Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 16, 2019, 03:39:34 PM
-
A few years ago on Christmas Day I did an online quiz for friends and family about fictional bands. So this year I am going to do one with fictional pubs and clubs. They could be books, tv or film. All you have to do is name where from.I'm going to post the questions on here on the run up to Christmas. And nae Googling!
So let's start nice and easy
Moe's Tavern
-
Is that in Springfield?
-
Is that in Springfield?
i think you can get a Duff beer in there 🍻
Cheers
-
And two answers where it is obvious that they know it's The Simpsons.
So moving on
The Admiral Benbow Inn
-
And two answers where it is obvious that they know it's The Simpsons.
So moving on
The Admiral Benbow Inn
aaaaaaarrrr Jim Lad. Pieces of Eight.
-
Treasure Island, it is.
Another easy one, but one that needs to be done
Mos Eisley Cantina
-
aaaaaaarrrr Jim Lad. Pieces of Eight.
so to mark the spot where he found the treasure he put an 'X' on the side of his boat ! 🙈
-
I've never seen Star Wars , so I hope it's not that !!
-
It is Star Wars.
And now a double question
The Winchester Club
The Winchester Tavern
-
Winchester club is in Minder
You've got me on the other ?
-
It is Star Wars.
And now a double question
The Winchester Club
The Winchester Tavern
Oh no, I was on a roll. Don't stop me now!
ETA: I had to Google that, so don't post the answer yet.
-
Winchester club is in Minder
You've got me on the other ?
Winchester Club I wouldn't have got on my own, but the Winchester Tavern is from Shaun of the Dead.
O.
-
Yep, both Winchester's done.
Next
The Tabard
-
Yep, both Winchester's done.
Next
The Tabard
Interesting. I guessed, Googled, found I had got it wrong, but in a slightly interesting way.
-
Interesting. I guessed, Googled, found I had got it wrong, but in a slightly interesting way.
Will be interested to know how when the right answer is given
-
Here's another: The Moon Under Water.
-
Tabard - Canterbury Tales
The Moon Under Water - Orwell?
Ace O'Clubs
-
Here's another: The Moon Under Water.
are you trying to pinch Saney's gig ?
-
Objection, your honour: the Tabard was a real inn, and Harry Bailey was its real landlord in Chaucer's time.
Yes, 'The Moon Under Water' was the imaginary pub in Orwell's famous essay on the ideal city pub.
-
The Tabard Inn that Chaucer knew was destroyed in the great fire of Southwark in 1676, along with all the other coaching inns in Southwark, but all or most of them were re-built. The rebuilt Tabard survived until the 1870s, when it was demolished. The George is the only surviving galleried coaching in London, in Borough High Street, Southwark, as was the Tabard. This photo (https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/pics/se1_tabard.jpg) shows the Tabard near the end of its life.
-
The Tabard Inn that Chaucer knew was destroyed in the great fire of Southwark in 1676, along with all the other coaching inns in Southwark, but all or most of them were re-built. The rebuilt Tabard survived until the 1870s, when it was demolished. The George is the only surviving galleried coaching in London, in Borough High Street, Southwark, as was the Tabard. This photo (https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/pics/se1_tabard.jpg) shows the Tabard near the end of its life.
Fair point about it not itself being entirely fictional, I'm using you lot as guinea pigs to see what works. Not sure whether I extend it to cover non fictional pubs in fiction.
I've drunk in the George many times. It's one of two pubs I have frequented where a bus tour of Japanese tourists will suddenly be decanted have half pints and their pictures taken and then back on the bus in 15 minutes. The other is the Black Friar
-
Tabard - Canterbury Tales
The Moon Under Water - Orwell?
Ace O'Clubs
Smallvile - which in turn means I have to ask
The Bronze?
-
See, I want to proffer up 'The Horse and Groom', but I suspect that it's a name that's probably appeared in any number of works.
O.
-
Smallvile - which in turn means I have to ask
The Bronze?
The Bronze would be BTVS
O.
-
See, I want to proffer up 'The Horse and Groom', but I suspect that it's a name that's probably appeared in any number of works.
O.
I only know of one. THGTTG
ETA - That's one of the problems though for some of the fictional pubs that the names aren't distinctive enough.
-
The Bronze would be BTVS
O.
And following on from that
The Founding Fathers
-
Objection, your honour: the Tabard was a real inn, and Harry Bailey was its real landlord in Chaucer's time.
Yes, 'The Moon Under Water' was the imaginary pub in Orwell's famous essay on the ideal city pub.
And now unfortunately incarnated as a chain of Wetherspoon's bars that don't live up to his suggested features.
-
The Founding Fathers
Bones.
Pushing the definition of 'fiction' perhaps...
The Winking Skeever
O.
-
Bones.
Pushing the definition of 'fiction' perhaps...
The Winking Skeever
O.
Don't know - but is this a video game given your comment? May use them but the target audience on Christmas Day is not filled with people who play video games.
-
Objection, your honour: the Tabard was a real inn, and Harry Bailey was its real landlord in Chaucer's time.
Yes, 'The Moon Under Water' was the imaginary pub in Orwell's famous essay on the ideal city pub.
The Admiral Benbow is also a real pub. What's the problem?
-
The Bunch of Grapes.
