Quiz - Wed 1st September '10

[calismum]

Anybody out there?

[angieh]

Me! Me!! Me!!!

[dandysmom]

Me too.... hi both!

[calismum]

Hi there - how are you both tonight?

[dandysmom]

Fine here! .......

[angieh]

Fine here too! How are you CM? And how are the little beauties???

[dandysmom]

I was going to ask the same....

[calismum]

Yes, I'm fine thanks.

Kittens are good too. Going to ask vet for some wormer. Breagh is not putting on the same weight as Izzi even although she is bright and lively with a huge appetite. I'd feel better just giving her another dose.

Shall we wait 5 or start?

[dandysmom]

I suspect we might as well start, as Shelley can't play tonight. It's noon on the West Coast so don't know about Ttnk ......

[angieh]

.......... I had thoughts of Gary Cooper just then ..... sad but there I go ..........................

[Shelley123]

Hello there everyone, i'm here. Chris and his mates are all fed and watered and i'm surplus to requirements ;)

[calismum]

ok,

Q1 - 32.What iconic American mode of transport was introduced to the UK in August 2009?

[angieh]

Hi Shelley - pleased you could join in!

[dandysmom]

Hi, Shelley! Glad you could come! :D Loved your pics.

[dandysmom]

Haven't a clue on that, CM ,... iconic? Wild guess: Pony Express? Stagecoach?

[Shelley123]

Hi, Shelley! Glad you could come! :D Loved your pics.

Thank you.............

[angieh]

Cable cars - surely not 2009????

[calismum]

Hi Shelley - good you could join us!

[dandysmom]

Skateboards????

[Shelley123]

Those strange boots with springy things on ???????

[dandysmom]

You mean the trainers with springs in them??

[calismum]

No - I thought this would have been a first guess!

In 2009, the Greyhound brand along with the new livery introduced out of New York was exported to the United Kingdom, to use the Greyhound nameplate for services designed to compete against its primary competitors in the British intercity bus travel market, National Express and Stagecoach's Megabus, with the first routes there operating from London to Southampton and Portsmouth.

[Shelley123]

They have a realy big thing sticking out at the bottom that allows the wearer to leap

[angieh]

I remember actually seeing that on the News - drat!

[dandysmom]

Didn't know that! I've ridden the Greyhound in my young, poorer days when the train fare was higher!

[calismum]

q2 In January 2009 which Asian city introduced a five year prison penalty for carrying a plastic shopping bag?

[dandysmom]

Another guess: Singapore? They are fussy about things like gum spitting ......

[Shelley123]

q2 In January 2009 which Asian city introduced a five year prison penalty for carrying a plastic shopping bag?

Don't know but our Tesco does the same :lol:

[angieh]

I was thinking Tokyo, but that's a guess too. (Can't spell either tonight)

[dandysmom]

LOL Here in DC we get charged a nickel a bag if we won't bring in our own reusable bags.

[Shelley123]

Beijing.............

[calismum]

Don't know but our Tesco does the same :lol:

lol..................

[Shelley123]

At Tesco you get green points if you bring your own bags

[calismum]

In January of this year, the local government in Delhi, India passed a law banning the use of plastic bags. The city had become littered with bags, which in addition to creating land waste concerns, were also clogging the sewage and water systems. Politicians decided the only way to control use of bags was to ban them completely and impose stiff fines (100,000 rupees) and/or a five-year maximum jail sentence.

[calismum]

Q3 - US Jazz guitarist Huey Long who died aged 105 was a member of which famous 1940s male vocal group?

[dandysmom]

Actually we get the nickel off the order for each bag we bring in.

[Shelley123]

In January of this year, the local government in Delhi, India passed a law banning the use of plastic bags. The city had become littered with bags, which in addition to creating land waste concerns, were also clogging the sewage and water systems. Politicians decided the only way to control use of bags was to ban them completely and impose stiff fines (100,000 rupees) and/or a five-year maximum jail sentence.

:shock: ............

[angieh]

I think a nickel is more reasonable than a 5 year prison sentence. Just think what it would cost building all those new prisons .............. !

[dandysmom]

No idea on this one too: the Ames Brothers?

[Shelley123]

Sorry can't even hazard a guess

[angieh]

I don't know ................ The Drifters?

[Shelley123]

under the board walk.........

[angieh]

down by the sea ................

[calismum]

Now - I'm beginning to panic!!!!

The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop.

[Shelley123]

on a blanket with my baby, that's where i'll be

[Shelley123]

I have heard of the ink spots CM

[angieh]

I have heard of the Ink Spots ....................

[dandysmom]

T'will be a ow scoring night! Good Qs, all. though :D

[dandysmom]

I was pretty sure it was an African American gruop, but couldn't think of the Ink Spots. Didn't they do Mood Indigo?

[calismum]

Q4 - What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?

[Shelley123]

Blue.............

[angieh]

pink/red ..................

[calismum]

I was pretty sure it was an African American gruop, but couldn't think of the Ink Spots. Didn't they do Mood Indigo?

Was that not Duke Ellington?

[dandysmom]

Red. Remembered that form ghastly Chemistry class... how I hated it!!

[dandysmom]

Was that not Duke Ellington?


May have been, I have it somewhere on one of my old CDs, too lazy to go look.....

