Quiz time

[Grunt]

A wrong 'un is bowled by a leg spinner who's normal delivery goes from leg to off when bowling to a right hander. The wrong'un spins the otherway, that is from off to leg.

A doosra is an off spinners wrong'un that is it spins from leg to off instread of off to leg.

It is no wonder that people find cricket a bit confusing.

[craigb]

Your answer is true (technically), however it is not the answer I'm looking for. :)

[silentC]

A wrong 'un is legal and a doosra is (currently) not?

[craigb]

A wrong 'un is legal and a doosra is (currently) not?

Pretty close Darren.

A wrong 'un is a legal delivery in a leg spinners repetoire. A doosra is only possible if you throw the ball. :D

You and Grunt decide whose turn it is. :)

[Grunt]

How many different kinds of chocolates are there in a box of Cadbury Favourites? Name them.

Grunt

[HappyHammer]

Don't know, don't stop to read the wrappers....

HH.

[Grunt]

Close enough, your go. I expected everyone to have been given some for Chrissy and would devour them in while surfing this BB.
Then answer was 10. I can't verify the different kinds because they've disappeared.

[HappyHammer]

How many holes in a Mr Potato Head?

HH.

[Grunt]

8

[echnidna]

Hey the High Priestess Allana needs a shave!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[HappyHammer]

8
Close, what are your 8 for?

HH.

[silentC]

1 - Hat
2 - Eyes
3 - Nose
4 - Mouth
5 & 6 - Ears
7 & 8 - Arms
9 - Shoes.

Technically 10 because there's a hatch in the back for the bits to go in.

[HappyHammer]

Correct

[silentC]

Mr Potato Head had three friends in the 60's. Who were they?

[AlexS]

Jasper Carrot & Mr. Bean? :confused:

[HappyHammer]

Mrs Potato Head and the two spuds?

HH.

[silentC]

No it was not Jasper Carrot and Mr Bean :p

No it was not Mrs Potato Head and the two spuds :rolleyes:

They were along the same vegetable theme though.

BTW did you know that when Mr Potato Head was first released, he did not come with a body. The idea was you used a spud from your Mum's kitchen. Then they introduced new laws covering toys in the US and the points had to be removed from the pins on the bits and pieces. Because they were blunt, they were a bit hard to push into a spud, so they released the one with the plastic body. No more Mr Picasso Potato :(

[HappyHammer]

Billy the Kid Brocolli, A.S. Paragus and Lilly the Leek ?

HH.

[silentC]

I'm beginning to think that you are not taking this seriously http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/3dlil/eek13.gif

[HappyHammer]

Mr Lemon who's acidic personality offended Miss Onion and made her cry and sneeze over Mrs Pepper.:D

HH.

[HappyHammer]

Which "Young One" adapted and narrated previously unseen French episodes of The Magic Roundabout around 1992?

[silentC]

Mr Potato Head? When he was young?

[HappyHammer]

Don't remember seeing him in the Young Ones...

HH.

[Driver]

Wild guess: Rik Mayall?

[Farm boy]

vivian ?

[simon c]

Neil - Nigel Planer

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Assuming that I'm right - I'm pretty sure I am - The nexst qustion is:

Following on from a previous question, what British sitcom currently showing on ABC has Jasper Carrot's daughter as one of the stars. (NB She goes under a different last name to her Dad).

Simon

[ozwinner]

Sapphire Beetroot?


Al :confused:

[HappyHammer]

Neil - Nigel Planer

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Assuming that I'm right - I'm pretty sure I am - The nexst qustion is:

Following on from a previous question, what British sitcom currently showing on ABC has Jasper Carrot's daughter as one of the stars. (NB She goes under a different last name to her Dad).

Simon
You were correct.:D

[simon c]

What British sitcom currently showing on ABC has Jasper Carrot's daughter as one of the stars. (NB She goes under a different last name to her Dad).


No takers? - A clue: it's on Tuesday nights and her character has something to do with the morning.

[HappyHammer]

Eastenders
Coronation Street
The Bill

HH.

[HappyHammer]

Woops none of those are sitcoms..

Any Time Now...?

[ozwinner]

Morning glory?


Al :confused:

[Cliff Rogers]

Following on from a previous question, what British sitcom currently showing on ABC has Jasper Carrot's daughter as one of the stars. (NB She goes under a different last name to her Dad).

Well, I've worked out that her name is Lucy Davis so, the show would be The Office & she plays Dawn Tinsley but it's on Monday night, not Tuesday night.

[HappyHammer]

Well, I've worked out that her name is Lucy Davis so, the show would be The Office & she plays Dawn Tinsley but it's on Monday night, not Tuesday night.
Is that the receptionist or the annoying pregnant chick?

HH.

[simon c]

Well, I've worked out that her name is Lucy Davis so, the show would be The Office & she plays Dawn Tinsley but it's on Monday night, not Tuesday night.

Oops, I normally tape it and then watch it on a Tuesday - must get this technology sorted out.

