BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.

Subject: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:36 PM

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?


2) Which country makes Panama hats?


3) From which animal do we get cat-gut?


4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?


5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?


6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?


7) What was King George VI's first name?


8) What color is a purple finch?


9) Where are Chinese goose-berries from?


10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: GUEST
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:38 PM

#9 - same as dingle-berries but from a China Man.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Cluin
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:44 PM

5. Being an artist I know that a camel hair brush is made of almost any hair, but camel... usually squirrel tail.

I use only good quality sable myself. Except for acrylics... then I use synthetics because acrylics wear brushes out quickly. A high quality sable brush for watercolour will last a lifetime. Hell, you might even pass it down to your grandkids.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: bobad
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:46 PM

2) Equador

3) Pig

5) Horse tail

8)Raspberry

9) New Zealand

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Cluin
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:49 PM

6. Canary Islands' name comes from Canis, latin for dog.

The bird called a canary is named in turn after the Islands.

I knew that one too from an old trivia question.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 May 06 - 11:49 PM

I've taken this before and know the answers.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: John O'L
Date: 07 May 06 - 12:26 AM

And the South Sandwich Islands were so named because...

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 May 06 - 12:32 AM

ON THE SUBJECT OF CANARIES:

from an ANCIENT Mudcat thread
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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 05:47 PM


Mr. Earl-----Many trains carried live canaries whenever they could. If a train had a difficult time getting up a grade the brakeman'd bang on the side of the car the birds were housed within with a 2 by 4. The birds would intantly take to the air and lighten the train enough for the spinning driving-wheels to take the whole thing over the hump!Honest.

Art
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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: Bill D
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 05:56 PM


but the cost of canaries was so great back then, that they achieved the same effect by feeding the brakeman/conductor on beans and cabbage and having him stand on the rear caboose platform!! The trick was in the timing...(It is a little known fact that listening to an old brakeman tell about this is how the idea for JATO (jet assisted take-off) for the Air Force came about!)
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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: catspaw49
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 06:29 PM


...or sometimes on tough grade,like Horseshoe Curve in Pa., if a helper engine was not available, they'd boost steam pressure by getting two guys like Bill & Art to exhale into the valve gear.

catspaw
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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 07:45 PM


Of course, all these tecniques became obsolete when someone (Jay Gould's daughter?) realized that if you put larger wheels on the caboose, the train would always be goung downhill, and no coal at all was required.
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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: Benson
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 08:26 PM


Since the topic of canaries and gasses has arisen in this thread.... it came to mind.......I have been told that they used canaries in the coal mines to detect when the explosive gasses down deep in the mine had reached a level of danger.......the canary would die.....and the miner would get the hell out!!!

Do you suppose those canaries were freed from forced labor...??? Or was there just a run on canaries in 1903?
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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: catspaw49
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 10:50 PM


I suppose you could say the canaries were freed, but this particular group was traced in the Appalachian mountains for years following the wreck. Eventually forming into 7 groups, most had a hard time surviving in the wild. One surviving group was traced to a nesting site across the Cumberland Gap where they had migrated. Most of the local folk enjoyed having these unique birds in their hills. The main nesting area was on the Clinch River northwest of Knoxville. However, the mercury contaminating the river along with the proximity to Oak Ridge, where the birds were often seen feeding, caused mutations and eventually death to the almost the entire flock. The only known descendant of these birds can be seen today on Sesame Street at PBS.

catspaw

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Great place, the 'Cat.......even back then........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: autolycus
Date: 07 May 06 - 02:50 PM

If anyone has any books of popular fallacies (different from urban myths) which the quiz is about, that are no longer required, I'd be interested.

   I already have the Ackerman, both Tom Burnam, Ward's Dictionary of Common Fallacies, Fads and Fallacies, Clark's Mistakes we Make (but not its successor, More Mistakes we Make), Ignorance of Certainty (but not yet Prevalence of Nonsense, also by Montagu and Darling)

   11. What error(s) might be in the following,"The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton"Duke of Wellington)?


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 May 06 - 03:12 PM

AHEM!!

The Canary Islands are in the Pacific? Far be it from me to echo the recent thread on how few people actually know where Iraq is, but......

Gaze in wonder!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 03:18 PM

They winter there, Don. It's a well-known piece of trivia.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 May 06 - 03:37 PM

Uh . . . okay. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 06 - 03:47 PM

And just EVERYONE knows that the Sandwich Islands changed their name to "Hawaii" to avoid any possible idea that they were somehow affiliated with McDonald's.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 04:35 PM

Don't want to sidetrack stuff. But, so far 2,3,5,6,8 and 9 have been answered. That leaves 1,4,7 and 10.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 04:47 PM

BTW, I lost the site that quiz came from.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 May 06 - 04:53 PM

1 116 years 1337-1453
4 November
7 Albert
10 30 years 1618-1648

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 05:05 PM

Thank you Snuffy.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 05:06 PM

THIS THREAD MAY BE CLOSED NOW.

CALLING ALL CLONES. GET OFF THE SHAMBLES THREAD AND CLOSE THIS ONE, SVP.

