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

IrishZeus · 30-12-2018 12:46pm

Partial points to Srameen and Beasty.

Jingle Bells was written in 1857 by Pierpont (and was called "One Horse Open Sleigh" at the time.) The connections: It was written to commemorate the Medford sleigh races at the time and went on to be the first song broadcast from space!

One question from each of you please

Beasty · 30-12-2018 2:22pm

What's the connection between Ruth Ellis and a pub called the Last Drop Inn in Bromley Cross, Bolton?

feargale · 02-01-2019 5:25pm

Beasty wrote: »

What's the connection between Ruth Ellis and a pub called the Last Drop Inn in Bromley Cross, Bolton?

Was the pub's landlord the man who hanged her? Albert Pierrepoint?

New Home · 09-01-2019 6:28pm

BUMP!

New Home · 09-01-2019 6:29pm

Also, just a question to keep us going: an egg-white is called albumen or... what?

Beasty · 09-01-2019 6:42pm

feargale wrote: »

Was the pub's landlord the man who hanged her? Albert Pierrepoint?

Yes it was - sorry for taking so long to get back.

It was named the Last Drop after he retired from his hanging "business". Ellis was his penultimate hanging (he also hanged Lord Haw Haw). His father was previously a landlord, and indeed a hangman.

Beasty · 09-01-2019 6:43pm

New Home wrote: »

Also, just a question to keep us going: an egg-white is called albumen or... what?

or an "egg-white":p

New Home · 09-01-2019 7:03pm

Beasty wrote: »

or an "egg-white":p

:rolleyes:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-01-2019 7:05pm

New Home wrote: »

Also, just a question to keep us going: an egg-white is called albumen or... what?

Glaire (autocorrect insists on Claire)

New Home · 09-01-2019 7:06pm

I had seen it spelt as Glair, but, surprisingly enough, Srameen gets it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-01-2019 7:10pm

What is a Desire Path?

looksee · 09-01-2019 7:35pm

Well now I managed to get to the age I am without ever coming across the word glaire! New one on me!

Desire Path...something to do with potatoes? Could be mixing it up with Desiree

Edit - just looked it up, well waddooyeknow! Another new one.

New Home · 09-01-2019 7:42pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What is a Desire Path?

There's a Lovers' Lane near my neck of the woods... :pac:

IrishZeus · 09-01-2019 7:53pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What is a Desire Path?

There so many answers I want to give but too many young and delicate ears here

It’s a track created by animals to get directly to somewhere. E.g a cattle track created by them travelling the same route every time or even a track created by humans walking the same route through a forest every time. Etc. Basically a path created by through-traffic?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-01-2019 7:55pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

There so many answers I want to give but too many young and delicate ears here

It’s a track created by animals to get directly to somewhere. E.g a cattle track created by them travelling the same route every time or even a track created by humans walking the same route through a forest every time. Etc. Basically a path created by through-traffic?

That's it

New Home · 09-01-2019 7:56pm

"The Road More Travelled", so?

IrishZeus · 09-01-2019 8:07pm

Similar tack as I have nothing prepared - name the 4 types of erosion?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-01-2019 8:23pm

Glacial, aeolian, gravitational,....secondary school geography is failing me now......hydraulic, chemical.

IrishZeus · 09-01-2019 9:51pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Glacial, aeolian, gravitational,....secondary school geography is failing me now......hydraulic, chemical.

My apologies. I left out the most important word.

I want the 4 types of *river* erosion!

feargale · 10-01-2019 4:25pm

Beasty wrote: »

Yes it was - sorry for taking so long to get back.

It was named the Last Drop after he retired from his hanging "business". Ellis was his penultimate hanging (he also hanged Lord Haw Haw). His father was previously a landlord, and indeed a hangman.

Clearly a man who liked his job and could have a laugh and a joke about it.

A century ago a distant relative of mine who was a pillar of a small town was asked for a reference by a layabout who wanted the advertised job of His Majesty's hangman (probably assistant executioner as the Pierrepoints seem to have wrapped up the no. 1 position.) My relative had difficulty compiling a glowing reference, to put it mildly, and simply stated that the applicant would make an excellent hangman.

I owe a question (or two):
Who was the first US president to visit Europe:
(a) in office; (b) out of office; (c) after vacating the office?

One third of a question owed by each correct respondent.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-01-2019 4:31pm

feargale wrote: »

Clearly a man who liked his job and could have a laugh and a joke about it.

A century ago a distant relative of mine who was a pillar of a small town was asked for a reference by a layabout who wanted the advertised job of His Majesty's hangman (probably assistant executioner as the Pierrepoints seem to have wrapped up the no. 1 position.) My relative had difficulty compiling a glowing reference, to put it mildly, and simply stated that the applicant would make an excellent hangman.

I owe a question (or two):
Who was the first US president to visit Europe:
(a) in office; (b) out of office; (c) after vacating the office?

One third of a question owed by each correct respondent.

