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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:03 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:My solo career hasn't taken off as well as expected. Can we have a reunion?
You are the Gary Barlow of this scenario I take it?
I like to think more Robbie Williams than Gary Barlow. My return to the fold being permanent until the next time I decide to go solo.
Is it a Speyside Malt?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:32 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
DRT wrote:Is it a Speyside Malt?
No, it is not a Speyside; it is a single malt.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:32 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Highlands?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:36 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
djewesbury wrote:Highlands?
No.
Since the next question is 50:50 and obvious, I will announce that it is an Islay single malt.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:52 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Caol Isla 12 year old?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:57 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
DRT wrote:Caol Isla 12 year old?
no.
An additional clue: this distillery also produces another type of spirit, in addition to whisky.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:41 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:DRT wrote:Caol Isla 12 year old?
no.
An additional clue: this distillery also produces another type of spirit, in addition to whisky.
It's Bruichladdich then, they make gin. Was it a Port Charlotte bottling?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:51 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
The Octomore III?
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:My solo career hasn't taken off as well as expected. Can we have a reunion?
You are the Gary Barlow of this scenario I take it?
I like to think more Robbie Williams than Gary Barlow. My return to the fold being permanent until the next time I decide to go solo.
It was the lack of a solo career that made me plump for the chubbier one, pun intended.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:10 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:My solo career hasn't taken off as well as expected. Can we have a reunion?
You are the Gary Barlow of this scenario I take it?
I like to think more Robbie Williams than Gary Barlow. My return to the fold being permanent until the next time I decide to go solo.
It was the lack of a solo career that made me plump for the chubbier one, pun intended.
Careful there son. Don't push him. You wouldn't like him when he's angry!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:25 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:It was the lack of a solo career that made me plump for the chubbier one, pun intended.
Harsh. You just wait until my new legs arrive and I'll show you!
PS: Which of the other two do you want to be? The tall, thick, tattooed one or the little one with the high voice who looks like a girl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:27 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
djewesbury wrote:It's Bruichladdich then, they make gin. Was it a Port Charlotte bottling?
It was indeed, last bit though - which one?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:42 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:It was the lack of a solo career that made me plump for the chubbier one, pun intended.
Harsh. You just wait until my new legs arrive and I'll show you!
PS: Which of the other two do you want to be? The tall, thick, tattooed one or the little one with the high voice who looks like a girl?
I thought you voted for me as leader?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:43 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:djewesbury wrote:It's Bruichladdich then, they make gin. Was it a Port Charlotte bottling?
It was indeed, last bit though - which one?
PC11?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:49 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:It was the lack of a solo career that made me plump for the chubbier one, pun intended.
Harsh. You just wait until my new legs arrive and I'll show you!
PS: Which of the other two do you want to be? The tall, thick, tattooed one or the little one with the high voice who looks like a girl?
I thought you voted for me as leader?
I did. You're Gary, I'm Robbie and Owen gets to choose between tattoos and being a girl.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:57 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:It was the lack of a solo career that made me plump for the chubbier one, pun intended.
Harsh. You just wait until my new legs arrive and I'll show you!
PS: Which of the other two do you want to be? The tall, thick, tattooed one or the little one with the high voice who looks like a girl?
I thought you voted for me as leader?
I did. You're Gary, I'm Robbie and Owen gets to choose between tattoos and being a girl.
Owen can be a girl with tattoos.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:17 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Can't I be the one who was played by Chewbacca in 'Star Stories', the one they never let speak?
Alright I'll be the girl. I can get some stick on tattoos.
Islay Barley 2007?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:23 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Actually now I come to think of it I would rather be anyone as long as it's not Gary 'Meerkats' Barlow. Simples.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:24 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
djewesbury wrote:PhilW wrote:djewesbury wrote:It's Bruichladdich then, they make gin. Was it a Port Charlotte bottling?
It was indeed, last bit though - which one?
PC11?
Close enough; it was actually the Port Charlotte heavily peated PC10. Extremely smooth, rich and deep in flavour; delicious. Daniel's question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:25 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Where are you Gary? Still working on your come back?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:34 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
OK, pay attention meerkats. I was reading my (Scottish) great-grandmother's diaries last night. On one day, she makes mention of a notorious, scandalous death, in a startling one-line aside (she then describes a few social calls and going dancing); a few days later she writes about being at the funeral. Who was it that died?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:48 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Edward Pritchard?
This is going to be a long one I fancy. About 1900? How lovely to have such diaries.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:50 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Pritchard was executed in 1865! In fact Wikipedia tells me he was the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow. Not him. Your estimate of the likely period is very close. I can give you plenty of clues once we get going.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:58 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by AW77
What about Walter Scott? Or might this be 30 years too early?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:02 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
AW77 wrote:What about Walter Scott? Or might this be 30 years too early?
