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Dear B/B s,
Let's start a thread on Trivia, I will start it off..

What is a Tarpaulin muster, :?:
Cheers Bill Tomo.. :wink:
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Thats when the crew of a vessel all chipped in whatever money they had to buy the ale. Usually done on a cargo hatch, as in the olden days they were covered with tarpaulin sheets.
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Alan M,
Spot on Al , correct, but were's your Question, :?: you have to send one back.
Bill Tomo. :wink:
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Ill put one on Bill

In what month and year did the first jet passenger plane cross the Atlantic

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JJ was it 1955


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Bonesy wrote:JJ was it 1955


Keith
Good try Keith but wrong year

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Was it October 1958?
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1958, Comet 4 to New york.
Bill Tomo..

What was the name of Hoppalong Cassidys Horse, :?:
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Bill was it Topper :?:
Cheers Joe.
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fatboyjoe90 wrote:Bill was it Topper :?:
Topper is right Joe (I thought there would be only me that knew that)

Joe Where is your question :?:
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O K Bill,What’s the first thing you do when you find something that you’ve lost :?: :roll:
Cheers Joe.
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Errr - stop looking for it??? :wink:
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You stop looking for it is Correct Bernie, go to the top of the class and sharpen all the pencils. :lol: :lol:
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Scotty & Bill you'r both correct it was the 10th of October 1958 but with 2 Comet 4s London/New York and visa versa the plane from New York was flown in on a long route to avoid the Atlantic so the two could pass each other this all came about as Pan Am had boasted thy would be the first to do it with thier Boeing 707 that flight took place 2 weeks later

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Another one

The Titanic had 2 sister ships what were their names and fates

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JJ

Think they may have been Olympic & Brittanic

If I'm correct, I don't know their fates without googling and that would be cheating.
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Bernie R wrote:JJ

Think they may have been Olympic & Brittanic

If I'm correct, I don't know their fates without googling and that would be cheating.
1/2pt for the names Bernie and your right Googling would be cheating

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To avoid cheating I've just asked H - he thinks that the Olympic may have been torpedoed in WW1 - doesn't know about the Brittanic but has an idea she was scrapped.

Edit to say that H has just told me that he was wrong about that; was thinking of the Lusitania :roll: .

Another related bit of trivia for you; when looking at old postcards and photos people often mistake the Olympia for the Titanic, do you know how to tell them apart?
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Bee - number of funnels???
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Have hesitated answering Beejs question as awaiting an answer to original question, following protocol win the question entitles the next question have I got that right??
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lily8 Posted:
Have hesitated answering Beejs question as awaiting an answer to original question, following protocol win the question entitles the next question have I got that right??
Lily that sounds like an example of "the previous question" :? :lol:

I think protocol went out of the window when JJ set his queston without answering one and then Bill set a further one when Scotty had already asnwered correctly. Mine's more of a side bar.

Bern; no, not funnels.
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bjones wrote:
lily8 Posted:
Have hesitated answering Beejs question as awaiting an answer to original question, following protocol win the question entitles the next question have I got that right??
Lily that sounds like an example of "the previous question" :? :lol:

I think protocol went out of the window when JJ set his queston without answering one and then Bill set a further one when Scotty had already asnwered correctly. Mine's more of a side bar.

Bern; no, not funnels.
Bee I did confirm an answer to a question I set last night then set another however as nobody has got beyond the names the fates were as follows Brittanic was sunk due to hitting a mine when she was a hospital ship in WW1 and the Olympic went for scrapping in the late 20s early 30s

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now for another what is a Leatherneck
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What do Peter Craig, Eddy Lloyd, Danny Lewis, Ed Davis & Me have in common :lol:


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:shock: :shock:
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What you five have in common is that you are all nice guys.


Leatherneck is an American Marine(my cousin)
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Marine flyers? Remember a John Wayne movie "Flying Leathernecks". K
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Which country is the biggest per capita consumer of coffee?
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kenswayken wrote:Marine flyers? Remember a John Wayne movie "Flying Leathernecks". K
Spot on Ken but it referers to all US Marines

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bjones wrote:To avoid cheating I've just asked H - he thinks that the Olympic may have been torpedoed in WW1 - doesn't know about the Brittanic but has an idea she was scrapped.

Edit to say that H has just told me that he was wrong about that; was thinking of the Lusitania :roll: .

Another related bit of trivia for you; when looking at old postcards and photos people often mistake the Olympia for the Titanic, do you know how to tell them apart?
Larger boat davits subject to when the photo was taken because tge sinking of the Titanic had a major rethinking on lifeboat numbers

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kenswayken wrote:Marine flyers? Remember a John Wayne movie "Flying Leathernecks". K
Spot on Ken but it referers to all US Marines

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kenswayken wrote:Which country is the biggest per capita consumer of coffee?
This was recent question on show and I think the answer was Finland

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[quote="matt wethered"]Well being as I got a correct answer or don't I count. ,what is a
choke setter?
Matt[/quot

SORRY Matt missed your answer you were correct with the US Marines

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Yes, they use it as antifreeze :lol: K
Sorry Matt, I wrongly thought your answer needed flyer attached to it- simple woodman you know :roll:
JJ. Suggest Matt has a go now. K
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hang on hang on, you cant set another one till mine is answered correctly, play fair now chaps !!!!! :lol:

think Merton Road ?????


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