Xenophon PCDGS
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Correct. Over to you.
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Struggling to open a tin of meat the other day [I had carelessly broken the silly little key supplied with it!], I remembered some characters in a book who became similarly exasperated with a tin of pineapple to which they had been looking-forward.
What is the name of the book, who were the characters, and what happened to the said tin of pineapple?
What is the name of the book, who were the characters, and what happened to the said tin of pineapple?
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Not too sure of my ground on this.....
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
George Wingrave
Carl Hentschel
The dog ate the pineapple sections.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
George Wingrave
Carl Hentschel
The dog ate the pineapple sections.
You're right with the author and the characters, but not with the fate of the tin!
[I wonder how Montmorency managed to get into it when Jerome, Harris & George could not!
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So I'm going to do a Sidorczuk and request the last part of the question be answered correctly.
[I wonder how Montmorency managed to get into it when Jerome, Harris & George could not!
].So I'm going to do a Sidorczuk and request the last part of the question be answered correctly.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Apologies, confusing the dog and the fate of the pineapples in the tin with another novel.
After beating and banging the tin without success, it was thrown overboard in frustration, where it sank with the contents not enjoyed.
After beating and banging the tin without success, it was thrown overboard in frustration, where it sank with the contents not enjoyed.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Which artist painted a Norman cathedral more than 20 times from a room over a drapers shop and where was this cathedral ?
Buttsy
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Now then, no levity please. This is one of the more ethereal threads on the Quizzes and Games Forum..
Peter Mugridge
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Only ½ an answer, I know, but:
There was a French impressionist who painted one particular cathedral over thirty times wasn't there? But his name escapes me... I suspect it was he, though?
There was a French impressionist who painted one particular cathedral over thirty times wasn't there? But his name escapes me... I suspect it was he, though?
Xenophon PCDGS
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You are on track with a French impressionist painter...But I need both his name and the name of the cathedral that he painted so many times .
Monet and it was Rouen. I think he was trying to catch the light at different times. I'm not much of an art fiend so apologies if I'm wrong.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Correct on all counts.
Over to you to set the next conundrum.
Over to you to set the next conundrum.
Blimey, it is harder than you would think to set a suitable question. From which popularly named place would you generally sail from to the birth place of the Inca Sun God?
Xenophon PCDGS
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I have most probably dug too deep in the history of South America, as to me, Inti was the ancient Incan sun god, but Cuzco is quite a distance inland and Matarani in Peru is the major port in the local coastal area.
Well you aren't a million miles away with Cusco. Same general part of the Andean region. Different country though. Inti reminds me of Inti Punku which is the Sun Gate at Machu Picchu. I have some lovely photos I took there. Vivid yellow butterflies as big as your hand. By the by my profile photo is a Peru Rail loco going through the streets of Aguas Callientes which is the jumping off point if you visit Machu Picchu.
As a clue there is a pop song with the name of the place but the song actually takes it's name from somewhere in another country which is named after the point of departure.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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I will now go for the deity of Viracocha (the Sun God and Creator) and the inland sacred site of Ingapirca in Ecuador, with Guayaquil as the seaport.
Wrong country and it isn't a sea port. It is a land locked country and right next to Peru.
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Apologies for the delayed reply. The answer was to get the boat from Copacabana to the Isla Del Sol on lake Titicaca. In which city would you catch the tram from Garden Road to The Peak?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bang on. I've been lucky enough to make both of the trips in my questions and neither were particularly comfortable. The one in Bolivia was by far the most bizarre.
Apologies Paul, your question.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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What did the Jews hang their harps upon in Mesopotamia ?
Xenophon PCDGS
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I had "Willows" as my answer, "so it is correct you are", as they would say in parts of Wales that I have visited.
Over to you to set the next one.
Over to you to set the next one.
Just as a wild stab in the dark I'll say Elgar. I'm not up on my classical music and I can only think of Elgar and Britten and I think Britten was later.
As for the last question about the Jewish harp I admit I didn't have a clue, looked it up and thus didn't answer, I would have guessed at from their lip or jaw, ha ha.
As for the last question about the Jewish harp I admit I didn't have a clue, looked it up and thus didn't answer, I would have guessed at from their lip or jaw, ha ha.
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Good question, I'll admit to not having a clue.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ralph Vaughan Williams was a pupil of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (whose own musical talent was recognised by being the organist at Trinity College, Cambridge whilst still an undergraduate and who then became Professor of Music at Cambridge as well as being a founding Professor at the Royal College of Music).
Good - you've got the reference to my mystery composer being a pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford.
And you're also right in that Vaughan Williams did not, like his father, take Holy Orders.
The important clue is in the word "literally"
And you're also right in that Vaughan Williams did not, like his father, take Holy Orders.
The important clue is in the word "literally"
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