One quiz at a time

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A meat cleaver?
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flash_uk wrote: 15:09 Wed 01 Nov 2017 A meat cleaver?
No, but something in that region. A much more specialised gadget.
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A marrow spoon.
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AHB wrote: 23:14 Thu 02 Nov 2017A marrow spoon.
Not a marrow spoon.
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Hint:
The gadget relates to a crustacian and to the french revolution.
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The correct answer is of course a Lobster Guillotine.
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Well I wouldn't have guessed that!
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AHB wrote: 20:28 Thu 16 Nov 2017 Well I wouldn't have guessed that!
Ah, but given the clues, you must admit it is guessable.
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I know we essentially let this thread die, but a quiz question occurred to me today which I couldn't resist asking, especially for the mathematicians amongst us.

A simple question. What is the next number in this series, and why?
88, 92, 95, 97, 99, 102, 107...
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42
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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I'll give a clue. The next number is 111.

Any ideas why?
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Are these the bottle/Selo numbers on a case of Port you own?
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Is it number of years since general declarations working backwards from 1931?

i.e.
1931 = 88 (years ago)
1927 = 92,
1924 = 95,
1922 = 97,
1920 = 99,
1917 = 102,
1912 = 107...

Next three in sequence would presumably be
1908 = 111,
1904 = 115,
1900 = 119
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If Phil is wrong, that's an astounding coincidence.
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Glenn E. wrote: 02:12 Thu 04 Jul 2019 If Phil is wrong, that's an astounding coincidence.
If those numbers don't relate to those years I would agree; though the reason itself might not be quite right - rather than general declaration years, it might relate to a specific producer, or to a specific tasting that Alex has/will attend this year, for example.
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Phil’s not wrong. I was looking at the general declaration vintages as they approached their centenary and that gave me the sequence.

Doff hat to Phil for getting it.
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What obscure 2011 Port am I now drinking?
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jdaw1 wrote:What obscure 2011 Port am I now drinking?
Messias
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Andy Velebil wrote: 01:00 Fri 13 Mar 2020
jdaw1 wrote:What obscure 2011 Port am I now drinking?
Messias
Maybe one could argue that Messias is obscure. Maybe. It doesn’t have a chapter in the book, which could be part of a definition.

But no, not Messias.
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Alves de Sousa
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flash_uk wrote: 01:03 Fri 13 Mar 2020Alves de Sousa
Properly obscure. Good guess. Wrong, but nonetheless a good guess.
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Romariz
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Andy Velebil wrote: 01:14 Fri 13 Mar 2020Romariz
No.
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Quinta d. Popa?
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Andy Velebil wrote: 01:21 Fri 13 Mar 2020Quinta d. Popa?
Naughty. You aren’t allowed two consecutive guesses. That isn’t the game. You can’t guess yet.

Maybe I could give the clue that if somebody else had guessed this, it would have been wrong. But you can’t guess.
jdaw1 wrote: 01:57 Wed 08 Apr 2009{If you get it right, you then have to pose an equally useless but guessable question. If you guess wrong, you can’t guess again until somebody else has had a guess, or until a new question is posed (which would happen because a previous guess is marked ‘correct’).}
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