One quiz at a time

Post by **DRT** » 15:08 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Derek seems keen to get this over.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:22 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Of course; Dow 91.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:24 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Royal Oporto 1985

I wonder how long we can guess without getting the right answer? How many combinations of shipper and vintage are there?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:25 Sat 02 Nov 2013

AHB wrote:Royal Oporto 1985

I wonder how long we can guess without getting the right answer? How many combinations of shipper and vintage are there?

Oh quite a while I think.
Real Vinicola 1975

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:28 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Hutcheson 1978

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:31 Sat 02 Nov 2013

I think it might be Sandeman 1910.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:35 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Andre; I see you are here, put Derek out of his misery or pass the loaded revolver to me and I shall do it as a kindness.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:36 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Graham 1863

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 15:38 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Owen, you can take my shot. I didn't really follow your conversation as I was busy elsewhere on TPF.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:40 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Everybody sure? No late takers?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:42 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Junco 1955

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:43 Sat 02 Nov 2013

I can hardly look into his pleading eyes.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:45 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Don't do it. Not yet. Let's have more fun with him.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:46 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Forgive me Derek but Vesuvio 94 *sobs uncontollaby and drops the smoking weapon*

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:57 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Vesuvio 1994 might not be right...I guess Real Vinicola 1985

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:59 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Feuerheerd 1966

Post by **DRT** » 16:12 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Forgive me Derek but Vesuvio 94 *sobs uncontollaby and drops the smoking weapon*

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Owen's turn!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 17:37 Sat 02 Nov 2013

I hated to see him suffer.

A simple one; my nom de plume on this forum is LGTrotter; what do the initials LG stand for? I will award extra points if you know the two reasons he didn't want a knighthood, but these are not a requirement.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:47 Sat 02 Nov 2013

The [url=http://mysite.verizon.net/exdejesus/jeeves/]Encyclopedia Jeevesiana[/url] wrote:Trotter, L.G. (Lemuel Gengulphus) (JAFS)
Husband of Mrs. Trotter.
Step-father of Percy Gorringe.
Owner of chain of newspapers. Aunt Dahlia wants to sell Milady's Boudoir to Trotter.
Refused a knighthood.
Employer of Worple.
Residence: Liverpool
Identifying characteristics: Face like a weasel, poor digestion, teetotaler.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:50 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Wikipedia wrote:... the frightful prospect of being called by the abhorrent name "Sir Lemuel" for the rest of his life if his wife managed to get him knighted.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 17:54 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Correct; Daniel's go.

(He did not want a knighthood because he did not want to be known as Sir Lemuel or Sir Gengolfus. Also he was worried by the prospect of having to walk backwards with a sword between his legs wearing satin knee breeches). Love Wodehouse me.

I see you have won one of the two extra points available Daniel.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 18:01 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Correct; Daniel's go

Now where is my unpublished manuscript on althusserian aesthetics...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:04 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Also he was worried by the prospect of having to walk backwards with a sword between his legs wearing satin knee breeches

A pertinent concern even now.

No need for any knowledge of French Marxists who strangled their wives. Instead, back to family history for an easy question. My great-grandfather has visited this quiz before. Name the Nazi whose prosecution he led.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 18:16 Sat 02 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:No need for any knowledge of French Marxists who strangled their wives.

I suppose that divorce was costlier and less certain in those days, but really...

Mengele (no google)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:19 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:No need for any knowledge of French Marxists who strangled their wives.
I suppose that divorce was costlier and less certain in those days, but really...

He was terribly sorry about it afterwards.

LGTrotter wrote:Mengele (no google)

Not Mengele. Google may not be much help here, even if you knew my great-grandfather's name (which, before you go searching, has not been revealed here).

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 18:39 Sat 02 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:He was terribly sorry about it afterwards.

Oh well that's all right then. Glad to see his temporary amnesia abated in time for his autobiography.

Post by **DRT** » 18:46 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Amon Goeth?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:00 Sat 02 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:Amon Goeth?

Never heard of him, he sounds like a Prog Rock band from DÃ¼sseldorf.

Post by **DRT** » 19:08 Sat 02 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Amon Goeth?
Never heard of him

If you have seen Schindler's List you are familiar with his work.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:12 Sat 02 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Amon Goeth?
Never heard of him
If you have seen Schindler's List you are familiar with his work.

Oh, Ralph Fiennes. Ugh. No.

Post by **DRT** » 19:16 Sat 02 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Ugh.

Is that an grading of his Naziness? I've never considered that they had a scale.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:19 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Just had a look at the list, it's really long. Let's start with Nuremburg (although I suspect it may not be the right one)

Julius Streicher.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:20 Sat 02 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Ugh.
Is that an grading of his Naziness? I've never considered that they had a scale.

No, just a reflex response to the character as portrayed in the film.. Ralph Fiennes can do unempathable pretty well.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:22 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Just had a look at the list, it's really long. Let's start with Nuremburg (although I suspect it may not be the right one)

Julius Streicher.

No.
I will provide clues if necessary.. though it's hard to do so without giving it away. But there have been suggestions (I think from the Americans) that the prosecution was not well executed.

EDIT: on reflection, perhaps I should say, 'not very good'.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:30 Sat 02 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:unempathable

Now this is surely made up. And clumsy. How unlike you. (I don't mean making it up,being clumsy)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:31 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:unempathable
Now this is surely made up. And clumsy. How unlike you. (I don't mean making it up,being clumsy)

I quite liked it...

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:38 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Your great-grandfather was British, not American?
I just ask because except for the main trial most judges were American.

Post by **DRT** » 19:41 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:(I don't mean making it up,being clumsy)

Oh dear.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:43 Sat 02 Nov 2013

AW77 wrote:Your great-grandfather was British, not American?
I just ask because except for the main trial most judges were American.

He was not a judge, he was a prosecutor. In fact the judges, and all the legal teams, at Nuremberg were from all four Allied powers. He was working with David Maxwell-Fyfe, under the leadership of Hartley Shawcross. He did not have a double-barrelled name, though he did have a middle name which was almost always used in talking about him. He also had a nickname, which he gained in the First World War, and which was used very broadly by family and professional acquaintances alike. The nickname had some relationship to WW1 uniforms.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:50 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Can someone give a name so I can continue working through this list.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:53 Sat 02 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:(I don't mean making it up,being clumsy)
Oh dear.

He was making it up. But I apologise if I have transgressed some rule, like bandying a woman's name.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:54 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Have you bandied a woman's name?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:08 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Not here; I was using the expression metaphorically.

Post by **DRT** » 20:29 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:(I don't mean making it up,being clumsy)
Oh dear.
He was making it up. But I apologise if I have transgressed some rule, like bandying a woman's name.

I was focusing on the irony of you being clumsy with your typing whilst accusing Daniel of being clumsy.

Post by **DRT** » 20:29 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Is anyone ever going to name another Nazi?

Post by **DRT** » 20:32 Sat 02 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:Is anyone ever going to name another Nazi?

LGTrotter wrote:Julius Streicher.

Thank you.

Joseph Goebbels?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:33 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Phew. I was just eating dinner with the sombre thought that I may have overstepped the mark on this very kindly forum and composing in my head some contrite response.

Do we have another name yet in this very jolly game of 'guess the nazi' yet?

Oh I see Derek has; then Albert Speer.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:33 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Not Goebbels.

Post by **DRT** » 20:36 Sat 02 Nov 2013

Hermann GÃ¶ring?

Post by **DRT** » 20:37 Sat 02 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:this very jolly game of 'guess the nazi'

Best laugh I've had on a Saturday night for years