The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+MartyBartfast]

Right I'm going to be really snotty about this, 'cos I'm in that sort of mood I'm in

 

I've seen the right numbers, and I've seen the right units, but so far I haven't seen them both used in the correct combination, so the first person to give me the correct answer (numbers and units of measurement) gets it.

 

On your marks, get set, GO...

[+keehotee]

9.80665 (or thereabouts) metres per second per second at sea level - on earth.

9.80665/6 metres per second per second on the moon?

[+MartyBartfast]

9.80665 (or thereabouts) metres per second per second at sea level - on earth.

9.80665/6 metres per second per second on the moon?

 

DING to keehotee (& sorry to SP!)

[+keehotee]

OK

 

Where (or what) are the furthest and closest points on dry land to the Earth's core?

 

Edited to add - natural features - not man-made artifacts like mine shafts........

Edited March 16, 2008 by keehotee

[+Eckington]

OK

 

Where (or what) are the furthest and closest points on dry land to the Earth's core?

 

Edited to add - natural features - not man-made artifacts like mine shafts........

 

 

Top of Everest, bottom of Mariana's Trench

[+Simply Paul]

Top of Kilimanjaro as it's close to the equator, and the south pole, as it's on land, and a pole. As the Earth bulges, the highest and lowest points aren't the same as the points closest and furthest to its centre.

Edited March 16, 2008 by Simply Paul

[+keehotee]

ding to sp for the south pole - no dings yet for furthest point......

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

I think the furtherst point is a volcano in the Andes, (Ecuador I think) but I can't remember its name just now!

 

 

Edit to add: obviously the top of said volcano!

Edited March 16, 2008 by Dorsetgal & GeoDog

[SlytherinAlex]

Given the number of "non pub quiz level" questions recently and the consequent decrease in interest in taking part, is it time to put this thread to bed????

 

a.

[+keehotee]

Given the number of "non pub quiz level" questions recently and the consequent decrease in interest in taking part, is it time to put this thread to bed????

 

a.

Are you implying this question isn't pub-quiz level?? I pulled it straight from a book given away free last weekend with one of the bigger Sunday papers..

Simply Paul answered the first half straight away, and Dorsetgal is very close with the second.....

 

Surely if interest in the thread drops right off it'll put itself to bed...... but as long as people keep playing, the thread will carry on? It doesn't refresh through reading, only posting.

Edited March 18, 2008 by keehotee

[+Simply Paul]

I still enjoy this thread and would also like it to continue, as long as people are interested and the mods are ok with it. Perhaps if it falls off the first couple of pages it should be dropped (locked?) but I also think (hope) folk are still having fun with it.

 

Back on topic, my second guess is another, taller volcano or mountain in Equador

[+keehotee]

I still enjoy this thread and would also like it to continue, as long as people are interested and the mods are ok with it. Perhaps if it falls off the first couple of pages it should be dropped (locked?) but I also think (hope) folk are still having fun with it.

 

Back on topic, my second guess is another, taller volcano or mountain in Equador

I'm going to give you the ding...

The tallest peak in Ecuador is Mount Chimborazo - the top of which is accepted as the furthest point from the Earth's core......

Over to you - if that's OK with everybody else?

 

As an aside - taken from The Observor Book of the Earth, which I heartily recommend as ideal "morning constitutional" reading!

[+Simply Paul]

Thanks a lot. Staying with extremes, where would you find the world's highest purely vertical drop? It's 4,100 feet at an average of 105 degrees with the top 1,600ft overhanging, and has been the site of the world's longest BASE jump and rappel. If the feature's name is too hard for people to know, I'll accept the island, and failing that, the country.

[+MartyBartfast]

Troll Wall, Norway ?

[+hiho9]

france

 

off topic but its interesting to read the questions if i rarely take part

[+rutson]

Rappel??? Have we moved to the states?

[NickPick]

Rappel??? Have we moved to the states?

I thought that aswell! From the climbing websites and forums that I've read, I believe he meant to say "Abseil".

[+The Lavender Hill Mob]

Rappel??? Have we moved to the states?

I thought that aswell! From the climbing websites and forums that I've read, I believe he meant to say "Abseil".

Rappel's easier to spell

[SlytherinAlex]

Rappel??? Have we moved to the states? :D

I have.

[+Simply Paul]

Sorry, no one's close yet. Some extra help: Northern Hemisphere.

My information came from an American source and I wasn't sure if rappel and abseil were 100% the same thing so I left it as the former. Sorry for any confusion caused

[+Bambography]

What are the rules on googling answers etc? Not played along with this thread before but the questions are quite interesting and although I didn't know this one, I found the answer very quickly with a quick search....

[+kennamatic]

What are the rules on googling answers etc? Not played along with this thread before but the questions are quite interesting and although I didn't know this one, I found the answer very quickly with a quick search....

 

Heresy! Heresy!

 

There is pretty much only one rule of this thread, and that is you can't google the answer. And for the pedants out there I suspect all search engines are included.

 

There have been questions where someone has asked a friend who would know the answer and that appears allowable. (I don't think the idea is that they know because they googled it! )

 

Questions are meant to be of "pub quiz" level.

[+MartyBartfast]

What are the rules on googling answers etc? Not played along with this thread before but the questions are quite interesting and although I didn't know this one, I found the answer very quickly with a quick search....

 

No Googling allowed - sorry.