You are about 70 years too early, I think Scott died in the 1830s; and whilst he was quite poor when he died he wasn't a figure of scandal or notoriety, far from it.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:10 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Walter Scott's novels are a scandal, for a variety of reasons and as for his 'singing shortbread tins' view of the people. It is a bit tough finding scandals at the right time.
John MacClean? Scottish Bolshevik, died in 1923.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:13 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:John MacClean? Scottish Bolshevik, died in 1923.
Too late.
This person was not a political activist. But he was lauded as a victim of the establishment.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:30 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
The diaries are amazing and cover a number of years. As a young woman she saw a lot of things: her cousins being presented at one of Queen Victoria's 'Drawing Rooms', Victoria's funeral, society weddings. She talks about her parents dying (they both died young) and the young men she likes; gradually a man called Reggie starts to makes more appearances. Usually, it seems, he arrives fortuitously just in time to be fed; he was the brother of her friend Lilian, and his surname was Jewesbury.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:33 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
Rose Harsent?
Edit: damn, just noticed your use of 'he' above...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:34 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by AW77
I overlooked the scandal part.
What about Oscar Wilde? He died in 1900 and clearly fulfills the scandal condition.
Speaking of Wilde, here's the Monty Python sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:35 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
AW77 wrote:What about Oscar Wilde? He died in 1900 and clearly fulfills the scandal condition.
Not Wilde. Where did he die, though?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:39 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:40 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Was it Kenny?
Kenny isnae deid.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:46 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by PhilW
John Brown?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:47 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Ned Kelly?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:49 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:John Brown?
20 years too early, exactly (Brown died in 1883). Interesting parallel though, Brown was a man from humble origins who rose in society. He didn't die in scandal though.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:50 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:59 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
A review of the clues so far:
1. Daniel's great-great granny was Scottish.
2. Someone died scandalously somewhere in the world in 1903.
3. Daniel's great-great granny was close enough to go to the funeral.
We have narrowed it down to anyone living anywhere in the world apart from the poles, Papua New Guinea and the central Amazon.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:00 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Andrew McCrombie?
My wife informs me that you can get 'Mrs Gary Barlow' t-shirts and Take That pants with 'could it be magic' written across the bum. Just sayin'.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:02 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:My wife informs me that you can get 'Mrs Gary Barlow' t-shirts and Take That pants with 'could it be magic' written across the bum. Just sayin'.
What Gary Barlow and Barry Manilow get up to in their own time is none of our business.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:03 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:A review of the clues so far:
1. Daniel's great-great granny was Scottish.
2. Someone died scandalously somewhere in the world in 1903.
3. Daniel's great-great granny was close enough to go to the funeral.
We have narrowed it down to anyone living anywhere in the world apart from the poles, Papua New Guinea and the central Amazon.
Not quite all the clues.
Where did Oscar Wilde die?
This person rose from very humble origins to a very senior place in society.
Yet he was a victim of the establishment.
Further clue: the funeral was meant to be a secret, but 30,000 of the people of Edinburgh turned out for it.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:04 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
NB She was my great-granny, not my great-great-granny.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:05 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Andrew McCrombie?
Never heard of him. Who was he?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:05 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:My wife informs me that you can get 'Mrs Gary Barlow' t-shirts and Take That pants with 'could it be magic' written across the bum. Just sayin'.
What Gary Barlow and Barry Manilow get up to in their own time is none of our business.
Now I won't have you dissin' Barry like that. Oh Sandy.
Oscar in Paris, I doubt 30,000 Miss Brodies went to Paris. So in an Hotel. Can't remember the name.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:06 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:07 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
There's a Hector MacDonald who ended his own life after a scandal involving school boys in 1903?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:08 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Oscar in Paris, I doubt 30,000 Miss Brodies went to Paris. So in an Hotel. Can't remember the name.
I didn't say the funeral took place where he died.
If I tell you it was a
felo de se I will have given far too many clues.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:08 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:There's a Hector MacDonald who ended his own life after a scandal involving school boys in 1903?
You beat me to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_MacDonald
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:12 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
I've just read that page. Now then, now then!!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:13 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:There's a Hector MacDonald who ended his own life after a scandal involving school boys in 1903?
That's it.
MacDonald was exonerated within months and the rumours (that he was having sexual relations with young boys in Ceylon) dismissed as malicious gossip. The
Wikipedia page is fascinating. MacDonald was a crofter's son who joined the army as a private, became a war hero and died a General. Apparently the king himself advised him to shoot himself.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:17 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:MacDonald was exonerated within months and the rumours (that he was having sexual relations with young boys in Ceylon) dismissed as malicious gossip.
My reading slightly different to yours. Some appeared to retain doubts about his character as a result of similar concerns in other parts of the Empire. Heaven forbid that the British establishment would even dream of making excuses and covering up the wrongdoings of a national treasure
