Gloster
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Peterthegreat
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Can't remember the name but is it St Kilda?
Gloster
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Correct. It is Conachair on Hirta, the largest island of St Kilda; it is 427 metres high.
To you to scale the heights with a new question.
Peterthegreat
Established Member
Thank you.
Which former sports commentator was awarded a DFC and Bar?
Gloster
Veteran Member
Kenneth Wolstenholme?
Peterthegreat
Established Member
Well I think that's all over!
Your turn to award us a question.
Gloster
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What is the Floral Emblem of Australia?
Gladioli? (Stands by for QI klaxon)
GRALISTAIR
Established Member
Well it is now
A gum tree?
DaleCooper
Established Member
Wattle
Gloster
Veteran Member
A gum tree?
Neither.
Correct, or more specifically the golden wattle.
“This here’s the wattle,
The emblem of our land.
You can stick it in a bottle,
You can hold it in your hand.”
Which was inaccurate at the time as it only became the official emblem on 1 September 1988. (“Disgusting! I don’t know what the BBC is coming to allowing this Marty Python fellow and his so-called Fleeing Circus to broadcast such inaccuracies.”)
To you to pick a new question.
DaleCooper
Established Member
A misspelling?
DaleCooper
Established Member
No
Yes and their descendants in Trinidad still use the term. Your turn...
Aniline & Soda (sodium carbonate)
Correct, anilines, or dyes in other words, and sodium products. BASF HQ is in Ludwigshafen. The USA and RAF dropped 53.000 high explosive bombs and 2,500,00 magnesium incendiary bombs that obliterated the city, and BASF production dropped to zero.
Gloster
Veteran Member
Was it one of those propellants used in early jet/rocket aircraft?
you're on the right lines........do you know what it was chemically?
Gloster
Veteran Member
No. I got Grade U in chemistry O-Level.
OK I'll give it to you
It was the high-test hydrogen peroxide used as the fuel oxidant
your turn
Gloster
Veteran Member
A slightly cryptic one for today.
What didn’t, but came close to, sharing its name with Algernon Moncrieff’s convenient friend?
What didn’t, but came close to, sharing its name with Algernon Moncrieff’s convenient friend?
OhNoAPacer
Member
Wasn't the naming of the Epsom Derby settled by the toss of a coin, perhaps the partner of the Earl of Derby was called Bunbury.
Gloster
Veteran Member
Correct, nearly. At a party in 1779 it was decided to create a new race and name it after either the host, the 12th Earl of Derby, or Sir Charles Bunbury, a guest who was Steward of the Jockey Club. It is likely that no coin was involved and Sir Charles merely deferred to his host. Algernon Moncrieff is a character in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest who has created an imaginary friend in the country called Bunbury whose frequent bouts of ill-health allow him to escape from London.
To you to raise the tape on the next question.
Is that not a bit of a false history?
The Epsom Derby seems to have been a continuation / relocation of the Manx Derby held at Langness on the Isle of Man, organised by the 6th Earl of Derby, who was the "Lord of Man". He gained the title in 1627 though I can't find any reference to exactly when the races started - it probably originated from ad-hoc gallops across the peninsula.
Gloster
Veteran Member
My understanding is that is more a case of linking up two conveniently similar things to provide a more dramatic story. A case of folk or false etymology.