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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:32 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Later today I will be on a plane, and might subsequently have difficulty monitoring answers. So I shall step aside and make way to the first person to ask a question in my stead. Be speedy, be ‘up’.
(But I might guess an answer to the question. If that guess is correct, the right to question will devolve onto whoever leaps in first, excluding the person who asked the question of which my guess was correct.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:41 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
OK. I'll do it.
Another port question. What was the last port that I purchased (shipper and vintage)?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:18 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by KillerB
jdaw1 wrote:excluding the person who asked the question of which my guess was correct.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:21 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
AHB’s question stands, because he read my instructions more carefully. If I guess the correct answer to that, then AHB can’t be next.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:23 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Vesuvio 1992? (This answer might become correct, even if it isn’t now.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:31 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
No. At least, not when I wrote the question.
Should I start giving clues? Should I say whether shipper or year is correct? I think not, for the moment. The question should not be too difficult to answer.
However, for the sake of clarity, I will reword the question to be:
AHB wrote:At the time of writing the question, what was the last port that I purchased (shipper and vintage)?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:44 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by KillerB
jdaw1 wrote:AHB’s question stands, because he read my instructions more carefully. If I guess the correct answer to that, then AHB can’t be next.
Fair enough, I had no intention of asking another question as they seem too cryptic for most.
Vesuvio 1996
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:55 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
No.
I am feeling more charitable so will give clues. Not Vesuvio (that was the last-but-one purchase).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:44 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Conky’s request for a Martinez vertical moved by jdaw1 to Martinez vertical?.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Tue 16 Jun 2009
by DRT
Morgan 1991
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:38 Wed 17 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
DRT wrote:Morgan 1991
No. I bought something more recently than last Thursday. Not a Morgan port.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:34 Wed 17 Jun 2009
by KillerB
Fonseca 2003
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:36 Wed 17 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
Not Fonseca, not 2003.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:08 Thu 18 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
Not Vesuvio, not 1996, nor 1991, nor 1992.
Any more guesses?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 07:08 Fri 19 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
Niepoort 2007
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:17 Fri 19 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
Right vintage, wrong shipper.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 06:03 Sat 20 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Noval 2007?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:29 Sat 20 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
Graham 2007
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:34 Sat 20 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
JDAW got the shipper and vintage. JDAW's up (or not, as the case may be).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:26 Sat 20 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Neither me nor AHB. Be quick.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:30 Sun 21 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
No one yet? Ok, I'll jump.
This one should be easy if you do a bit of homework with Google.
Summer isn't really peak season for tourism in Oman. It is simply too hot and humid to spend any time outside. But there is one region in the country where -quite surprisingly- the tourism season has just started. Why is this and what is there to see this time of year?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:53 Sun 21 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
The Salalah Tourism Festival? Camping, lush vegetation, cool rains? And music, concerts and dance?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:56 Sun 21 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
This was obviously too easy.
During Khareef (rain season) thousands of Omani's and citizens of other GCC countries head to Salalah to see the rain.
JDAW, or someone else?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:37 Sun 21 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Not me. Not Ronnie.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:42 Sun 21 Jun 2009
by Glenn E.
I have a perfect question, but cannot ask it because the answer cannot be revealed for a couple of weeks. I will endeavor to correctly answer someone else's quiz at the appropriate time so that the question can then be used.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:17 Sun 21 Jun 2009
by KillerB
Sod it - I will have a go then.
I have made two desserts this week, which I don't do often. One is a British classic, the other is considered an American classic. They are connected by ingredients, more so than can be expected, but his maybe a red herring (which is not an ingredient). What were they?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:11 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by Glenn E.
Bread pudding and brownies?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:44 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by KillerB
Glenn E. wrote:Bread pudding and brownies?
One out of two
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:49 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
Bread pudding and cheesecake?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:58 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by KillerB
RonnieRoots wrote:Bread pudding and cheesecake?
Correct - this was obviously too easy! Unlike guessing Mary Poppins which was nigh on impossible.
I made an American-style baked cheescake on Tuesday as we were having a team thing at work. Made a strawberry compote and a blueberry one to go with it. There was some remaining of both which went into the Bread and Butter Pudding, along with some raspberries. Other common ingredients include cream and eggs.
Ronald's on
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:28 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
As my previous question was undoubtly to easy, this one will be somewhat more challenging.
What was the last book I read?
It was a non-fiction book, in English (would be too difficult otherwise). I will give more hints along the way, so the keen observer should be able to guess.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:54 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:15 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
No. It was about one of my main interests. One that I write about on my blog.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:56 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by Alex Bridgeman
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management?
(Your blog seems to be exclusively about food and wine.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:47 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:00 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by DRT
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:13 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by KillerB
Gordon Ramsay's Secrets - but I think his wife has found out about them
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:25 Mon 22 Jun 2009
by DRT
Oman: A Port Oasis in the Desert - The Roots, 2009 First Edition
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 06:54 Tue 23 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
Nope, all wrong, but AHB made the right analysis. It's about food. Moreover, it's writtten by a British newspaper journalist.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:04 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
From the lack of answers I'll derive that it's still too difficult. Have a look at the initial post where I asked the question. I already gave you the name of the newspaper there.
Now that you know that it is a non-fiction book from a British newspaper journalist, whose newspaper I've already given away, handling about food (extra hint), do you have enough for another guess?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:42 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by smisse
The Kitchen Diaries - Nigel Slater
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:44 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by KillerB
The Man Who Ate the World
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:53 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by RonnieRoots
KillerB wrote:The Man Who Ate the World
Correct.
A great book for anybody who has any interest in food and restaurants.
KillerB is on.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:20 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by KillerB
So far this week - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday I have done a different physical activity each day - name all three in order. I will do the Mastermind thing - 000 - none correct, 222 - all correct in right order, 111 - all correct wrong order, 210 - one correct right place, one correct wrong place, one incorrect - you know the score.
Anybody with a passing knowledge of the Darkness, will probably end up singing "Dancing on a Friday Night".
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:23 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by jdaw1
Swim, Cycle, Run.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:37 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by KillerB
jdaw1 wrote:Swim, Cycle, Run.
100
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:45 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by smisse
tennis swim golf
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:53 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by KillerB
smisse wrote:tennis swim golf
000
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:33 Wed 24 Jun 2009
by Glenn E.
cycling, walking, weight lifting
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 05:36 Thu 25 Jun 2009
by DRT
Run, karate, squash