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Forum Quiz - Saturday...

Following on from last weeks hugely successful (5 entries)  inaugural Forum quiz – we'll be having another one this Saturday morning... an otherwise very quiet time on W4.com.The quiz will begin at 11.00a.m – and end at 1.00p.m ...Of necessity – it will involve lateral thinking ....  This is because – unlike all other quizes – in pubs and on TV all our Forum contestants will be sitting with Google at their fingertips...So the challenge for the quizmaster is to partially outfox Google ...Some questions easy – some a bit harder...Subject matter:- non geeky -  general knowledge – a bit filmy - leaning towards arty farty...The rules will be posted on this thread when I've invented them...Reigning quiz champion is Samantha-Jane ... with Annabella a close runner-up..closely followed by David and Lynette.....

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d98 Comments

    How does one do 'hayfever' and 'asthma' on a community forum?(Link)

Fred Bray ● 6305d

Jim... I don't do thunder... and I never knowingly plagiarise...Are you volunteering (hope so) to do one next week?

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Hi Stuart,That's a worrying challenge..but yep I'll start a quiz on Monday which will probably go on for a week.  I'm more local history/geography..but let's see what happens.Testing! Which building in W4 suggests there's a little bit of Australia nearby?

Jim Lawes ● 6305d

Sydney House, Woodstock Road . . . . . . . .COUGH ! ! ! 

Fred Bray ● 6305d

I am an essentially “English” film..A social satire..The chaplain looks out from a huge drawer to get an apologyThe headmaster ends up with a bullet in his brain..The leading actor also made a film about fruit...Title of film........

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

ifeasy.

Stewart Dean ● 6305d

got one for you..A young Dark Knight plays opposite someone who had a film about him being.Name the film.

Stewart Dean ● 6305d

st. trinians  lol

Jerry Lynch ● 6305d

Well done Stew Dean!!!  First up with the correct answer to last night's 'taster'...It was, of course, Lindsay Anderson's suberb film 'If' – with Malcolm McDowell.I can now report that I've woken up – after a heavy night on the red vino – which was after a fabulous day at the cricket for England...Where was I?  Oh yes... now that I'm awake, I'll invent the quiz rules and post them here in about an hour..Quiz starts at 11.00a.m

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Quiz rulesThe quiz questions will be posted at 11.00a.m this morning...There are about 7 questionsThey can be answered in any order ..Each time you think you have an answer to a question – PM it to me...If your answer is correct ...you will win 1 pointIf your answer is correct – and you are also the first with the answer .... you will win 1 extra pointIf your answer is correct -and you are also 2nd or 3rd with the answer... you will win an extra half a pointNO ANSWERS TO BE POSTED ON THE FORUM THREAD....If you get stuck on a question move on...If, later on, you're still stuck – you can come onto the forumto request a clue... if there are no objections within 5 minutes – I'll post a clue for all to see..ANSWERS AND RESULTS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY AFTER 1.00p.m.Any queries???

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

What's the prize??

David Archer ● 6305d

Spam mail or postings under your login, having sent the details to Mr. Kerr.

Colin J Murphy ● 6305d

Colin - Is that actually an issue? Don't want to cause problems...The prize is the magnificent virtual solid goldforum quiz champion trophy....

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

It may be. The forum security makes disclosure of your email address an unnecessary risk.

Colin Murphy ● 6305d

But I don't want anyone's e-mail address... can't they simply delete it and still PM me...Because I won't be PMing anybody back... and I'll be deleting them all once I've read them...This was the only way I could think of to run a quiz on the forum - keeping the answers quiet - so that everyone is constantly involved and in the game...Or have I ben a clot?  In which case it can easily be cancelled..

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Stick with first in, best dressed.