THANK YOU.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 05:06 PM

1) about 3 times as long as a USA presidential campaign
2) Liechtenstein
3) the shrew
4) May
5) polypropylene copolymer
6) the moose
7) Alfonse
8) puce
9) the upper Amazon
10) long enough to enable Duncan Entwhistle to escape Loch Tibald in western Scotland and launch his tragically unsuccessful bid to assume the throne of Portugal.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 05:11 PM

Finally, someone with the RIGHT answers. Trust a Canuck . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 05:45 PM

Heh! ;-D That was, like, too easy, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 05:48 PM

Yo, bro, way ta go . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:04 PM

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
It wasn't a war it was a peace keeping mission.

2) Which country makes Panama hats?
The same one that makes Panama heads.

3) From which animal do we get cat-gut?
Must be from the wild bagpipe. Makes an awful din anyway.

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
Ve Russinas do not celebrate. That is the perogative of the decadent vest.

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
Metal. Gets the fleas off the camel better.

6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
The Canary Islands are in the Pacific?

7) What was King George VI's first name?
King of course. Surname Georgevi Runs the Greek chippy in Canal Street.

8) What color is a purple finch?
No such thing. There is an avian flu epidemic you know.

9) Where are Chinese goose-berries from?
The geese have all died of the avian flu as well. The were berried where they fell.

10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?
How many times do we have to tell you. It is NOT a war...

Full marks I think

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:08 PM

Have to agree with you, DtG. The new title goes to DAVE THE GNOME.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Bill D
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:11 PM

Dave already HAS a title...Gnome.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:18 PM

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?

Long time. Real long time. Even longer for the poor sods under fire. Besides, it was a police action.

2) Which country makes Panama hats?

Idaho.

3) From which animal do we get cat-gut?

Mountain lions. You have to extract it from the living, active animal to get the best sound.

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

Same month as the British do.

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

Please so not end sentences with a preposition. It would be far preferable to ask "Of what is a camel's hair brush made?"

6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?

The badger, which is pronounced "Canary" by the inhabitants of these islands.

7) What was King George VI's first name?

Gorgeous. He was named for a professional wrestler.

8) What color is a purple finch?

Far better to ask, "What color is it not?" For the finch contains within itself all colors, just as you contain all people within yourself, past, present, and future. For the fullness of the All is All.

9) Where are Chinese goose-berries from?

Geese. They are what remains after the flock takes off.

10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?

What, after all, is Time? To a voyager moving at the speed of light it becomes a crawl, while to those relative to whom the voyager is moving it becomes a frightening blur of change. To a mountain it is nothing, yet to a mayfly it is a fleeting period in which to reproduce yourself. Is time merely duration? Can we enhance time, or make it move more slowly, or speed it up? Can we skip from period of time to period of time without experiencing the intervening periods? Thus you can see that this question is meaningless and therefore all answers are valid.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:22 PM

I see I have started a trend. ;-) Well, not the first time.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:26 PM

The new crown goes to

yes, you guessed it

RAPAIRE

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:27 PM

LH, you have caused serious THREAD DRIFT.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:29 PM

And I didn't open this thread earlier cause I thought it would be boring! Can I make up my own answers too? All the best politicians do! Come to think of it, How about I make up my own questions? All the best politicians do that too, so they already have the answers - 'Why are we going to Iraq?'

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 06:35 PM

Because, we CAN'T find Hawaii on the map. I have been looking for days . . . . NO HAWAII.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 07:06 PM

Iraq isn't on that map either. Now we know why so many Americans can't find it.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 07:19 PM

What a shot . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 07:20 PM

Wow. But why on this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 May 06 - 07:30 PM

You'd prefer shots of Venus in her bath?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: gnomad
Date: 07 May 06 - 07:43 PM

You have access to THOSE Fools?

Yes please.


Oh, and, wow indeed Peace.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 May 06 - 08:02 PM

I've only got a Milo can - Ven us dat enough?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 08:11 PM

At, not in. Prepositions, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 06 - 08:56 PM

How dare you post a picture of my old girld friend Florabelle!!! Sir, I demand satisfaction! Broadswords at 30 paces!!

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 08:57 PM

Nay, Sir, gattling guns at 10 paces.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 May 06 - 09:05 PM

Hand grenades in a phone booth?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 09:24 PM

Claymores in a broom closet!

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 06 - 09:26 PM

Here's a better picture...

Stevie

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 06 - 10:01 PM

Just in the nick of time, too.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 08 May 06 - 09:11 AM

Yes, Google use is indeed not cricket. Cricket is a game that has now been limited to lasting a mere five days, and is only played by the British, and her colonies, mainly to annoy each other, or as an excuse to sit in the sun and drink beer.

A Google is ten to the power of 100, or about the number of Shambles moans about censorship...

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 06 - 10:18 AM

But Bunnahabhain,

since Packer 'improved' the game, a game can now be over in as few as 20 overs per side...

But I have noticed, that what with all the multiple replays of every ball, and the extracts from games played years ago, that tend to be spliced in every time a seagull scratches its bum, the average number of balls per over is now 67.239, so a game still takes 5 days!

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 06 - 10:23 AM

The British play THIS five days a year? I don't get it . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 06 - 10:55 AM

Yeah, the pitch is higher in warmer temperatures, and silent in the cold.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Wolfgang
Date: 10 May 06 - 11:55 AM

An offshot of question 4:

In which month do the Bavarians celebrate the Oktoberfest?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ. Google use not cricket.
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 May 06 - 02:02 PM

They don't. When the tourists arrive for it in November, they all bugger off to somewhere else, being sensible people....