aradgick Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 There was one recent program where a youngish woman lived in Hastings and didn't know about 1066 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exuser1 Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 Early Trival pursuit question ,name war in which Florence Nightingale was involved ? a Trival question ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 Early Trival pursuit question ,name war in which Florence Nightingale was involved ? a Trival question ? Another hardly trivial question : What was the name of the 'plane from which the first Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 Enola Gay (dropped "Little Boy") Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 Correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 For the bonus, what was the name of the plane that dropped the Nagasaki bomb, and what was the bomb called? (No Googling at the back there...) Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthw Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 Brocks car and Fat Man? Not Googled so may well be wrong! Anth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 Correct, though not sure myself if the Brockscar is all one word or not? Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tootrock Posted 19 December , 2011 Share Posted 19 December , 2011 A team on University Challenge this evening could only identify 2 out of 4 photographs of memorials to the Great War. They knew that Thiepval commemorated the Somme, did not know the Ossuary at Verdun or the Vimy Ridge memorial, and correctly placed the Menin Gate in Ypres. My wife got all 4! Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 20 December , 2011 Share Posted 20 December , 2011 And the two they could identify were both guesses! There was also a question about the battle in which 19 mines were exploded by Plumer's Second Army. They didn't get that right, either, but I suppose that was a bit too specialised for "celebrity" contestants. Or it may have been in the ordinary edition of UC which followed - the two programmes did rather blur together in my memory! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tootrock Posted 20 December , 2011 Share Posted 20 December , 2011 The mines question must have been in the "celebrity" programme, which I missed - the memorials starter and questions were certainly in the regular programme. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthw Posted 20 December , 2011 Share Posted 20 December , 2011 Correct, though not sure myself if the Brockscar is all one word or not? Steve. Steve, You're right it is all one word, I've just Googled it to check. I thought I was pushing my luck relying on my memory Anth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinBattle Posted 20 December , 2011 Share Posted 20 December , 2011 Without Googling, wasn't it actually Bock's Car (a play on the pilot's name and a railway box car? Fat Man was certainly the name of the 2nd A bomb - and the Japanese obviously calculated that a third bomb would be on Tokyo..... A savage way to end a savage war, but the quick capitulation saved possibly hundreds of thousand lives, both Japanese and Allied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exuser1 Posted 20 December , 2011 Share Posted 20 December , 2011 Way of thread but worked with ex Gurka Major who in 1945 had the job of liberating Jungle work camps for allied POWS ,his attiude 1st bomb should have gone stright down Mount Fugi ! back to stupid awnsers though rember one quiz show asked young lady "whats Mary Shelly famous for ?" awnser .... Shoes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Dragoon Posted 20 December , 2011 Share Posted 20 December , 2011 Would have been Grenadiers if they asked outside Waitrose in Chelsea! They probably would have BEEN Grenadiers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 21 December , 2011 Share Posted 21 December , 2011 Or from which ever battalion was stationed at Chelsea Barracks at the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 21 December , 2011 Share Posted 21 December , 2011 back to stupid awnsers though rember one quiz show asked young lady "whats Mary Shelly famous for ?" awnser .... Shoes ! There was once a quiz on local radio (in Lverpool, I think) where a lady was asked what Hitler's first name was. Her reply: "Heil." Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffsyeoman Posted 22 December , 2011 Share Posted 22 December , 2011 Or from which ever battalion was stationed at Chelsea Barracks at the time! Sadly unlikely as Chelsea is now bulldozed... Another 'Pointless' answer, that was far from... pointless... 'Name one of the official languages of Switzerland..''I'll go for the safe option, Alexander.. English.' Utterly straight faced, he said 'Safe option. English.' Boom! Big red X... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 22 December , 2011 Share Posted 22 December , 2011 King's Road is still a haunt for off duty squaddies though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hughmccurry Posted 1 January , 2012 Share Posted 1 January , 2012 Here's one from the Weakest Link Anne Robinson: Adolf Hitler, Oscar Wilde and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: - Prison, or the Conservative Party? Contestant: The Conservative Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 1 January , 2012 Share Posted 1 January , 2012 "We asked one hundred people in a poll... have you just been lying in your previous answers?" This is an example of the Cretan paradox. It threw western philosophy into a turmoil about the time of the Boer War. Its most famous protagonist was Bertrand Russel who got into trouble as a CO in the Great War. You thought this was off topic, didn't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 1 January , 2012 Share Posted 1 January , 2012 Not a quiz question, but I have just e-mailed a certain army museum (I shan't nme it) in SW3 informing them that they should change the caption of the picture of Lieutenant Frederick Roberts VC from the existing "The Honourable Lieutenant Fred Roberts ..", but I didn't tell them to what it should be changed. Do you think they'll ask 100 visitors for their pointless answers to this question? And talking of the letter Q for cucumber, I frequently almost have people rolling about laughing at work. Whenever I need to tell someone our post code, the second part is 1QQ, so I frequently add "Q ... Q, so good they named it twice". Laugh? Some of them nearly do. Not sure what that's got to do with this, as it happens, but feel free to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 1 January , 2012 Share Posted 1 January , 2012 Incidentally, I got 10 points on Chris Packham's Rorke's Drift Specialist Subject round on Mastermind the other night (maybe would have been more if I was quicker) - the same score I got when they asked almost the identical set of questions (as far as I remember them) about 15 years ago on the non-celebrity version. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 1 January , 2012 Share Posted 1 January , 2012 Me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 2 January , 2012 Share Posted 2 January , 2012 This is an example of the Cretan paradox. It threw western philosophy into a turmoil about the time of the Boer War. Its most famous protagonist was Bertrand Russell ... Tom You are confusing two different paradoxes. Epimenides' paradox "All Cretans are liars" has been around for over 2,000 years. Even St Paul knew about it, and quoted it in his Epistle to Titus (Ch.1, v.12), though I suspect he didn't understand it. It is also referred to in the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore film, Bedazzled. Russell's paradox was "Consider the set of all sets which are not members of themselves." Whether this set does or does not belong to itself is an indeterminable question, but it is not the same as the Cretan paradox, which actually isn't a paradox at all: when spoken by a Cretan, it is false. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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