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Yorkie

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« Reply #645 on: January 15, 2011, 06:57:10 pm »
You shouldn't listen to your temptation - especially when it is totally and irrevocably and 100% correct!   :D
I did hope that it would last a bit longer.   <:<:<:<     &well&

I will have a big think and the next one I post will, I hope, last for 24 hours at least!    $uk

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« Reply #646 on: January 15, 2011, 06:59:29 pm »
I'm tempted to say Paignton Zoo, Devon, England...for some reason.

I was going to agree too and yet i've not been there or seen another picture of it, strange!
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« Reply #647 on: January 15, 2011, 07:00:32 pm »
We must be psychic...well, either that or we read the description on the top of the photo!  8)  :P

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« Reply #648 on: January 15, 2011, 07:13:15 pm »
I completely missed that!!!!!  Bloody fool!    >>>

OK have a go at this one.
This gravestone or memorial is erected half in the cemetery and half out of the cemetery so that it could be read from both sides.  
Question.  Where is it, whose memorial and why were they famous?

Not in Wales but there is a Welsh connection.
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« Reply #649 on: January 15, 2011, 08:22:13 pm »
We must be psychic...well, either that or we read the description on the top of the photo!  8)  :P

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« Reply #650 on: January 16, 2011, 10:05:19 am »
OK have a go at this one.
This gravestone or memorial is erected half in the cemetery and half out of the cemetery so that it could be read from both sides.  
Question.  Where is it, whose memorial and why were they famous?

Not in Wales but there is a Welsh connection.


well I can't see a single clue on this one?
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #651 on: January 16, 2011, 10:56:03 am »
I meant to make this one hard - need more than your thinking caps!

Clue one - Jerry's home is in the right place

Clue two - There is something distinctly fishy about it

Clue three - This is part of the inscription on the stone:
                  Gwra perthi de taz ha de mam: mal de Dythiow bethewz hyr war an tyr neb an arleth de dew ryes dees.

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« Reply #652 on: January 16, 2011, 12:09:36 pm »
It's Dolly Pentraeth who was the last surviving Cornish speaker, I recognised the Cornish language which is very similar to Welsh and it can be seen in Mousehole Cornwall.
In 1860, Prince Lucien Bonaparte visited this locality in order to ascertain what yet remained of the Cornish language; while here, he, in conjunction with the vicar, inserted a small granite obelisk, surmounted with a Maltese cross, in the churchyard wall, inscribed as follows:—
Here lieth interred Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1778, said to have been the last person who conversed in the ancient Cornish, the peculiar language of this county from the earliest records till it expired in the eighteenth century, in this parish of St. Paul. This stone is erected by the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, in union with the Rev. John Garrett, vicar of St, Paul. June, 1860.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

I believe that Dolly used to charge the tourists 1d when they asked her to say something in Cornish and what she always said can be translated into English as "the cat has peed on the mat"

Exod. xx., 12.

Gwra perthi de taz ha de mam: mal de Dythiow bethewz hyr war an tyr neb an arleth de dew ryes dees.

Exod. xx., 12.

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Yorkie

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« Reply #653 on: January 16, 2011, 01:16:04 pm »
I thought someone would get it from the third clue!   I just wonder how long it would have kept going without any clues.   &well&

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #654 on: January 16, 2011, 08:03:22 pm »
.An old railway - but where?

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« Reply #655 on: January 16, 2011, 08:24:08 pm »
The original Station at Llandudno Junction, where the flyover is now.

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« Reply #656 on: January 16, 2011, 08:34:49 pm »
Was hoping to con you all by putting it in the "out of area " section.  Just shows how smart everyone is on this Forum!     ZXZ

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #657 on: January 17, 2011, 11:00:58 am »
Difficulty level on this one I consider Very Difficult!    ££$

Who is the subject of this statue and where can it be found.  Clue, it is in the UK!
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« Reply #658 on: January 17, 2011, 03:50:51 pm »
That is a very difficult one Yorkie, it appears to be a modern day sculpture of someone in the construction industry.
The belt looks like one an electrician has but I've no idea what he is carrying in his left hand. 
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #659 on: January 17, 2011, 03:55:40 pm »
Could be a spirit level  $wales

And yes it is reasonably modern.
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