One quiz at a time

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 16:02 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Bond st.

what do you do again DrT?

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:33 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Park Lane?

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 16:35 Mon 10 Aug 2009

euston road?

Post by **DRT** » 16:56 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Bond Street, Park Lane and Euston Road are all incorrect. (Does Euston Road actually appear on the board?)

g-man wrote:what do you do again DrT?

Drink port.

Guess (which may or may not be helpful): The answer is part of the same set as one of the previous guesses.

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:58 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Oxford Street?

Post by **DRT** » 17:08 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Not Oxford Street.

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 17:18 Mon 10 Aug 2009

electric compnay

Post by **jdaw1** » 18:47 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Trafalgar Square?

Post by **DRT** » 21:02 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Not Electric Company or Trafalgar Square.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 21:57 Mon 10 Aug 2009

Leicester Square

Post by **DRT** » 23:00 Mon 10 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:Leicester Square

Nope.

Post by **jdaw1** » 07:29 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Marylebone Street Station?

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 08:10 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Coventry Street (2 - Ipswich Town 1)

Post by **jdaw1** » 08:20 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Kings Cross Station? (And I just remembered this.)

Post by **DRT** » 09:55 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Not, Marleybone Street Station, Coventry Street or Kings Cross Station.

Clue: the answer is the only property from its set that has yet to be mentioned.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 10:21 Tue 11 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:Not, Marleybone Street Station, Coventry Street or Kings Cross Station.

Clue: the answer is the only property from its set that has yet to be mentioned.

The Strand

Post by **DRT** » 14:44 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Not Strand.

...and definitely not "The Strand"

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PS: JDAW - you have repeated the same common error on your site. You may wish to fix.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:19 Tue 11 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:JDAW - you have repeated the same common error on your site. You may wish to fix.

After I have checked with my old Monopoly board, and repaired my computer.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:22 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Fenchurch Street Station?

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 22:33 Tue 11 Aug 2009

Jail!

Post by **DRT** » 23:20 Tue 11 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:Fenchurch Street Station?

You owe my £100 rent!

JDAW's up.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 07:31 Wed 12 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:Not Strand.

...and definitely not "The Strand"

uk-monopoly.jpg

Don't you do the Strand?

Post by **DRT** » 07:42 Wed 12 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:
DRT wrote:Not Strand.

...and definitely not "The Strand"

uk-monopoly.jpg

Don't you do the Strand?

Is it the same as doing the Timewarp?

Post by **jdaw1** » 10:59 Wed 12 Aug 2009

I do not live in Coppell, Texas. So what?

(There is little need of guessing. If you deduce why, you will know that you are correct.)

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 11:31 Wed 12 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:
KillerB wrote:
DRT wrote:Not Strand.

...and definitely not "The Strand"

uk-monopoly.jpg

Don't you do the Strand?
Is it the same as doing the Timewarp?

Do The Strand

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 11:51 Wed 12 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:I do not live in Coppell, Texas. So what?

(There is little need of guessing. If you deduce why, you will know that you are correct.)

http://texaswiseman.com/

I always knew it.

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 12:31 Wed 12 Aug 2009

Thanks for that KillerB. I've just learned an incredible amount of trivia I didn't want to know, about a Wiseman family, that looks a bit too happy and joyful to my liking. They've even been in the Netherlands. Yikes.

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:10 Wed 12 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:http://texaswiseman.com/

I always knew it.

There are Wisemans in many towns - not particularly that one. So no.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 15:19 Wed 12 Aug 2009

RonnieRoots wrote:Thanks for that KillerB. I've just learned an incredible amount of trivia I didn't want to know, about a Wiseman family, that looks a bit too happy and joyful to my liking. They've even been in the Netherlands. Yikes.

That's religion for you.

PedantSpice wrote:There are Wisemans in many towns - not particularly that one. So no.

Oh you're no fun.

Post by **DRT** » 21:39 Wed 12 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:I do not live in Coppell, Texas. So what?

(There is little need of guessing. If you deduce why, you will know that you are correct.)

You do not live in Coppell, Texas because you live in Paris, France.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:11 Wed 12 Aug 2009

DRT wrote:You do not live in Coppell, Texas because you live in Paris, France.

Even if that guess was meant seriously, it is manifestly insufficient.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 09:46 Fri 14 Aug 2009

Julian, we are patently clueless. Could you remedy this situation please? You know, with a clue.

