Quiz time

[Carry Pine]

OK I think it's my turn to ask a question and I'm changing the subject from ancient instruments. Which is the odd one out here and why: St Mary, St Lawrence, St Kilda, St Anne, St Francis.

Good luck

[Bleedin Thumb]

St Kilda wasn't a saint?

[Iain]

St KIlda is the only one who doesn't have decent footy team:confused:

[Carry Pine]

St Kilda wasn't a saint?

Correct, you can sit on my trivia table any day. Ask away!

[Bleedin Thumb]

Thanks CP, that Catholic upbringing just won't shake off I guess.

Ok Question is :-

Who producted the first recording that Lou Reed appeared on? and what was the full name of the band and their live performance?

[Carry Pine]

I hope the silence does not indicate a lack of interest in Lou Reed.

[JackoH]

Who?

[Cliff Rogers]

......a lack of interest in Lou Reed.
Never.... :cool:

Pass, next question. :p

[Bleedin Thumb]

Its obvious none of the IT crowd ever walked on the wild side.:cool:

OK I'll part answer my own question to give you a clue.
Andy Warhol was the producer. So what was the name of the live performance called.

Drop some acid and hope for a flash back Cliff.;) :D

[Cliff Rogers]

Without google, I have got buckley's. :confused:

[Bleedin Thumb]

In the interest of a quick game, the answer is The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. I guess I can ask another.
OK for double bonus points.........

How many noble gasses are there?

[AlexS]

Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon & radon. Guess that makes 6.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon & radon. Guess that makes 6.

Well done Alex.. sock it to em.

[Ivan in Oz]

Its obvious none of the IT crowd ever walked on the wild side.:cool:



Maybe it's just a Walk on the Quiet side:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D :cool:

[Bleedin Thumb]

Maybe it's just a Walk on the Quiet side:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D :cool:

LOL:D

Bennylaird came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked his way across the USA
Plucked his eyebrows on the way
Shaved his legs and then he was a she
She says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the quiet side
Hey honey
Take a walk on the quiet side

Waldo came from out on the Island
In the backroom he was everybody's darlin'
But he never lost his head
Even when he was giving head
He says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the quiet side
I Said, Hey baby
Take a walk on the quiet side
And the coloured girls go
doo do doo do doo do do doo..

Little Gumby never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City's the place where they say,
Hey babe, take a walk on the quiet side
I said, Hey Gumby
Take a walk on the quiet side

Sugar Plum Silent came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should've seen em go go go
They said, Hey Silent Take a walk on the quiet side
I Said, Hey babe
Take a walk on the quiet side
All right, huh

Wongo is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
Said, Hey babe,
Take a walk on the quiet side
I said, Hey honey,
Take a walk on the quiet side
and the coloured girls say,
doo do doo do doo do do doo

Sorry if I've tarred anyone incorrectly with the IT brush.;)

[bennylaird]

doo do doo do doo do do doo:D :D :p

[Driver]

doo do doo do doo do do doo:D :D :p

That's what it is, all right! Doo-doo. ;)

[Carry Pine]

Three days and no question asked!!!!
Reminds me of Sylvester Stallone when he played Hamlet.
"To be ...or not to be........uhh What was the question?"

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Here's a question I was aked the other day. It had me flummoxed for a while...

Are fireworks considered to be high explosives? Why or why not?

[Wood Butcher]

Depends who you talk to.

If you look at the energy potential of your average fireworks compared to TNT/Plastic Explosives etc you will find that fireworks have a fraction of the explosive power. So from that argument no.

[Groggy]

Here's a question I was aked the other day. It had me flummoxed for a while...

Are fireworks considered to be high explosives? Why or why not?No. They are classed as Hazard Class 1.4S and the explosion can be confined to the package. High Explosives are classed as 1.1.

[Doughboy]

All hail the groggy one...

Pete

[Groggy]

All hail the groggy one...

PeteUmm, it was my job many moons ago to fly around with this stuff.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Here's a question I was aked the other day. It had me flummoxed for a while...

