Buttsy
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HS1, Dartford Tunnel, North Woolwich subway, Blackwall tunnels, Greenwich tunnel, Rotherhithe tunnel?
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theageofthetra
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HS1 & Dartford aren't in Greater London as far as I'm aware & Bicycles are not allowed in either Blackwall tunnels. The other 3 are correct though you must be crazy to go through the Rotherhithe with the fumes and the gradients at each end! There are more though.
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Buttsy
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I'm surprised bikes aren't allowed in the Blackwall tunnels as the road is only an 'A' road and therefore, usually, open to bikes, although common sense would say you wouldn't want to use it.
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DLR tunnels at Woolwich & Island Gardens.
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Thames Tunnel
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theageofthetra
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Thats the rest I know of, your floor.
Buttsy
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Who originally released the song 'The Only Way Is Up'?
Strathclyder
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Otis Clay?
Buttsy
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Correct
Strathclyder
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What is the longest lasting & farthest traveling Pacific hurricane currently on record?
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Xenophon PCDGS
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The 1994 cyclone called Hurricane John was one of the few cyclones that were also described as a hurricane, lasted for 31 days and was given a category 5 status during part of its travelled distance of 13,280 km.
Strathclyder
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Correct. Your turn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Which pioneer discovered in soil, an agent to counter Koch's bacillus....and what name was given to it ?
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Not a single attempt at an answer...:cry:
It was Selman Waksman and the agent in the soil was Streptomycin
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Let us try another one...
Who or what supplied St Pancras vestry with eight acres of land for a cemetery ?
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Not a single attempt at an answer...:cry:
It was Selman Waksman and the agent in the soil was Streptomycin
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Let us try another one...
Who or what supplied St Pancras vestry with eight acres of land for a cemetery ?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Correct. Over to you.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I will try with the Elgar Symphony no. 1 in A-flat major (Op.55) that was first performed by the Halle Orchestra in Manchester in 1908.
Darren R
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Sounds like the sort of thing Sir Thomas Beecham might have said!
It is indeed!
Again, we have two posters who are correct! [I must stop setting two-part questions
]Again, may I suggest you and Paul Sidorczuk decide who will set the next one?
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Last time this happened, I stood aside, so this time, I will take up the challenge:-
Who combined a surgical approach to Schizophrenia with Portuguese diplomacy ?
Who combined a surgical approach to Schizophrenia with Portuguese diplomacy ?
cjp
Member
The question made me think of a lobotomy?
Although where diplomacy would come into this I cannot imagine (beyond all politicians having to be schizophrenic liars for their country's good?
) so, as I can think of no Portugese politicians to hazard a guess with - only sailors, I await the real answer with great interest.??Are comments, remarks or questions like this countenanced here by the powers that be?? In case the answer is no I will say Vasco De Gama as an answer
Xenophon PCDGS
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A brave effort from the first one to try one of my most difficult conundrums...but not correct.
D841 Roebuck
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Hmm...
Portuguese Diplomacy?
Portuguese Man-o-War??
Two possibilities I can think of. Lord Palmerston was fond of sending gunboats, so I'll go for him!
Portuguese Diplomacy?
Portuguese Man-o-War??
Two possibilities I can think of. Lord Palmerston was fond of sending gunboats, so I'll go for him!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Again, a good effort, but not correct.
Do not forget that the first part of my conundrum made reference to a surgical approach to Schizophrenia.
I did seem to remember that the surgeon who introduced the procedure called "lobotomy" was also Portuguese foreign minister at some time. I was under the mistaken impression that his name was "Lobo" (a common enough name in Portugal). I did look it up though and discovered that his name was António Egas Moniz.
Open floor if I am correct.
Open floor if I am correct.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but I will try with a somewhat convoluted effort that might well stretch the bounds of incredulity..
In Ripponden, there is a sheep farm that has a flock of the very old English breed of sheep called the Ryeland, which was also bred some 700 years ago by the Benedictine monks of Leominster Abbey who in turn had a branch of their order at Bromfield Priory in Shropshire.
In Ripponden, there is a sheep farm that has a flock of the very old English breed of sheep called the Ryeland, which was also bred some 700 years ago by the Benedictine monks of Leominster Abbey who in turn had a branch of their order at Bromfield Priory in Shropshire.
Again, I take my hat off to you, for your amazing and highly convulted answer is nothing like the connection I had in mind, but I will take your word for Ryeland sheep being bred in Ripponden, and originating in Leominster.
Your turn.
P.S. The connection I had in mind was Sir Derek Jacobi.
He starred as Brother Cadfael in Ellis Peter's stories about Cadfael, based on Shrewsbury Abbey, and as Alan Butterworth in Sally Wainwright's "Last Tango in Halifax", where he originally lived at the home of his daughter, Gillian[played by Nicola Walker], on a sheep farm above Ripponden.
Your turn.
P.S. The connection I had in mind was Sir Derek Jacobi.
He starred as Brother Cadfael in Ellis Peter's stories about Cadfael, based on Shrewsbury Abbey, and as Alan Butterworth in Sally Wainwright's "Last Tango in Halifax", where he originally lived at the home of his daughter, Gillian[played by Nicola Walker], on a sheep farm above Ripponden.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Who was the Sublime Paralytic, who died of cholera in 1903 ?