One quiz at a time

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

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Need the confirmation of trusted wisdom.
Stop talking in class and play the game.
Yes, I have to wonder why you weren't beaten hardest...

Moi? Because I always had a good answer.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:01 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I know this is the wrong thread but it is well used. What do you think of the price of Gould Campbell 83 at BBR?

http://www.bbr.com/products-916572-1983-gould-campbell

It's a reasonable price for a darn good port. If I was buying port - which, of course, I am not - I'd be tempted.

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

You are too good at this.

Owen's up again.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:01 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:You are too good at this.

Owen's up again.

Psst Owen.. Otter-related question.. Go on..

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

I think it should be alright to bring up Daniel's otter, which I have a space on the fridge for, next to the one he did with pasta and glitter.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:08 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I think it should be alright to bring up Daniel's otter, which I have a space on the fridge for, next to the one he did with pasta and glitter.

Thanks Owen. Nice to know someone appreciates my talents. Otters don't just photoshop themselves you know.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:10 Fri 15 Nov 2013

As I have prepared a question, I’d better pay attention. Awaiting the question.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:10 Fri 15 Nov 2013

What are you all wittering on about?

No, please don't tell me. It was a rhetorical question to pass the time while I watch last Sunday night's American Football, sipping some Morgan 1991 while waiting for Aggers to return to the radio.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:12 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Oh I am stuck.

How about an otter related question. My friend has terrible trouble with an otter (he has commercial interests in fish). How much money (approximately) has he been known to carry in his van at night? Obviously the reason he carrys it would earn extra points.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:14 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Approximately £8 in change to pay for parking.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:16 Fri 15 Nov 2013

I will accept an answer to the nearest five hundred pounds, it is only at a particular time of year this happens. And I live in Somerset.

AHB wrote:Approximately £8 in change to pay for parking.

An opening, but derisory bid, no.

Post by **DRT** » 22:16 Fri 15 Nov 2013

{places pinky on left cheek, engages Bond villain voice} A gazillion dollars?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:17 Fri 15 Nov 2013

£1500 to compensate enraged hoteliers and restaurateurs whose fish orders he cannot supply.

Post by **DRT** » 22:18 Fri 15 Nov 2013

£25,000 to buy fresh fish at the early morning market?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:21 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:{places pinky on left cheek, engages Bond villain voice} A gazillion dollars?

You will always be Rosa Clebb to me, no.

djewesbury wrote:£1500 to compensate enraged hoteliers and restaurateurs whose fish orders he cannot supply.

No, I did it though; there is a tenuous otter connection, unrelated to the answer.

DRT wrote:£25,000 to buy fresh fish at the early morning market?

Derek has overshot the mark, but is closest, please think of the answer, it is to do with the river Parret

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:22 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Daniel, quick Roy's back. Show him your picture, I know he'll love it!

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:22 Fri 15 Nov 2013

£20k

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:26 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:£20k

You want it bad! nearer but no.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:27 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Daniel, quick Roy's back. Show him your picture, I know he'll love it!

I'm going to get in trouble. I'm supposed to be watching Peeping Tom with Rachel, not getting drivelly.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:28 Fri 15 Nov 2013

I turned down Baz's Great Gatsby, thank God.

I don't get a sense that this is being thought through. A man into fish, on the river Parret, at a particular time of year.

I will accept the reason instead of the price.

Post by **DRT** » 22:29 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Is it higher than £15k?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:30 Fri 15 Nov 2013

£15k. (DRT asked whether higher.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:33 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:£15k. (DRT asked whether higher.)

Julian, although I dread the consequences for my mushy maths brain; you are our winner.

He buys elvers from the fisherman when they are running. They cost a lot.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:36 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Jupiter has lots. Mars and Neptune have some, Earth has at least one, and even some of Saturn’s moons have them. What are they?

(I’ll accept the modern technical term, or the name presumably derived from the Simpsons, or a colloquial description.)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:36 Fri 15 Nov 2013

(Whispers) £9500

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:37 Fri 15 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:(Whispers) £9500

(oops)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:37 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Jupiter has lots. Mars has some, Earth has at least one, and even some of Saturn’s moons have them. What are they?

Rings?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:42 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Sattelites - however you spell the word after several glasses of Mg91

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:46 Fri 15 Nov 2013

AHB wrote:Sattelites

If this doesn't appear in some name and shame thread after all I have been through I shall write to the Times.

Post by **DRT** » 22:47 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Moonlets?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:49 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Sarah Palins

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:51 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:Moonlets?

Though wrong, this is an excellent guess. None of Saturn’s moons have sub-moons: those orbits would not be stable.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:52 Fri 15 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Sarah Palins

At least one of us is having a complete failure of understanding. Methinks you.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:54 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
AHB wrote:Sattelites
If this doesn't appear in some name and shame thread after all I have been through I shall write to the Times.

Methinks that The Times would prefer a capitalised definite article, and italics (here proxied by an oblique typeface). And if you want it in a name-and-shame grumble thread, put it there.

And it’s wrong.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:56 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Clouds?

I will be away for most of the weekend. Time to fly to Las Vegas, run 13.1 miles, then fly home.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:57 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Rings?

The Earth has rings?

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

Post by **DRT** » 22:58 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Storms?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:59 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Glenn E. wrote:Clouds?

That the ‟Earth has at least one” might suggest that this isn’t the correct answer.

jdaw1 wrote:Jupiter has lots. Mars and Neptune have some, Earth has at least one, and even some of Saturn’s moons have them. What are they?

(I’ll accept the modern technical term, or the name presumably derived from the Simpsons, or a colloquial description.)

(I edited the question for clarity, not realising that people had started answering on the next page.)

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:00 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:Storms?

No. Moonlets was so much closer.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:01 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Sarah Palins
At least one of us is having a complete failure of understanding. Methinks you.

Buck up Daniel, you meant Steven Hawkings; like in the BT ad.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:06 Fri 15 Nov 2013

(Aside: it is 101 pages since this thread was re-awakened in September.)

Post by **DRT** » 23:09 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:(Aside: it is 101 pages since this thread was re-awakened in September.)

Coincidence?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:09 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:(Aside: it is 101 pages since this thread was re-awakened in September.)

I think a silent round of applause and possibly a drink to the man who started it.

Post by **DRT** » 23:11 Fri 15 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:(Aside: it is 101 pages since this thread was re-awakened in September.)
I think a silent round of applause and possibly a drink to the man whos started it.

Cheers!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:11 Fri 15 Nov 2013

By the way that last post was a softening up exercise for the purposes of getting a clue.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:15 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:or the name presumably derived from the Simpsons

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:15 Fri 15 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:(Aside: it is 101 pages since this thread was re-awakened in September.)
I think a silent round of applause and possibly a drink to the man whos started it.
Cheers!

Huzzah!

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:16 Fri 15 Nov 2013

And moonlets was really very close. It is wrong, but very close.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:16 Fri 15 Nov 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:or the name presumably derived from the Simpsons

Quoting a previously available clue does not seem like a new clue within the act.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:17 Fri 15 Nov 2013

Asteriods

Fergetit I just looked them up.