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

BrensBenz · 30-04-2015 5:41pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Just before I have my dinner, a wild guess, something to do with yukes?

Whoh be's "yukes"?

looksee · 30-04-2015 7:06pm

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 · 30-04-2015 7:07pm

BrensBenz wrote: »

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

Knots? Or maybe sails?

BrensBenz · 30-04-2015 10:29pm

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 · 30-04-2015 10:52pm

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...?)

BrensBenz · 30-04-2015 11:07pm

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.

muffler · 30-04-2015 11:54pm

BrensBenz wrote: »

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

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

Eeden · 30-04-2015 11:57pm

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

Jellybaby1 · 01-05-2015 12:07am

BrensBenz wrote: »

Whoh be's "yukes"?

Ukuleles. And yes, I know by now that I was very wrong.

BrensBenz · 01-05-2015 7:36am

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.

muffler · 01-05-2015 2:02pm

A question it is then so. I dont even know the answer myself....well I did years ago when I first heard it but the old brain cells aren't what they used to be so I'll have to look it up again.

Anyhow, whats the only county in Ireland that does not border a county with a coastline?

No peeking at maps now

looksee · 01-05-2015 2:20pm

Laois?

muffler · 01-05-2015 4:48pm

looksee wrote: »

Laois?

......and today's winner is looksee. Well done

I had to pull up a map myself to make sure that was right.

looksee · 01-05-2015 4:52pm

Heavens! I did a quick mental survey and guessed!

Ok, what are we more likely to know ananas as?

muffler · 01-05-2015 5:00pm

looksee wrote: »

Ok, what are we more likely to know ananas as?

an arse hole? :pac:

Sorry couldnt resist but seriously I have no idea though what ananas is.

Eeden · 01-05-2015 5:05pm

pineapple?

looksee · 01-05-2015 5:38pm

We have a winner! (No, Muffler, not you

)

Eeden · 01-05-2015 6:06pm

Can never remember if it's pineapple or grapefruit!

With 15 winners, which country holds the distinction of having the most Nobel literature laureates? Its most recent win was just last year, 2014.

Eeden · 02-05-2015 7:31pm

No guesses? Hint: not the USA or the UK

Jellybaby1 · 02-05-2015 8:04pm

This thread is mis-named! Its supposed to be an Easy Quiz! EASY Quiz!

looksee · 02-05-2015 8:06pm

Ah, gwan JB, throw in a guess! I'll chance Ireland to get it over - I'm sure if it was we would have heard more about it

Jellybaby1 · 02-05-2015 8:15pm

All right then, GREECE! Ooooh, I hope I win a prize! (jumps up and down in utter excitement!)

Eeden · 02-05-2015 8:41pm

Sorry, guys, if I made it too hard.

I just figured people would take a guess, rather than actually knowing the answer. Greece is not right.

Jellybaby1 · 02-05-2015 8:49pm

Phooey! :mad:

looksee · 02-05-2015 9:04pm

I cheated and looked it up. I think I should get a prize for being able to find the answer! Every possible convolution of who won what, except for the simple answer. Found it eventually, well fancy that! It certainly isn't Ireland, Ireland hasn't won at all, which is odd considering how much literature has come from here. I'll leave it with you

Eeden · 02-05-2015 9:47pm

Thanks, looksee, and sorry again. I actually didn't realise that it was so hard. I didn't find it so hard to get the question...

If you want to answer and move along, I don't mind.

BrensBenz · 02-05-2015 9:50pm

Sorry for the delay, folks - I was chemo-bombed yesterday and they scored a direct hit.

However uncomfortable the chemo, it really pains me to suggest that the country with the most Nobel literature laureates is......is.........Bluddy France.

Due to an enormous lack of interest, I can't name any of the winners or their.....works(?). And sure, it would be nice if Ireland was represented but I always thought that Russia / Soviet Union manages to produce marvellous work, even if I can only read the translations.

Is I right? Eh? Well, is I? Huh?

Eeden · 02-05-2015 10:02pm

N, sorry. I probably would have guessed that, if I didn't know otherwise.

looksee · 02-05-2015 10:04pm

Sorry you are not feeling the best Brens, yes, I was surprised about France, though I have no idea why I should be? Why not France?

Eeden I wasn't giving out about the question! Brens got it so it wasn't impossible (I was going to say 'it can't have been too difficult' but then I realised how that sounded

). I'll stop digging.

Eeden · 02-05-2015 10:08pm

Sorry again; I sped-read Brens answer and didn't spot France, just fixated on Russia.