But you are right, so over to you.

PS HH, she plays the receptionist.

[HappyHammer]

Blimey, she managed to escape not getting his looks !!

HH.

[Cliff Rogers]

OK, I'm hoping I've dug out something obscure here....

Janet Jackson's breast was shown on national television during her half time presentation as Justin Timberlake ripped off a top portion of Janet Jacksons top revealing her breast.

A well-known actress also exposed a breast during a telecast of an awards presentation more that 40 years ago.

Who was it, when was it & at what awards did it happen?

That ought to keep you going for a while...

[Bob Willson]

Marilyn Monroe?

[Cliff Rogers]

Nope, not Marilyn Monroe.

[Iain]

Twiggy?, no, she had none :D

[echnidna]

Gene Autry

[HappyHammer]

Gene Autry
Thought Gene was a bloke?

HH.

[Cliff Rogers]

Umm, yes, it was a joke H.


OK, a clue, it happened the year before I was born.

[HappyHammer]

Didn't see a smiley so thought Echnidna had slipped up.:D

[Cliff Rogers]

OK, I was born in 1958 so it happened in 1957, does that help?

[HappyHammer]

Lana Turner ?

[Cliff Rogers]

Nope, not Lana Turner.

[Cliff Rogers]

The Academy Awards in 1957.

[HappyHammer]

Jayne Mansfield

[simon c]

Did you know that Jayne Mansfield's daughter is Mariska Hargitay who plays the female detective in Law & Order:SVU. She won a Golden Globe last week, and it looked like it must have been quite cold at the ceremony.

SImon

[RETIRED]

'bout time someone got it. :D

[Cliff Rogers]

Actress Jayne Mansfield accidentally exhaled her breast out of her dress during the telecast of the Academy Awards in 1957. :eek:


Good on ya H, was it a guess or did you find it somewhere?

[HappyHammer]

Eventually found it but it wasn't easy.

OK, In which years have West Ham United won the FA Cup? nice easy one for .

HH.

[silentC]

That's a trick question. West Ham United have never won the FA Cup.

:D

[Iain]

Does that mean the answer is FA :confused: :rolleyes:

[HappyHammer]

No it's not a trick question but you get marks for winding me up.:D

HH.

[Cliff Rogers]

They have won the F.A. Cup three times in 1963-64, 1974-75 and 1979-80.

[HappyHammer]

Correct and they were runners up in the first ever FA Cup final at Wembley in 1923 when they lost to Bolton Wanderers 2-0. The ground was designed to hold 127,000 but when it filled up the crowd rushed the gate and an estimated 200,000 fans squeezed into the ground :eek: but no-one was reported injured, this is the largest attendance at a football match in the UK.:)

HH.

[simon c]

they were runners up in the first ever FA Cup final at Wembley in 1923 when they lost to Bolton Wanderers 2-0

I'd forgotten it was West Ham - people only remember the winners normally.

I found some good picks of the crowd:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/755000/images/_755700_1923entrance150.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/755000/images/_755086_whitehorse300.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/940000/images/_941916_23cup_crowds300.jpg

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/world/news/2000/05/19/wembley_final_ap/lg_wembley_all.jpg

Simon

[Cliff Rogers]

The name of the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey was a tongue-in-cheek reference to IBM.

What was it's name & what was the connection to IBM?

[silentC]

Too easy: HAL. One letter to the left of IBM.

[Cliff Rogers]

Yeap, too easy.

[HappyHammer]

Apparently Arthur C Clarke said this was a coincidence not intentional.

HH.

[silentC]

Apparently. Or...


The author of 2001, Arthur C Clarke emphatically denies the legend in his book "Lost Worlds of 2001", claiming that "HAL" is an acronym for "Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer". Clarke even wrote to the computer magazine Byte to place his denial on record.

But Clarke's protestations are unconvincing in the extreme. For one thing "Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer" is a contrived name that does not properly form the desired acronym. For another, most of the working drafts of the 2001 story had HAL named "Athena", and it would have remained so had not Clarke deliberately rechristened it. The chances of him randomly fastening on to the one name that mimics the worlds largest computer company are one in seventeen thousand.

Why would Clarke deny it if it were true? I can think of several reasons: perhaps Clarke invented it as an in-joke that became too public, and he didn't want to risk offending IBM who had provided much technical help for the film. Perhaps, human nature being what it is, he is having an elaborate charade with us, as did George Plimpton with his fictitious cobra bite [recorded in Harpers Magazine earlier this year]. Perhaps like Terry Nation, he just got sick of people asking about it.

[bitingmidge]

silent,

It's your turn to ask a question.

P

[bitingmidge]

C?

P

[Cliff Rogers]

'cos he is too busy making silly comments on other threads? :confused:

[Grunt]

What word has the Silent 'C'?

[Cliff Rogers]

Michael Hunt.

[Gra]

What word has the Silent 'C'?

rap as in music...

[Iain]

Michael Hunt.
My my:rolleyes:

[silentC]

Carmichael Hunt.

