Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[white rabbit]

Leaning tower of Pisa?

[Pendragon]

I was going to say that but thought it was too obviouse

[Yorkie]

Get your eyes tested - this one ain't leaning!      L0L

[Fester]

I visited Denmark on business, (a few years back) .. and it looks like a tower I saw in Copenhagen.

I think it was some sort of Observatory for the King .... Don't know its name, but I think it has no steps, just a spiral ramp or path which leads to the top.

But it might not be that tower at all.... just reminds me of it.

[Yorkie]

Google what you think and the answer will be (as Arthur Askey used to say, "Before your very eyes!"

You fellas (and lasses) just amaze me with your knowledge!

The Round Tower was built by Christian IV between 1637 and 1642. It was the first part of the Trinitatis Complex, which combined church, library and observatory in a single building.

The Tower once soared far above the rest of the rooftops in the city, and University astronomers studied the stars and planets from the Observatory at the top. The scholars may have forsaken the building a long time ago, but during the winter visitors are still able to gaze at the cosmos from Europe's oldest functioning observatory. The platform that runs around the outside of the Observatory affords views over the old Latin Quarter – from here, you can spot most of the city's famous buildings.  

5 points for that Fester.   Lovely city to visit. I did Copenhagen when I worked for the Swedes

[Yorkie]

Not Denmark this time.  What, where, what claim to fame?

[Nemesis]

Emley Moor TV mast? The original one fell down weighted with ice on the guys

[Fester]

Google what you think and the answer will be (as Arthur Askey used to say, "Before your very eyes!"

You fellas (and lasses) just amaze me with your knowledge!

The Round Tower was built by Christian IV between 1637 and 1642. It was the first part of the Trinitatis Complex, which combined church, library and observatory in a single building.

The Tower once soared far above the rest of the rooftops in the city, and University astronomers studied the stars and planets from the Observatory at the top. The scholars may have forsaken the building a long time ago, but during the winter visitors are still able to gaze at the cosmos from Europe's oldest functioning observatory. The platform that runs around the outside of the Observatory affords views over the old Latin Quarter – from here, you can spot most of the city's famous buildings.  

5 points for that Fester.   Lovely city to visit. I did Copenhagen when I worked for the Swedes

I'm surprised that I'm right.... but I too was working for a Swedish arm of a French company when I was in Copenhagen.  Those days are over now.

[Yorkie]

Emley Moor TV mast? The original one fell down weighted with ice on the guys

Quite right - I guessed someone from God's own would get the answer.   Fester was a bit slow.    ZXZ

[Nemesis]

  I was actually watching TV when it fell down and everything went black !

[Yorkie]

Its claim to fame is that it is the tallest freestanding structure in the UK.    

[Hugo]

What is the name of this Church?

[Quiggs]

St. Dwynwen's. ?

[DaveR]

Llangwyfan.

[Hugo]

Well that didn't last very long did it?  Llangwyfan it is, the Church of St Cwfan or the Island Church as it is commonly known.
I took my wife in the car down the lane from Aberffraw to see the Church a few years ago and as we were looking at it, the Bride and Groom were actually walking down the causeway to the church dressed in all their refinery apart from the fact that they were both wearing wellies.
It was obviously a low tide and they climbed up the steps to the Church and the Vicar then came out of the Church to greet them.
If anyone wants to get married there they have to check the tide table as well as a calendar,