Old Pete's Puzzler 11

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(1) Manchester City, Norwich City, Everton, Bristol City, Hibernian, Dundee.

Norwich - the other teams have local derbies (rivals) within their own city.

Hoddros thats a possible answer and i must confess not the one i was thinking of - but as its so very close and i do not wish to be pedantic- My answer was

Norwich because they are not one of two teams in a City.

I suppose to be pendantic that there are local derbies in Birmingham and London too - but there are more than two teams in those places. - ( allegedly )

2) Gannet? All the others being types of both airplane AND helicopter?

I will take a punt with [2] as I recognise the names/types of Planes - Mosquito, Gnat, Wasp.... But, there is, I am told a Star Trek link in here as well as these ( not that I know ) are 'Romulan'Ship names ( what on earth is a 'Romulan' ).. Perhaps some of you Star Trek fans can help out as my colleague hasnt come up with an Odd One out..

One of those Techy types here in the office suggests it could be Gnat - not sure if he Googled the answer though.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2009:07:27:10:51:02 by StBleach.

And not Googled but Marengo and Copenhagen were Napoleons and Wellingtons horses so would I guess, given your interest in things history, Traveller and Bucephalos are also mounts of great military leaders (generals?). Odd one out Derby winner Shergar.

I think you might be right there Chris - Bucephalos was Alexander the Great's horse. I got as far as Marengo and Copenhagen being napoleonic battles....

Is 3) something to do with International vehicle registration codes? I wanted it to be the letters in the oval badges, but all of them are in use

Q4

Thinking about the question master's interests, I think these are the dates of various military events (IE 1939 +)

I am not sure which is the odd one out though - either 1 or 2?

The others:
12= Korea
23= Cuban Missile stand off
24= Vietnam
6= WW2 ended
1=?
2=?
16=Sudan

Admitting to some Googling in arriving at this (possibly wide of the mark) answer.

Pete - I think many pedantic Mancunians may like to point out to us that City are the only team in Manchester. So much so that when Tevez recently signed for them, they erected a poster stating "Welcome to Manchester".

OK I will have a stab at this one...

(3) This one may drive you to distraction - A , B, C, D, E, F

Is it C because it is the only one of them that doesn't sound like it's name in the phonetic code?

Following on from Tracy's post re vehicle reg and Petes hint of 'drive', I don't know them all but certainly

A= Austria
B= Belguim
C = Don't know but racking my brains not in Europe?
D = Germany
E = Spain
F = France

So answer is C as only non Euro reg?

No.3: Is this Driving Licence categories?

If so, E is the odd one out.

A, B, C, D & F all refer to categories of vehicles that you can drive. E is a suffix that is added to the rest to show an entitlement to tow a trailer.

Tracey O - planes is in the right territory but you have got the wrong one.

Tracey and Chris re ABCDEF - you are driving in the right direction. you have the odd one out but why.

Bleach - I promise never to ask any questioins rhat relate to Startrek , Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.

Chris G - Yes they are horses of generals - so Shergar is the odd one out - Bucephalos = Alexander the Great - Copenhagen = Wellington; Marengo = Napoleon - Traveller = Robert E Lee

Lord Justice Spokes - i am not just obsessed with historical / miltary events you know - but I loved your rather ecectic list though.

Hoddros - many many years ago I had a liason ( as they say) with a rather loveley united fan - she was of the opinion that all City fans were " National front members who worked in banks " She also believed that Rochdale was full of lesbians.

Our relationship was severelky strained when I took her to watch MU play Ipswich at Portman Road - The tractor boys beat them 6 - 0 .

On a more serious note this lot is easier than I thought so I had better get the next lot ready.

C as Chris says isn't European - it's Cuba. Other than that I haven't a clue!

