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DaleCooper
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At least I can't do that for the next one.
Thank you.
Time for a brain teaser, next question:
What car is this? 5O5O5O
Gloster
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A Volvo from Ancient Rome?
DaleCooper
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Well done, I was expecting it to last longer.
Roman numerals 5 = V, 50 = L therefore 5 0 50 5 0 = V 0 L V 0
Your turn...
Gloster
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Where is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas?
Gloster
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Correct. For you to set the next poser.
Thanks.
Who? ...was renowned for doings in the overall artistic / creative sphere; most particularly, in a medium uniting two branches thereof -- in which he and an exponent of the other branch, engaged in collaboration, producing many much-loved and acclaimed works; albeit the two tended on a personal level to dislike each other, and often quarrelled.
Our guy here, also wrote and published a great quantity of doggerel verse: which I for one delight in, finding it wonderfully and randomly silly -- it seems that basically he just let his mind run riot, and scribbled down in verse, whatever nonsense came into his head -- I find it like a foreshadowing earlier in time, of Spike Milligan / the Goons / Monty Python. And -- he died in his seventies, in a way in which I suspect he would have most wished and hoped to: aiding a damsel in distress.
Who? ...was renowned for doings in the overall artistic / creative sphere; most particularly, in a medium uniting two branches thereof -- in which he and an exponent of the other branch, engaged in collaboration, producing many much-loved and acclaimed works; albeit the two tended on a personal level to dislike each other, and often quarrelled.
Our guy here, also wrote and published a great quantity of doggerel verse: which I for one delight in, finding it wonderfully and randomly silly -- it seems that basically he just let his mind run riot, and scribbled down in verse, whatever nonsense came into his head -- I find it like a foreshadowing earlier in time, of Spike Milligan / the Goons / Monty Python. And -- he died in his seventies, in a way in which I suspect he would have most wished and hoped to: aiding a damsel in distress.
Gloster
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W.S.Gilbert?
...Gloster
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It was the reference to his death at Grim’s Dyke that started off the train of thought.
Going back to my previous question: the harbour at Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is called Calshot Harbour. Why?
Going back to my previous question: the harbour at Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is called Calshot Harbour. Why?
DaleCooper
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Because it was used for harbouring calshots (probably an archaic term for something or other).
Gloster
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No, but I am now imagining what ‘ye anciente calshot’ might be.
No.
Correct. When the volcano blew its top in 1961 the inhabitants were evacuated and rehoused at Calshot, where Southampton Water meets The Solent. Most returned in 1963.
To you to launch the next question.
DaleCooper
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The stones
perryman
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Canterbury is the oldest cathedral in England. I will take a guess at its altar.
Wrong and wrong
Purple Train
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Canterbury's crypt?
perryman
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Really (re the first part)? There is another cathedral where the building was pre-Canterbury but didn't obtain cathedral status until the 19th century (I think).
xotGD
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A Roman mosaic in Salisbury Cathedral?
Gloster
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Would it be in St Albans?