Quiz time

[Driver]

Have you ever been a consultant, Col?

Yerss. However, I don't often admit to it.

[HappyHammer]

Is close enough. Scott Robinson was originally played by Darius Perkins and then Jason Donovan. Jason Donovan was the UK's most sucessful male artist of the 80's with more No 1s than any other individual apart from Madonna (even more in the 80's than Kylie). He was also hugely sucessful playing Joseph in the West End.

You sound like a fan simon The amazing thing is he did all this whilst snorting enough cocaine to fill a football stadium:eek:

[HappyHammer]

Not as such. Close though.

There are four similar mounds in a cluster. It's purpose is believed to be related to the sun.

Ireland? Is it some sort of pagan sun worshipping gaff?

[silentC]

Come on, I thought some of you well-travelled types would have seen it.

HH, you are geographically on the nail. I wont get particular about what county.

On the pagan sun worshipping stuff, no-one really knows but there is a theory that it was used as a 'calendar' to predict when to sow the seeds etc. It is a fairly accurate indicator of the middle of winter.

[HappyHammer]

Anything to do with Druids?

[silentC]

Nope. Was built a long time before there were any druids about...

[simon c]

You sound like a fan simon

Just a fan of 80's trivia, not necessarily a fan of the trivial subjects themselves.

[HappyHammer]

Cairn T at Loughcrew

[simon c]

Nope. Was built a long time before there were any druids about...

Is the question still open or has HH got it right that it is a burial barrow in Ireland?

[HappyHammer]

Megalithic tomb, Newgrange.

Had to hunt for it, doing some reading at the moment but haven't got to the Celts yet, still on the knights templar.....

HH.

[silentC]

Yep, Newgrange it is. Went there a few years ago (not at winter solstice though).

It's more than a burial mound though. At sunrise on about 4 mornings around winter solstice the sun shines in through a slot over the front door and lights up the passage. They hold a lottery each year to see who gets to be in there when it happens. Unfortunately, Ireland being what it is, most of the time it's overcast and they wait huddled in the dark and freezing cold for nothing.

http://www.knowth.com/newgrange.htm

[HappyHammer]

OK, what is the Holy Grail, physically, there are various theories you'll have to determine which one I want.

[silentC]

It's a Monty Python movie.

No, it's a dish. I think...

[simon c]

There's the answer from Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, that I'll not say here as it will ruin the book for anybody who hasn't read it.
There's the traditional answer which is the cup that Christ drank from on the way to be crucified
There's the ancient english one which is in the movie Excaliber that the Holy Grail is actually a metaphor for the King and Kingdom

[Termite]

The goblet that JC drank from at the Last Supper.