Pub Quiz thread

I guess this refers to the pronunciation of the 'spoken' odd letters ie. ay, cee, ee, gee as opposed to the even letters bee, dee. ef etc. If that's the logic then I will guess at 'o' ?

 

No nothing about pronunciation...

 

A very quirky fact...
Think numbers...

 

If all the letters were represented by numbers eg. a=1 b=2 etc. then all the vowels would be odd numbers ?

 

No but there is a clear link between numbers and vowels in this....
...and the clue is 'odd'

 

not even.....

 

The vowel i am interested in is 'e'

 

All odd numbers have the letter e in them eg. one, three, five, seven etc. ?

 

Exactly.... it blow me away that simple fact when I heard it....
well done for working out my cryptcism!
Over to you

 

Have to think up a question

 

Ok. Like us the Romans divided the day into 24 hours - but what was different to ours ?

 

They didn’t have microchip technology?

 

Well yes....their technology was different they used a sundial during daylight hours and a Greek water clock during the night. But how were the hours themselves different ?

 

The number of minutes in the hour differed depending on the time of year. As they measured time between sunrise and sunset being 12 hours, as the days became longer or shorter, the number of minutes in an hour became greater or less.

 

In principle you're right Frenchie. They had twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night whatever the season - so their hours would be longer in summer, and shorter in winter. Correspondingly their night time hours would be longer in winter. An hour could be up to 90 minutes depending on the season - this is using modern measurements because they didn't use minutes. The Spanish word siesta comes from the Roman 'day', meaning literally the sixth hour 'Sexta hora'. Over to you.

 

Which Watford player holds the record of playing in 17 games, but never being on the winning side. As a clue he played in 12 "Old Firm" derbies without ever being on the losing side.

 

A further clue: Within the last twenty years.

 

Was it Malky Mackay?

 

Sorry No.

 

Lee Hodson?