One quiz at a time

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:09 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Hang on a minute isn't London Bridge in America somewhere, or at least it's double?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:11 Thu 14 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote: it's double?

Got you.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:12 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Anyway yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu_City,_Arizona

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:14 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Speaking of Derek, I am intrigued;

DRT wrote:Random fact: the first time I ate courgettes was in Kirkcudbright whilst selling a horse.

Do you mean to say that you bought, owned and sold a horse before you had a courgette? Merely a lapse or did you start your horse career young? Perhaps you are violently opposed to them and did it to clinch the deal.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:16 Thu 14 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Speaking of Derek, I am intrigued;
DRT wrote:Random fact: the first time I ate courgettes was in Kirkcudbright whilst selling a horse.
DO you mean to say that you bought, owned and sold a horse before you had a courgette? Merely a lapse or did you start your horse career young? Perhaps you are violently opposed to them and did it to clinch the deal.

This fact is obviously very disturbing, I was thinking about it tonight as well. I thought that he narrowly avoided being a Frenchman: had he fed the courgette to the horse before eating it, he would have been given a passport forthwith.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:18 Thu 14 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Anyway yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu_City,_Arizona

Is it all over? I was just getting into it.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:20 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Oh pi$$ off...
Yes it's over, and you knew the answer about 1500 posts ago...
And now it's your turn.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:23 Thu 14 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:My clues are quite excellent. But the dullness of the competitors is quite frightening.

Hang on just a cotton pickin minute! Pearls before swine (me+DRT being pearls in this scenario).

Post by **DRT** » 23:23 Thu 14 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Speaking of Derek, I am intrigued;
DRT wrote:Random fact: the first time I ate courgettes was in Kirkcudbright whilst selling a horse.
Do you mean to say that you bought, owned and sold a horse before you had a courgette? Merely a lapse or did you start your horse career young? Perhaps you are violently opposed to them and did it to clinch the deal.

I was married at the time. We were selling one of our three horses to a family in Kirkcudbright. When we arrived to drop it off we were invited to stay for dinner. When dinner arrived my now ex-wife glared at me and mumbled "eat them". We didn't yet have the money for the horse so I did what I was told. My aversion to/hatred of green things is by no means a new phenomenon.

Post by **DRT** » 23:24 Thu 14 Nov 2013

San Francisco?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:24 Thu 14 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:My clues are quite excellent. But the dullness of the competitors is quite frightening.
Hang on just a cotton pickin minute! Pearls before swine (me+DRT being pearls in this scenario).

Get on with the next question.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:24 Thu 14 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:San Francisco?

you don't need to eat vegetables..

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:26 Thu 14 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:My clues are quite excellent. But the dullness of the competitors is quite frightening.
Hang on just a cotton pickin minute! Pearls before swine (me+DRT being pearls in this scenario).
Get on with the next question.

Not until you tell us how wonderful we are. And mean it.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:28 Thu 14 Nov 2013

It's your time we're wasting Daniel.

Post by **DRT** » 23:29 Thu 14 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:It's your time we're wasting Daniel.

Hurrah!!!

Post by **DRT** » 23:31 Thu 14 Nov 2013

My first guess to the next question is Pocahontas.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:33 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Daniel you seem to think you have said something funny, perhaps you'd like to share it with the rest of the class?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 23:33 Thu 14 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:San Francisco?

Doesn't the squiggly thing at the end of the post mean this is Derek's question?

I shall assume it does and offer an answer - 1906

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:34 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Who was Matoaka better known as?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 23:36 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Assisi

And now I'm off to listen to Aggers...

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:37 Thu 14 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:My first guess to the next question is Pocahontas.

AHB wrote:Doesn't the squiggly thing at the end of the post mean this is Derek's question?

Yes

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:38 Thu 14 Nov 2013

AHB wrote:Assisi

And now I'm off to listen to Aggers...

