Tricky Pub Quiz questions.

ibis wrote:

And whose last words were "All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!"?

Henry VIII? felt bad about the monastical closures.

You are correct in each case, well done.

I'll give the questions with the answers below......

"I feel this time they have succeeded. I do not want them to undress me. I want you to undress me."
Trotsky

"That's very obvious."
JFK

"Born in a hotel room, and goddammit, died in one"
Eugene O'Neill

"Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god."
Vespasian

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Pancho Villa

"Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees"
Stonewall Jackson

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
Karl Marx

"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . ."
Dylan Thomas

"Bless you, Sister. May all your sons be bishops."
Brendan Behan

"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man."
Che Guavara

Stonewall Jacksons words were used by Hemmingway as the title for his novel "Over the River and into the Trees".

Aparently the last words of General Sedgewick (Don't worry, they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance) are actually genuine. I didn't include them because I assumed they were too good to be true.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

TheBear wrote:

In film-maiking, what does 'wrap' mean/stand for? As in, "That's a wrap!"

Something to do with protecting the film from further exposure ?? Just a guess...

Nope.

Any other takers?

They would wrap the naked actors in blankets if they were finished?

An Irish county that elected two MPs to Westminster, in 1834 it had

* as MPs the sons of Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell

* among its magistrates the British Prime Minister and an ancestor of a future prime minister in Austria-Hungary.

Name that county.

TheBear wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

TheBear wrote:

In film-maiking, what does 'wrap' mean/stand for? As in, "That's a wrap!"

Something to do with protecting the film from further exposure ?? Just a guess...

Nope.

Any other takers?

I presume it's a variant on "wrap it up" or "wrapping up" - one of those phrases where a noun becomes a verb or a verb becomes a noun ('strategising' or 'architecting'). "Wrapped up" for finished in turn is probably literally in the sense of folding up gear and putting it away in its wrappings.

ibis wrote:

TheBear wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

TheBear wrote:

In film-making, what does 'wrap' mean/stand for? As in, "That's a wrap!"

Something to do with protecting the film from further exposure ?? Just a guess...

Nope.

Any other takers?

I presume it's a variant on "wrap it up" or "wrapping up" - one of those phrases where a noun becomes a verb or a verb becomes a noun ('strategising' or 'architecting'). "Wrapped up" for finished in turn is probably literally in the sense of folding up gear and putting it away in its wrappings.

Part of me thinks that the general term might have come from the more particular film-making term.

I gave the teensiest of hints in the question when asking what it stood for. (I haven't followed this thread too closely; at what point am I meant to reveal the answer?)

Keep it going, it's a good one.

I give up so.

That didn't last long... (Really?)

Are you dying to tell us? I'd like to know anyway

-- it's nothing to do with wrapping up naked actors in blankets then?

Wind, roll and process. (Looking at it written down, the comma may be superfluous.)

That's a good one now - "stand for" -- it wasn't even subtle. We're not lateral thinkers here.

TheBear wrote:

Wind, roll and process. (Looking at it written down, the comma may be superfluous.)

I don't think that's true, alas - it looks like something made up to fit the word...'wrap' is a Middle English word, and the expression "wrap up" predates the film industry use of "it's a wrap" by quite some time. Indeed, the early film industry used the phrase "wrap it up" or "wrap up", which seems to come from theatre (as in "wrap party").

See here, for example: Online Etymology Dictionary.

In my defence, I looked this up afterwards.

ibis wrote:

TheBear wrote:

Wind, roll and process. (Looking at it written down, the comma may be superfluous.)

I don't think that's true, alas - it looks like something made up to fit the word...'wrap' is a Middle English word, and the expression "wrap up" predates the film industry use of "it's a wrap" by quite some time. Indeed, the early film industry used the phrase "wrap it up" or "wrap up", which seems to come from theatre (as in "wrap party").

See here, for example: Online Etymology Dictionary.

In my defence, I looked this up afterwards.

Well, it's certainly what is meant by it in film-making. I accept that it may not be the origin of the more generally used term, though.

4 quick ones if thats okay....

In which country is the furthest inland point on the earths surface?

The wood sorrel plant is more commonly known as what?

What in London is the Frost Fair and when was it last held?

Apart from London which three other cities in Britain have an
underground railway system?

shutuplaura wrote:

4 quick ones if thats okay....

In which country is the furthest inland point on the earths surface?

The wood sorrel plant is more commonly known as what?

The shamrock!

shutuplaura wrote:

What in London is the Frost Fair and when was it last held?

A fair held on the ice of the frozen Thames - the last one was in 1814. There are modern festivals in London called Frost Fairs, but they don't count.

shutuplaura wrote:

Apart from London which three other cities in Britain have an
underground railway system?

I know Glasgow does, and I'm pretty certain Newcastle does. Not sure about the third...

shutuplaura wrote:

4 quick ones if thats okay....

In which country is the furthest inland point on the earths surface?

If zooming all the way out on google maps is anything to go by I'd say Russia.

coc wrote:

shutuplaura wrote:

4 quick ones if thats okay....

In which country is the furthest inland point on the earths surface?

If zooming all the way out on google maps is anything to go by I'd say Russia.

I'd say china.

I'll go for China too.

Manchester?

The third city has to be Sunderland. That's why it's called Sunderland. ;-)

Art is correct, its in Western China.

Ibis - Well done on shamrock and Frost fairs are indeed held on a frozen over Thames River. relatively common during the 'mini' ice age of the early modern period there hasn't been one since 1814.

Underground trains - Glasgow and Newcastle are correct.

Manchester and Sunderland do not have underground systems.

shutuplaura wrote:

Art is correct, its in Western China.

Ibis - Well done on shamrock and Frost fairs are indeed held on a frozen over Thames River. relatively common during the 'mini' ice age of the early modern period there hasn't been one since 1814.

Underground trains - Glasgow and Newcastle are correct.

Manchester and Sunderland do not have underground systems.

I'm going to go a bet that it's Liverpool. Manchester has on-street trams, and Birmingham...is Birmingham, and as a result probably doesn't have a metro system.

ibis wrote:

shutuplaura wrote:

Art is correct, its in Western China.

Ibis - Well done on shamrock and Frost fairs are indeed held on a frozen over Thames River. relatively common during the 'mini' ice age of the early modern period there hasn't been one since 1814.

Underground trains - Glasgow and Newcastle are correct.

Manchester and Sunderland do not have underground systems.

I'm going to go a bet that it's Liverpool. Manchester has on-street trams, and Birmingham...is Birmingham, and as a result probably doesn't have a metro system.

Liverpool it is - well done

Okay, the trouble with Japans Finance minister reminder me of this - which tory party minister was accused of being the first minister to speak drunk from the dispatch box?

Wasn't Churchill by the way...