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Xenophon PCDGS
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Correct. Please set a new one to solve.
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Open floor if correct....
Open floor if correct....
Xenophon PCDGS
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What was the HQ of the Kentish smugglers Quested and Ransley and where was it situated ?
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Entirely correct....Over to you.
Which author of Spy fiction has a character whose working alias is Jane Falconer, and what is the "real" name of the character?
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OK - perhaps this question is a bit too "specialist" to be in the General Knowledge section!
The answer [if there's anyone out there remotely interested
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The author is Dame Stella Rimington, and her character with the alias Jane Falconer is Elizabeth[Liz]Carlyle.
Open floor.
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OK - perhaps this question is a bit too "specialist" to be in the General Knowledge section!
The answer [if there's anyone out there remotely interested
]:-The author is Dame Stella Rimington, and her character with the alias Jane Falconer is Elizabeth[Liz]Carlyle.
Open floor.
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cjp
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Ok get your pens and paper out for an easy one.
What is the ratio between a short quire, a short ream and a short bale?
OK then
What is the ratio between a quire, a ream and a bale
What is the ratio between a short quire, a short ream and a short bale?
OK then
What is the ratio between a quire, a ream and a bale
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Xenophon PCDGS
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A normal quire is 25 sheets
A short quire is 24 sheets
A normal ream is 500 sheets
A short ream is 480 sheets
A normal printers bale is 5000 sheets
A short printers bale is 4800 sheets
When I was a mere gossoon, there were no "A2" sizes at jobbing printers, but the three popular paper sizes in jobbing printers were those of large post, medium and double cap.
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I hope that this will not lead to a sudden spate of conundrums that entail knowledge of chains, pecks, bushels, rods, poles or perches...:roll:
A short quire is 24 sheets
A normal ream is 500 sheets
A short ream is 480 sheets
A normal printers bale is 5000 sheets
A short printers bale is 4800 sheets
When I was a mere gossoon, there were no "A2" sizes at jobbing printers, but the three popular paper sizes in jobbing printers were those of large post, medium and double cap.
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I hope that this will not lead to a sudden spate of conundrums that entail knowledge of chains, pecks, bushels, rods, poles or perches...:roll:
cjp
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Peter Mugridge
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High Dyke
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Arthur Edward Jeune "James" Collins achieved what in 1899?
Xenophon PCDGS
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In a junior house match at Clifton College, Bristol, between Clarke's House and North Town House in 1899 in a seven hour period spread over four days, when lessons were not intervening, thirteen year old Collins opened the batting for Clarke's House and carried his bat through the innings, amassing the highest-ever recorded innings score by a batsman of 628 not out from a Clarke's House score of 836 all out. North Town House scored 87 all out in their first innings and following on, were 61 all out in their second innings. Clarke's House won the match by an innings and 688 runs.
Collins was also a useful right arm medium pace bowler and recorded match bowling figures of 11 wickets for 63 runs which must have been galling for North Town House.
On 11th November 1914, as a Captain in the 5th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, he was killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres.
Open floor, if correct
Collins was also a useful right arm medium pace bowler and recorded match bowling figures of 11 wickets for 63 runs which must have been galling for North Town House.
On 11th November 1914, as a Captain in the 5th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, he was killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres.
Open floor, if correct
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High Dyke
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Welshman & Paul are both correct.
Open Floor as indicated.
Open Floor as indicated.
deltic1989
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David Lloyd George.
Could be one of the greatest Welshmen of all time. He was the only Welsh politician to hold the office of Prime Minister.
He always considered himself to be Welsh due to his Parentage (Both his Mother and Father were Welsh), however he was Born in Manchester.
Could be one of the greatest Welshmen of all time. He was the only Welsh politician to hold the office of Prime Minister.
He always considered himself to be Welsh due to his Parentage (Both his Mother and Father were Welsh), however he was Born in Manchester.
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deltic1989
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Staying with quotations:
Who was quoted as saying, "If World War 3 is a Nuclear war. World War 4 will be faught with bows and arrows." ?
Who was quoted as saying, "If World War 3 is a Nuclear war. World War 4 will be faught with bows and arrows." ?
High Dyke
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The original quote is attributed to a young lieutenant. Reporters at Bikini were questioning an army lieutenant about what weapons would be used in the next war.
I dunno, he said, but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, theyll be using spears!
However Dean Arthur L. Beeley, director of the University of Utahs Institute of World Affairs, elevates the anonymous lieutenant to the status of a sage, and substitutes different weapons.
Unless the free people of the earth unite to avert World War III, he said, it is probableas some sage recently prophesiedthat World War IV will be fought with bows and arrows.
I dunno, he said, but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, theyll be using spears!
However Dean Arthur L. Beeley, director of the University of Utahs Institute of World Affairs, elevates the anonymous lieutenant to the status of a sage, and substitutes different weapons.
Unless the free people of the earth unite to avert World War III, he said, it is probableas some sage recently prophesiedthat World War IV will be fought with bows and arrows.
deltic1989
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It would appear that I have misquoted. In my defence I was going from a memory of my GCSE Religious Studies Textbook, which attributed this quote to Albert Einstein.
However further research has indicated that his actual quote was "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".
Since my fellow Yeller Belly, has provided a source for the actual quotation in my original question, the hot seat is quite rightly his.
Over to you High Dyke.
However further research has indicated that his actual quote was "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".
Since my fellow Yeller Belly, has provided a source for the actual quotation in my original question, the hot seat is quite rightly his.
Over to you High Dyke.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Seven days have elapsed since the last correct entry.
We appear to await a new conundrum being set.
We appear to await a new conundrum being set.
cjp
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An axiom Paul - I today sent a PM to High Dyke
theageofthetra
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Name four movies where the film begins with one of main characters running or walking, but they don't speak.
deltic1989
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James Bond - From Russia with love
James Bond - Goldeneye
Grease
The Sound of Music
James Bond - Goldeneye
Grease
The Sound of Music
theageofthetra
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Grease has a cartoon! So not that one
High Dyke
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Spy Hard starring Leslie Nielsen?
Apologies for the absence and lack of setting a new question a while ago. Whilst i have been visiting the forum i am currently undertaking the challenge of counting through the stations used in the Rolling Stock quiz. So far i've covered 100 pages...only another 500+ to go through. This may take some time.:roll:
Apologies for the absence and lack of setting a new question a while ago. Whilst i have been visiting the forum i am currently undertaking the challenge of counting through the stations used in the Rolling Stock quiz. So far i've covered 100 pages...only another 500+ to go through. This may take some time.:roll: