Friday night quiz

[FamilyWiggs]

It was a concern, until I had the boys!

Now, provided they do likewise we should be ok for a few more generations.

 

[Feltwell]

Yes, I know how you feel on that one.

My grandfather was the only male of his generation with the family name, as is my father, as am I, and, so far at least, so is my son.

In my case the family name is sufficiently unusual that for example if you put my (very ordinary) Christian name and surname into Google on a web-wide search, it can only find 3 references, and they are all to me! The more elderly members of the family were always keen to make sure the name lived on. Still, I suppose I've done my bit by having 1 son, he now gets the burden!

 

[DaveBrigg]

On the subject of bloodlines, what was built, in the UK, using the blood of 1700 oxen?

 

[worms]

The world's biggest black pudding?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

That'd be the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct over the river Dee - just up the road from me, and one of the most marvellous sites in the world. That Thomas Telford was a clever chap.

The joint of the troughs and the masonry were waterproofed with a mixture of "Welsh flannel impregnated with lead dipped in boiling sugar and then set in mortar of limewater and the blood of 1700 oxen" according to a plaque at the foot of the aqueduct.

 

[JoceAndChris]

:shock:

How come you lot know everything?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I've just been lucky - I knew the last two very well. Other than that I don't think I recognised anything in the preceding 17 pages!

Timing, as they say, is everything. :wink:

 

[yamin]

:shock:

How come you lot know everything?

But you see, as I'm so carp at identifying most places, this thread is instead driving me to waste inordinate amounts of time trying to find the most obscure building I can to challenge you all. I will get a ridiculously childish sense of triumph if I manage to find something you lot can't identify :lol: , but suspect that as you correctly name some half timbered cowshed that only 3 people know about, I will be the one with egg on my face! :?

Time to go study my 'Rare, Unidentifiable buildings of the world' encyclopaedia!

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol: Good luck!

I haven't recognised anything at all, nor have I been able to get Google to tell me the answers. Can't someone post Big Ben for me, please. :lol:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Well, here is Ben and he thinks at six, he is big!

And of course Joce, I just know that you know that Big Ben is the Great bell and not the clock tower or clock face.... :wink:

 

[yamin]

I just know that you know that Big Ben is the Great bell and not the clock tower or clock face.... :wink:

And you even stole the line I was going to put in, I was hoping to be clever clogs on that one (though not sure anyone here would be impressed by my knowing it!)

Your Big Ben is a sweetie! And as grubby as any self respecting little boy ought to be, 95% of the time!

 

[JoceAndChris]

Don't suppose your little big Ben is going spare, is he? He'd love Beacon Cottage, I'm sure!

I'm sorry to say that it's just the bell that's called Big Ben is news to me.

 

[Penners]

The world's biggest black pudding?

That gem from worms should not go unrecognised. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Schoolmarm]

The world's biggest black pudding?

That gem from worms should not go unrecognised. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I did some laughing at it but didn't post.

:lol:

 

[JoceAndChris]

Worms is very funny, as are many on this forum!

Sorry to cheat. Where's this and what lies behind?

 

[Hatster]

ooh, I know that one, it's on the tip of my tongue... someone famous lives in one of those buildings, don't they?

 

[JoceAndChris]

No one famous there on our wedding day, though famous people come and go.

A favourite 19th century poet wrote a lovely ballad about a more famous previous inhabitant.

 

[yamin]

I need more! (Cos its really going to annoy me!) - is it anything to do with Middlemarch?

 

[JoceAndChris]

You're really on the right lines there, clever Abi, though I don't believe my gateway appeared in that series. We went on to have our reception in what was Featherstone's house in the TV adaptation of Middlemarch.

 

[yamin]

No one answered this one! I'm amazed! I could answer, but I have to admit to 'insider trading' knowledge, so Joce, c'mon, salsa back on and tell us where you got married!