One quiz at a time

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:38 Fri 17 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Ok. We're starting an evening class at the end of January. In what?
Massage?

No. It doesn't involve anything physical.

Post by **DRT** » 12:44 Fri 17 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:It doesn't involve anything physical.

Meditation?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:45 Fri 17 Jan 2014

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:It doesn't involve anything physical.
Meditation?

Nicely done. No.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 13:34 Fri 17 Jan 2014

Learning Gaelic ? (Or does your expressed exclusion of anything physical even prevent you from opening a textbook?

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djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:35 Fri 17 Jan 2014

AW77 wrote:Learning Gaelic ? (Or does your expressed exclusion of anything physical even prevent you from opening a textbook? )

You are closer. I did some Irish classes more than 20 years ago, I'm not doing any more at the moment.

TLW · Post by **TLW** » 04:42 Sun 19 Jan 2014

English (as in literature)

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 09:37 Sun 19 Jan 2014

You are learning Portuguese?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:19 Sun 19 Jan 2014

AW77 wrote:You are learning Portuguese?

André's turn

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 11:33 Sun 19 Jan 2014

When I look out of my office window, what do I see?

Post by **DRT** » 11:34 Sun 19 Jan 2014

Rain?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 12:10 Sun 19 Jan 2014

If it's raining, then I see rain. But that's not what I was thinking of. It's there despite the weather.
PS: office means workplace, not the room in your home where you do your paperwork

Post by **PhilW** » 12:17 Sun 19 Jan 2014

A church?

Post by **DRT** » 12:30 Sun 19 Jan 2014

The Hohenzollern Bridge?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 13:04 Sun 19 Jan 2014

Having looked at google I would think that trees and roads and some seventies brutalist architecture are most likely.

Street view version in Germany seems to have a lot of pixelated out areas. Thank God somewhere does not accept that google is entitled to every scrap of information available in the world.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:02 Sun 19 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:A church?

Not a church, but the religious theme might be getting you to the answer.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:02 Sun 19 Jan 2014

DRT wrote:The Hohenzollern Bridge?

A good guess, but no. I can't see that bridge from my office.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:09 Sun 19 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:Having looked at google I would think that trees and roads and some seventies brutalist architecture are most likely.

Street view version in Germany seems to have a lot of pixelated out areas. Thank God somewhere does not accept that google is entitled to every scrap of information available in the world.

Trees are part of the view. But they are not the main theme. Thank god I'm not looking on brutalist concrete architecture. Unfortunately, I'm looking out of a 1960ies brutalist building.

Post by **PhilW** » 14:34 Sun 19 Jan 2014

A (faith) school?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:45 Sun 19 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:A (faith) school?

I can faithfully say no.

Post by **DRT** » 15:44 Sun 19 Jan 2014

AW77 wrote:
DRT wrote:The Hohenzollern Bridge?
A good guess, but no. I can't see that bridge from my office.

An interesting choice of words.

Severin Bridge?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 17:33 Sun 19 Jan 2014

Perhaps it's like a bridge, or the opposite of a bridge.

A tunnel?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:48 Sun 19 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:Perhaps it's like a bridge, or the opposite of a bridge.

A tunnel?

The Tunnel is the English remake of The Bridge. The opposite of The Bridge is The Killing.
Is it Sarah Lund?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 17:59 Sun 19 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Perhaps it's like a bridge, or the opposite of a bridge.

A tunnel?
The Tunnel is the English remake of The Bridge. The opposite of The Bridge is The Killing.
Is it Sarah Lund?

Do you think Andre sees a miserable Scandinavian in a jumper looking at a corpse out of his office window?

A fountain?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:25 Sun 19 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Perhaps it's like a bridge, or the opposite of a bridge.

A tunnel?
The Tunnel is the English remake of The Bridge. The opposite of The Bridge is The Killing.
Is it Sarah Lund?
Do you think Andre sees a miserable Scandinavian in a jumper looking at a corpse out of his office window?