Colin J Murphy ● 6305d

Colin, I think you are being rather harsh on Stuart.  I have no reason to feel concerned that participating in the Quiz would expose me to anything apart from a most welcome and enjoyable distraction.  I would like to credit Stuart for putting his time and energy into the proposed quiz and think it very community spirited of him.  People can choose to be part of this or not.  It's as simple as that.  I am sure you have our best intentions at heart tho, you seem a decent chap!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

REMINDER FOR LATECOMERS ...PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY ANSWERS ON THE FORUM...INSTEAD – LOOK BACK ON THIS THREADAND READ THE RULES...  thanks...QUESTION 1My 1st is a hat and a man of footballMy 2nd is both a famous university - and a famous hotel where angels once dined...I often worked with Ruby and DickI am a Hollywood great – who?QUESTION 2International sport..Name the opponents who “The Pilgrims CC” - Based at The Tabard in Bath Road – and Chiswick's premier cricket XI will be playing tomorrow.....QUESTION 3My first is a king who prayed quite a lotwhenever his subjects took time out to plotNow follow me up over three hundred yearsand look for a traitor who broadcast his wearsthis someone whose face .. no enemies sawhad a lordly nickname which rhymed with his jaw...who am I?QUESTION 4I am a great but neglected film – a flawed masterpieceA romantic comedy – 2 of the 3 leads are English My director is a famous genius of Holywood – he writes too..I begin in New York – on a private Armbruster jet I switch to Rome – and then on a boat to an island..We meet Carlucci – and Blodgett – and The Trotter Brothers -whose name we misspell...Zinc-lined coffins are important... “Ask Fat Arse if she wants a ride”... is a central quoteToothpicks might helpname the film....QUESTION 5In our very own Chiswick High Roadname the 2 shops either side of Marks & Spencer..QUESTION 6Google my name and discover about 290,000 hitsI was educated locally – at St Paul's Girls' School...I was a pioneer in the field of molecular biology...I played a central part in the discovery of the molecular structureof an acid – arguably the scientific event of the 20th century...I died  -  in 1958...aged 37QUESTION 7My first is my last and testament to lawwhich precedes a simple latin translation for...a bit of maths that kiddies can  do...and leads us on to a cocktail choreand the arms of a man in days of yore...who am I?QUESTION 8I am a 200 meter high granite rock – rising starkly out of a flat central plain..Once, there was a great citadel on the top..Visitors climb to the summit via a winding iron staircaseattached to the sides of the rock..At ground level, they enter through 2 massive lions pawsand an impressive stone staircase....Halfway up the rock – inside a natural fissure -are the famous frescoes – the so-called maidens...Name this rock........................

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Q8:Sigiriya

A Knight ● 6305d

I am very sorry, I did read the rules - just momentarily lost my mind!

A Knight ● 6305d

aNGELA - PLEASE ... no answers on the forum - it spoils it for everyone... read the rules...you're in the lead by the way...

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

with Annabella a close second...

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Got all except 1 & 7.

Colin J Murphy ● 6305d

Get them to me and you'll be in the lead....Anyone want any clues???current position is Annabella ahead with 7 pointsfolowed by Angela with 6....

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Or I could take your word for it and award you virtual points .... your posting was timed at 11.40...

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Update ... Colin is the new leader...But Colin - your answer to 3 is only half right - so wrong... but you can have as many goes as you like..Sorry Annabella - your answer to 1 isn't right...

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

3 and 7 aarghh!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

Somethings missing here . .Imagine a TV quiz show, where the contestants whispers the answer into Chris Tarrants ear, and then he reveals who the winner is the following week :o(Where's the excitement, the anticipation, so typical of CW4 forum?  ( That's NOT a quiz question by the way )

Fred Bray ● 6305d

Colin's got Q3 correct...Annabella's cracked Q1....We're half way... anyone want a clue????

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Well it is exciting enough for me Fred.... the adrenalin is really pumping!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

nah... I'm sort of enjoying the pain!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

" Well it is exciting enough for me Fred.... the adrenalin is really pumping! "Blimey ! ! !Was it YOU I was watching on dat website last nite ?

Fred Bray ● 6305d

new leader ... Annabella on 10 and a halfColin on 9 and a half  I think.....

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

another change of lead...Colin now on 11....

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

lol... sssh!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

Annabella - Q7 ... you're getting close....what you sent me is correct...a few more steps to go..