I think Tracey was very close with her answer.
The deHavilland Mosquito was the twin-engined wooden fighter/bomber of WWII, The Folland Gnat was the RAF's jet trainer used by the Red Arrows, the Fairey Firefly was a bi-plane used by the Fleet Air Arm to launch torpedoes, the DH87 was designed as a trainer but was never taken up by the RAF, and the Fairey Gannet was the first aircraft to make a deck landing. The Westland Wasp helicopter was widely used by the RN, particularly from HMS Osprey on Portland and was flown by Prince Andrew.
So I reckon the Wasp is the odd one out, as it is a helicopter rather than a fixed wing aircraft. It's also the only one I never made the Airfix kit of, but did used to play havoc with practice when I shot with Osprey Archers.

Is the answer to six Spain?
All the others were on the Allied side during WWII, while Spain was officially 'non-belligerent' but gave a great deal of aid (especially the clandestine use of its ports) to the Axis Powers.

As we have six numbers starting in 1939 are we looking for a number of occurences of something in each war year, 12 in 1939, 23 in 1940, 24 in 1941 etc etc with a red herring thrown in?

3) Is without a doubt F,because it is the only banquet meal at our local chinese takeaway that doesn't have fried rice!

Tracey O - correct its C = Cuba the others are all European.

Shaddo - absolutely correct ( the things that Frooners did in their yoof ) all fixed wing aircraft except for the Wasp helicopter.

number 6 - Shaddo you have come up with an explanation and an odd one - its not what i was thinking of so I shall offer a cluelet -not that i would want it to colour your thinking or anything.

Chris G - nothing to do with war years or wars.



I am already working on the next lot as you are all very sharp this week.

I'm sorry but cant agree with one - Manchester City are the only team in the city of Manchester. Manchester united should actually be termed Salford United.

Check out the "Welcome to Manchester" poster that City have put up on the border of Salford hehe

Sorry to be pedantic but City are the ONLY team from Manchester ;-)

Number 6 is Spain, all the others have red white & blue flags.

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Re QUESTION 2:

Whilst I am no expert on this subject, my fellow colleagues introduced the STAR TREK theme to me this morning in work. I personally had no idea what they were talking about.. However, it would appear that the names of the planes you listed were in fact ALL ROMULAN SHIPS with the exception of the HORNET. This research confirms my statement STAR TREK SHIP NAMES.

So, whilst the popular answer is of course the one offered by Mr Shaddo, I firmly believe that my own answer is of equal merit and I should be awarded my first point of this very long quizzing season. If not then I am going to throw my toys out of the pram and write to the Chron.

Grow up Prof!

and you can shut up as well..

amidst the spat between a quondam welshperson and a worried wolvertonian

and some sort of irrelvance about soccer teams on Manchester

Smurf had got the right answer to Q 6 - all the other countries have red white and blue flags - spoain red and gold .

Just the numerical sequence to go then.

Meanwhile OP 12 is in the pipeline as we call St Ms inbox.

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StBleach
Re QUESTION 2:
So, whilst the popular answer is of course the one offered by Mr Shaddo, I firmly believe that my own answer is of equal merit and I should be awarded my first point of this very long quizzing season. If not then I am going to throw my toys out of the pram and write to the Chron.

These cerebral types don't like "common thinking", Rob.

See my "St James etc" answer in a thread below...

Cerebral? Cerebral??
How very dare you

I'll give you the "common" bit though!

apparently we have moved on already to OP 12
so just to tidy things up try the numbers thusly

XII , XXIII , XXIV , I , II , XVI

sorry missed out one should read

xii , xxiii , xxiv, vi, i, ii, xvi

so if you dont get it now ?

Popes?
Pius XII
John XXIII
???xxiv,
Paul VI
John Paul I
John Paul II
Benedict XVI

If we can have Popes why can't we have Catholic cathedrals?

I'm writing to Antonia Fraser!

right my Son - Popes it was . Amazing how easy it was in Roman numerals.

Chris - I was not responsible for the eclesiastical chicanery that required knowing about an obscure orthodox cathederal in order to find one in Birmingham dedicated to St Andrew. ( and even then its only its secondary dedication )

But you write to whoever you want to.