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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:55 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by DRT
Between the ages of 10 and 12 I was part of a small group whose main activity was at weekends but occasionally during the week.
What was I doing?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:58 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Between the ages of 10 and 12 I was part of a small group whose main activity was at weekends but occasionally during the week.
What was I doing?
Altar boy.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:02 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Choir boy
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:03 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Satanist cult leader
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:08 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Rent b...
Sorry, I meant part time shop assistant.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:09 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Rent b...
Sorry, I meant member of the Clarion Cycling Club.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:17 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Completing community service
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:19 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:Between the ages of 10 and 12 I was part of a small group whose main activity was at weekends but occasionally during the week.
What was I doing?
Altar boy.
Hole in one!!
It must be my angelic face that gave it away.
AHB wrote:Rent b...
A close second.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:21 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:Whoops! Had a slightly-too-good lunch.
*doffs cap and withdraws*
Despite the oxymoron, an excellent comment sir.
One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:What was I doing?
djewesbury wrote:Altar boy.
Hole in one!!
It must be my angelic face that gave it away.
I knew you must have been really good once, to have become this dissolute.
A lunch-related question has, I think, been prompted.
When I lunched today, which member of the Privy Council was at the next table?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:38 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:When I lunched today, which member of the Privy Council was at the next table?
There are more of those than there are casks at SMWS!!
Tony Blair?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:40 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:When I lunched today, which member of the Privy Council was at the next table?
There are more of those than there are casks at SMWS!!
Tony Blair?
No.
It's quite simple really. Who gets appointed as PCs?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:41 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:There are more of those than there are casks at SMWS!!
But fewer of them than there are vintage ports. Or occupations for 10-year-old boys. Or items on eBay.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:41 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:It's quite simple really. Who gets appointed as PCs?
Almost everyone.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:42 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:It's quite simple really. Who gets appointed as PCs?
Almost everyone.
No. Certain people are automatically PCs.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:47 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by jdaw1
Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?
(No, he isn’t automatically appointed Canterbury, York, and (mere Bish of) London. But it had to be done.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:53 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?
(No, he isn’t automatically appointed Canterbury, York, and (mere Bish of) London. But it had to be done.)
That was a noble waste of a guess.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:57 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by DRT
The Baroness D'Souza?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:58 Fri 03 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:The Baroness D'Souza?
I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:11 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
HRH Prince of Wales?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:15 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:HRH Prince of Wales?
Is it your go?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:18 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
HRH the Princess of Wales.
I read that in the Express
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:19 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Spooky...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:22 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:jdaw1 wrote:Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?
(No, he isn’t automatically appointed Canterbury, York, and (mere Bish of) London. But it had to be done.)
That was a noble waste of a guess.
No. A Duke is properly addressed as ‟The Most Noble”, at least in very official documents. But that is not true of the Bishop of Norwich. So it was merely a waste of a guess, rather than a noble waste.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:26 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
The Grand Old Duke of York?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:29 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:The Grand Old Duke of York?
No.
The Duke of York is a pub in Belfast with a very good whisk(e)y selection. Belfast is where I live.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:31 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
The Duke of Belfast?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:44 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:The Duke of Belfast?
DRT could be disqualified from this round for persistent guessing when it's not his go...
There is no longer a title connected to Belfast. Lord Belfast was the name used by the eldest son of the Marquess of Donegall (
sic) but there is now no such personage.
There are titles connected to other places in Northern Ireland, however.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:48 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
Sir Declan Morgan?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:49 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
The Duke of Londonderry?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:49 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
Sir Declan Morgan?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:51 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:The Duke of Londonderry?
No such person.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:51 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Sir Declan Morgan?
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:54 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
djewesbury wrote:AHB wrote:The Duke of Londonderry?
No such person.
HMS Belfast?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:57 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:03 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
No.
Who gets automatic membership of the PC?
Where do I live?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:04 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
Northern Irish politicians, Civil Servants and Judiciary?
One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:06 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Northern Irish politicians, Civil Servants and Judiciary?
How sad it isn't your turn.
(But: no. Your answer is incomplete; or rather, inaccurate.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:11 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
I wasn't guessing, I was answering your supplementary question. Are you saying that I have not captured all types of person who would be given a Peerage in the six counties?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:14 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:I wasn't guessing, I was answering your supplementary question. Are you saying that I have not captured all types of person who would be given a Peerage in the six counties?
I know you weren't guessing. I was saying it was a shame that having answered the supplementary question you couldn't then guess.
Your answer was inexact. Not all Northern Irish politicians join the PC; it has nothing to do with peerages either, most PCs are not peers.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:19 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Your answer was inexact. Not all Northern Irish politicians join the PC
Quite right too. No room at the inn for those "reformed" types.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:20 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:Your answer was inexact. Not all Northern Irish politicians join the PC
Quite right too. No room at the inn for those "reformed" types.
God forbid.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:35 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
I do hope it wasn't Ian Paisley - that would have made gentle lunch conversation challenging.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:53 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:I do hope it wasn't Ian Paisley - that would have made gentle lunch conversation challenging.
Not Paisley, who is apparently eating hospital lunch at present.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:12 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
Lord Trimble?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:37 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Lord Trimble?
When you concentrate all your mind on the game, Derek, you are a natural. Yes. Baron Trimble of Lisnagarvey. The next clue would have developed a play on words between 'noble' and 'Nobel'. Thankfully we didn't have to go there.
He was lunching with most of the front line of the UUP from the 90s. Bizarre, as they'd all stabbed each other in the back multiple times over the years. Must have been a very good lunch.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:52 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:He was lunching with most of the front line of the UUP from the 90s. Bizarre, as they'd all stabbed each other in the back multiple times over the years. Must have been a very good lunch.
Who would have thought there would be such hypocrisy in NI-ish politics
I will post a question later.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:44 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
I plan to spend much longer looking through my telescope tonight than I normally would.
Why?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:51 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Because you can't bear to watch the cricket. My go.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:01 Sat 04 Jan 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Because you can't bear to watch the cricket.
No. It is harder for you to bear than for I.