One quiz at a time

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 11:52 Fri 20 Dec 2013

You get a pair of tweed Christmas socks from the Isle of Harris.

Post by **PhilW** » 13:50 Fri 20 Dec 2013

You start wearing a Tweed jacket, which reminds you of Berwick-on-Tweed?

Post by **DRT** » 14:23 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Norwich is the principle city of Norfolk, the turkey capital of the UK. Are your feet shaped like a turkey's?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:36 Fri 20 Dec 2013

JWEW wrote:
AW77 wrote:
JWEW wrote:Your best socks are Lincoln green?
I do not have any green socks.
But you are getting close...
Close with socks (but not green), or with green (but not socks) or geographically with Lincoln?

You are close with the item which one normaly wears between the feet and the shoes.
Now, what is the connection to an English city, if it's neither the colour nor the place where it is produced nor the design which is traditionally associated with a certain city.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:38 Fri 20 Dec 2013

PhilW wrote:You start wearing a Tweed jacket, which reminds you of Berwick-on-Tweed?

Phil, I don't wear Tweed jackets on my feet. When I met you in Leverkusen, I saw that neither do you.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:44 Fri 20 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:You get a pair of tweed Christmas socks from the Isle of Harris.

When I already have anything that I could possibly want or wish for (like world peace or a cure against cancer), then, and only then, would Iput a pair of tweed Christmas socks from the Isle of Harris on my otherwise empty wish list for christmas.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:48 Fri 20 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:Norwich is the principle city of Norfolk, the turkey capital of the UK. Are your feet shaped like a turkey's?

No, Derek. I have stunningly beautiful feet.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:51 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Socks. Stockings. Christmas stockings. I'm searching for a connection here. Are the socks knitted in Manchester? Is Manchester known as Sock City in Germany?

EDIT: sorry you already said it's not the place where they're produced. I'm at a loss.

Post by **PhilW** » 14:54 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Perhaps he starts wearing thicker socks, made from wool, reminding him of Woolwich? (though I don't think that's a city, so perhaps somewhere else that wool comes from?)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:58 Fri 20 Dec 2013

You have a Christmas stocking with the word London printed on it.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 15:00 Fri 20 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:Socks. Stockings. Christmas stockings. I'm searching for a connection here. Are the socks knitted in Manchester? Is Manchester known as Sock City in Germany?

EDIT: sorry you already said it's not the place where they're produced. I'm at a loss.

Daniel, you are right about the socks. Now what is the connection between the socks and the English city? It's a rather arbitrary connection I (and the producer) have to concede.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:00 Fri 20 Dec 2013

PhilW wrote:Perhaps he starts wearing thicker socks, made from wool, reminding him of Woolwich? (though I don't think that's a city, so perhaps somewhere else that wool comes from?)

Not my guess but maybe you should ask him if it's somewhere in Yorkshire.
How's the head?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 15:05 Fri 20 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:You have a Christmas stocking with the word London printed on it.

You're almost there.
Now you should make a general statement about the connection between the city and the socks. (And by the way, the city is not London and although we're close the christmas, the socks do not have to do anything with this religious festival. I do wear socks all year long

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Post by **DRT** » 15:53 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Do you wear football socks whilst participating in some sort of winter sport? Skiing?

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 16:00 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Leeds United football socks?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:11 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Man United?

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 16:19 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Are they socks produced from the wool of a Bluefaced Leicester sheep.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:21 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Stoke City?

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 16:23 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Liverpool?

Post by **DRT** » 16:35 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Nottingham?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:20 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Birmingham?

Post by **DRT** » 17:38 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Newcastle?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:43 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Wigan

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 18:15 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Bradford

Post by **DRT** » 18:55 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Derby?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:09 Fri 20 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:Do you wear football socks whilst participating in some sort of winter sport? Skiing?

No football socks and no skiing.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:11 Fri 20 Dec 2013

JWEW wrote:Are they socks produced from the wool of a Bluefaced Leicester sheep.

It also has nothing to do with wool produced in the UK.

Post by **DRT** » 19:14 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Southhampton?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:15 Fri 20 Dec 2013

AW77 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:You have a Christmas stocking with the word London printed on it.
You're almost there.
Now you should make a general statement about the connection between the city and the socks. (And by the way, the city is not London and although we're close the christmas, the socks do not have to do anything with this religious festival. I do wear socks all year long )

Daniel, I can only repeat myself. You were 1mm close to the first part of the answer.
As for the second part: no to all the cities mentioned abvove.
So here is a clue: the city has two Football League clubs.

Post by **DRT** » 19:16 Fri 20 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:Southhampton?

Oops. Not my turn.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 19:17 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Sheffield

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:19 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Football League? Or Premier League?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:20 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Neither Southhampton nor Sheffield.
Another clue: it also has two daily newspapers.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 19:22 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Bristol?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:26 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Right, it's Bristol.
And what about the first half of the question. The connection between my socks and Bristol? I think it's so easy that you don't see it.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 19:32 Fri 20 Dec 2013

I went to university in Bristol and I can't remember it being a city of socks.

They have the Clifton Suspension bridge embroidered on them?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:39 Fri 20 Dec 2013

AW77 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:You have a Christmas stocking with the word London printed on it.
You're almost there.
Now you should make a general statement about the connection between the city and the socks. (And by the way, the city is not London and although we're close the christmas, the socks do not have to do anything with this religious festival. I do wear socks all year long )

I repeated this clue several times. To shorten things: the word "London" is not printed on the sole of my socks, but...

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 19:40 Fri 20 Dec 2013

You are saying that Bristol is printed on the sole of your socks?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:42 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Yes, I'm wearing socks named "Bristol".
http://www.socksfox.com/falke-bristol-s ... 6b1db4fb55
http://www.falke.com/de/herren/socken-k ... istol.html

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 19:47 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Never heard of Bristol socks before. I suppose that means I have to set a question now...Oh dear

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:47 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Yes, you're the entertainer here now and I'm off the hook.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 20:11 Fri 20 Dec 2013

As most question seem revolve around recent goings on then I shall follow that theme. I hope this works

Recently I was inspecting some .raw files of photos I had taken to check if any were worthy of being printed. Attached is a small section of one of the photos that (just) passed the test.

The question is "What is the subject matter of the photograph"

: question?; 1234.jpg (1 KiB) Viewed 9699 times

Apologies, this is my first time.

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 20:46 Fri 20 Dec 2013

Is the pic meant to pixellated or this an effect of the tiny file size?

Hope this doesnt count as a quiz question.

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JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 21:04 Fri 20 Dec 2013

It is a small section of a photo that has been enlarged, as for the pixelated affect, It appears OK o the laptop I have just used to prepare it.

Again, apologies if it hasn't worked. I will forfeit my right to question if that is the case.

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 21:13 Fri 20 Dec 2013

A dahlia, or part thereof?

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JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 21:19 Fri 20 Dec 2013

PopulusTremula wrote:A dahlia, or part thereof?

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Not a Dahlia. It is fauna rather than flora

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:59 Fri 20 Dec 2013

A brief aside, as a follow-up to something earlier in this thread.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=62524#p62524]Here[/url] DRT wrote:
PhilW wrote:A telescope?

Phil's turn

Just checking that the TPF Vintage Observatory (Powered by The Symingtonsâ„¢) is subscribed to the SuperNova Early Warning System.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:13 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Is it a detail from 'The garden of earthly delights' by Hieronymus Bosch?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:21 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Red blood cells?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 03:52 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Is it a follicle?