One quiz at a time

[DRT]

How many books do I now have in my Port & Wine library?

[jdaw1]

Reminder:

Using the date of first publication, what is the average age (rounded up to the nearest year) of the books that I have in my collection of books about Port and wine?

The publishing dates of my 41 port or wine related books are:

a re-count is required. I just found two more books that were not included in my initial calculation.

Glenn's answer is wrong, principally as a result of my incorrect clue. Sorry.

I now think the 1530 printed on the front of the tank relates to the length rather than volume. The tank is 5' x 2 ' x 1.5' - 2' being the vertical depth.

New rule: DRT is not allowed to ask numerical questions.

[DRT]

Time has moved on. All that you know for sure is that 43 is the minimum answer.

I promise not to give any answers until I have counted them

[Glenn E.]

Fitty, yo!

[RonnieRoots]

46

[DRT]

How many times will the word "dry" appear in this thread and the TN's it links to by midnight on 14th September.

Don't cheat.

[AHB]

How many times will the word "dry" appear in this thread and the TN's it links to by midnight on 14th September.

Don't cheat.

1,037 times if you include all of my posts by the time I have finished.

[DRT]

The correct answer is 1,037.

AHB wins a pipe of Dow 1896 (en Magnum). His prize will be delivered the next time a pipe of Dow 1896 (en Magnum) appears on the market.

[AHB]

AHB wins a pipe of Dow 1896 (en Magnum). His prize will be delivered the next time a pipe of Dow 1896 (en Magnum) appears on the market.

Excellent. I shall clear space next to my existing pipe of Dow 1896 in half bottle format so as to make it as convenient as possible to compare the effect of different bottle sizes on the aging of port. All I need now is to win a pipe of Dow 1896 in bottle format and I will have the set.

[jdaw1]

I am assembling the Niepoort chapter of The Book. Currently I am adding a bit of last-moment data, which comes from a source that will be quoted many times: many shippers, many vintages.

Which source?

DRT: you can’t play this question.

[JacobH]

I am assembling the Niepoort chapter of The Book. Currently I am adding a bit of last-moment data, which comes from a source that will be quoted many times: many shippers, many vintages.

Which source?

I think we need a bit of a clue! Is the source a document, set of documents, person (be that an individual or legal) or other?

[jdaw1]

which comes from a source that will be quoted many times: many shippers, many vintages.

I think that’s enough of a clue to start.

[JacobH]

The IVDP.

[jdaw1]

Very fair guess, but the actual corporate author will be quoted many more times than the IVDP.

No.

[smisse]

Herbert Warner Allen

[jdaw1]

Herbert Warner Allen

Another splendid guess, but slightly conflicting with a clue in the previous answer:

the actual corporate author

So no.

[Cookie]

Richard Mayson

[jdaw1]

Richard Mayson

No, for the same reason. He is an author, but not a corporate author.

[Cookie]

Cynthia Jenson?

[jdaw1]

You guessed twice in a row! Somebody else has to guess (or a new question start) before you can guess again.

[Glenn E.]

Okay, I'll guess Cynthia Jenson for him.

Coincidentally, this is TPF's 42,000th post.

[jdaw1]

Okay, I'll guess Cynthia Jenson for him.

but not a corporate author.

No. Pay attention!

[Glenn E.]

Okay, I'll guess Cynthia Jenson for him.

but not a corporate author.

No. Pay attention!

Then I am afraid that I do not understand what you mean by a corporate author. Cynthia is the official blogger for Graham's. She writes for a corporation, therefore she is a corporate author.

No?

[jdaw1]

Well, if you had said “Grahams’s”, or “Symington Family Estates”, that would indeed be a corporate author. But you named a living-flesh person—in legal parlance a natural person—who cannot be that.

And no, not SFE or any of its brands. That would be barking up the wrong tree.

[AHB]

Am I allowed to guess?