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

You must have had my no. 7 answer for a while.

Colin J Murphy ● 6305d

Colin ... you got it!!!  well done..

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Thanks, a fun quiz - once you start thinking laterally rather than literally. I was stuck for a while on which famous university was called Ritz...

Colin J Murphy ● 6305d

I know what you mean Colin! I am one of those 'arty' non logical types and this stuff really gets the old grey matter going.

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

Sorry Annabella ... 7 is wrong...Strange one this - we have just 8 contestants - and 5 of them are very nice lurkers...Results in 29 minutes...

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Stuart how on earth did you work out how long this would take by the way!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

I didn't .. it's all a guess.  I tried two of the questions out on Bobby Osborne yesterday - and he said they were too difficult and I should only ask the 2.  You lot have proved him wrong.........

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

still not giving up!

Annabella Fleming ● 6305d

Well... I have done my best. I gave up a long time ago... a lot of references to movies etc, and other 'artistic' type things. As such, most questions I didn't even know where to start. Now, if the quiz had been based around the scientific world, perhaps I wouldn't have given up so easily!Thank you very much Stuart - lots of fun.

A Knight ● 6305d

Maybe next time there could be a Bobby approved quiz too!

Marie Richardson ● 6305d

On the theme of booze, birds and balls?

Colin J Murphy ● 6305d

Alcohol could be an interesting topic but I'm not much on ornithology or sports...

Marie Richardson ● 6305d

Anyway ... thanks to all of you for taking part... I enjoyed it too..The outright winner of the Gold Medal, the Gold Cup and the title of undisputed king of the Forum Quiz in August 2009 ......is COLIN MURPHY – with  13 points....In second place with 10 and a half points is ANNABELLA  FLEMINGSpecial mention to Angela Knight with 6 points from just 3 answers.....ANSWERS...Q1  Busby Berkeley..  I juggled the quote from A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Sq (because of Google) – from “there were angels dining at The Ritz..Vera Lynn ....  Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell..I got some American friends to bring me over a box set of all the BB musicals .. 42ns Street, the 2 Goldiggers . .. Footlight Parade.. Dames... Q2  Coulsdon & whatever they call themselves.. everyone found the website – which was the idea.Q3  James Joyce  ...The king was James 1 .. his bible ... also the plots – loads of them inc 1605.. the traitor – Lord Haw Haw... William JoyceQ4  Avanti – one of my favourites.  Wilder got everything right here .. but made one dreadful miscalculation.  The plot depends on a US businessman taking a secret annual holiday and meeting up with his occasional lover.  American ladies hated the film is case it gave their husbands ideas.The Trotta (spelt with an a) are central – I changed it because of google.  Toothpick was a reference to the wonderful T Charlie in Some Like It Hot..Q5  everyone got it right... I wouldn't have...Q6  Rosalind Franklin.  I made a R3 doc about her in the 1980s... BBC TV used all my stuff to make their movie Life Story.. with Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind.  Bit of a heroine of mine..Q7  William Shakespeare... the fist line is a will as in last will and testament.  The bit of maths is a sum... translate that from latin to I am... hence Will-i-am.  Shake a cocktail ... and carry a spear..That was a tough one...Q8  Sigiriya Rock.  Now that the war looks over – Sri Lanka is a great place to visit.  It has beaches etc – but the culture tours are fascinating.  So much to see.. And lovely people who smile... Lots of nice Buddhists.  The frescoes are glorious... quite sexy too....

Stuart Kerr ● 6305d

Congratulations Colin and thank you Stuart!Q7 priceless! - I was messing about with William Shaker! as for Q3 I opted for Luke and John (must be the Catholic schooling!).Very enjoyable couple of hours, I'd better get dressed now!

Annabella Fleming ● 6304d

well over 30 PMs - all successfully deleted....

Stuart Kerr ● 6304d

My head is still hurting (could be last night's Bacardis though).  Just been mulling over the Q&As again - very good quiz, well done Stuart.

Annabella Fleming ● 6304d

Congratulations Colin and Annabella! Very impressed with your scores. I didn't get any of them right ...Looking forward to next Saturday, Stuart!