[+The Blorenges]

... and the question setter awards the "ding !"for the correct answer, then it's that person's turn to set the next question. MrsB

Edited March 19, 2008 by The Blorenges

[+MartyBartfast]

Just got home from work, and according to my 1989 Guiness Book Of Records the record for the longest Rappel or Abseil was 990m by Steve Holmes who did it on:

 

The west face of Thor Peak, Baffin Island, Canada.

[+Simply Paul]

DING! Sadly, one of the team who extended the record at Thor in 2006 died when his equipment failed and he fell. The longest BASE jump has since moved to a taller 'nearly vertical' cliff in Pakistan. Just to confirm, books as reseach is fine

 

Over to you Marty!

[+MartyBartfast]

Name the sitcom :

 

 

1 Grace Brothers

2 Wernham Hogg

3 Swallows Bank

4 Cafe Rene

5 Sunshine Deserts

6 Whitbury Leisure Centre

7 St Swithins

8 JJM

9 Air Scotia

10 Hatley Station

[+melmur]

1 Are You Being Served

2 The Office

3

4 Allo Allo

5

6 The Brittas Empire

7

8 The Good Life (Someone, Jerry & Margo I think?)

9

10

 

That's the easiest ones done anyway

Edited March 20, 2008 by melmur

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

7. St Swithins = Carry on series, Carry on Doctor etc.

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

3. Swallows Bank = Dads Army ... Mr Mainwaring (Mannering) was the manager I think.

[+The Blorenges]

5. Sunshine Desserts was in "The Fall and Rise of reginald Perrin." MrsB

[+rutson]

9. The High Life?

10. Oh, Doctor Beeching?

[+MartyBartfast]

All right so far apart from this one, you're on the right lines but....

 

7. St Swithins = Carry on series, Carry on Doctor etc.

[SlytherinAlex]

All right so far apart from this one, you're on the right lines but....

 

7. St Swithins = Carry on series, Carry on Doctor etc.

The sitcom was Doctor in the House, and a few other variants that followed.

 

a.

[+MartyBartfast]

All right so far apart from this one, you're on the right lines but....

 

7. St Swithins = Carry on series, Carry on Doctor etc.

The sitcom was Doctor in the House, and a few other variants that followed.

 

a.

DING to SlytherinAlex, your turn.

[SlytherinAlex]

 

DING to SlytherinAlex, your turn.

Bearing in mind the last answer, I was tempted to ask "what's the bleeding time", but I'll dig around and find a different question.

[SlytherinAlex]

OK here's goes. Hopefully this isn't too difficult. I knew it without looking it up, so let's give it a go.

 

Carrying on (terrible pun I know) from the previous question, what connects the lead actor in the Doctor in The House series:

 

with Shaun Willamson - Eastenders actor.

 

 

alex.

[+MartyBartfast]

I'm sure Father/Son is too obvious a guess but I'll try it anyway.

[SlytherinAlex]

I'm sure Father/Son is too obvious a guess but I'll try it anyway.

Nope

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

Sean Williamson played Barry Evans in Eastenders and Dr Upton was played by an actor called Barry Evans!

[SlytherinAlex]

Sean Williamson played Barry Evans in Eastenders and Dr Upton was played by an actor called Barry Evans!

Yup. Spot on.

 

a.

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

Working, travelling and caching in London I find it a constant concern to find somewhere appropriate for Caesar to do his business.

 

A couple of years ago I was doing a cache in an open space in London and came across a purpose built dog loo ... can you name that place?

 

Anyone who has cached in the area with their eyes open with know where it is!

[+GAZ]

I'll try "BARKING and Dagenham", or what about "Houn(d)slow"???

 

Ok, it's late and I need me tablets!!!!

 

Oh, and saw your "bit" in a newspaper a bit back....nice one!!

[+The Lavender Hill Mob]

Working, travelling and caching in London I find it a constant concern to find somewhere appropriate for Caesar to do his business.

 

A couple of years ago I was doing a cache in an open space in London and came across a purpose built dog loo ... can you name that place?

 

Anyone who has cached in the area with their eyes open with know where it is!

Isle of Dogs

[+plasmafamily]

Working, travelling and caching in London I find it a constant concern to find somewhere appropriate for Caesar to do his business.

 

A couple of years ago I was doing a cache in an open space in London and came across a purpose built dog loo ... can you name that place?

 

Anyone who has cached in the area with their eyes open with know where it is!

Holland Park

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

DING! To Plasma!

 

Holland Park is indeed the place I had in mind, with a nice little cluster of caches closeby ... and for those enquiring minds ... here's what it looks like!

 

 

Ness: I haven't heard of the one at Hounslow, do you by any chance have any pictures of it please?

[+plasmafamily]

Ok how about something for the season. Easter is a movable holiday as it is not fixed with the calendar. When is Easter? (And no the answer is not Sunday )

[+MartyBartfast]

Ok how about something for the season. Easter is a movable holiday as it is not fixed with the calendar. When is Easter? (And no the answer is not Sunday )

 

It's something like the first Sunday following he first new moon after Palm Sunday.

 

And this year is the earliest Easter will fall in any of our lifetimes, the next time it's going to be this early will be another 200 years or so.

[+dino-irl]

The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox?

 

IIRC the earliest it can be is 22/3 which makes this year almost the earliest it can be!

[+kennamatic]

It is the first sunday, after the first Paschal full moon after the 21st March.

 

The church has a list of dates for which full moons are given, even though they don't correspond entirely with what you see in the sky so that everyone throughout the world has a "full moon" at the same time. The church has used 21st March as the Spring Equinox since 325a.d. a date chosen by the Council of Nicaea.