One quiz at a time

[AW77]

I'm off to bed now (we're one hour ahead), should I be given the right to ask a question, I would like to hand it over to Daniel (just to get this thread going now that it has been revived after such a long time).

[djewesbury]

Please can someone tell me the question?

is the new question. Out of deference to Derek's heritage, only Yes or No are permitted answers.

[jdaw1]

Within the last few months I bought a bottle of an alcoholic drink. It was opened soon after purchase, and a glass drunk. My guess is that it will take me more than a year, and possibly several, to finish it. Indeed, I haven’t had another glass since. What is it, precisely?

Pastis?

Very good.

I asked for “precisely”. So I’ll allow ten posts from now. If within ten posts somebody get my favourite Pastis, that person wins. But if not within ten posts, AW77 has it.

…

Oh, and do spot the hidden clue.

[DRT]

Please can the next question be "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

Yes, no or who cares being the only permissible answers.

[jdaw1]

No.

Still my question.

[flash_uk]

Granier

[djewesbury]

Absente.

[jdaw1]

Granier

No.

Absente.

No.

It was, 51:


That exhausts the ten posts. So AW77 has won, and he has passed question-mastership to Daniel. SNAFU.

… my favourite Pastis…
Oh, and do spot the hidden clue.

The clue was on the talk page.

[DRT]

Please can the next question be "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

Yes, no or who cares being the only permissible answers.

[benread]

Grappa?

[djewesbury]

The clue was on the talk page??? Oh for goodness' sake.

[jdaw1]

The clue was on the talk page??? Oh for goodness' sake.

Stop moaning. It’s your question.

Grappa?

Too late old chap.

[djewesbury]

Who took the earliest picture of a cricket match in my anonymously donated book of cricket photographs?

[LGTrotter]

Louis Daguerre?

[djewesbury]

Louis Daguerre?

Not him. This was an Englishman alive at around the same time and much more famous for innovations in an entirely other field of photographic endeavour.

[DRT]

Henry Fox Talbot?

[djewesbury]

Henry Fox Talbot?

Uncanny echo from Owen's guess over in It's Just Not Cricket, but no. This man could be said to be the first photographer in a particular genre.

[LGTrotter]

Eadweard Muybridge. What an odd way to spell Edward.

[djewesbury]

Eadweard Muybridge. What an odd way to spell Edward.

What a weird way to spell Mybridge. No, not him, but good guess. This man inspired a poet.
Here's a clue - a picture of him:

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[DRT]

Lord Lucan?

[djewesbury]

Lord Lucan?

If you make one more facetious guess I will say Yes!
And then I will make you say Yes! too.
Oh, too late, you've already said Yes!

[AW77]

William Henry Fox Talbot

[DRT]

Lord Lichfield?

[LGTrotter]

I think the photo looks like a young Tennyson, with his proto-beard and odd dress sense. I mean even in black and white that waistcoat/trouser combo is a car crash. And he looks miserable.

Now I'm not sure if the picture is of the photographer we are supposed to be guessing or the poet who he inspired. I'd almost forgotten about Daniel's clues.

[AW77]

I think the photo looks like a young Tennyson, with his proto-beard and odd dress sense. I mean even in black and white that waistcoat/trouser combo is a car crash.

Owen, I never thought you were a fashionista.

[djewesbury]

I think the photo looks like a young Tennyson, with his proto-beard and odd dress sense. I mean even in black and white that waistcoat/trouser combo is a car crash. And he looks miserable.

Now I'm not sure if the picture is of the photographer we are supposed to be guessing or the poet who he inspired. I'd almost forgotten about Daniel's clues.

The photograph is of the photographer, but you have inadvertently guessed the poet!
Actually I got it the wrong way round; the poet inspired the title of his most famous photograph.
Which means the photographer must be…?

[LGTrotter]

The charge of the light brigade!

[djewesbury]

The charge of the light brigade!

"Into the valley of death…"
The most famous photograph that this man took was called "The Shadow of the Valley of Death". So, now it's not Owen's go, who's going to take this information to Mr Google and supply me with the answer?

[LGTrotter]

...I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race...

Says Daniel.

[djewesbury]

...I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race...

Says Daniel.

Not Ulysses. A little later. But a good guess. Not your go though.

[LGTrotter]

...I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race...

Says Daniel.

Not Ulysses. A little later. But a good guess. Not your go though.

You know what I know that you know about what you said...

[AW77]

Is the photographer maybe Julia Margaret Cameron?

[LGTrotter]

Yes. But as you're off to Baden Baden bright and early on yet another bookish jolly we had better press on without the nod from the head boy. He won't mind, ask away.

[djewesbury]

Is the photographer maybe Julia Margaret Cameron?

No. The main clues that would give this away are that (a) I used the male pronoun throughout and (b) Cameron does not look like the man in the photograph I posted. Even though she did, of course, take a famous photograph of Tennyson as an old man.
Try again Owen.

[LGTrotter]

That is definitely a photo of Clement Freud.

[djewesbury]

That is definitely a photo of Clement Freud.

It's not. If no-one guesses in the next two guesses I will nominate someone.

[LGTrotter]

Go on Andre, your go. Then I can suggest Alice B Tolkas.

[AW77]

I really don't know the answer. And I will go to bed now. Have more fun tonight with the unknown photographer.

[LGTrotter]

Night Andre! If you are restless in your slumbers I shall be up latish tonight waiting to see if my country has been redrawn.

[djewesbury]

It's Roger Fenton and you're all rubbish. You can't even recognise a man in a photo and google the title of a photograph. It's Owen's turn since he clearly knew the answer.

[LGTrotter]

Found another photo of your photographer;

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Actually I'm not sure it's them, this one is entitled 'Last night a DJ shaved my wife'.

[DRT]

'Last night a DJ shaved my wife'.

That made me spit out 2cl of Glenfiddich 12 year old

[djewesbury]

I like the way you worked my initials into that, turning it into a sort of accusation. No I did not, and I don't think the wonderful Emma would be amused by your off-colour humour.

[LGTrotter]

I like the way you worked my initials into that, turning it into a sort of accusation. No I did not, and I don't think the wonderful Emma would be amused by your off-colour humour.

The title was from twitter, any reference to yourself was purely coincidental.

[jdaw1]

To which famous jazz musician am I now listening? (Well, to a recording of which famous jazz musician am I now listening?)

[LGTrotter]

To which famous jazz musician am I now listening? (Well, to a recording of which famous jazz musician am I now listening?)

The news quiz this week had an anecdote about the Queen being shown an iPod and being told that it would remember all her favourite tunes and replay them on request, to which she replied "You mean like the band of the grenadier guards?"

Thelonius Monk?

[jdaw1]

Thelonius Monk?

A fine guess, but no.

I have a clue that entertains me: how soon should I give it? (This question is an aside — not one that can win question-mastership.)

[LGTrotter]

In the morning.

[flash_uk]

John Coltrane

[PhilW]

To which famous jazz musician am I now listening? (Well, to a recording of which famous jazz musician am I now listening?)

Bix Beiderbecke?

Bonus question for JDAW only - If you had 20 CDs and there were 12 tracks on each, how many tracks would that be in total?