Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage, may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian era in quizzing, when one could ask the QM to hang on until one explained to a skeptical bearer exactly what was going wrong with the gin-and-lime.
..."eheu, fugaces"....and all that. Sent from my iPad On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikhil Mehra <nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Mau plateau, Kenya > > Did you use web search in coming up with the answer? > > Which bring me to the reason I have moved away from quizzing circles. Web > search, Wikipedia and Google book search have not only made it unnecessary to > remember obscure trivia but also made the lives of quiz masters easier. Quiz > masters can now ask questions (to the strain of Humpty Dumpty, no less) about > little known cannons in Colchester without needing the ability to locate > Essex on a map or knowing who fought whom in the English Civil War. > > Thaths > > > Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel > From: Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> > Sender: silklist-bounces+nikhil.mehra773=gmail....@lists.hserus.net > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:36:59 -0700 > To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> > ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Subject: Re: [silk] quiz help > > Speaking of abstruse trivia.... > > 1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked? > > 2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of land > to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews. The > offer was declined in 1905. Where was this land that could have become the > new Israel? > > Thaths > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I must thank this thread. You people just gifted me one of the quiz > > Tcchah, I meant, "one round of the quiz". > > > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders > > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
