Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:22 Sat 17 Jan 2015
No, not an Hare. And by the way, no Haggis either.DRT wrote:An Hare?
Any more guesses?
Any more guesses?
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:20 Sat 17 Jan 2015
Sherry?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:21 Sat 17 Jan 2015
Oops! Not my turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:37 Sat 17 Jan 2015
I haven't seen the question yet, so just to help Derek... Is it an Ostrich?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:19 Sat 17 Jan 2015
A Sherry Ostrich?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:38 Sat 17 Jan 2015
To help you catch up. This is the current question:PhilW wrote:I haven't seen the question yet, so just to help Derek... Is it an Ostrich?
I bought two half bottles on Friday. One was an LBV, but what was the other?
All other guesses so far were wrong (such as another bottle of port, Champagne, Sherry).
Any more guesses before I give a tiny clue?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:13 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Manorial rights etc etc. It's been seven days since the last post. Accordingly I ask you the following supplementary question (expecting that some here may be able to answer it rather quickly):
Why was my father a member of a sex club in Cambridge?
André: brandy.
Why was my father a member of a sex club in Cambridge?
André: brandy.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:29 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Does it matter of the guesses are in metric or imperial?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:36 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Interesting angle; no.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015
If I remember correctly, your father was a civil servant in the health sector. So I guess he was a member of this club in his professional capacity, as a kind of liason officer to the health officials (perhaps organising medical check-ups in order to prevent the spread of VD in this sex club).
As to my question: no it was not brandy. It was wine. But from which region?
As to my question: no it was not brandy. It was wine. But from which region?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:25 Sat 24 Jan 2015
I'm sure there is some innocent explanation, like he has special requirements.djewesbury wrote:Why was my father a member of a sex club in Cambridge?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:49 Sat 24 Jan 2015
He was not a special liaison officer. He does not have any special requirements (well none that I know of).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:38 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Is he a camera man?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:39 Sat 24 Jan 2015
No. I'm expecting that Julian might know the answer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:44 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Was Julian also a member of the club?djewesbury wrote:No. I'm expecting that Julian might know the answer.
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:44 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Maybe he applied for membership not knowing that it was a sex club. Perhaps he thought it was a fitness club. 
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:53 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Did members get free beer?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:33 Sat 24 Jan 2015
No, no, no.
Could someone please guess a type of wine so that I can guess again on André's quiz?
Could someone please guess a type of wine so that I can guess again on André's quiz?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:36 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Buckfast?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015
What kind of a Scot would refer to Buckie as Buckfast? One who has spent too much time with the Sassenachs I'll be bound. As an aside I had to phone Buckfast Abbey the other day and was treated to a mellow Irish voice and fur Elise was the holding music, very pleasant.DRT wrote:Buckfast?
The wine; Setubal.
The sex club; because he liked messy fourways but no doubt told his son it was for 'research'.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:01 Sat 24 Jan 2015
This was while he was an undergraduate in the early 1960s; that should help.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:15 Sat 24 Jan 2015
1. Rioja.
2. Because his parents didn't give him "the talk"?
2. Because his parents didn't give him "the talk"?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:41 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Nope. You're taking this very literally. He was at Peterhouse, which was founded in 1287.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Was he the Cox of the Peterhouse Eight-man?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:50 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Is it your go?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:53 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Yes.djewesbury wrote:Is it your go?
Was it because there were no girls in the college (not, that Peterhouse is a "college", obviously)?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:54 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Peterhouse is, obviously, a college. It's still not your turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:58 Sat 24 Jan 2015
But it doesn't have "College" in its name. Is it my turn now?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:00 Sat 24 Jan 2015
It's a college of Cambridge. Indeed it is the oldest one.
No.
Did I mention it was founded in 1287?
No.
Did I mention it was founded in 1287?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:00 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Wasn't there a glutton club at Cambridge where you could try anything, so was this a club for people who wanted to try anything in another sphere?