Are fireworks considered to be high explosives? Why or why not?

Only the rockets;)

[powderpost]

When a cyclone comes in from the ocean and makes landfall, it sucks up any debris in it path. If it sucks up debri on land, presumably it will suck up sea water when it is over the sea.
Question..... What happens to the salt in the sea water when the water is deposited on the ground as rain? Rain water is fresh water.
Jim

[Shedhand]

When a cyclone comes in from the ocean and makes landfall, it sucks up any debris in it path. If it sucks up debri on land, presumably it will suck up sea water when it is over the sea.
Question..... What happens to the salt in the sea water when the water is deposited on the ground as rain? Rain water is fresh water.
Jimrainwater falls as fresh water if it results from the normal evapotranspiration cycle (salt doesn't evaporate). However, if the rain falls as a result of a cyclonic event over a salt water body then it will be salty or brackish at best.

[Tex B]

I don't think cyclones 'suck up' water. The eye of a cyclone or hurricane is really quite large, not like a tornado, and things typically don't get sucked up.

Having lived through an eye (of a hurricane) I can guarantee there is little or no updraft.

So a cyclone is a storm over water, and the water in the cyclone does not come from being sucked out of the ocean.

Tex

[Groggy]

I'm with Tex, in that a cyclone is generally driving a mass of high water up over the beach and providing a lot of wind etc, but it is a large mass of air rotating over a very sparse area and therefore does not 'suck up' debris, but rather blasts it along relatively horizontally.

A waterspout on the other hand is more like a tornado (but not a tornado), and does suck up water. If it hits land it will make a salty deposit.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

No. They are classed as Hazard Class 1.4S and the explosion can be confined to the package. High Explosives are classed as 1.1.

The answer I found (and was looking for) is "no, 'cos the rate of combustion is under the speed of sound." ie. they're subject to deflagration rather than detonation.

But your answer is simpler. :D

[Cliff Rogers]

It rained pine trees at our place during Larry..... :p

[SawDustJack]

having lived theu quite a few hurricanes , they do not suck up sea water , water spouts are very scaree , specially when you are on the water near them ..

Month , Day and Year that Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of Jimmy to Jimi ??

[Shedhand]

I was referring to water spouts when I said 'cyclonic event'...

Cheers

[Bleedin Thumb]

Month , Day and Year that Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of Jimmy to Jimi ??

Before my time SDJ. First I heard of Mr Hendrix was when trhe old man came back from Nam with 200 real to real tapes that one happened to have a hendix album one - most of the others were Herb Alpert and the Tiajana Brass or similar. I'll Guess 1967

[Doughboy]

Ok I know that his name was changed by Chas Chandler and I think in 1966 but the month eludes me and the day well I know it was a day that ended with a Y..............

Pete

[Doughboy]

Perhaps Septembar according to my old man.... but the day is never going to happen.

Pete

[Shedhand]

September 1966 in London UK.

[Bleedin Thumb]

3 weeks and no question!
Keeping with the musical them. An american band late 70's early 80's
Name the band and the next line.

You got two hands
You got praying hands
They prey for no man.
OK Relax
Assume the position

[Andy Mac]

Devo

[Bleedin Thumb]

Well done didn't think that would be so quick. Noticed your age, you must of had the same bad upbringing as me.
What about the last line?

[Andy Mac]

Yep, mispent youth and overspent on LPs etc.:D
"Are we not mean, no we are devo"???
Its the only thing coming through from those dim dark days...sorry, nights!

Cheers

[Groggy]

Ok forumites, what is "fenestration"?

[Driver]

In an architectural sense, 'fenestration' means windows, ie, the application of windows to an elevation.

De-fenestration means slinging people out of windows. :eek:

[Bob Willson]

I'll ask a question seeing as Driver hasn't.

What proper word, (no names etc.,) in the English language has a 'Q' in it that is not immediately followed by a 'u'?

[Iain]

QINDARS QINTARS QIVIUTS QAIDS QANAT QOPHS QURSH and QWERTY if that is now a word and not an acronym.

