RSQ - A Ruud Awakening

[Tal]

Have just checked the others and they're OK. But George VI was called Bertie.

Anyone remember Colin Firth getting called George?

his title is fine, he was known to the world as King George VI. No one in England would know about the Bertie thing if it wasn't for Colin Firth. George VI is fine

Oh so it doesn't matter how many people knew him as George? So any king whose first name was George is a correct answer then?

[Laxie]

Have just checked the others and they're OK. But George VI was called Bertie.

Anyone remember Colin Firth getting called George?

his title is fine, he was known to the world as King George VI. No one in England would know about the Bertie thing if it wasn't for Colin Firth. George VI is fine

Oh so it doesn't matter how many people knew him as George? So any king whose first name was George is a correct answer then?

Wasn't that kinda the point of the question?

[ruud]

7) Name a country visited by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 'Long Way Down' from John O'Groats to Cape Town

Haven't been looking forward to this one, but here goes:

Correct Answers:

UK, France, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa


PASSES
Cf   PASS   0
Sweetman   PASS   0

ACES
Tal   Botswana   1
Laxie   Ethiopia   1
mondatoo   South Africa   1
Nakor   Tunisia   1
Skippy   UK   1

rfqqqabc   France   2
DMorgan   France   2
TightEnd   Rwanda   2
MintTrav   Rwanda   2

FAILS
millidonk   Brazil   7
AdamM   England   7
taximan007   England   7
TRIP5   Scotland   7
kinboshi   Scotland   7
moonandback   Vietnam   7

England and Scotland are not in fact countries, according to UN definition

 

[Tal]

Wow.

I shall put my feet up and enjoy...

 

[Laxie]

Wow.

I shall put my feet up and enjoy...

 

I'm going for a re-fill while this takes off.   

[Tal]

Have just checked the others and they're OK. But George VI was called Bertie.

Anyone remember Colin Firth getting called George?

his title is fine, he was known to the world as King George VI. No one in England would know about the Bertie thing if it wasn't for Colin Firth. George VI is fine

Oh so it doesn't matter how many people knew him as George? So any king whose first name was George is a correct answer then?

Wasn't that kinda the point of the question?

Don't you start.

Anyway, as George VI's name was Albert, it would seem not.

It is widely understood that, when Her Majesty passes away, Prince Charles will take the name George VII, partly out of respect for his Grandfather and partly because the last two Charleses did not end well. Will we know him as Charles or George?

[MintTrav]

Just typed "I'm gonna make a cup of coffee while this one gets resolved" and then I see you two have beaten me to it with your wittiness.

Might take a while.

[ruud]

will give you a few minutes for this to sink in

[TRIP5]

7) Name a country visited by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 'Long Way Down' from John O'Groats to Cape Town

Haven't been looking forward to this one, but here goes:

Correct Answers:

UK, France, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa


PASSES
Cf   PASS   0
Sweetman   PASS   0

ACES
Tal   Botswana   1
Laxie   Ethiopia   1
mondatoo   South Africa   1
Nakor   Tunisia   1
Skippy   UK   1

rfqqqabc   France   2
DMorgan   France   2
TightEnd   Rwanda   2
MintTrav   Rwanda   2

FAILS
millidonk   Brazil   7
AdamM   England   7
taximan007   England   7
TRIP5   Scotland   7
kinboshi   Scotland   7
moonandback   Vietnam   7

England and Scotland are not in fact countries, according to UN definition

 

Ahem - I'll go first then will I??

Total joke.. if the question had said 'name blah blah according to UN definition' then you could indeed fail but it said country and even in the loosest sense of the work wales is still classed as a country.. therefore to disallow Scotland and England is simply a ploy for QM attention!!

I dont even want to win but cannot and will not fail on such QM idiocy!!!!!!!

..and on that basis I OBfeckingJECT

[ruud]

and Tal, George VI is staying. If HM had passed over the weekend, George VII would have been an equally acceptable answer.

[TightEnd]

Oh wow. 2012 rsq Londonderry moment.

[Tal]

7) Name a country visited by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 'Long Way Down' from John O'Groats to Cape Town

Haven't been looking forward to this one, but here goes:

Correct Answers:

UK, France, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa


PASSES
Cf   PASS   0
Sweetman   PASS   0

ACES
Tal   Botswana   1
Laxie   Ethiopia   1
mondatoo   South Africa   1
Nakor   Tunisia   1
Skippy   UK   1

rfqqqabc   France   2
DMorgan   France   2
TightEnd   Rwanda   2
MintTrav   Rwanda   2

FAILS
millidonk   Brazil   7
AdamM   England   7
taximan007   England   7
TRIP5   Scotland   7
kinboshi   Scotland   7
moonandback   Vietnam   7

England and Scotland are not in fact countries, according to UN definition

 

Ahem - I'll go fist then will i??

Total joke.. if the question had said 'name blah blah according to UN definition' then you could indeed fail but it said country and even in the loosest sense of the work wales is still classed as a country.. therefore to disallow Scotland and England is simply a ploy for QM attention!!

I dont even want to win but cannot and will not fail on such QM idiocy!!!!!!!

..and on that basis I OBfeckingJECT

First use of tmesis in tonight's RSQ. Excellent

[taximan007]

During those 15,000 miles and three months, the daring duo will travel through as many as 20 countries: Scotland, England, France, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.

From BBC WEbsite

[Laxie]

Tread carefully.  Trip5 is a legal eagle type chick ya know.  She's knows some shit.

[Laxie]

Oh wow. 2012 rsq Londonderry moment.

Even I reckon this one is pushing it...and that's saying something.  Don't ask me what at this stage, but it is.