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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 20, 2014 23:12:26 GMT
Well you were all really up for it yesterday [/sarcasm]. Plenty for you to chew over today though: There are four locations, find the link between them, and the fifth in the set. Also, there's one of these four that if it was in a Venn diagram would be in a little loop of its own; decide which one it is. Location A: (click for a larger version) Location B: (click for a larger version) Location C: (click for a larger version) Location D: (click for a larger version) The insets in B are numbered from left to right, and not only those but there's an inset in C to find too.
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Post by Indefatigable on Oct 20, 2014 23:57:55 GMT
Location A - Waterloo / Bank
Location B: Inset B is Tongwynlais Castle, Inset C is Exeter Cathedral
Location C: Inset is Corris
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Post by pgb on Oct 21, 2014 7:21:20 GMT
Location A: Temple?
Location B: Inset 1 is Bristol Shopping Centre, Inset 4 is the Great Orme in Llandudno
Location C: Marylebone?
Location D: Monument?
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Post by brigham on Oct 21, 2014 9:17:19 GMT
The Horse in B is in Trinity Shopping Centre, Leeds.
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 21, 2014 23:16:21 GMT
Thank you for your contributions today. Remember if you agree with what someone else has guessed this is the one area of the forum where "+1" et cetera are valid posts. So, Location A: Nothing correct so far, so see if this helps: (click for a larger version) Location BNo guesses on the main location, so try this clue version: (click for a larger version) As for the insets: The Horse in B is in Trinity Shopping Centre, Leeds. Inset B1: Trinity Centre, Leeds [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Inset B2Inset B is Tongwynlais Castle... Well, the spelling seems correct for the country, but it doesn't match the answer on the card. Have some help: (click for a larger version) Inset B3Inset C is Exeter Cathedral Correctamundo: Inset B3: Exeter Cathedral - west front [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Inset B4Inset 4 is the Great Orme in Llandudno Another correct answer! Great Orme cable car [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Location CAbsolutely: Marylebone - arrival and departure [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Inset for CLocation C: Inset is Corris It is indeed, and it's one of my picatures *! Routemaster in Corris station Yard - Corris, Gwynedd [ rincew1nd] (click for a larger version) and finally Location DIt is! Monument - stairs from ticket hall to westbound platform [Chris M] (click for a larger version) So, you still need to figure out the link between - <<Need to get>>
- <<Need to get>>
- Marylebone
- Monument
- <<Need to get>>
There's also points available for inset B2, as well as figuring out which of 1 to 4 is the odd one out! *This was on the occasion of the 2012 Tom Rolt Rally. The first time we took the bus to Corris we thought we'd follow the route of the scheduled busses to the turn-back layby. We got there OK but negotiating it was a little troublesome so the driver suggested that in future a multi-point turn in the station yard would be preferable {That's where the picture is}. On the way back from the turn back we were flagged down by an old lady in tears. We stopped; it turns out that she moved from London to Wales as an evacuee during the 2 nd World War with the vast majority of her family being killed. There was nobody to go back to so she was taken up by the people of Corris and has lived there ever since. This was the first time since she left London in the war that she has seen a red London Bus, what more we had randomly selected the route that used to run past her childhood home to display on the front!
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Post by gantshill on Oct 22, 2014 1:09:48 GMT
Is A Aldgate East? B Stockwell The Castle might be Castell Goch.
Link stations that have been slightly moved or where the modernisation didn't go according to plan. Can you tell that I'm grasping at straws?
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 22, 2014 1:27:06 GMT
No. Again nil points The Castle might be Castell Goch. According to my card, it is! Inset B2: Castell Coch, Cardiff [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Link stations that have been slightly moved or where the modernisation didn't go according to plan. Can you tell that I'm grasping at straws? You are indeed. The link is nothing to do with the modernisation plan or moved stations.
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Post by Indefatigable on Oct 22, 2014 2:05:17 GMT
rincew1nd, that story about the old lady brought a tear to my eye... I am sure it brought back a lot of memories. Did she happened to still have a "London" accent or had she picked up a Welsh one over the years?
I guess I was close enough for that Castle to get the points. It looks a nice place to visit, so I shall put that on my bucket list of places to go
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Post by gantshill on Oct 22, 2014 6:33:21 GMT
OK, so no points for clutching at straws. The older tiling in A lools like a New Works station: Aldgate East, Highgate, North Ilford tube or the new Bakerloo branch to Finchley Road. I am wondering where else might have that tiling?
