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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:27 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:djewesbury wrote:It's Owen's turn.
OK, how about a response to the above nippings.
And while we're at it, Agatha Christie's the Mousetrap?
Not The Moustrap, though vaguely more in the right direction.
I can't respond to the nippings unless they were guesses, which of course they couldn't have been. Don't try and ride me Trotter. I am not to be ridden.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:30 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
The film is much, much better known than the play.
The year mentioned is the year the film was made. It was post-war. There were a couple of general declarations that decade. Then there was this year when, to my knowledge, no Vintage was made. Other things may have been.
The film is set in London. It was made by an English director.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:10 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Then there was this year when, to my knowledge, no Vintage was made.
1974?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:12 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:Then there was this year when, to my knowledge, no Vintage was made.
1974?
Earlier. This was not a decade when the port industry was subject to new crises daily.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:12 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
Owen's turn. With all the clues accrued so far it should be possible to make a guess.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:19 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
Is it Star Wars?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:22 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
Yes. Your go.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:24 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Yes. Your go.
OK.
Is Taylor 1985 as good as Fonseca 1985?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:26 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by Glenn E.
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:Yes. Your go.
OK.
Is Taylor 1985 as good as Fonseca 1985?
Are they American or European bottles?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:29 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
Glenn is disqualified for being silly. They are all Portuguese, of course.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:33 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
Is it Dial H for Homicide?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:35 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by Glenn E.
What... is the consumption velocity of an unfiltered Port?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:37 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
Glenn E. wrote:What... is the consumption velocity of an unfiltered Port?
Does the answer involve Pie?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:38 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Is it Dial H for Homicide?
Yes. Dial M for Murder. Film made by Hitchcock in 1952, year of the Colheita.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:39 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Glenn E. wrote:What... is the consumption velocity of an unfiltered Port?
Does the answer involve Pie?
Pie-arse squared.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:10 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
My turn.
A significant event happened in the T household this week. What was it?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:12 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
Divorce.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:24 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Divorce.
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by LGTrotter
You have taught your pet crow it's first words.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:32 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:You have taught your pet crow it's first words.
One of those words is pertinent to the answer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:35 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
Crow
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:36 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by LGTrotter
You got a dog? Aww... Derek, you auld softie.
One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:37 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
First
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:42 Fri 13 Feb 2015
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:You got a dog? Aww... Derek, you auld softie.
Meet Monty...
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:05 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by LGTrotter
Very handsome, I do hope the three of you will be very happy.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:06 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
Doesn't look much like a crow to me.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:07 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
Has that dog just eaten it?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:52 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by LGTrotter
Monty has a great back story, I just know it, was he rescued from a raft, cast adrift at sea?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:10 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:Monty has a great back story, I just know it, was he rescued from a raft, cast adrift at sea?
Worse. He was rescued from a life in Leeds. Poor boy, it must have been grim.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:12 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:Very handsome, I do hope the three of you will be very happy.
Thank you.
We have had him since Sunday and he appears to be bi-polar. A very well behaved boy in the house and a complete lunatic when allowed out. He would probably fit in quite well on
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:22 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:Monty has a great back story, I just know it, was he rescued from a raft, cast adrift at sea?
Worse. He was rescued from a life in Leeds. Poor boy, it must have been grim.
Correct! Your go.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:24 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
Which Vintage Port am I drinking tonight?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:29 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by LGTrotter
1742
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:32 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
You are the closest yet.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 05:29 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by Glenn E.
The same one I opened - 1987 Porto Souza.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:36 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
Glenn E. wrote:The same one I opened - 1987 Porto Souza.
Three correct numbers.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:07 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by PhilW
1989 Cruz !
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:22 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:59 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by flash_uk
G77
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:02 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
Wrong shipper, wrong decade.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:59 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
It was Taylor 85. You posted a tasting note...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:22 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
Congratulations. You should have been a detective. Your turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:23 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
I wondered whether that was a cunning plan or you were just very drunk and forgot you'd asked this question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:37 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:I wondered whether that was a cunning plan or you were just very drunk and forgot you'd asked this question.
The former. I wondered how long it would take someone to spot it.
One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:39 Sat 14 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:I wondered whether that was a cunning plan or you were just very drunk and forgot you'd asked this question.
The former.
Yes, yes. Of course. No need to explain old chap.
(Mr. Carroll, a taxi for Mr. Turnbull please.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:19 Tue 09 Jun 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
A quick revision to this thread with a very simple question.
Over the last 10 years I have averaged slightly over 320 port tasting notes per year with the most in any one year being 497 and the least being 45. I anticipate being at the upper end of this range in 2015.
How many tasting notes did I write in May 2015?
Rule Variation
In addition to making a guess, you may ask a question as a clue to which I will give a yes/no answer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:23 Tue 09 Jun 2015
by flash_uk
I'll guess 55. Question: Did you attend more than 5 tasting "events" in May?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:57 Tue 09 Jun 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
flash_uk wrote:I'll guess 55. Question: Did you attend more than 5 tasting "events" in May?
More than 55.
Yes, I attended more than 5 tasting "events" in May
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:36 Tue 09 Jun 2015
by PhilW
I'll guess 86 (assuming only counting port tasting notes).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:14 Tue 09 Jun 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
PhilW wrote:I'll guess 86 (assuming only counting port tasting notes).
More than 86
Yes, counting only
port tasting notes.