One quiz at a time

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 11:48 Sun 06 Oct 2013

A wonderful story and a very full and varied life.. Strange, and gratifying, it must indeed have been to discover that his achievements were studied by young historians. I hope this is still the case!

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:03 Sun 06 Oct 2013

Splendid which major mosque?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:36 Sun 06 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Splendid which major mosque?

I forget. As and when I remember to do so, I'll get the book he wrote of his life story out and try to find the name. I believe that it was in Persia.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:37 Sun 06 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:I am not likely to be available to respond to guesses for the next couple of days so I forfeit my turn to ask the next question. First one to post a question takes my turn.

What the blazes? (This is a rhetorical device rather than a question).

We had a system and it seemed to work, now we are off on some fresh madness. That way lies anarchy, I think we should all wait patiently until DRT is back.

I've got these coloured pens to organise into some kind of coherent taxonomy.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:12 Sun 06 Oct 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I've got these coloured pens to organise into some kind of coherent taxonomy.

Richard of York gave battle in vein. That is the only coherent taxonomy for coloured pens. Please don't start getting experimental.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:38 Sun 06 Oct 2013

As with your critique of Kubrick's ouvre, so with the arrangments of coloured pens. The Richard of York gave battle in vien (sic) gives no thought to magenta, and what of those browns and ochres?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:21 Sun 06 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Richard of York gave battle in vein.

LGTrotter wrote:Richard of York gave battle in vien (sic)

Non sic erat scriptum! I wrote vein, I meant vain, an honest if inexcusable error, but you wrote vien. I ask you, also, what is an 'arrangment'?

LGTrotter wrote:no thought to magenta, and what of those browns and ochres?

Magenta so obviously goes in between Vein and Richard. This is an infinite circle. As for your browns and ochres, they go in a separate tray to one side, with your blacks, whites, and your 24 greys.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:56 Sun 06 Oct 2013

OK, busted, my spelling and grammar should not allow me to be sniffy about that of others. But I find it almost irresistable at times, indulge me.

And then you bring on the idea that I can go in a perpetual loop with colours, but the greys whites and black in a seperate tray. I have always assumed that I should start at one end and finish at the other.
I shall consider this carefully over a glass and 'Millers Crossing' which is one of my favourites (and starting shortly). What would that wind blown hat tell me about the arrangment of pens?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:58 Sun 06 Oct 2013

LGTrotter wrote:What would that wind blown hat tell me about the arrangment of pens?

Is this the new question? (Even if slightly misspelt.)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:05 Sun 06 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:What would that wind blown hat tell me about the arrangment of pens?
Is this the new question? (Even if slightly misspelt.)

Yes. And the arrangment (sic) is integral.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:19 Sun 06 Oct 2013

I did it again!

Arrangement
Arrangement
Arrangement

I think that the question of the hat is one which has troubled the critical world for too long for me to come up with an answer as to what it means for the ARRANGEMENT of pens. It would be open to too much debate.

If anybody knows the answer as to whether Albert Finney is really wearing a rug in this movie that could be a question. Daniel?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:21 Mon 07 Oct 2013

Sorry, had to go and watch Citizen Kane again. "47,000 acres of scenery and statues - I'm lonesome!"

Yes I believe it's a rug. Finney was in one of the worst film adaptations I ever saw, can anyone guess what it was?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:36 Mon 07 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Sorry, had to go and watch Citizen Kane again. "47,000 acres of scenery and statues - I'm lonesome!"

Yes I believe it's a rug. Finney was in one of the worst film adaptations I ever saw, can anyone guess what it was?

At last a quiz.

Erm...

Flying without google.. sons and lovers

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:39 Mon 07 Oct 2013

No it's the other one, not allowed to guess though.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:46 Mon 07 Oct 2013

LGTrotter wrote:sons and lovers

Nope

Post by **DRT** » 00:28 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Murder on the Orient Express.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 07:28 Thu 10 Oct 2013

We're back. Nope.

Post by **jdaw1** » 07:48 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Under the Volcano?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 07:54 Thu 10 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Under the Volcano?

An excellent guess and correct too. Yes, Finney plays a stage drunk; the paranoia, doom and foreboding that Malcolm Lowry so carefully crafted are entirely dispensed with. Execrable.
Julian's turn.

Post by **jdaw1** » 08:09 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Under the Volcano?
An excellent guess and correct too. Yes, Finney plays a stage drunk; the paranoia, doom and foreboding that Malcolm Lowry so carefully crafted is entirely dispensed with. Execrable.
Julian's turn.

