Trivia Game - answer the question, then add your own!
Posted by: joe90 on 26 March 2007
Let's have some fun.
This section of the forum can be a bit doom-and-gloom.
Answer the question and then ask another.
I'll start.
Q. What was the name of the B29 Superfortress that dropped the second atomic bomb? Correct spelling please.
Posted on: 23 July 2007 by acad tsunami
They all saw John Lennon in the morgue post mortem?
Posted on: 23 July 2007 by Nigel Cavendish
quote:
Originally posted by Shayman:
What experience do DJ John Peel, Singer/performer Yoko Ono and writer Alistair Cooke share?
Jonathan
They all lost their virginity to Germaine Greer?
Posted on: 24 July 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by Nigel Cavendish:
They all lost their virginity to Germaine Greer?
Mmmmm, Germaine Greer.
Oops, I said that out loud, didn't I...?
Posted on: 25 July 2007 by BigH47
They all saw some one shot/killed. JP saw JFK's supposed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, YO saw John shot and AC I haven't a clue JFK? Not a Googled answer.
Posted on: 29 July 2007 by Shayman
quote:
They all saw some one shot/killed. JP saw JFK's supposed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, YO saw John shot and AC I haven't a clue JFK? Not a Googled answer.
Getting there, getting there. You're right they were all present at famous historical assassinations.
John Peel = LH Oswald
Yoko = John Lennon
but Alistair Cooke anyone?
Jonathan
PS sorry for my slow replies but I just became a Dad for the first time. Happiest man alive but sadly not frequenting web fora that often at the mo'
Posted on: 29 July 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by Shayman:
...I just became a Dad for the first time. Happiest man alive...
Not the tiredest man alive?
Posted on: 30 July 2007 by Bruce Woodhouse
I think Alistair Cooke either witnessed, or was staying in an adjacent room in the hotel where Bobby Kennedy was killed.
Bruce
Posted on: 01 August 2007 by Shayman
Well done BigH for getting the link right and the first two.....but Bruce wins it for putting in the final piece. Alistair Cooke was waiting in the wings and saw Bobby Kennedy shot.
So the answer was that they all were present when historical figures were assassinated
John Peel = Lee Harvey Oswald
Yoko Ono = John Lennon
Alistair Cooke = Bobby Kennedy
Jonathan
Posted on: 05 September 2007 by Adam Meredith
In which story does Sherlock Holmes use a gramophone to trick the villains?
Posted on: 05 September 2007 by Bob McC
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Posted on: 05 September 2007 by Adam Meredith
Where do we first meet Mycroft, Holmes' more intelligent brother?
Posted on: 05 September 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
Where do we first meet Mycroft, Holmes' more intelligent brother?
As you asked where - I would have to say The Diogenes Club.
Posted on: 12 October 2007 by Beano
A very easy one for a thread bump.
The Name?
Posted on: 12 October 2007 by BigH47
Forts.
Posted on: 12 October 2007 by Beano
Which ones H?
Posted on: 12 October 2007 by JamieWednesday
Red Sands
Posted on: 13 October 2007 by Beano
Posted on: 13 October 2007 by JamieWednesday
Who knows the secret of the Black Magic Box?
Posted on: 14 October 2007 by Beano
The mysterious lady in the Milk Tray advert?
Posted on: 14 October 2007 by JamieWednesday
OK, proper one.
What's this and why is it significant?
Posted on: 14 October 2007 by Steve Hall
It the Vulcan that bombed Port Stanley.
Posted on: 15 October 2007 by Macker
This particular Vulcan completed the longest bombing mission in the history of aerial warfare, until a B-52 beat it.
Posted on: 15 October 2007 by JamieWednesday
Correctamundo.
Or at least it completed the first mission (Black Buck 1, there were four more). There was a fleet of 15 aircraft involved. 8000 mile round trip from Ascension.
Not only did it stop the Argentine forces operating fast jets out of Stanley, it worried the commanders so much that we might bomb Argentina that they kept almost all their fast jets on the mainland out of range, effectively keeping their Air force out of the war (much like sinking the Belgrano did to the navy).
Can't recommend the book Vulcan 607 highly enough. Excellent stuff.
Posted on: 15 October 2007 by acad tsunami
How did the ancient Egyptian embalmers remove the brains of the dead prior to mumification?
Posted on: 15 October 2007 by JWM
Hook through the nose into the brain cavity, scramle the brains, suck out with a metal straw.
