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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:55 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by AW77
I'm off to bed now (we're one hour ahead), should I be given the right to ask a question, I would like to hand it over to Daniel (just to get this thread going now that it has been revived after such a long time).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:55 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Please can someone tell me the question?
is the new question. Out of deference to Derek's heritage, only Yes or No are permitted answers.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:56 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by jdaw1
jdaw1 wrote:Within the last few months I bought a bottle of an alcoholic drink. It was opened soon after purchase, and a glass drunk. My guess is that it will take me more than a year, and possibly several, to finish it. Indeed, I haven’t had another glass since. What is it, precisely?
jdaw1 wrote:AW77 wrote:Pastis?
Very good.
I asked for “precisely”. So I’ll allow ten posts from now. If within ten posts somebody get my favourite
Pastis, that person wins. But if not within ten posts, AW77 has it.
…
Oh, and do spot the hidden clue.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:57 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by DRT
Please can the next question be "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Yes, no or who cares being the only permissible answers.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:58 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by jdaw1
No.
Still my question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:59 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by flash_uk
Granier
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:00 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
Absente.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:02 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by jdaw1
flash_uk wrote:Granier
No.
djewesbury wrote:Absente.
No.
It was,
51:
That exhausts the ten posts. So AW77 has won, and he has passed question-mastership to Daniel. SNAFU.
jdaw1 wrote:… my favourite
Pastis…
Oh, and do spot the hidden clue.
The clue was on the talk page.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:03 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by DRT
DRT wrote:Please can the next question be "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Yes, no or who cares being the only permissible answers.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:13 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by benread
Grappa?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:17 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
The clue was on the talk page??? Oh for goodness' sake.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:20 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:The clue was on the talk page??? Oh for goodness' sake.
Stop moaning. It’s your question.
benread wrote:Grappa?
Too late old chap.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:26 Wed 17 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
Who took the earliest picture of a cricket match in
my anonymously donated book of cricket photographs?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:43 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
Louis Daguerre?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:15 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Louis Daguerre?
Not him. This was an Englishman alive at around the same time and much more famous for innovations in an entirely other field of photographic endeavour.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:49 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by DRT
Henry Fox Talbot?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:50 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Henry Fox Talbot?
Uncanny echo from Owen's guess over in It's Just Not Cricket, but no. This man could be said to be the first photographer in a particular genre.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:54 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
Eadweard Muybridge. What an odd way to spell Edward.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:01 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Eadweard Muybridge. What an odd way to spell Edward.
What a weird way to spell Mybridge. No, not him, but good guess. This man inspired a poet.
Here's a clue - a picture of him:
- who_IS_that_handsome_photographer.png (95.78 KiB) Viewed 7477 times
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:54 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by DRT
Lord Lucan?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:12 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Lord Lucan?
If you make one more facetious guess I will say Yes!
And then I will make you say Yes! too.
Oh, too late, you've already said Yes!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:25 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by AW77
William Henry Fox Talbot
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:30 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by DRT
Lord Lichfield?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:41 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
I think the photo looks like a young Tennyson, with his proto-beard and odd dress sense. I mean even in black and white that waistcoat/trouser combo is a car crash. And he looks miserable.
Now I'm not sure if the picture is of the photographer we are supposed to be guessing or the poet who he inspired. I'd almost forgotten about Daniel's clues.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:45 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by AW77
LGTrotter wrote:I think the photo looks like a young Tennyson, with his proto-beard and odd dress sense. I mean even in black and white that waistcoat/trouser combo is a car crash.
Owen, I never thought you were a fashionista.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:52 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:I think the photo looks like a young Tennyson, with his proto-beard and odd dress sense. I mean even in black and white that waistcoat/trouser combo is a car crash. And he looks miserable.
Now I'm not sure if the picture is of the photographer we are supposed to be guessing or the poet who he inspired. I'd almost forgotten about Daniel's clues.
The photograph is of the photographer, but you have inadvertently guessed the poet!