Semi-randomly picked out of Wikipedia.

This weekend, Friday 11^th and Saturday 12^th October, I’ve been invited to a 1963 Horizontal, featuring almost all of the shippers. What will be my wine of the weekend?

No answers until after the event.

Edit: that’s unclear. You lot answer now. No marking correct until after the event.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 08:19 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Thanks for the clarification. I would say WOTW will be the SW63 that I will be opening on Friday evening.

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 17:54 Thu 10 Oct 2013

I believe that your WOTW will be the Fonseca 63

Post by **DRT** » 17:57 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Graham 63

Post by **jdaw1** » 18:06 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:WOTW will be the SW63 that I will be opening on Friday evening.

Unlikely.

RAYC wrote:I believe that your WOTW will be the Fonseca 63

Maybe. Maybe not. Actually and this isn’t much of a clue probably not.

DRT wrote:Graham 63

Maybe. Maybe not. Actually and, again, this isn’t much of a clue probably not.

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 19:16 Thu 10 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:WOTW will be the SW63 that I will be opening on Friday evening.
Unlikely.
RAYC wrote:I believe that your WOTW will be the Fonseca 63
Maybe. Maybe not. Actually and this isn’t much of a clue probably not.
DRT wrote:Graham 63
Maybe. Maybe not. Actually and, again, this isn’t much of a clue probably not.

"Probably not" because it's a port not a wine? Because Nacional is in attendance? Or because with so many ports, the probability of any single one of them being WOTW is below 50% at this stage?

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:26 Thu 10 Oct 2013

RAYC wrote:Or because with so many ports, the probability of any single one of them being WOTW is below 50% at this stage?

Quite. Hence ‟this isn’t much of a clue”.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:29 Thu 10 Oct 2013

RAYC wrote:so many ports

and yet, nonetheless, not an exhaustive list...

Post by **DRT** » 20:04 Thu 10 Oct 2013

There are three people guessing. We have had one guess each. I was third. Does anyone see the problem?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:06 Thu 10 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:There are three people guessing. We have had one guess each. I was third. Does anyone see the problem?

Do you mean that I have to guess again, or that we can't keep guessing until Julian says no? Julian said he can't say no until after the event. I'll guess again.
Cálem, because the accent gives you such joy.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:09 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Cálem, because the accent gives you such joy.

The accent gives joy, perhaps the Port might.

Post by **DRT** » 20:11 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:There are three people guessing. We have had one guess each. I was third. Does anyone see the problem?
Do you mean that I have to guess again, or that we can't keep guessing until Julian says no? Julian said he can't say no until after the event.

There is no rule that says you can't have multiple guesses before each is answered.

Croft.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:14 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Niepoort, of course!

Post by **DRT** » 20:14 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Noval Nacional

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:53 Thu 10 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:There is no rule that says you can't have multiple guesses before each is answered.

E.g.

Post by **DRT** » 20:59 Thu 10 Oct 2013

{tapping fingers on desk wondering when someone in Belfast will pay attention}

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:09 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Ahem. Sorry. Eating shepherd's pie...

Erm.. Constantino! (Probably a fake)

Post by **DRT** » 21:12 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Croft.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:14 Thu 10 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Croft.

Is there something I'm missing...?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:14 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Croft.
Is there something I'm missing...?

Yes. And yet, no.
Croft.

Post by **DRT** » 21:17 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Croft.
Is there something I'm missing...?
Yes. And yet, no.
Croft.

You are missing lots. You keep forgetting the rules and now you have guessed what I guessed even though you quoted my guess in your guess.

Exactly how big is that Shepherd's Pie?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:18 Thu 10 Oct 2013

But you already guessed Croft.
About average shepherd size.
Who's turn is it?

EDIT: WHOSE!!!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:19 Thu 10 Oct 2013

I mean, you said 'Croft' twice.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:19 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Maybe it's a shepherd's croft.

Post by **DRT** » 21:19 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Mine (because you wasted yours).

Taylor.

Post by **DRT** » 21:20 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:I mean, you said 'Croft' twice.

Ah.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:21 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Maybe the Borges will be a surprise?

Post by **DRT** » 21:24 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Croft.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:24 Thu 10 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Maybe the Borges will be a surprise?

That would be a surprise, especially given the BI63 already tasted at TPF events this weekend’s coming from the same batch.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:26 Thu 10 Oct 2013

Vieira da Souza.. An old house, now revived..

Post by **DRT** » 21:26 Thu 10 Oct 2013