[calismum]

litmus paper turns red under acidic conditions

[calismum]

q5 - In music, which two herbs go with 'Parsley & Sage'?

[Shelley123]

Rosemary and Thyme.........

[angieh]

Rosemary and Thyme ...................

[dandysmom]

Rosemary and thyme

[calismum]

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Remember me to one who lives there,
She once was a true love of mine.
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Without no seam nor needle work,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Tell her to find me an acre of land,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Are you going to Scarborough fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Remember me to one who lives there,
She once was a true love of mine.

[calismum]

q6 - Which land did Puff The Magic Dragon live in?

[dandysmom]

Not sure of the spelling: Honna Lee ....

[Shelley123]

Honorlee ???????????

[Shelley123]

I know little Jackie Paper loved him ;)

[angieh]

Onalee?????????

[angieh]

... and brought him string and sealing wax

[Shelley123]

and other fancy stuff

[calismum]

There are various spellings around but you all obviously knew the answer!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,
and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

[angieh]

How have we got a town in England called Ashby-de-la-Zouche????

[Shelley123]

The song gives me goosebumps

[dandysmom]

Lots of people covered that. I have it on a Peter, Paul and Mary CD .....

dragons live forever
But not so little boys

[angieh]

I fancy frolicking in the autumn mist ......... won't be long before we get mists ................

[dandysmom]

How have we got a town in England called Ashby-de-la-Zouche????

I thought it was Ashby-de-la-Zouche -by-the-sea???

[angieh]

The song gives me goosebumps

It used to give me the shivers too.

[Shelley123]

I fancy frolicking in the autumn mist ......... won't be long before we get mists ................

Oh i say Angie ;)

[calismum]

q7 - What is the correct name for a rabbit's tail

[dandysmom]

I don't even want to think of Autumn mists .....

[Shelley123]

Scut.............

[angieh]

I thought it was Ashby-de-la-Zouche -by-the-sea???

It is a LONG way from the sea Eileen. In Leicestershire.

[dandysmom]

Scut .........

[calismum]

How have we got a town in England called Ashby-de-la-Zouche????

"Ashby" is a word of Anglo-Danish origin, meaning "Ash-tree farm" or "Ash-tree settlement".[1] The Norman French addition dates from the years after the Norman conquest of England, when the town became a possession of the La Zouche family during the reign of Henry III

[dandysmom]

It is a LONG way from the sea Eileen. In Leicestershire.

:oops: My mistake; there is another one with a weird name that I'm thinking of.:oops:

[Shelley123]

"Ashby" is a word of Anglo-Danish origin, meaning "Ash-tree farm" or "Ash-tree settlement".[1] The Norman French addition dates from the years after the Norman conquest of England, when the town became a possession of the La Zouche family during the reign of Henry III

That's interesting CM

[angieh]

There - I knew you'd know CM!!! I've just found a couple of rellies who got married there in 1865!

[angieh]

I've been up the Ashby canal in a narrow boat - its very nice and rural up there.

[Shelley123]

I've been up the Ashby canal in a narrow boat - its very nice and rural up there.

Don't think i've every been Angie

[angieh]

It's a long while ago Shelley. There was a pub called The Duck and Hedgehog - we had an extremely large meal there one night!!! Good value and good food. Can't remember exactly where though ..............

[calismum]

It's a long while ago Shelley. There was a pub called The Duck and Hedgehog - we had an extremely large meal there one night!!! Good value and good food. Can't remember exactly where though ..............

I love the names of English pubs. Scottish ones tend to be much less interesting. 'The Brown Bull', 'The Oak Inn' etc.

[calismum]

There - I knew you'd know CM!!! I've just found a couple of rellies who got married there in 1865!

That was a full google!! - I had no idea.

Are you going to guess q7?

[Shelley123]

Years ago when i was a youngster going out and about at the weekend a Pub reopened in Chorley called The Swan with two necks.Apparently though the original name was The Swan with two nicks, Swans beaks were nicked to show ownership.

[angieh]

q7 - What is the correct name for a rabbit's tail

Sorry CM - missed that whilst frolicking - scutt?

[calismum]

known as a 'scut' the rabbit's tail is more than decoration! In wild rabbits the underside is pale and is used as a danger signal and for communication when several rabbits are feeding over a big area.

[angieh]

Years ago when i was a youngster going out and about at the weekend a Pub reopened in Chorley called The Swan with two necks.Apparently though the original name was The Swan with two nicks, Swans beaks were nicked to show ownership.

I thought all swans belonged to Her Maj???

[calismum]

Sorry CM - missed that whilst frolicking - scutt?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Shelley123]

I thought all swans belonged to Her Maj???

Yes your right i think they do, maybe the nicks were to show what area they came from. Will have to research it , if i remember.

[calismum]

q8 - How many teeth does an elephant have?

[Shelley123]

In the United Kingdom, swans have traditionally been the property of the reigning Monarch. However, in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I granted the right to ownership of some swans to the Worshipful Company of Vintners. In order to be able to tell which Swan belonged to whom, it was decided that Vintners' swans should have their beaks marked with two notches, or nicks. In those days, 'neck' was another form of 'nick' and so the Vintners spotted that a Swan With Two Necks could afford them a rather clever pun, and a striking pub sign.

[dandysmom]

Good heavens! No idea, will guess 32........

[Shelley123]

wild guess 25 ??????