One quiz at a time

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 12:22 Sat 17 Jan 2015

DRT wrote:An Hare?

No, not an Hare. And by the way, no Haggis either.
Any more guesses?

Post by **DRT** » 13:20 Sat 17 Jan 2015

Sherry?

Post by **DRT** » 13:21 Sat 17 Jan 2015

Oops! Not my turn.

Post by **PhilW** » 13:37 Sat 17 Jan 2015

I haven't seen the question yet, so just to help Derek... Is it an Ostrich?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:19 Sat 17 Jan 2015

A Sherry Ostrich?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 15:38 Sat 17 Jan 2015

PhilW wrote:I haven't seen the question yet, so just to help Derek... Is it an Ostrich?

To help you catch up. This is the current question:
I bought two half bottles on Friday. One was an LBV, but what was the other?

All other guesses so far were wrong (such as another bottle of port, Champagne, Sherry).

Any more guesses before I give a tiny clue?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 11:13 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Manorial rights etc etc. It's been seven days since the last post. Accordingly I ask you the following supplementary question (expecting that some here may be able to answer it rather quickly):

Why was my father a member of a sex club in Cambridge?

André: brandy.

Post by **DRT** » 11:29 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Does it matter of the guesses are in metric or imperial?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 11:36 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Interesting angle; no.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 13:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015

If I remember correctly, your father was a civil servant in the health sector. So I guess he was a member of this club in his professional capacity, as a kind of liason officer to the health officials (perhaps organising medical check-ups in order to prevent the spread of VD in this sex club).

As to my question: no it was not brandy. It was wine. But from which region?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:25 Sat 24 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Why was my father a member of a sex club in Cambridge?

I'm sure there is some innocent explanation, like he has special requirements.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:49 Sat 24 Jan 2015

He was not a special liaison officer. He does not have any special requirements (well none that I know of).

Post by **DRT** » 16:38 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Is he a camera man?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:39 Sat 24 Jan 2015

No. I'm expecting that Julian might know the answer.

Post by **DRT** » 16:44 Sat 24 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:No. I'm expecting that Julian might know the answer.

Was Julian also a member of the club?

{the-mind-boggles-emoticon}

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 16:44 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Maybe he applied for membership not knowing that it was a sex club. Perhaps he thought it was a fitness club.

Post by **DRT** » 16:53 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Did members get free beer?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:33 Sat 24 Jan 2015

No, no, no.

Could someone please guess a type of wine so that I can guess again on André's quiz?

Post by **DRT** » 20:36 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Buckfast?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015

DRT wrote:Buckfast?

What kind of a Scot would refer to Buckie as Buckfast? One who has spent too much time with the Sassenachs I'll be bound. As an aside I had to phone Buckfast Abbey the other day and was treated to a mellow Irish voice and fur Elise was the holding music, very pleasant.

The wine; Setubal.

The sex club; because he liked messy fourways but no doubt told his son it was for 'research'.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:01 Sat 24 Jan 2015

This was while he was an undergraduate in the early 1960s; that should help.

Post by **DRT** » 22:15 Sat 24 Jan 2015

1. Rioja.

2. Because his parents didn't give him "the talk"?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:41 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Nope. You're taking this very literally. He was at Peterhouse, which was founded in 1287.

Post by **DRT** » 22:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Was he the Cox of the Peterhouse Eight-man?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:50 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Is it your go?

Post by **DRT** » 22:53 Sat 24 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Is it your go?

Yes.

Was it because there were no girls in the college (not, that Peterhouse is a "college", obviously)?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:54 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Peterhouse is, obviously, a college. It's still not your turn.

Post by **DRT** » 22:58 Sat 24 Jan 2015

But it doesn't have "College" in its name. Is it my turn now?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:00 Sat 24 Jan 2015

It's a college of Cambridge. Indeed it is the oldest one.
No.
Did I mention it was founded in 1287?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:00 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Wasn't there a glutton club at Cambridge where you could try anything, so was this a club for people who wanted to try anything in another sphere?

I bet it is something pedestrian like DNA sequencing, but I live in hope that Daniel's father does have a saucy past.

Wine guess; Australian muscat.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:01 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Nothing like any of that. Derek's turn. Don't go away Owen, I sense that he's really on fire tonight.
New Zealand Riesling.

Post by **DRT** » 23:04 Sat 24 Jan 2015

New Zealand Pinot?

He donated "DNA" to raise funds to buy Taylor 1287 from the Buttery?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:05 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Penfold Grange.
No. Think of sex. I mean, think of the word. (It was the 1960s.)

Post by **DRT** » 23:10 Sat 24 Jan 2015

He was "Miss Peterhouse (the drag queen's dream)" who performed at meetings of the JCR, a club inaugurated to celebrate the Sex-centenary of the college (note small c)?

Post by **DRT** » 23:10 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Blue Nun?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:16 Sat 24 Jan 2015

I think Derek wins. The Junior Common Room at Peterhouse was called the Sex Club because it was, at that point, the Sexcentenary Club. We do not know whether it is now the Sept Club.
Chasse Spleen 1989.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:19 Sat 24 Jan 2015

DRT wrote:New Zealand Pinot?

He donated "DNA" to raise funds to buy Taylor 1287 from the Buttery?

Made me laugh.

I am thinking about sex. Now what, do I have to make something up?

How about they were trying to get women into the college?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:20 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Owen, you're too late!! Derek wins!

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 23:30 Sat 24 Jan 2015

I see I don't have to guess any more for Daniel's question. As an aside, you simply have to in clude the word "sex" in a thread and people get interested.

All guesses to my question were false so far. Derek was closest with his Rioja guess as the wine region we're looking for is a red wine region and also almost on the same latitude as Rioja.

Post by **PhilW** » 23:35 Sat 24 Jan 2015

LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:Buckfast?
What kind of a Scot would refer to Buckie as Buckfast? One who has spent too much time with the Sassenachs I'll be bound.

As someone who has spent the last few hours drinking too much(?) whisky for Burn's night, which may or may not be tonight or tomorrow, can I please feel superior somehow? I'm certainly too far [gone] to type much coherently; you wouldn't believe how much Android spell checker is helping right now... And, Bruichladdich 10yr laddie is a delicious revelation

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:42 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Andre; you're right, I feel ashamed. I have an awful suspicion that this indecipherable half bottle is from America.

Phil; you are and always will be decidedly superior. Perhaps one more before bed?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:43 Sat 24 Jan 2015

I think it's a Napa Valley. Is that very far north of Spain?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 23:46 Sat 24 Jan 2015

No, not America. Think more eastern of Rioja.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Well the Chinese are making wine.

Georgia?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 23:50 Sat 24 Jan 2015

No, it's in the EU.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:56 Sat 24 Jan 2015

Tokaji?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 23:58 Sat 24 Jan 2015

LGTrotter wrote:Tokaji?

Is Tokoji a red wine region? So no.

Post by **DRT** » 00:05 Sun 25 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:I think Derek wins. The Junior Common Room at Peterhouse was called the Sex Club because it was, at that point, the Sexcentenary Club. We do not know whether it is now the Sept Club.

The next time powers need to be seized I shall do so.

Ch. Musar 1991?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 00:09 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Not that far east. And is Lebanon a member of the EU? So no.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:11 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Erm, does it contain Nebbiolo?