Jefferson was in France prior to taking office, Wilson visited at the end of WW1 and I'll have to think about the one who visited after vacating the office.

feargale · 10-01-2019 6:55pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

That's it

I'd say the owners of the pale blue house got their kids to run marathons where that track is.
The first element of the Irish word bóthar (road) is bó (cow) for the same reason as explained. Cows made a track e.g. to a river to drink and the track eventually became a road. Cows aren't very good at Euclid ("shortest distance between two points is a straight line",) hence the winding Irish roads.

feargale · 11-01-2019 2:29pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Jefferson was in France prior to taking office, Wilson visited at the end of WW1 and I'll have to think about the one who visited after vacating the office.

Wilson is correct. Keep working on the others.

IrishZeus · 11-01-2019 4:49pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

My apologies. I left out the most important word.

I want the 4 types of *river* erosion!

Just a bump.

feargale · 11-01-2019 11:39pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Jefferson was in France prior to taking office, Wilson visited at the end of WW1 and I'll have to think about the one who visited after vacating the office.

I have to give you this because my computer is going in for a service. Wilson is right. John Adams (and his son John Quincy) arrived in Spain on 1st April 1778 on diplomatic business that ultimately took him to France and the Netherlands. That was a few years before Jefferson.
That question is slightly muddied by Andrew Jackson. It is generally accepted that he was born in America, but one or two local historians in Ulster believe ihe was born in Carrickfergus before his parents emigrated. Others say he was born on the voyage.
Ex-president Grant circumnavigated the world 1877-1879, visiting several places including Belfast. He was of Ulster Scots descent.

Rubecula · 14-01-2019 5:10pm

tsk tsk too may questions not enough time

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-01-2019 5:19pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Just a bump.

Abrasion, corrosion, attrition and hydraulic.

IrishZeus · 15-01-2019 12:28am

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Abrasion, corrosion, attrition and hydraulic.

Correct, thought that would go faster. Will have to drag up some more bits from my college days

looksee · 15-01-2019 12:44am

I'm going to throw in a question just...because (IrishZeus gave me the idea

)

Does anyone know what the following signifies -

pee bee tee dee chay jay kay gay eff vee ith thee ess zee ish shee

OldGoat · 15-01-2019 10:50am

looksee wrote: »

I'm going to throw in a question just...because (IrishZeus gave me the idea )

Does anyone know what the following signifies -

pee bee tee dee chay jay kay gay eff vee ith thee ess zee ish shee

Is this to do with a language that has the smallest/shortest alphabet?

looksee · 15-01-2019 11:20am

No.

IrishZeus · 15-01-2019 10:22pm

looksee wrote: »

I'm going to throw in a question just...because (IrishZeus gave me the idea )

Does anyone know what the following signifies -

pee bee tee dee chay jay kay gay eff vee ith thee ess zee ish shee

It’s Pitman shorthand. Question right up my street - I run a business in the English language sector

looksee · 15-01-2019 11:48pm

Oh well done! It came to mind from your comment about college, that chant goes on interminably and I always hated shorthand, though it got me a couple of good jobs!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-01-2019 4:49pm

What connects Austria, Botswana, Nepal and Serbia?

Ted_YNWA · 19-01-2019 4:57pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What connects Austria, Botswana, Nepal and Serbia?

Assuming it's not the letter a, will go with landlocked.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-01-2019 5:00pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Assuming it's not the letter a, will go with landlocked.

Yep, all landlocked.

Ted_YNWA · 19-01-2019 5:11pm

Another what connects Q,

What connects the below countries.

Nigeria
Belize
Brazil
Australia
Pakistan

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-01-2019 5:19pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Another what connects Q,

What connects the below countries.

Nigeria
Belize
Brazil
Australia
Pakistan

The capital is not the biggest city, perhaps??

Ted_YNWA · 19-01-2019 5:20pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

The capital is not the biggest city, perhaps??

Close, but no cigar.

Not the answer I was looking for.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-01-2019 5:30pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Close, but no cigar.

Not the answer I was looking for.

All "planned" cities then.

Ted_YNWA · 19-01-2019 5:47pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

All "planned" cities then.

Again, some might tick that box, but it is something to do with the capitals.

Quazzie · 20-01-2019 9:37am

Capital furthest distance from the geographical centres?

Ted_YNWA · 20-01-2019 9:45am

Quazzie wrote:

Capital furthest distance from the geographical centres?

Nope

Beasty · 20-01-2019 11:39am

Capital cities are not the largest cities in respective countries

New Home · 20-01-2019 11:53am

Capital cities used to be elsewhere? In the sense that the capitals used to be other cities, not that the cities actually moved...

Ted_YNWA · 20-01-2019 1:22pm

New Home wrote:

Capital cities used to be elsewhere? In the sense that the capitals used tobe other cities, not that the cities actually moved...

Yep, capital cities changed in the respective countries.

New Home · 20-01-2019 1:26pm

\o/

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-01-2019 1:54pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Yep, capital cities changed in the respective countries.

As in they were moved to the 'planned' cities?????

Ted_YNWA · 20-01-2019 2:16pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote:

As in they were moved to the 'planned' cities?????

Some were moved to existing cities. A plan I'm sure was done for the move. Not a city especially built as a 'planned city' is.

Don't you be going down the semantics road. (There was no planning got for it,) :P

New Home · 23-01-2019 12:27am

What are nonpareils and what does the word mean?

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

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