Here's a question: what sits on the couch with a beer in its hand and its feet on the coffee table?

Give in?

Me in 5 minutes.

cya :p

[bitingmidge]

You win,

Your turn to ask a question!

P
:D :D :D

[Cliff Rogers]

I hope you didn't cheat & look that up on Google. :rolleyes: :D

[Spreyton22]

How do you fix a broken Tuba ?

:)

:rolleyes:

:cool:

:p

;)

:D

:confused:

:o

:eek:

:(

:mad:

With a Tuba-Glue

:)

[Cliff Rogers]

That is as bad as the butcher dance. :( :D

[Iain]

Remember when you could buy a Tuba Smarties?
(also on a Sky album)

[Cliff Rogers]

Remember when you could buy a Tuba Smarties?
(also on a Sky album)

OK, what's the name of the Sky Album & name one other track from it. :D

[Iain]

Sky 1 and Terpsichore by Michael Praetoreous played by John Williams (could be called ballad or suite, can't remember)

[Cliff Rogers]

Cool.

The toecutter is my Fav. (Toccata and Fugue)

[Iain]

I cheated Cliff, on my own classical guitar repertoire I play 6 pieces from Terpsichore, so that was fairly easy, the one on the album is fairly easy.

[Cliff Rogers]

I can't find a Guitar version in a hurry, this is a very good organ version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

[Iain]

Wrong one, I said Terpsichore, about 200 years earlier.
I have heard Toccata and Fugue played as a guitar duet but would be loath to attempt it.

[bennylaird]

Get out the Guitar and Banjo for this one.....
http://www.laserp.com/dueling_banjos.htm

[Iain]

I'll take option 3 Jethro.............
Spend years studying, doing all my AMEB exams and get Yee Haa'ed like that.

[Cliff Rogers]

Wrong one, I said Terpsichore, about 200 years earlier.
I have heard Toccata and Fugue played as a guitar duet but would be loath to attempt it.

OK then, you got it wrong..... :rolleyes:
http://plum.cream.org/sky/albums.htm

Tuba Smarties is on Sky 2 & so is Toccata. :p
http://plum.cream.org/sky/mp3/Toccata.mp3

There is a finger picker here in Oz called Micheal Fix who can do it solo.
I saw it twice last year at the Yungaburra folk festival..... awesome. :eek:

[Carry Pine]

Cliff, thanks for the reference to Sky. Have been looking for 'Dance of the Little fairies' for years. 5/4 time for those in the know and very catchy.

Has the question been answered?

Carry Pine

[Cliff Rogers]

....Has the question been answered?...
Yeap, Iain got it but he spend so much time blowing his trumpet about it that he forgot to ask the next question. :D

Iain, WAKE UP!!!!!

It is your turn. :cool:

[Wongo]

Soooo it is OK to have 113 pages of drivel here. It is not fair is it?

[Ashore]

Soooo it is OK to have 113 pages of drivel here. It is not fair is it?
Got to agree espically when they are talking this musio stuff which is proberly more dribble to the un musioed than fridays lot, at least on fridays anyone can contribute and fit into the dribble if they are so inclined as long as they don't make too much sence :rolleyes:

[Iain]

Thanks Cliff, trumpet back in case, but to keep a musical theme, the oboe is a modern version of what instrument??
And what where early oboes also known as.
No googling.

[Cliff Rogers]

A didg? :confused:

[Iain]

A didg? :confused:

Ho Boy, too early, I'm going to work............

[Carry Pine]

I can vaguely recall an instrument called a faggott but I think that is some kind of bagpipe. No other comments please!!!

[bennylaird]

I can vaguely recall an instrument called a faggott but I think that is some kind of bagpipe. No other comments please!!!


Not touching that, can get into enough trouble on my own:D :D

[Carry Pine]

And what where early oboes also known as.


OK I'll go with HAUTBOY. Have to admit I looked it up in an encyclopedia.

My other post about the 'faggott' I was partly right. The 'fagott' is the old name for the bassoon. Oops that is sure to get me in trouble with at least one member of the forum.

Well is hautboy correct?

[echnidna]

And what where early oboes also known as.



Swaggies of course :D :D :D :D

[PommiePete]

Think it's hautbois. Means 'high wood' doesn't it? See. There is a woodwork connection.

[Iain]

The 'fagott' is the old name for the bassoon. Oops that is sure to get me in trouble with at least one member of the forum.

Well is hautboy correct?

I actually gave Cliff the answer in my response to him, Hoboy, and Hautboy is also correct, so, give the man a banana (more expensive than a good cuban cigar at the moment).
I am rather surprised that 'Old Faggot' didn't respond:D :D :D
Now get off your Sackbut (another musical instrument) and throw in a question.
And the Crumhorn was the double reeded forunner to the oboe.

[silentC]

You only answered part of the question. Apparently the oboe was developed from an earlier instrument called the shawm. No Google ;)

I Wikied :p