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Created by hughie1986 on Fri 16 Sep 2011.

Following the trend on here, I'll give the first question, answer it and ask another pub quiz question

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by PJHolybloke Today at 10:20 am

Which well known children's book includes the chapter "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"?

That's really not that many since the beginning of Test cricket, is it?

No... they last a few good years each.

It would be interesting to see how other Test-playing countries compare - but I'm too lazy to find out.

England have had 79 since 1876/77
Australia have had 43 since 1876/77
India have had 40 since 1932
South Africa have had 32 since 1888 (but had a 24 years without a Test side)
West Indies have had 34 since 1928
Pakistan have had 28 since 1952
NZ have had 26 since 1928/29
Sri Lanka have had 12 since 1981/82

im heading back to uni today so wont be on much. Someone else go

How about we try to guess which university you go to?

Exeter?

if you want to then

you think i'm start enough to go to exeter

I'm going to guess UWE.

Was that a typo to prove your point hodge?!

Brookes

this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_University

try slumming it a bit more guys

Bathman_in_London I choose to decline to comment on the matter

Univeristy of Wales - Newport.

Stands to reason really.

considering i've said it on other threads I wondered how long it would take someone

I have a question ready now next time I answer a question, probably in about 8 weeks and I will have forgotten it

It was elementary dear Hodge, firstly you mentioned that you were going back to Uni but didn't mention an arduous journey, being a student and living in the now generation if your journey was a long one it would have been worthy of a mention. Based on that criterion I gave myself an arbitrary radius (from the heart of Somerset) of less than 100 miles to work with.

You did not mention any specific fears with regard to motorway bottlenecks which are fairly prevalent even over a short journey nowadays, and that allowed me to cancel out an M4 trip east into Reading, you cancelled out Exeter yourself which left me with an option of the M4 into Wales or the M5 north. There's little in the way of tertiary educational institutes on the M5 north within 100 miles of my theoretical start point, apart from Hereford, Gloucester or Cheltenham, none of which really held the picture of "slumming it" for long.

So the M4 into "God's Country" it was, and a couple of minutes of mental geographical regurgitation turned up the pefect fit of Neport, University of Wales!


But in reality, you as good as mentioned it in a post on 30 December.

The man's a feicin genius.

Ahh, the Great Man Himself, How are ya darlin?

Hope you had a great Christmas/New Year?

I hate Christmas, I'm off and away for next year - feck 'em all! Bunch of whinin, spongin' feckers!

Story PJ, mo ghra? Yeah, I was in the UK(Ealing) for all of it and it was a great change for me. 3 rugby players in the sis-in-laws house, kept asking me to go for pints. Nightmare.

The Clogs just dont do Kerst. Well, not like ye lot do.

I loved it.

Great win last wknd bud.

Believe.

we shall from now refer to you as Mr Holmes.

Speaking of which though in your deduction I nearly went to Uni in Gloucestershire. And as for the travelling, driving is probably the thing I am best at so a travel isn't too bad for me as I quite enjoy driving so probably wouldn't have mentioned it anyway if it were a bad one. However the trip over the severn bridge was probably the windiest it has ever been for me travelling over.

Family is the story, you got to love 'em - but spending all that time with 'em?

Nightmare? Rugby? Drinking? You ain't fooling me pal.

Twas a rare beam of light against the Exiles Gibbo, if Bath had of played St. Winnifred's School Choir last night they'd have got pumped, no doubt.

It's a long game for Bath mo chara, but after 33 years I've got plenty of patience, it won't be long till the mojo's back.

hodge wrote: we shall from now refer to you as Mr Holmes.

Speaking of which though in your deduction I nearly went to Uni in Gloucestershire. And as for the travelling, driving is probably the thing I am best at so a travel isn't too bad for me as I quite enjoy driving so probably wouldn't have mentioned it anyway if it were a bad one. However the trip over the severn bridge was probably the windiest it has ever been for me travelling over.

"Cheat" would be a more appropriate sobriquet Hodge.

I'm sure you have many talents and are just being particularly modest, I got stuck on the Thelwall Viaduct once during a storm in the early 90's, the M6 got closed and it took me nearly 5 hours to get over the viaduct and off the motorway. Going across the viaduct so slowly you could actually feel the bridge sway under the car wheels. Is there an emoticon for :shoiteshimselfnoisilyinpureterror:?

What's the largest species of flatfish found in the Atlantic?

'Alibut?

Correctomundo.

Its sad I know, but I study fishes, mammals and all things marine. They are my special frens. Been diving for 30 years. They understand me. I tink.
They often ask me: "Why are you lot pishing in our sea and killing us all at the same time? What happens when we all die? Won't you needs us and the Sea to survive?"
And they slag fish for being stupid...

