

I am I freely admit lost on this "easy" question so I will follow looksee's example but no popcorn, I brought my cheese and pickle butties.

garancafan · 23-03-2016 12:53AM

Rubecula wrote: »

I am I freely admit lost on this "easy" question so I will follow looksee's example but no popcorn, I brought my cheese and pickle butties.

Likewise lost, but no popcorn - the last time I was in a cinema to watch a film ( without a "u") there was a girl in a minidress selling ice cream. I used to salivate

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looksee · 23-03-2016 01:02AM

I nearly lost track there, but I reckon Srameen now owes two questions (:D smirk!)

garancafan · 23-03-2016 10:28PM

looksee wrote: »

I nearly lost track there, but I reckon Autumn Harsh Cloud now owes two questions (:D smirk!)

Autumn Harsh Cloud will appreciate the old dictum that "nature abhors a vacuum" so while he prepares his two questions I'll just throw in a quickie:

In 1958 the great Australian runner Herb Elliott set a new world record time for the mile of 3 mins 54.5 secs. Where was this race run?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-03-2016 10:44PM

garancafan wrote: »

Srameen will appreciate the old dictum that "nature abhors a vacuum" so while he prepares his two questions I'll just throw in a quickie:

In 1958 the great Australian runner Herb Elliott set a new world record time for the mile of 3 mins 54.5 secs. Where was this race run?

I was in Morton Stadium that day with my father, who was an Irish mile champion.

What is a Pica pica?

An while we're on vacuums. Who invented the vacuum flask?

looksee · 23-03-2016 11:03PM

Hm. Pica is a typewriter type size, but from the way the question is phrased I doubt that is what you are looking for.

Does the word Thermos have anything to do with the vacuum flask inventor?

garancafan · 24-03-2016 12:31AM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I was in Morton Stadium that day with my father, who was an Irish mile champion.

What is a Pica pica?

An while we're on vacuums. Who invented the vacuum flask?

Are you a son of Ron Delaney?!!
I too was in the Morton stadium that night! My abiding memory is of the spotlight on Elliott as he accelerated away from the pack at the top of the home straight. As I remember it, the first four runners were all inside the existing world time. Delaney, I think, finished third.

There is an eating disorder known by the name of "pica". Would this be what you had in mind?

Would the vacuum flask have been invented by a chap by the name of Dewar?

feargale · 24-03-2016 01:12AM

Speaking of Delaney, why did he run the 800 metres in Rome, having won the 1500m in Melbourne? Just asking. Runners usually move up distances with age.

Rubecula · 24-03-2016 01:21AM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I was in Morton Stadium that day with my father, who was an Irish mile champion.

What is a Pica pica?

An while we're on vacuums. Who invented the vacuum flask?

Erithacus rubecula is a robin

Turdus merula is a blackbird

and pica pica is a magpie

garancafan · 24-03-2016 01:47AM

feargale wrote: »

Speaking of Delaney, why did he run the 800 metres in Rome, having won the 1500m in Melbourne? Just asking. Runners usually move up distances with age.

Good question, but remember Seb Coe and Steve Ovett?

garancafan · 24-03-2016 01:49AM

Rubecula wrote: »

Erithacus rubecula is a robin

Turdus merula is a blackbird

and pica pica is a magpie

Well well. So Rube is a robin. Whoda thunk it?

Jellybaby1 · 24-03-2016 01:49AM

garancafan wrote: »

Good question, but remember Seb Coe and Steve Ovett?

Yes, I do remember Seb Coe and Steve Ovett! OH YEAH! I got a question right! Tad-ahhh!!

feargale · 24-03-2016 01:49AM

garancafan wrote: »

Good question, but remember Seb Coe and Steve Ovett?

My recollection is that they did 800 and 1500 at the same time.
P.S. I listened to Herb Elliott's Santry win on the radio.

garancafan · 24-03-2016 02:24AM

feargale wrote: »

My recollection is that they did 800 and 1500 at the same time.

Yes they were contemporaries but Coe was the (supposed) 800 specialist and won gold at the 1500 whereas, the (supposed) 1500 specialist, Ovett won gold at the 800. (I can't remember which Olympics).
And then along came Steve Cram!

Little did you know as you listened to that '58 broadcast that amongst that cheering crowd were two boys called Srameen and garancafan.

Gellobaby now owes us a question.

feargale · 24-03-2016 02:51AM

"garancafan wrote:

Little did you know as you listened to that '58 broadcast that amongst that cheering crowd were two boys called Srameen and garancafan.

And me thinking that both of you were well into middle age in 1958! :eek:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-03-2016 09:53AM

garancafan wrote: »

Would the vacuum flask have been invented by a chap by the name of Dewar?

Dewar it is. In the states they still call them Dewar flasks.

Rubecula wrote: »

Erithacus rubecula is a robin

Turdus merula is a blackbird

and pica pica is a magpie

The lovely Magpie it is.

You two are up.

garancafan · 24-03-2016 06:27PM

The Velocette 150 LE was a common sight in Britain in the '50s and '60s - in what role?

bonzodog2 · 24-03-2016 06:41PM

Was it those dreadful light blue invalid carriages?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-03-2016 07:22PM

garancafan wrote: »

The Velocette 150 LE was a common sight in Britain in the '50s and '60s - in what role?

I know they were a damned ugly motorbike but not sure of the role. Velo, for bike, gives it away.

Britain specifically? I'd guess Police motorcycle so.

bonzodog2 · 24-03-2016 07:27PM

Or maybe an AA patrol bike?

looksee · 24-03-2016 07:36PM

I imagine they were the preferred 'mods' transport!

garancafan · 24-03-2016 09:30PM

Some good answers - one of which is substantially correct, but they were known by a particular name. Anybody?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-03-2016 11:02PM

garancafan wrote: »

Some good answers - one of which is substantially correct, but they were known by a particular name. Anybody?

Aha, I have you but I'll let it run as I can't think of a new question.

garancafan · 25-03-2016 12:35AM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Aha, I have you but I'll let it run as I can't think of a new question.

Kinda gives it away, but worth running a while longer.

feargale · 25-03-2016 01:11AM

Scooter?

garancafan · 25-03-2016 01:18AM

Shake of head.

red sean · 25-03-2016 08:39PM

Nobody getting the nod yet, eh Garanca?

garancafan · 25-03-2016 08:54PM

Careful Redser. You could be handed the baton.

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

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