I bet it is something pedestrian like DNA sequencing, but I live in hope that Daniel's father does have a saucy past.
Wine guess; Australian muscat.
I bet it is something pedestrian like DNA sequencing, but I live in hope that Daniel's father does have a saucy past.
Wine guess; Australian muscat.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:01 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Nothing like any of that. Derek's turn. Don't go away Owen, I sense that he's really on fire tonight.
New Zealand Riesling.
New Zealand Riesling.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:04 Sat 24 Jan 2015
New Zealand Pinot?
He donated "DNA" to raise funds to buy Taylor 1287 from the Buttery?
He donated "DNA" to raise funds to buy Taylor 1287 from the Buttery?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:05 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Penfold Grange.
No. Think of sex. I mean, think of the word. (It was the 1960s.)
No. Think of sex. I mean, think of the word. (It was the 1960s.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:10 Sat 24 Jan 2015
He was "Miss Peterhouse (the drag queen's dream)" who performed at meetings of the JCR, a club inaugurated to celebrate the Sex-centenary of the college (note small c)?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:10 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Blue Nun?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:16 Sat 24 Jan 2015
I think Derek wins. The Junior Common Room at Peterhouse was called the Sex Club because it was, at that point, the Sexcentenary Club. We do not know whether it is now the Sept Club.
Chasse Spleen 1989.
Chasse Spleen 1989.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:19 Sat 24 Jan 2015
DRT wrote:New Zealand Pinot?
He donated "DNA" to raise funds to buy Taylor 1287 from the Buttery?
Made me laugh.
I am thinking about sex. Now what, do I have to make something up?
How about they were trying to get women into the college?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:20 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Owen, you're too late!! Derek wins!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:30 Sat 24 Jan 2015
I see I don't have to guess any more for Daniel's question. As an aside, you simply have to in clude the word "sex" in a thread and people get interested.
All guesses to my question were false so far. Derek was closest with his Rioja guess as the wine region we're looking for is a red wine region and also almost on the same latitude as Rioja.
All guesses to my question were false so far. Derek was closest with his Rioja guess as the wine region we're looking for is a red wine region and also almost on the same latitude as Rioja.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:35 Sat 24 Jan 2015
As someone who has spent the last few hours drinking too much(?) whisky for Burn's night, which may or may not be tonight or tomorrow, can I please feel superior somehow? I'm certainly too far [gone] to type much coherently; you wouldn't believe how much Android spell checker is helping right now... And, Bruichladdich 10yr laddie is a delicious revelationLGTrotter wrote:What kind of a Scot would refer to Buckie as Buckfast? One who has spent too much time with the Sassenachs I'll be bound.DRT wrote:Buckfast?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:42 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Andre; you're right, I feel ashamed. I have an awful suspicion that this indecipherable half bottle is from America.
Phil; you are and always will be decidedly superior. Perhaps one more before bed?
Phil; you are and always will be decidedly superior. Perhaps one more before bed?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:43 Sat 24 Jan 2015
I think it's a Napa Valley. Is that very far north of Spain?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:46 Sat 24 Jan 2015
No, not America. Think more eastern of Rioja.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:48 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Well the Chinese are making wine.
Georgia?
Georgia?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:50 Sat 24 Jan 2015
No, it's in the EU.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:56 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Tokaji?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:58 Sat 24 Jan 2015
Is Tokoji a red wine region? So no.LGTrotter wrote:Tokaji?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:05 Sun 25 Jan 2015
The next time powers need to be seized I shall do so.djewesbury wrote:I think Derek wins. The Junior Common Room at Peterhouse was called the Sex Club because it was, at that point, the Sexcentenary Club. We do not know whether it is now the Sept Club.
Ch. Musar 1991?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:09 Sun 25 Jan 2015
Not that far east. And is Lebanon a member of the EU? So no.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:11 Sun 25 Jan 2015
Erm, does it contain Nebbiolo?