[Bob Willson]

QWERTY is the only one of those that I have ever heard of and that isn't really a word.

However, a google search validates your nominees.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Yep, mispent youth and overspent on LPs etc.:D
"Are we not men, no we are devo"???
Its the only thing coming through from those dim dark days...sorry, nights!

Cheers

No the last line was... go into dogie submission.

This thread needs rules.....Gee I'm getting old.

[Iain]

QWERTY is the only one of those that I have ever heard of and that isn't really a word.

However, a google search validates your nominees.

And still being half asleep when I posted, it is not an acronym either, just a sequential event of characters as presented by Christopher Latham Sholes or William BUrt.
Of course that gives me a stab at a question, who were these gentlemen?

[Doughboy]

From memory Scholes was involved in typewriters.

And William Burt was a surveyor from the states! I was going to be a surveyor till I grew up.

Pete

[Doughboy]

Yards chains links and miles???? how many of each in each???

When and where were these first implemented?

Pete

[Prince Charles]

Yards chains links and miles???? how many of each in each???

When and where were these first implemented?

Pete

Mummy use to chain me in the yard and make me walk miles with the blasted things on.

When? When I was a mere child.
Where? Buck house.

Charles:(

[John Saxton]

Question:- what is a Warrington Hammer? AKA in "Woodwork in Theory and Practice"


Cheers:)

[Driver]

Question:- what is a Warrington Hammer? AKA in "Woodwork in Theory and Practice"


Cheers:)

A Warrington hammer is a cross-pein hammer, specifically designed for woodwork. It has a head with a normal hammer shape on one side and a tapering narrow edge on the other side, designed for starting pins, brads, tacks and nails before they are hammered home.

The other type of Warringtom hammer is a blow delivered by a Rugby League player, usually in blinding rain and ankle-deep mud. (North-West Pom joke! :D )

When a Scotsman refers to Cock-a-Leekie, to what is he alluding?

[ozwinner]

When a Scotsman refers to Cock-a-Leekie, to what is he alluding?

Chicken soup?

Al :p

[Driver]

Chicken soup?

Al :p

We-e-ell, there's a bit more to it than that, Al. If that was all it was, it would just be called Cock. :rolleyes:

[ozwinner]

Ok, its got leekes in it, but I thougth it may have been a Welsh dish seeing as how the Leeke is the Welsh emblem.

Al :p

[Driver]

Ok, its got leekes in it, but I thougth it may have been a Welsh dish seeing as how the Leeke is the Welsh emblem.

Al :p

We-e-ell, again, y'see, they tell you it's got leeks in it. But that means the cook has put leeks in it, doesn't it? And we all know about cooks and leaks and soup, don't we? :eek:

But anyway, you're near enough right, Al. Your go.

[ozwinner]

No googling you lot.
What in an Intrados?
I has to do with a part of a part of a building.

Al :p

[Bob Willson]

It sounds like a doorway. But in Spanish.

[ozwinner]

No.
It has to do with brickwork.

Al :p

[Groggy]

its an 'internal' disk operating sytem command from the kernel, as opposed to an external command, or extrados.

Sorry to throw a 'curveball' :p

[Doughboy]

.... I do not have one in my house!!!

Pete

[Bleedin Thumb]

I think that it is an internal curve. so for brickwork it must be the inside face of a curved wall?

[Driver]

I think that it is an internal curve. so for brickwork it must be the inside face of a curved wall?

It's the inside curve of an arch. An extrados is the outside curve of an arch.

What is Trumper's? (Clue: Prince Charles ought to know ;) ).

[Prince Charles]

.

What is Trumper's? (Clue: Prince Charles ought to know ;) ).

Its when one has too many cucumber sandwiches, and one passes......arhuuum........wind.

Charles :o

[Driver]

Its when one has too many cucumber sandwiches, and one passes......arhuuum........wind.

Charles :o

I always thought that was brumpers! :confused:

Anyway - interesting answer Chuck, but incorrect.