Julianna Baggott ● 6304d

Ah Susann... you ask about next Saturday..Maybe – I'm not sure.We had a lovely group earlier on and everyone had fun...But it was hardly a crowd-puller..I never expected us to draw the vast majority -the forum busybodies and the opinionated who only come to complain -But I hoped we'd have attracted a few more of the real 'characters' -the zany brigade – the bright things who know the meaning of fun..The nearest we got was our sweet little Bred Fraywho always comes(npi) like a moth to a lightbulb 'til he gets bored...Is it worth trying again next week?Or once a month?Shame about the cricket....

Stuart Kerr ● 6304d

... for not hitherto gracing this thread with my supreme presence. Stu, glad the quiz worked okay. Don't listen to Colin Murphy. I've been busy so couldn't partake - and to be honest I'm crap at quizzes.I did try your previous movie quiz and got as far as "Clockwork Orange" (and Roddy MacDowell, was it?) but because of my sadly limited brain power I just couldn't connect to "If". You need imagination and a good thought process for that sort of thing and some of simply haven't got it.

Robin Taylor ● 6304d

Sorry Stu, Al and I missed your quiz as out exploring London.  Would loved to have taken part.  Wondering if a Sunday is a better day. :) Well done everyone.

Rachael Spencer ● 6304d

I agree with Raquel on that Stu.i play tennis between 11 and 1 Saturday.Sunday morning would be perfect-specially since i stopped going to church!

bobby osborne ● 6304d

I missed it too - but latish Sunday am would be great! xx

Michelle Weaver ● 6304d

A forum quiz I organised ages back....They DO work - but need a lot of thought.  Especially trying to outfox google...

Stuart Kerr ● 2410d

Explain!

Jim Lawes ● 2410d

Should I get my lonely brain cell out of mothballs?

Keith Iddon ● 2410d

Ennismore Avenue was once called Bohemian Avenue apparently!

Jim Lawes ● 2409d

Which Chiswick Pub is and was adjacent to the spot where Calvi was loaded onto a boat and transported down the River Thames.....and to which Bridge?

Jim Lawes ● 2409d

Hi Jim... How you doing?  We should have a cuppa/glass when this is done...  Meanwhile - I set quizes not solve 'em..Gissa clue..xx

Stuart Kerr ● 2409d

Hi Jim, hope you are well. I haven't a clue about the answer but I will guess The Bulls Head and London Bridge.

Keith Iddon ● 2409d

I could ask the same about Gabriel Syme

Paul Campbell ● 2409d

Hello Keith. JL much better now thank goodness. You're correct. Calvi was led down that alleyway by the side of the John Bull....from Thames Road...to board a vessel to take him secretly to BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE where his body was later found by others hung! My MI29 contact would tell me no more except to say "Jim you don't know 'alf what goes on!"I wonder if that alley has a name? Weren't almshouses there?

Jim Lawes ● 2408d

What was this world famous ballerina's name? She was appearing in London...and escaped her handlers and hid locally.What road did she move to? And who collaborated with her?

Jim Lawes ● 2408d

"Calvi was led down that alleyway by the side of the John Bull."You mean the Bull's Head, I assume."I wonder if that alley has a name? Weren't almshouses there?"It's called Grove Row.  Yes, the almshouses are still there, converted into 3 dwellings known as Hopkin Morris Cottages after a former Middlesex councillor whose estate funded their restoration in the 1930s.

Richard Jennings ● 2408d

Thanks for that correction and extra information Richard.GROVE ROW: Apparently there is a Blue Plaque down that way for Donald Pleasance! Did he live in one of the converted almhouses or on Strand on the Hrrn...where I remember PC49 living along there.

Jim Lawes ● 2407d

The Donald Pleasence blue plaque is on 11 Strand on the Green, on the corner of Grove Row across the alley from the ex-almshouses.  It's all on Google Street View!

Richard Jennings ● 2407d

PC49 was a bit before my time but I was close friends for a while with his son, Chris Reece, after his father died and they moved to the same small town as me in the Wirral. SMall world

Guy Lambert ● 2407d

Her initials etc: NM c/o No.xxx PR, W4 and under the care and attention of Mr VR!

