Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[Yorkie]

We have been going for 40 years, mainly to the Algarve coast which we know very well.  Off there for 3 weeks in the new year to get out of the cold for a bit.     

[Yorkie]

Don't know if this may be too difficult for some:  Where, which building and why is it famous?

[TheMedz]

The dome of St Paul's Cathedral or possibly the Royal Albert Hall?

[Merddin Emrys]

looks like the whispering gallery in St Pauls where your voice travels round the wall

[Fester]

You are spot on Merddin.... it certainly is the Whispering Gallery...  Yorkie will have to deliver the prize to Penrhyn BAy.

[Yorkie]

You are all just too b****y clever - and if you want the prize you'll have to come and collect it.   Any day of the week providing it is not Monday to Sunday inclusive!   I'll have to think of a very hard one next time.    )*)&

And the answer is the Whispering Gallery at St Pauls which really does work.

[Michael]

I've just spotted a gap in quiztime. First time for months and I havent got any photos. But, here goes. Kwik Save became a famous store. Where did the first store bearing that name open?  (In the U.K.of course, I dont know about America)

[Pendragon]

Wasn't Kwik Save opened by Robin Gubay (he had a binocular and camera shop down by bog island) was his first shop the one in Junction.  :

[Yorkie]

Founded as Value Foods by Welsh entrepreneur Albert Gubay on 11 May 1959 and based in Prestatyn, the company rented its first retail shop in Queen Street, Rhyl in July 1959. Further traditional stores were opened in Chester and Wrexham.


First Kwik Save opened in Colwyn Bay on the main street close to Martins Bank as Barclays was then..

[Pendragon]

aah got the Gubay bit right, ha ha  wrong name and wrong place though.

[Yorkie]

Must confess I had a little help from the OH who knew his Daughter(s).     

[Michael]

Yorkie---you've got it right. I thought it was a trick question, I thought you would all say Rhyl or Prestatyn.

[Michael]

Mind you, Yorkie, you say they rented the first premises in Queen Street, Rhyl. Well---yes---in a fashion. The property belonged to Alberts sister (I think she was called ---I don't know how to spell it so this is phonetic  "Efon"}  The Father, Marcus, had left it to her.

[Pendragon]

The Gubays owned a cafe in Pen. Affectionatly known as Edies Caf because a Edie worked there for donkeys years.  She was the nosiest woman in the world everyone liked her. We used to sit near the counter and say loudly "did you hear about......." then start whispering, Edie had the longest neck in the history of man due to her craning her head over the counter trying to hear what you were saying. 

[Yorkie]

Where is this tower, what is its claim to fame?  In Europe.  There is a small clue in the picture,