BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz

Subject: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 11:06 AM

A quiz for those who believe in going "Tooled up": Please do not put answers in the thread. They will be put in another thread later!

Nigel

1, What drink is made with vodka & orange juice?
2, Which football team was supported by the fictional Alf Garnett?
3, What name is given to a single instrument with two prongs which provides a single (reliable) musical note?
4, With what device did Archimedes raise water or grain uphill?
5, What term is used for a bundle of cash, or a golf club ?
6, Of where was Mold the county capital?
7, When the expression Alpha & Omega is used, what does Omega mean?
8, In the comic interlude introducing Julius Caesar, the cobbler claims to be a mender of bad soles, and says "I meddle with no. tradesman's matters, nor women's matters, but with..." what?
9, What are the surnames of the two entertainers Dr. Evadne & Dame Hilda?
10, What name is given to a fixed wing, heavier than air craft?
11, What tool is one third of a common expression use by Santa Claus?
12, Frequently described these days by this American term, what is a retainer?
13, What word describes an established saying or proverb?
14, What word describes immorality, or an immediately lower rank?
15, Speaking of rank, it also means a number of soldiers stood side by side; what term describes a number of soldiers stood one behind the other?
16, What word describes practice marching in the above formations?
17, In the early days of American colonialism, what word described 12½ cents?
18, What word describes a sound of disapproval, made by blowing hard with the tongue between the lips?
19, What part was played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon"?
20, Which playing card is also known as a knave?

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 05:53 PM

I think I got 'em!

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:22 PM

There is a remarkably repellent pedantic prat infesting InObu's 9/11 thread, but I feel on a Nigel Parsons thread you can be as pedantic as you like. So I would like to point out that the that neither of the answers to Question 9 are tools.

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:33 PM

Also, I would query whether 7 is strictly a tool.Wouldnt you say that in normal usage a toolis something you perform an operation with, ie something that is moved by the operator? And the very essence of a 7 is that it is static. And wouldnt 6 be something you make tools out of, rather than a tool itself? I am probably being excessively picky on the last one, you might say,I suppose"He was scraping the mammoth skin with a 6", so maybe I'll withdraw that objection.

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:38 PM

9. too

Engineered items, sure. Tools not

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:45 PM

Hey, GUEST, I raised the 9 problem already. Now I'm really getting picky.

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: MMario
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:51 PM

tool of the trade?

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:58 PM

A 7 is a tool of the cobblers trade, and might be kept in his tool bag or cupboard, but I dont reckon its a tool, all the same. A hammer and chisel are tools, but I dont think anvil and bellows are, for example. Youve got to work on something with a tool, surely that is the essential feature. It transmits your effort in some way to the object you are working on.If yousharpen a sickle with a stone, that stone is a tool. But if you sharpen a chisel on a stone sitting on a bench, I dont think the stone is a tool.

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 07:52 PM

RTFM - "Nigel's Hardware Quiz" not "Nigel's Tool Quiz".

Tools or not, you'll find most of them at an ironmongers.

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:10 AM

I carefully labelled it "Hardware Quiz", not only to give myself a little more leeway, but also to avoid a thread titled "Nigel's Tool", as this would attract more comments!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:22 AM

Giok has PM'd me with 19/20. Only having problems with No 5, I haven't heard of 'Iron' as a bundle of cash, and although 'Tin' is cash, it's not a golf club!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:25 AM

I noticed the "hardware". but I also noticed the "tooled up" phrase in the explanation of the quiz. I rest my case. And whoever's right, who can deny the enormous pleasures of being pedantic? And where can these pleasures be more harmlessly enjoyed than in the context of a Nigel quiz?

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Sep 02 - 07:11 AM

Don't be too hasty looking at them, but the answers are posted atSQ2 my ongoing answer page
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:21 PM

I got 5 now, oh what a silly boy am I!!

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Bagpuss
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 09:42 AM

I'm disappointed that none of the answers was fork handles / four candles!

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:02 AM

Bagpuss: my puns are bad enough without re-using any from the Two Ronnies!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Nigel's Hardware Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:02 AM

Bagpuss: my puns are bad enough without re-using any from the Two Ronnies!

Nigel