Post by **jdaw1** » 06:51 Sat 15 Aug 2009

Whilst the "so what" applies to most of Coppell, it does not apply to all of it. Nor does it apply to anywhere else in the USA.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 14:19 Sat 15 Aug 2009

Coppell has a new Sprouts store - nobody else has, cares nor even knows what one is.

Coppell also has streetlight out and this is front-page news.

Coppell was the only American town named after a Manchester United playing Scouser but this is soon to be matched by Rooney, OH, a proposed new town near Akron.

Coppell is also intrinsic to seaside British humour with the punch-line of "Coppell oad a that".

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:48 Sat 15 Aug 2009

You must wait for somebody else to guess between guesses, so I can only answer the first of those: no.

It relates to my move to Paris, close to Place des FÃªtes.

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 16:00 Sat 15 Aug 2009

Paris, je t'aime ... as quoted by Mr. Wiseman

Post by **jdaw1** » 07:23 Sun 16 Aug 2009

Extra clue: my new address is in the XIXème arrondissement.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 11:10 Sun 16 Aug 2009

I have an answer but not sure if g-man's reply counts. It is an answer that I thought was even more 'so what' than the Sprouts store, which given the extra clues looks more and more likely, except the bit about the rest of America - don't get that bit.

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 14:43 Sun 16 Aug 2009

KillerB wrote:I have an answer but not sure if g-man's reply counts. It is an answer that I thought was even more 'so what' than the Sprouts store, which given the extra clues looks more and more likely, except the bit about the rest of America - don't get that bit.

heh I guess my answer was incorrect. You should be able to guess =)

Judge's ruling?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:23 Sun 16 Aug 2009

Let’s say that g-man did guess, and was wrong.

jdaw1 wrote:Whilst the "so what" applies to most of Coppell, it does not apply to all of it. Nor does it apply to anywhere else in the USA.

It really applies to nowhere else in the USA. If there are other countries containing a location to which it applies, I know not of them.

There might be one in Algeria, Brazil, Croatia, in the PÅ™erov District in the Olomouc region of the Czech Republic, in or near Nurmes or Valtimo in Finland, in Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg in Germany, maybe in mid-southern Israel, in Iraq, not quite in Crete, maybe Lithuania, perhaps in Puebla in Mexico, maybe in Serbia, maybe Poland. Or maybe nowhere else though the countries in this list do have something relevant in common.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:35 Sun 16 Aug 2009

Entirely useless, you lot. There is a two-word British-English clue that would reveal the answer. I shall take the first letter of this and each subsequent post as a bonus guess of a letter in the two-word clue. That should get us there quickly.

That clue is now ‟???? ???E”.

Post by **jdaw1** » 07:21 Mon 17 Aug 2009

OK, that clue is now ‟?O?? ?O?E”.

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 15:16 Mon 17 Aug 2009

jdaw1 wrote:OK, that clue is now ‟?O?? ?O?E”.

port hole?

Post by **DRT** » 20:50 Mon 17 Aug 2009

Post code (zip code for Americans) is the clue. Jdaw lives in the 19th district of Paris. Part of Coppell is the 19th district in Texas. Or something else to do with the zip code 75019.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:52 Mon 17 Aug 2009

Yeah! My post code is 75019, which, when attempting to persuade Americans that I have moved, causes some of them, or some of their computers, to insist that I live in Coppell, Texas. Which I don’t.

DRT is up.

Post by **DRT** » 21:44 Mon 17 Aug 2009

To the best of my knowledge my Grandparents produced 15 offspring. I have 23 first cousins, most of whom are older than I am and most of whom have children and grandchildren of there own. Around 70% of my direct relations are on my fathers side.

Excluding my father and I, how many decendents of my paternal grandfather share my surname?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:06 Mon 17 Aug 2009

All 15 offspring of your grandparents started out with your surname, but any women likely changed their names once married. Let's say 7 uncles. Of your 23 first cousins, roughly half were born to aunts, and roughly half of the remainder were women who likely changed their names once married. So let's say 6 more.

Those 6 male first cousins, most of whom have children and grandchildren of their own, likely account for 6 nephews. Once again the women are likely married. All of children of those 6 nephews are likely unmarried, however, and could account for an additional 12 Turnbulls.

7+6+6+12=31.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:13 Mon 17 Aug 2009

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 22:17 Mon 17 Aug 2009

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:18 Mon 17 Aug 2009