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Post by Chris M on Oct 22, 2014 10:23:39 GMT
A is none of the stations you have mentioned in that post.
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Post by melikepie on Oct 23, 2014 9:33:40 GMT
A Moorgate B Mansion House E Marble Arch
Link: they are all Zone 1 LU stations beginning with M
B4 as it is the only one depicting transport?
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Post by Chris M on Oct 23, 2014 11:13:33 GMT
That the stations all being with M is part of the link, but you are not correct with zone 1 or which stations the pictures depict or which the 5th in the set would depict. The odd one out is for A, B, C and D (although I agree Rincew1nd's phrasing wasn't great here).
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Post by melikepie on Oct 23, 2014 15:04:26 GMT
A Morden B Moorgate
Link: All termini beginning with M. The odd one out is Monument as it is a joint station with both terminii being named Bank.
Mill Hill East is 5th in the set.
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 23, 2014 15:34:23 GMT
Location A isn't Morden, or even Noreen which my phone has just tried to auto correct it to. Location B: Moorgate - wall no. 21 in the peak hours entrance building [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Location E isn't Mill Hill East, because neither terminus nor termini is the link.
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Post by jeebeelodo on Oct 23, 2014 15:38:53 GMT
Manor House for A?
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Post by jeebeelodo on Oct 23, 2014 15:41:26 GMT
which is also the lone bubble in the Venn Diagram?
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Post by jeebeelodo on Oct 23, 2014 16:06:57 GMT
and the 5th in the set is Morden if the last 2 are a sequence (3 alphabetical stations apart on whole list of stations?
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 23, 2014 16:24:34 GMT
A is not Manor House, but it does have the right number of words. It's not the odd one out either.
E is not Noreen.
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Post by melikepie on Oct 23, 2014 17:42:29 GMT
So therefore A is Mansion House
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Post by Chris M on Oct 23, 2014 18:24:08 GMT
Except it isn't.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 23:55:05 GMT
As slim as my hopes of identifying a location from a scrap of wall tiling are, is A Mile End?
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Post by Chris M on Oct 24, 2014 0:41:45 GMT
A is indeed Mile End. Location A: Mile End - stairs to eastbound platform [Chris M] (click for a larger version) So, what links the M stations Mile End, Moorgate, Marylebone, Monument and the yet to be identified 5th in the set? Which of the four is the odd one out and why?
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Post by gantshill on Oct 24, 2014 6:47:16 GMT
Mile End, Moorgate and Marylebone are all on the 205 bus route. Monument isn't.
I can't immediately think of a fourth station beginning with M that the 205 passes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 7:39:11 GMT
I might have a tenuous link to do with platform layout and the letter M, which makes Mansion House the 5th and says Marylebone is probably the odd one out.
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Post by Chris M on Oct 24, 2014 8:51:23 GMT
This isn't about buses, although I have used such links in the past and will in the future.
Mansion House is the 5th in the set, and Marylebone is the odd one out but the link is not related to platform layout.
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Post by John Tuthill on Oct 24, 2014 9:01:24 GMT
This isn't about buses, although I have used such links in the past and will in the future. Mansion House is the 5th in the set, and Marylebone is the odd one out but the link is not related to platform layout. Marylebone is the only one with a main line connection?
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Post by John Tuthill on Oct 24, 2014 9:11:03 GMT
This isn't about buses, although I have used such links in the past and will in the future. Mansion House is the 5th in the set, and Marylebone is the odd one out but the link is not related to platform layout. Marylebone is the only one with a main line connection? I should have been more precise-Marylebone is the only one with connection to a main line national railway station
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Post by brigham on Oct 24, 2014 9:17:12 GMT
I was thinking Marylebone is the only one -so far- with a name-change, but it isn't.
Moorgate has a main-line connection, so that rules it out on that point.
Marylebone is the only LU-station which is tube-only?
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Post by Chris M on Oct 24, 2014 10:38:35 GMT
Mansion House is also tube only, but you are getting close.
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Post by John Tuthill on Oct 24, 2014 11:23:58 GMT
Mansion House is also tube only, but you are getting close. Are you sure? Circle & District only
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