Actually I got it the wrong way round; the poet inspired the title of his most famous photograph.
Which means the photographer must be…?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:52 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
The charge of the light brigade!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:56 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:The charge of the light brigade!
"Into the valley of death…"
The most famous photograph that this man took was called "The Shadow of the Valley of Death". So, now it's not Owen's go, who's going to take this information to Mr Google and supply me with the answer?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:58 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
...I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race...
Says Daniel.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:01 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:...I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race...
Says Daniel.
Not Ulysses. A little later. But a good guess. Not your go though.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:03 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:LGTrotter wrote:...I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race...
Says Daniel.
Not Ulysses. A little later. But a good guess. Not your go though.
You know what I know that you know about what you said...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:06 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by AW77
Is the photographer maybe Julia Margaret Cameron?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:32 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
Yes. But as you're off to Baden Baden bright and early on yet another bookish jolly we had better press on without the nod from the head boy. He won't mind, ask away.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:35 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
AW77 wrote:Is the photographer maybe Julia Margaret Cameron?
No. The main clues that would give this away are that (a) I used the male pronoun throughout and (b) Cameron does not look like the man in the photograph I posted. Even though she did, of course, take a famous photograph of Tennyson as an old man.
Try again Owen.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:36 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
That is definitely a photo of Clement Freud.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:38 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:That is definitely a photo of Clement Freud.
It's not. If no-one guesses in the next two guesses I will nominate someone.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:42 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
Go on Andre, your go. Then I can suggest Alice B Tolkas.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:44 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by AW77
I really don't know the answer. And I will go to bed now. Have more fun tonight with the unknown photographer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:46 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
Night Andre! If you are restless in your slumbers I shall be up latish tonight waiting to see if my country has been redrawn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:00 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
It's Roger Fenton and you're all rubbish. You can't even recognise a man in a photo and google the title of a photograph. It's Owen's turn since he clearly knew the answer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:02 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
Found another photo of your photographer;
- image.jpg (59.31 KiB) Viewed 7673 times
Actually I'm not sure it's them, this one is entitled 'Last night a DJ shaved my wife'.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:29 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote: 'Last night a DJ shaved my wife'.
That made me spit out 2cl of Glenfiddich 12 year old
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:33 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by djewesbury
I like the way you worked my initials into that, turning it into a sort of accusation. No I did not, and I don't think the wonderful Emma would be amused by your off-colour humour.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:41 Thu 18 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:I like the way you worked my initials into that, turning it into a sort of accusation. No I did not, and I don't think the wonderful Emma would be amused by your off-colour humour.
The title was from twitter, any reference to yourself was purely coincidental.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:23 Thu 06 Nov 2014
by jdaw1
To which famous jazz musician am I now listening? (Well, to a recording of which famous jazz musician am I now listening?)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:30 Thu 06 Nov 2014
by LGTrotter
jdaw1 wrote:To which famous jazz musician am I now listening? (Well, to a recording of which famous jazz musician am I now listening?)
The news quiz this week had an anecdote about the Queen being shown an iPod and being told that it would remember all her favourite tunes and replay them on request, to which she replied "You mean like the band of the grenadier guards?"
Thelonius Monk?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:33 Thu 06 Nov 2014
by jdaw1
LGTrotter wrote:Thelonius Monk?
A fine guess, but no.
I have a clue that entertains me: how soon should I give it? (This question is an aside — not one that can win question-mastership.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:56 Thu 06 Nov 2014
by LGTrotter
In the morning.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:01 Fri 07 Nov 2014
by flash_uk
John Coltrane
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:16 Fri 07 Nov 2014
by PhilW
jdaw1 wrote:To which famous jazz musician am I now listening? (Well, to a recording of which famous jazz musician am I now listening?)
Bix Beiderbecke?
Bonus question for JDAW only - If you had 20 CDs and there were 12 tracks on each, how many tracks would that be in total?