See you there.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:39 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Bathsheba

Post by **DRT** » 23:46 Thu 14 Nov 2013

The Great Barrier Reef?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:47 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Ferlinghetti

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:52 Thu 14 Nov 2013

The fourth estate?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:52 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Trapezpoid

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:54 Thu 14 Nov 2013

It's so much less contentious like this.

Chilthorne Dormer?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:59 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Frangipane

(when is someone going to tell us off..?)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:04 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Burton Bradstock?

Post by **DRT** » 00:05 Fri 15 Nov 2013

I'll do it.

Trotter! Sit down and stop pulling Jewesbury's beard.

Jewesbury! You started all of this. Go to the Chemistry lab and ask Professor Bridgeman for a long stand.

Now, is someone going to ask a proper question?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:06 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Go on Sir, make me.

Post by **DRT** » 00:08 Fri 15 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Go on Sir, make me.

You're not dealing with some namby-pamby modern day teacher here, son. Go get it or I'll knock the $$$$ out of you with this duster!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:08 Fri 15 Nov 2013

If I have understood the situation correctly; it's you Derek.

Post by **DRT** » 00:10 Fri 15 Nov 2013

You have 60 seconds to ask a question Trotter or I'll make you clean the toilets again.

Post by **DRT** » 00:10 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:If I have understood the situation correctly; it's you Derek.

Don't talk back. It's you.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:13 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Please sir! but when Jewesbury minor was messing about I asked who Matoaka was better known as.

DRT wrote:My first guess to the next question is Pocahontas.

And somehow you were right.

Post by **DRT** » 00:18 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Please sir! but when Jewesbury minor was messing about I asked who Matoaka was better known as.
DRT wrote:My first guess to the next question is Pocahontas.
And somehow you were right.

OK, I will suspend disbelief and pretend that wasn't a joke.

There are 214 hills in the Lake District that are known as Wainwrights. I have been to the top of 100 of them.

Which was my 100^th Wainwright?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:20 Fri 15 Nov 2013

All my Wainwrights are upstairs. I'll have to look tomorrow. Now for some cricket and then sleep..

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:21 Fri 15 Nov 2013

I shall have to retire to my divan with my hookah for this one and peruse my untouched copy of 'wainwrights walks'. Night.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:22 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I shall have to retire to my divan with my hookah for this one and peruse my untouched copy of 'wainwrights walks'. Night.

Night Owen. Night Sir.

Post by **DRT** » 00:22 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Which channel is the rounders on?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:24 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Wireless only, five live sports extra (beeb)

Post by **DRT** » 00:28 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Wireless only, five live sports extra (beeb)

Watching almost nothing happening is still a bit difficult for me. Listening to it without pictures is just bizarre.

Post by **DRT** » 01:12 Fri 15 Nov 2013

To avoid this question turning into something akin to one of Daniel's, I will answer single yes/no questions relating to location or height.

In terms of the rules, asking a single yes/no question is equivalent to a guess. For example:

Daniel: "Ben Nevis?"

Owen: "Is it higher than Everest?"

!Daniel's turn to guess.

Post by **DRT** » 01:22 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:In terms of the rules, asking a single yes/no question is equivalent to a guess. For example:

Daniel: "Ben Nevis?"

Owen: "Is it higher than Everest?"

!Daniel's turn to guess.

I think this should become a general rule. JDAW is the inventor so must rule yes or no.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 07:28 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Is it higher than Ben Nevis?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 07:31 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Is it in Cumbria?

Post by **DRT** » 10:24 Fri 15 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Is it higher than Ben Nevis?

No.

AHB wrote:Is it in Cumbria?

Yes.

Post by **jdaw1** » 10:40 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:I think this should become a general rule. JDAW is the inventor so must rule yes or no.

No. This bulletin board started because somebody thought that owning a domain meant owning the conversation hosted on it. Wrong. The conversation is owned by those taking part in it. I might have initiated this thread, many posts ago, and it has become not ‘was created’ a beautiful thing. But it is not ‘mine’: it belongs to those taking part in it.