My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » Answers on a postcard Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: Answers on a postcard jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        This is really a quiz thread, in which shippies will post a question , and whoever gives the correct answer (there does have to be a genuinely correct answer) gets to post the next question. I would suggest a three day limit, after which, if there is no answer given, the poster of the question provides it, and sets another question. I will begin. Which well-known composer left his skull to be used as Yorick (of "Alas, poor Yorick" fame") in productions of Shakespeare's Hamlet? [ 07. April 2016, 16:48: Message edited by: jacobsen ] -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Sipech Shipmate # 16870 Posted                          I assume there's a "no search engine" rule? I will have a stab at Benjamin Britten. -------------------- I try to be self-deprecating; I'm just not very good at it. Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAlethiophile Posts: 3791 | From: On the corporate ladder | Registered: Jan 2012  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Or could it have been Henry Purcell? [ 07. April 2016, 17:01: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ] Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Doone Shipmate # 18470 Posted                        Handel? Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015  |  IP: Logged Garasu Shipmate # 17152 Posted                        Didn't Verdi write a lot of Shakespeare-based operas? -------------------- "Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?". - Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943- Imager. Posts: 889 | From: Surrey Heath (England) | Registered: Jun 2012  |  IP: Logged Garasu Shipmate # 17152 Posted                        O.K. That one. Of course.... -------------------- "Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?". - Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943- Imager. Posts: 889 | From: Surrey Heath (England) | Registered: Jun 2012  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        Nope to all of those. The answer appears in this month's edition of a musical publication. But I will post it if no-one else manages to. -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Pigwidgeon Ship's Owl # 10192 Posted                          How well-known is this composer? -------------------- "...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe." ~Tortuf Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged roybart Shipmate # 17357 Posted                        Tchaikovsky. But not the one everybody knows. This guy was Polish, name of Andre. QUESTION: Donizetti wrote 3 operas that are sometimes marketed as the Three Queen Trilogy. Who were the three queens? -------------------- "The consolations of the imaginary are not imaginary consolations." -- Roger Scruton Posts: 547 | From: here | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Well, Mary Queen of Scots is one and Queen Elizabeth must be the second. Didn't he also write an "Anna Bolena"? Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged roybart Shipmate # 17357 Posted                        Correct! -------------------- "The consolations of the imaginary are not imaginary consolations." -- Roger Scruton Posts: 547 | From: here | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Right then: "How many lakes are there in the English Lake District?" Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Sandemaniac Shipmate # 12829 Posted                        One! AG -------------------- "It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869 Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        ... is the correct answer! (For the uninitiated, all the lakes are "meres" or "waters" with the exception of Bassenthwaite Lake). Over to you: Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Sandemaniac Shipmate # 12829 Posted                        Holidaying next to Bassenthwaite helps... in fact, off that way very soon. In a similar vein, then... How many lakes are there in Scotland? AG -------------------- "It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869 Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007  |  IP: Logged Doone Shipmate # 18470 Posted                        None? Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        I think it's - again - one. (Lake of Mentieth). Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Sandemaniac Shipmate # 12829 Posted                        It is indeed, Baptist Trainfan - it's the only natural lake in Scotland called "Lake" as opposed to Loch etc. Back to you... AG -------------------- "It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869 Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. So where was his famous oratorio "Elijah" first performed? Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        Liverpool -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        No. Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Doone Shipmate # 18470 Posted                        Vienna? Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015  |  IP: Logged Albertus Shipmate # 13356 Posted                       Manchester -------------------- My beard is a testament to my masculinity and virility, and demonstrates that I am a real man. Trouble is, bits of quiche sometimes get caught in it. Posts: 6498 | From: Y Sowth | Registered: Jan 2008  |  IP: Logged Curiosity killed ... Ship's Mug # 11770 Posted                        Birmingham (Town Hall) -------------------- Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006  |  IP: Logged L'organist Shipmate # 17338 Posted                           Definitely Birmingham: it was commissioned by the Birmingham Festival in 1845. Although Mendelssohn had been working on it for some time, and it was originally composed with the text in German, the first performance was in the English translation in 1846 in Birmingham; the first performance in German was after Mendelssohn's death. -------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Curiosity killed ... Ship's Mug # 11770 Posted                        If I am right, I'll hand over asking a question to l'organist. My knowledge of music is patchy and the school holiday is over so I'll have to stop procrastinating. -------------------- Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Just to confirm L'Organist's answer - totally correct. Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Curiosity killed ... Ship's Mug # 11770 Posted                        48 hours and no question, so: From Clare to Here was written by a singer songwriter for another group. Who wrote it? Who did he write it for and why? (And for bonus points, what does the singer songwriter say about the version sung by the group?) eta: I can't type on a phone, standing on a commuter train [ 13. April 2016, 07:28: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ] -------------------- Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Haven't a clue! Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        Ralph McTell wrote it, the Furies and Dave Arthur sang and recorded it, it's about Irish emigration to England, and RMcT described it as his 2nd most covered song. -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Curiosity killed ... Ship's Mug # 11770 Posted                        According to Ralph McTell, in introduction to singing Clare to Here his other famous song, he wrote the song for the Fureys as payment for borrowing some equipment at a concert / on a tour when his broke. The Fureys said that they didn't want payment, they'd like a song, please. The phrase Clare to here came from one of the young Irish workers McTell knew in the 70s, and triggered this song. McTell then disappeared on tour and came home to messages from the Fureys chasing their song. He managed to meet up with the one of the Fureys before they took off on tour. McTell sang the song through to whichever brother came round and gave him the words. The brother said, yes, yes, he had the song, and they toured with this song. McTell says he hadn't got it and they sing it wrong. He is now going to sing the right version, because he wrote it and he should know. -------------------- Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        That's a much more comprehensive and accurate answer, CKTC. -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Curiosity killed ... Ship's Mug # 11770 Posted                        But you got it. I set the question, so should have known the answer. -------------------- Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        Ah so. Keep up, Jacobsen. New question. With which 19thC composer did the concertina player and guitarist Giulio Regondi share a concert platform in Leipzig? -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged roybart Shipmate # 17357 Posted                        Mendelssohn? -------------------- "The consolations of the imaginary are not imaginary consolations." -- Roger Scruton Posts: 547 | From: here | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Weber? Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        Roybart gets it. -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0