Jim Lawes ● 2407d

Thanks for that Guy. Yes Brian Reece Pc49 who used to be on the wireless. I recall that he lived in the riverside house woth the big willow tree outside..a beauty that I'm not sure if it has survived. A fascinating area down there. ..with that old water fountain which exCouncillorPaul Lynch had restored. .then there was the Marine Garage...for boats only...and the celebrated old Wheelhouse Club...long demolished and developed into apartments.Mr David Stanners lives nearby in Grovr Park Road and he survived the blast from the V2 bomb when it landed in Staveley Road in September 1944. David was just at the Fauconberg Road junction. His niece is the top lady at Saatchi and Saatchi. (Jim you do go on!)

Jim Lawes ● 2407d

What on earth was "Dirty Bertie" doing parading along Chiswick High Road with throngs of locals observing?

Jim Lawes ● 2407d

It was Natalia Marakova who was in London with the Kirov Ballet.She hid at a house in Park Road,Chiswick..the home of Vladimir Rodzianko...a former pupil of Chiswick Grammar School in the 1950s. He is amongst his class mates on Flickr. .

Jim Lawes ● 2406d

I was recently told that he was once living in Dukes Avenue and on Chiswick High Road above Foster's bookshop. ..had been a local Labour Councillor ...but had failed to be adopted by the local Labour Party to be their local election candidate.  His name?

Jim Lawes ● 2406d

Correction: "but he failed to be adopted as a the local PARLIAMENTARY election candidate by the local Labour Party"

Jim Lawes ● 2406d

It was Frank Field. ...now in the House of Lords.

Jim Lawes ● 2405d

One for Tina?

Jim Lawes ● 2405d

Which son might have said that?

Jim Lawes ● 2404d

SB continues the RKGGTG sequence...which relates to what?

Jim Lawes ● 2403d

I guess you mean Natalia Makarova ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Makarova

Richard Greenhough ● 2403d

Something to do with the future Edward VII renting Chiswick House ?

Richard Greenhough ● 2403d

Does that mean that RP is next?

Sarah U Benson ● 2403d

Well done Sarah you're on the correct track. You've sussed it.They are the District Line stations from Richmond. Has anyone been all the way to Upminster to find out what the heck is there?

Jim Lawes ● 2403d

George v ,king Edward vii bridge ,more commonly kew Bridge

Tina Gallacher ● 2403d

You're quite right Richard and thanks. She was possibly taken for a treat to that Russian restaurant that used to be next to Richmond Police Station...and where a Russian singer used to feature on occasions.

Jim Lawes ● 2403d

Yes Edward VII Richard. I had in mind the occasion when he travelled down the High Road ...with crowds of school children hsving day off School...to the New Kew Bridge. .which he named after himself. Great illustration of the event in The Express Pub.

Jim Lawes ● 2403d

Quite right Tina. GEORGE V. George came to Chiswick in the 1920s to open the new Civil Service Sports Ground on Dukes Meadows. His son..the future George VI ...attended with.

Jim Lawes ● 2403d

What was the name of that Chiswick High Road restaurant where they used to throw plates on the floor to entertain us?

Jim Lawes ● 2403d

....where you were tackling a meze!

Jim Lawes ● 2402d

Where was this major choral work performed in Chiswick last year?

Jim Lawes ● 2402d

Seemingly were well fed. An explanation?

Jim Lawes ● 2401d

The restaurant was called "Nofaro"....a fun spot...located on Chiswick High Road where Nandos is now.

Jim Lawes ● 2401d

The performance took place at St Paul's Church in Grove Park Road....and wonderful iy was too.

Jim Lawes ● 2399d

Two former retailers have left their mosiac nameplates on the pavements of Chiswick....in front of the premises of present day occupants. If you can....name the two former retailers.

Jim Lawes ● 2399d

Mylos,the ice-cream parlour,is one but I don't know the other one.

Ben Gemmingen ● 2399d