Who invented SCUBA?

Do you mean the acronym SCUBA or the actual scuba suit? The acronym was some American naval Officer called Lambert and it was invented by some French man I don't know their name.

T,
They were all French. No Yanks. A lot of them invented apparatus to go diving in. But not SCUBA as we know it.

Again are you talking about the acronym or the device. I know the acronym was invented by an American (Self Contained Water Breathing Apparatus) the suit was invented by the French I said that.

The device. There is some contention. But not by me.

This person is a hero of mine. And so many others.

Jaques Cousteau - just watched a program about diving as it happens

They covered free-diving, scuba diving, ye olde worlde diving suit with big brass helmet (snigger) and saturation diving.

Tres interesting actually, the free-diver was most interesting though, she can hold her breath for over 5 minutes and dive down to 98 metres!! She tried for the world record of 100 metres but passed out when she got back to the surface - fail, apparently.

Saturation diving was weird, 3 blokes living together in chambers for a month at a time, breathing 5 percent oxygen and helium - sounded like a depressed Mickey Mouse but did enable them to operate at depths in excess of 300 metres without having to decompress every time. Apparently, a five hour dive at 300 metres takes 5 days to decompress, so it's better to keep them all squashed up for a month.....

Aaaanyhoo, one of the first recorded examples of using a diving bell dates back to 325BC by one very well known dude, a king so he was, but who was it?

Shot in the dark. Ive no idea. Was it King Solomon, PJ? He was one smart dude.

Had 1000's of wives/concubines though. Not too smart. Imagine the cacophony of nagging sounds in that house? Or trying to get to the bathroom? 1000 burds all going together with their handbags.

Man was an eejit, really.

A total berk and no mistake, 1000 wives?!! statistically speaking that's 250 of 'em on biatch week at any given time, week in - week out..... sheesh, wise my arris.

T'weren't him anyway, he'd have just drowned himself if he'd got any sense.

Damn, I know I know this one - but I can't recall who it was. So I may as well not know.

325 BC? I was in school then and wasn't paying attention.

This is a great question on something I love. Killingme.com

Was he Chinese? They were inventing all sorts of things and building large Walls back then.

Weren't Chinese either.

Hmmmmmm, he was tutored by Aristotle...

Archimedes?

Noooo, not the lever man Adam, the man we are looking for was a king tutored by Aristotle up until adulthood, but at 18 he set his sights on other things.... and in a Brucie kind of manner "didn't he do well?"

That clue did it for me. What a team. They set the standard for... well, everything we know and love. They were aliens. Had to be.

Alexander The Great.

Twas 'im, it was I tell ya, it was.

Your turn.

PJ,
I'll be honest, now I've answered it, I cant find that bathyscope info - anywhere.

As Spock would say. "Fascinating Captain". Great question.

What actor or actress - appeared in all 5, original Star Trek, TV series?

Here it am.

http://library.thinkquest.org/28170/221.html

Was it the guy wid da funny specs?

That link, and the info in it, is unreal.

Be using that one in a pub sometime. Oh yes.

I know there are Trekkies out there. They will know.

Ok, it was mainly a voice. She starred in person also. Connected to the Originator.

It was mentioned in the programme I watched about diving last night, I was fascinated pal.

I'm not big on Star Trek beyond the big players, I know Gene Rodenbury wrote it, and the opening speech has a jarring split infinitive in it..... oh and the guys in red always used to get it, and mini-skirts and knee length boots are da bum ting!

Haven't a clue otherwise.

You deserve it so bud. It was his missus, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. He had a Dream and she helped Make It So.

Check communicators = mobile phones. Check the video conference capability = SKYPE. Both laffed at as pure Sci-Fi in the 60's.

Way ahead of his time. A la Arthur C. Clarke.

Your twist guv. And make it musical. Be gentle on an old man.

BTW, I was gripped watching that diving program.

Also have the Barrier Reef program recorded. The BEEB may be susceptible - and have to react, to the popular Reality shoite ITV turn out. But, when they shine, they really shine.

Agreed, the Barrier Reef is a treat Gibbo, get yourself a nice bottle of red and chill your bones for that one.

The 1980's was a good decade for George Michael. he had a total of 8 No.1 hits, 4 with Wham!, 2 solo and one as a duet.

Who did he sing with on his duet?

Aretha Franklin, innit?

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Aretha Franklin, innit?

Innit!

Go Lucky, go.

PS, thanks for not pointing out that 4 + 2 + 1 = 7 NOT 8!

It's too early for me to notice things like that!

Okay then: Whitney Houston has a famous singer for an aunt. Who is this famous singing aunt?