[Driver]

Actually, and on second thoughts, HRH was right after all. But since he didn't also mention that Trumpers is the name of the royal barbershop, he'll have to miss a turn.

Instead, here's an easier one.

Which designer of darkside gear had a name that sounds like a fish? (If you want to take the honours let's have his first name too and his connection with the darkside. And no, it wasn't Darth Prawn).

[silentC]

Justus Traut, inventor of various handplane designs. Once worked for Stanley I believe.

[bitingmidge]

On this, the day the third test commences, why oh why are you talking about hand planes?

Surely all questions today should have "Rodney Marsh" as their answer?

(Unless they are about Liz Ellis of course :rolleyes: )


P
:D

[Driver]

Justus Traut, inventor of various handplane designs. Once worked for Stanley I believe.

Hand that man a haddock. Your go, Brother Silent.

(Oh, and by the way, Rodney Marsh).

[silentC]

OK, I choose to give my question in the form of a cryptic crossword clue:

A reinforced joint keeps in a damp and soggy place.

[Driver]

Liz Ellis!

[bennylaird]

Boooooooooooonie?

[silentC]

OK, I can see no one is taking this seriously. So here's another question:

Who was the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1982?

[craigb]

Rodney Marsh

[bennylaird]

Terry Alderman, Allan Border, Richard Hadlee, Javed Miandad, Rod Marsh

[JDub]

OK, I choose to give my question in the form of a cryptic crossword clue:

A reinforced joint keeps in a damp and soggy place.

LOL, very clever :D

[silentC]

Who, during an Ashes test, once said to Ian Botham "how's your wife and my kids?"

Hint: It wasn't Warnie.

[craigb]

Rodney Marsh? :D

[silentC]

I'm having trouble coming up with challenging questions. See how you get on, Craig :)

[Iain]

Was that a cryptic clue?????

[craigb]

Wht are Sideshow Bob's batting and bowling averages in Test cricket?

[bitingmidge]

Batting hs 132 ave 26.51

Bowling Balls 72 runs 54 wickets 0 econ 4.50




OH no! Sorry, those are Rodney Marsh's figures!

P
:D :D

[silentC]

Complete this quotation from Ingoldsby Legends:

"The world according to the best geographers is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and ..."

[bennylaird]

Romney Marsh sort of like Rodney I guess:D :D :D :p

[Shedhand]

OK here's one for all the woodies who like music.

What genre of music originated in the lumber and turpentine camps of Texas and Louisiana?

The trouble with these quizzes is that every thing's google-able :rolleyes: so NO DAMN GOOGLING...:mad: :D

[silentC]

Rodney March?

[Shedhand]

nope

[Bleedin Thumb]

My Darling Turpentine? or was that Clemintine?

[Shedhand]

My Darling Turpentine? or was that Clemintine?
Note a song Bleeder, a genre of music... ;)

[Bleedin Thumb]

Well It could be any one of four I'd say from that region. so here goes guess #1.

Bluegrass?

[Groggy]

I had a friend in the the US who was Cajun and liked what he called "swamp blues" - that it?

[Shedhand]

nope
Clue . The Andrew Sisters sang about it...

[craigb]

nope
Clue . The Andrew Sisters sang about it...

Venereal disease?

[Tex B]

As Craig said, but otherwise known as Boogie Woogie


Tex

[Shedhand]

As Craig said, but otherwise known as Boogie Woogie


TexNever heard the Clap called boogie woogie but you win the iced vovo. ;)

[Cliff Rogers]

Is this the Friday thread or the cricket quiz? :confused:

[Tex B]

Never heard the Clap called boogie woogie but you win the iced vovo. ;)
comes from the cream in the jelly roll.

Sticking with music: what band was Peter Frampton a member of before striking out on his own?

Tex

[Iain]

Byrds????

[Tex B]

Byrds????

No byrds. but many people do eat it.

Tex

[watson]

Was Steve Marriot in it as well?
Noel