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Just edited them in Mick to my previous post :-D

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Well done, I just happened to catch an episode of The Sweeney this morning which I hadn't seen and it got me pondering!! :-D
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I knew very well I wouldn't stand a chance and when sitcoms were mentioned was validated.
I have of course seen the odd one over the years but would be hard pushed to remember anything from any of them.
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What was the full Name of the Titanic :?:

SS Titanic, HMS Titanic, RMS Titanic, or RRS Titanic
Bonus...without lookies up what do the Initials stand for on each of the 4 in the question

Plumped for the wrong one, while really sort of knowing the answer but had temporarily forgotten what the correct answer stood for.
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The Royal Mail continues a form of this tradition on modern day airliners. The UK's flag carrier airline, British Airways, is contracted to carry mail on some of its scheduled long-distance routes. Aircraft operating these routes with the facilities to carry mail are allowed to display the Royal Mail's logo and crest on their fuselage, usually alongside their registration markings. Noticed the Royal Mail Logo on this
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 08 Jan 2022, 22:48 I wouldnt have won the big money on the Wheel tonight

What was the full Name of the Titanic :?:

SS Titanic, HMS Titanic, RMS Titanic, or RRS Titanic

Bonus...without lookies up what do the Initials stand for on each of the 4 in the question

Plumped for the wrong one, while really sort of knowing the answer but had temporarily forgotten what the correct answer stood for.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Ship
The Royal Mail continues a form of this tradition on modern day airliners. The UK's flag carrier airline, British Airways, is contracted to carry mail on some of its scheduled long-distance routes. Aircraft operating these routes with the facilities to carry mail are allowed to display the Royal Mail's logo and crest on their fuselage, usually alongside their registration markings. Noticed the Royal Mail Logo on this
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 17 Nov 2021, 21:17 Nice British Airways Boeing 747-400 "Negus" G-CIVB

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Titanic was RMS
SS Steam Ship
HMS Her Majesty's Ship
RMS Cant remember
RRS Never knew!! :-D
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RMS Royal Merchant Ship or Royal Mail Steamer
RRS Royal Research Ship :-D
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A trivia question which has arisen from today's FA Cup ties. One of the ties featured two teams who share a word in their title which is only used by one other top flight team as far as I can think!! So the questions are:
Name the two teams in today's tie - 5 points each
Name the third team in the top flight - 10 points
What was the original meaning of the word they have in common - 20 points

All easily looked up but points only for Top of the Head answers!! :-D
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mickthemaverick wrote: 08 Jan 2022, 23:20 A trivia question which has arisen from today's FA Cup ties. One of the ties featured two teams who share a word in their title which is only used by one other top flight team as far as I can think!! So the questions are:
Name the two teams in today's tie - 5 points each
Name the third team in the top flight - 10 points
What was the original meaning of the word they have in common - 20 points

All easily looked up but points only for Top of the Head answers!! :-D
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Haven't got it yet but its a choice of two working back from the top flight! Got two "A"'s but have 3 "W"'s
Not familiar TOH with all the ties so bit of a guess and I have the 3 W's so here it is

Todays tie Wycombe Wanderers/Bolton Wanderers
Top Flight team Wolverhampton Wanderers
Original Meaning Some tie in with Rovers, so travelling around to take on other teams away from their home town.

Could be Albion of course which may have some Scottish connotation..bit like in rugby Lnndon Irish, London Welsh, London Scottish etc. Scotland does thave Stirling Albion, Albion Rovers etc with Alba being Scotland.
The premier league team in that case would be Brighton and Hove Albion, and the tie West Bromwich Albion v unspecified Albion :-D
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 08 Jan 2022, 23:52
mickthemaverick wrote: 08 Jan 2022, 23:20 A trivia question which has arisen from today's FA Cup ties. One of the ties featured two teams who share a word in their title which is only used by one other top flight team as far as I can think!! So the questions are:
Name the two teams in today's tie - 5 points each
Name the third team in the top flight - 10 points
What was the original meaning of the word they have in common - 20 points

All easily looked up but points only for Top of the Head answers!! :-D
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Haven't got it yet but its a choice of two working back from the top flight! Got two "A"'s but have 3 "W"'s
Not familiar TOH with all the ties so bit of a guess and I have the 3 W's so here it is

Todays tie Wycombe Wanderers/Bolton Wanderers
Top Flight team Wolverhampton Wanderers
Original Meaning Some tie in with Rovers, so travelling around to take on other teams away from their home town.

Could be Albion of course which may have some Scottish connotation..bit like in rugby Lnndon Irish, London Welsh, London Scottish etc. Scotland does thave Stirling Albion, Albion Rovers etc with Alba being Scotland.
The premier league team in that case would be Brighton and Hove Albion, and the tie West Bromwich Albion v unspecified Albion :-D
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I make that 17.5 points Neil! :-D
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Your second suggestion is the one on the card and the "unspecified" was Burton. Albion was an old English word for the island of Britain!!
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I'll give you this for free

Saw it on the telly, nice little daily game. You have to wait until the next day to attempt the next one....refreshing uninstant gratification.

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 25 Jan 2022, 18:43 I'll give you this for free

Saw it on the telly, nice little daily game. You have to wait until the next day to attempt the next one....refreshing uninstant gratification.

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

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The New York Times has bought that one recently...it is a habit forming daily thing to do.

There are bandwagon jumpers, and variations on a theme, sprouting up but the original Wordle is perfect simplicity, even if now US spellings (it is now owned by the NY Times can confuse HUMOR was the answer a few days ago :-D

The French Have come up with this....know your countries with Worldle.
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

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Haven't tried it, I don't do games/quizzes,too slow and dim.
But it must be good as the lovely Susie Dent endorses it.
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Not my thing either. Oddly I have never had any interest in word based games despite a childhood of Scrabble and Kan-U-Go if any one-remembers that!! :-D
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The falcon got todays word in 4 attempts. Depends how competitive you are.
I dont think 4 could be beaten with today's word.
mickthemaverick wrote: 15 Feb 2022, 19:54 Not my thing either. Oddly I have never had any interest in word based games despite a childhood of Scrabble and Kan-U-Go if any one-remembers that!! :-D
Remember it but can't remember actually playing it properly.
A favourite game for us, and still is from time to time, we used the Kan-U-Go cards to turn over after choosing a category, and first one to come up with something in the category beginning with the letter turned over won the card.

Uncle Jim always used to come up with some odd things like Lake Titicaca, Lapis Lazuri, and Vladivostock and of course they used to regularly reappear in subsequent games.

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I take it that Kan-U-Go had a 'lesser' variant called Know-I-Kant?
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 15 Feb 2022, 19:12 The French Have come up with this....know your countries with Worldle.
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
For the reluctant to try or the uninterested this is the Worldle today.

I put in Albania for the first guess, and the result shows that Albania is 4853 km in a South-West direction from the correct Country. I got the correct country in two further guesses which I have blanked out just in case anyone wants to play along.
Screenshot https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/   16/02/2022
Screenshot https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ 16/02/2022
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