Off you go, Brens, sorry you're not feeling well. I'm just not good at this type of thing, obviously

BrensBenz · 02-05-2015 10:14pm

Awww shucks, OK, I'll have a go:

What's the story behind men's suit jackets having buttons on the sleeves? We know that, nowadays, it sometimes denotes the seniority of the tailor but who started it and why?

looksee · 02-05-2015 10:42pm

When really tight sleeves were fashionable, fellas used to get their missus to stitch them into the jacket...then she got fed up with this faffing around and put on buttons. No, I have no idea (though the bit about stitching sleeves is true (ish) if you go back to the middle ages).

Rubecula · 02-05-2015 11:08pm

was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?

BrensBenz · 03-05-2015 12:14am

Rubecula wrote: »

was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?

Correct!

Everyone's favourite corporal, Napoleon, looked out of his boudoir window one day and saw a sentry wiping his nose on his sleeve. "Awh ee awh ee awh", he said. "I vill stup zees et vance. Josephine, steetch a ruh of big, metal bootonz on all zuh sleeves off zee army." "Wee", said Josephine, as she reached for her needlework basket.

As personal hygiene improved, the buttons gradually moved to the seam, where they serve no practical purpose whatever.

BrensBenz · 03-05-2015 8:57pm

Rubecula wrote: »

was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?

BrensBenz wrote: »

Correct!

Do we get a Rubeculan question now? If I ever get another one right, I have a real woozie just waiting.

Rubecula · 03-05-2015 9:12pm

ok

What is a Bufo bufo?

By the way I gave the previous answer out of a sense of fun, never thought it would be right

BrensBenz · 03-05-2015 9:15pm

Good Heavens! I think I know this too! In Latin, bufo is a frog or maybe a toad. Hmmm, let's go with toad.

Is I right? Well, is I? Huh? Mister?

Rubecula · 03-05-2015 9:23pm

bufo bufo is common toad (I prefer a posh toad myself) Your turn oulpalomine

BrensBenz · 03-05-2015 10:45pm

The only reason I knew this was that, when we started Latin lessons, we gave each other Latin nicknames. "Bouffont", the lad with too much hair, became "Bufo" and it took him two years to discover it wasn't hair-related.

Anyway, I'm having trouble phrasing this question!

While being held in what he called the "Bridewell", who (character or actor's name), in a musical / comical / mocumentary type fillum of the 1960's, delivered the line, in a broad Dublin accent, that the police would "need the mahogany truncheons on this boyo?"

looksee · 04-05-2015 12:11am

That's nothing to do with mahogany gas pipes is it?

BrensBenz · 04-05-2015 12:37am

looksee wrote: »

That's nothing to do with mahogany gas pipes is it?

No. I hope this question isn't too obscure but whenever I have a piece of mahogany in my wood lathe, I think of it.

Earlier in the exchange with the police, to show his knowledge of police techniques, the character mentions "rubber hoses, kidney punches, rabbit clouts, the third degree and size twelve boot ankle tap" before delivering the line about the mahogany truncheons and then launching into a verse of "A Nation Once Again."

BrensBenz · 04-05-2015 5:55pm

Hmmm, silence. Maybe a hint?
The actor was Irish - hence the perfect Dublin accent - but he's best known for playing a rough cockney, constantly at war with his son who refers to him as a "dirty old man".

looksee · 04-05-2015 6:00pm

Oh I know, your man, you know, the one that doesn't have a mustache! Lovely Dub accent! Hang on, it will come to me in a minute!

Jellybaby1 · 04-05-2015 8:08pm

Wilfred Brambell.

BrensBenz · 04-05-2015 11:23pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Wilfred Brambell.

Correctamente!

Wilfred Bramble played Paul McCartney's (very clean) grandad in A Hard Day's Night and was taken to the "Bridewell" for hawking pictures of The Beatles to fans outside a theatre. Ringo was also arrested for vagrancy and Bramble gives Her Majesty's Constabulary, in the form of Deryck Guyler, severe verbal, including my favourite "mahogany truncheons".

So, a question from JB1.

Jellybaby1 · 04-05-2015 11:45pm

Which book does this first line come from?:

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

Mmmmm, not a fella's read though! Come on fellas, surprise me!

BrensBenz · 05-05-2015 12:01am

Janey Mac, I hate to hog this but I think I remember this from pre-puberty days.

Is it a bewk?
Does it have a two word title?
Was it written in the 1800's?
By a Yank?
Have there been endless efforts from Hollywood to cash in on it?

looksee · 05-05-2015 8:18am

I think ye have it there Brens!

BrensBenz · 05-05-2015 12:14pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Which book does this first line come from?:

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

Mmmmm, not a fella's read though! Come on fellas, surprise me!

Would a possible sequel have been "Big Men"?

BrensBenz · 05-05-2015 4:39pm

OK. Let's see....hmmmm.....

Who or what were Jonathan Cobbold, Gerald Wiley and Jack Goetz?

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