One quiz at a time

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:54 Thu 20 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:It was at Ocado.com, but in clicking on the same link today their price is now just £3.57 for a 12-pack. I wonder what I was looking at yesterday?

72?
Ooops - wrong direction, but you have now established the limiting factor. That price is more like it.

KillerB wrote:Not 60 but the limiting factor is now in place and not 71 as that is not bound by it.

I must not be understanding what you mean by the limiting factor, then.

However, that does present one more interesting possibility... perhaps the limiting factor is the low end. So lets try 6 pouches per day per cat, minus one meal on Sunday. That'd be 80 pouches.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 22:13 Thu 20 Aug 2009

All of the last few guesses have been too high.

A previous guess of two possibles was said to be close, the wrong one was chosen, apart from once. The 'moving further away' was misleading (sorry), it was moving further away from the last closest guess, not all the rubbishly high ones. My cats are of large breeds but one is old and the other is a girl, so they are not gluttons.

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 22:18 Thu 20 Aug 2009

Post by **DRT** » 22:44 Thu 20 Aug 2009

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:54 Thu 20 Aug 2009

Ah, okay.

Well then I suspect that Derek has nailed it, but just in case I'll take 47.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 23:06 Thu 20 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:48

Correct, Columbo eats the standard 3 per day, as he's getting on a bit, actually it maybe a little less now. Maya eats 4 per day, actually it maybe a little more now, giving a total of 7 per day. 7 * 7 is 49, but they come in boxes of 12, which I buy four of per week = 48. Sunday is when I do the shopping and that's when Maya gets a little insistent that I go out and do it as she's noticed the reduced amount on a Sunday morning. She's currently looking sated but I can't find Columbo; not sure when I last put food down.

Derek's on.

Post by **DRT** » 11:08 Fri 21 Aug 2009

Name my favourite port.

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:18 Fri 21 Aug 2009

(That you have tasted?)

Fonseca 1966?

Post by **DRT** » 12:15 Fri 21 Aug 2009

Correct - objective acheived - I couldn't think of a decent question and I knew I could rely on the Honourable Member from Paris to know the answer.

JDAW's up.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:10 Fri 21 Aug 2009

What task do I want to do next? (This excludes any necessary spells of child-minding.)

Clue: I am in England.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 14:13 Fri 21 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:What task do I want to do next? (This excludes any necessary spells of child-minding.)

Clue: I am in England.

Have a glass of Port.

Derek's question too easy.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:36 Fri 21 Aug 2009

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 16:20 Fri 21 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:No.

I think you should go away into a dark corner and think about what you've just said and where you said it. When you've learned the error of your ways you can come back and apologise to everybody individually. Now off you go.

Post by **DRT** » 16:55 Fri 21 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:Derek's question too easy.

Intentionally so.

jdaw1 wrote:What task do I want to do next? (This excludes any necessary spells of child-minding.)

Clue: I am in England.

Drink beer?

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 19:45 Fri 21 Aug 2009

Have a bottle of port?

Post by **jdaw1** » 08:49 Sat 22 Aug 2009

I apologise unreservedly, completely, and from the bottom of my heart for having a port-related task to do before drinking a glass of port. (That was a clue.)

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:10 Sat 22 Aug 2009

There is another clue available, but not in this thread.

Post by **DRT** » 17:13 Sat 22 Aug 2009

Collect a case of Dow 1970?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 17:23 Sat 22 Aug 2009

Decant a bottle of Dow 1970?

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 19:52 Sat 22 Aug 2009

Tong a bottle of dow 1970?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:59 Sat 22 Aug 2009

You found the thread, but the task involved more than ‘just’ the D70.

Post by **DRT** » 22:26 Sat 22 Aug 2009

Go to Bonham's - collect various cases and bottles of port - take to father's cellar?

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 22:48 Sat 22 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:Go to Bonham's - collect various cases and bottles of port - take to father's cellar?

and then open one to share with said father.

Post by **jdaw1** » 10:01 Sun 23 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:Go to Bonham's - collect various cases and bottles of port - take to father's cellar?

Close, but not close enough.

E.g., Bonhams (no apostrophe!) delivered.

Post by **DRT** » 08:06 Wed 26 Aug 2009

Go to father's house to tidy up recent deliveries to his cellar, open a nice bottle of port to share with father and thereby earn sufficient brownie points to allow continued use of cellar with minimum of complaining?

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:11 Wed 26 Aug 2009

Correct. DRT is up.

DRT’s question is as follows (we have discussed it).

In 1907 Berry Bros’ catalogues had port near the front. Some time in the twentieth century this format was reversed, port going to the back. What was the date of the first port-at-back catalogue, to within Â±3 months?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 16:33 Fri 28 Aug 2009

September 1947 - when the 1945 wines were first released

Post by **DRT** » 21:43 Fri 28 Aug 2009

AHB wrote:September 1947 - when the 1945 wines were first released

No.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:49 Fri 28 Aug 2009

Really tough question... Google isn't even helpful. So without clues (higher/lower) I'd just be pissing in the wind.

Post by **DRT** » 06:07 Sat 29 Aug 2009

OK - AHBs guess is too far in the past.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 06:47 Sat 29 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:OK - AHBs guess is too far in the past.

Really? Interesting.

It may not be relevant, but I'll go with the release of the 1975 Ports - September 1977.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 08:07 Sat 29 Aug 2009

Glenn E. wrote:
DRT wrote:OK - AHBs guess is too far in the past.
Really? Interesting.

It may not be relevant, but I'll go with the release of the 1975 Ports - September 1977.

For no reason at all I'm going to quote The Four Seasons: December '63

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:45 Sat 29 Aug 2009

January 1970

Post by **DRT** » 14:41 Sun 30 Aug 2009

Not 63, 70 or 77. It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 00:19 Mon 31 Aug 2009

September '68?

Post by **jdaw1** » 07:36 Mon 31 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.

Glenn E. wrote:September '68?

Â¿!?

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 09:58 Mon 31 Aug 2009

October 1955

Post by **DRT** » 14:25 Mon 31 Aug 2009

Not 1955 an, unsurprisingly, not 1968.

This happened within the lifetime of almost everyone who frequents this place.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 18:29 Mon 31 Aug 2009

Even Jacob? October 1994

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 18:45 Mon 31 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.
Glenn E. wrote:September '68?
Â¿!?

September 1968 would have been the English release of the generally declared 1966 vintage, would it not?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 18:46 Mon 31 Aug 2009

September 1996?

Post by **DRT** » 19:05 Mon 31 Aug 2009

Glenn E. wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.
Glenn E. wrote:September '68?
Â¿!?
September 1968 would have been the English release of the generally declared 1966 vintage, would it not?

But that doesn't change the fact that a catalogue from 1968 is not from what is recognised as a declared vintage

Post by **DRT** » 19:07 Mon 31 Aug 2009

Glenn E. wrote:September 1996?

At last I can say "too young!"

(and you seem to be missing the point of the clue about the catalogue being from a declared vintage

)

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 19:07 Mon 31 Aug 2009

September 1985

Post by **DRT** » 19:09 Mon 31 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:Even Jacob? October 1994

Too young. Jacob is one of the reasons why the word "almost" appears in the clue - although I have to admit that I do not know when Jacob was born.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:24 Mon 31 Aug 2009

January 1975

Post by **DRT** » 21:40 Mon 31 Aug 2009

RonnieRoots wrote:September 1985

Too young.

AHB wrote:January 1975

Too old.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 21:43 Mon 31 Aug 2009

July 1980

Post by **DRT** » 21:45 Mon 31 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:July 1980

Too old, but correct month.