Oh yeah, I suppose only if it's raining.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:14 Sun 19 Jan 2014

It's not a bridge and not a tunnel. Shall I give more clues or do you want to guess some more first?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:14 Sun 19 Jan 2014

And not a fountain.

Post by **PhilW** » 22:09 Sun 19 Jan 2014

is it Pizza Hut?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:11 Sun 19 Jan 2014

The statue of Goethe?

Post by **DRT** » 22:12 Sun 19 Jan 2014

Is it a building?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:17 Sun 19 Jan 2014

DRT wrote:Is it a building?

No, not a building.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:18 Sun 19 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:The statue of Goethe?

I don't think there is even a single statue of Goethe in the whole city of Cologne. So no.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:20 Sun 19 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:is it Pizza Hut?

Phil, now you dissapoint me. You were the one that was closest so far. And now this.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:25 Sun 19 Jan 2014

A mosque?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:53 Sun 19 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:A mosque?

No, our central mosque is in another part of town.

Actually, the thing that I'm looking for has an article on the English Wikipedia. Although it's a stub.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:54 Sun 19 Jan 2014

The Roonstraße Synagogue?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:56 Sun 19 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:The Roonstraße Synagogue?

AW77 wrote:
DRT wrote:Is it a building?
No, not a building.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:59 Sun 19 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:The Roonstraße Synagogue?

No, it's not a building. But it's connected to religion nonetheless. At least there you can find religious services being performed.

Post by **DRT** » 23:11 Sun 19 Jan 2014

Melaten-Friedhof?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 23:14 Sun 19 Jan 2014

You are very close. It's a cemetary, but not his one. It was actually closed in 1876.

Post by **PhilW** » 10:19 Mon 20 Jan 2014

AW77 wrote:You are very close. It's a cemetary, but not his one. It was actually closed in 1876.

Do we need to guess which cemetery in Cologne or are you after an item within the cemetery...
In the meantime, I'll guess the Worringen cemetery?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 10:25 Mon 20 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:
AW77 wrote:You are very close. It's a cemetary, but not his one. It was actually closed in 1876.
Do we need to guess which cemetery in Cologne or are you after an item within the cemetery...
In the meantime, I'll guess the Worringen cemetery?

I'm looking just for the name of the cemetery. It's among this list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:C ... in_Cologne
It's quite an old one and was closed in 1876.

It's not Worringen.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:04 Mon 20 Jan 2014

Geusenfriedhof

Post by **PhilW** » 13:43 Mon 20 Jan 2014

JudenbÃ¼chel

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 15:31 Mon 20 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:Geusenfriedhof

Yes, that's it. Although it's a cemetery, it's a rather pleasant view with all the big trees. Sometimes you can even see squirrels running up those trees. It's a small green oasis in a desert of concrete and asphalt. And the dead are rather quiet neighbours.

Daniel's turn.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:02 Mon 20 Jan 2014

Based on everything you told us in that last round I believe that you work in the building on the corner of Gymnicherstr. and Kerpenerstr. The one with the interesting concrete car-park on the corner, shown here.

I did something today that I haven't done for about 20 years.
It was what?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 17:31 Mon 20 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:Based on everything you told us in that last round I believe that you work in the building on the corner of Gymnicherstr. and Kerpenerstr. The one with the interesting concrete car-park on the corner, shown here.

Looks into the bright desk lamp, that is shoved into his face, but says defiently:
"Inspector Jewesbury, I won't sing. Even if you gonna torture me."

djewesbury wrote:I did something today that I haven't done for about 20 years.
It was what?

You were learning vocubulary. (To be more precise: Portuguese vocabulary)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:32 Mon 20 Jan 2014

Nice try André. You won't get round me that easy. No.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 19:49 Mon 20 Jan 2014

You poured out a bottle of Port that just wasn't up to snuff?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 20:33 Mon 20 Jan 2014

You went to the gym.

Post by **PhilW** » 20:37 Mon 20 Jan 2014

Rode a bicycle?