-
The Bunch of Grapes.
Nope, I'm getting nothing on that.
Now that the Tabard answer is up what was your guess?
-
Don't know - but is this a video game given your comment? May use them but the target audience on Christmas Day is not filled with people who play video games.
It is, Skyrim from the Elder Scrolls series
O.
-
The Admiral Benbow is also a real pub. What's the problem?
Is it? I didn't know that. The problem - well, not really a problem, but a pedantic point - is that they are not fictional, although they appear in works of fiction.
-
Another one: the Dog and Hammer.
-
Nope, I'm getting nothing on that.
Clue: it's on Easy Street. It might be considered a copper's pub.
Now that the Tabard answer is up what was your guess?
A Knight's Tale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Knight's_Tale).
-
Is it? I didn't know that. The problem - well, not really a problem, but a pedantic point - is that they are not fictional, although they appear in works of fiction.
Admiral Benbow was a real person. I don't know if the Treasure Island pub was named after him or the pub in Penzance.
-
Clue: it's on Easy Street. It might be considered a copper's pub.A Knight's Tale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Knight's_Tale).
Only got it by googling. And yes A Knight's Tale is oddly connected
Next one Club Obi Wan
-
Another one: the Dog and Hammer.
Clue?
-
Clue?
Scurrilous comic.
-
Scurrilous comic.
Ah, I am getting old. Tempted to say that I didn't know the PM had a pub but Viz. Good one
-
Ah, I am getting old. Tempted to say that I didn't know the PM had a pub but Viz. Good one
Indeed - specifically, the fat slags. It's an exceedingly rough and grotty boozing-den.
-
So waiting for answer to Club Obi Wan
And will add
The Duke of Burgundy
And
Rolliver's Inn
-
The Mended drum. (But the peanuts are taken)
-
The Mended drum. (But the peanuts are taken)
i am guessing this would be somewhere on Discworld?
-
i am guessing this would be somewhere on Discworld?
Yep.
But the coppers drink in the Bucket on Gleam street.
Ooooook.
-
The Prancing Pony (or is that too easy?)
-
The Prancing Pony (or is that too easy?)
I will probably use it - while it might seem easy - LoTR - it's a reasonable question. It's not about being too hard to get, just to get a good mix.
-
The Prancing Pony (or is that too easy?)
If you're a home bird, though, it would have to be the Green Dragon.
-
I will probably use it - while it might seem easy - LoTR - it's a reasonable question. It's not about being too hard to get, just to get a good mix.
Show us the full list of questions, when you've compiled it.
-
I will probably use it - while it might seem easy - LoTR - it's a reasonable question. It's not about being too hard to get, just to get a good mix.
BYW, from the same source, if you want a more obscure pub, try 'The Golden Perch'. The beer's rather good, there.
-
Show us the full list of questions, when you've compiled it.
When Christmas Day rolls along, I'll put up the questions I used in the fictional bands as well.
-
So waiting for answer to Club Obi Wan
And will add
The Duke of Burgundy
And
Rolliver's Inn
And also adding The Clansman
The Kebab and Calculator
The Aigburth Arms
-
Yep.
But the coppers drink in the Bucket on Gleam street.
Ooooook.
Except when they drink in the Bunch of Grapes which is where Vimes met Carrot.
-
Eddie's Bar.
-
Ten Forward
-
Rolliver's Inn
...
And also adding The Clansman
The Kebab and Calculator
The Aigburth Arms
I had to Google all of those. They are probably too obscure even for people that watched the shows.
-
Some easy ones:
Jamaica Inn
Cheers
-
I had to Google all of those. They are probably too obscure even for people that watched the shows.
The Clansman is very easy if you watch Still Game.
-
Ten Forward
Yep , that's one I might well use ST: TNG
-
Some easy ones:
Jamaica Inn
Cheers
Eponymous bars don't really work.
-
The Clansman is very easy if you watch Still Game.
but when did it become The Clansman and what was it's previous name ?
-
Eddie's Bar.
Nope not getting this? I keep wanting to say Frasier but I doubt the dog had a bar. Which prompts a thought that fictional pets might work another time.
-
OR. Fictional public schools ?
-
Eponymous bars don't really work.
Can you stretch it to coffee houses because then you can have Central Perk.
-
but when did it become The Clansman and what was it's previous name ?
Bay Horse, The Clansman, Jenny's
-
Nope not getting this? I keep wanting to say Frasier but I doubt the dog had a bar. Which prompts a thought that fictional pets might work another time.
It's from a BBC TV series that's based mainly in London. The protagonists use it as their regular, but they always try to avoid paying for their drinks.
-
Can you stretch it to coffee houses because then you can have Central Perk.
I think that's too far, and it's too easy to stretch that far for it.
-
One that I would like to use but think is too obscure is Glenister's from the US adaptation of Life on Mars as it was named after Philip Glenister.
-
It's from a BBC TV series that's based mainly in London. The protagonists use it as their regular, but they always try to avoid paying for their drinks.
argh!!!! Hustle. That's a really good one. Hard but gettable and central to the series. Definitely using.
-
argh!!!! Hustle. That's a really good one. Hard but gettable and central to the series. Definitely using.
interesting coincidence that you were just talking about a bar called "Glenister's".
-
interesting coincidence that you were just talking about a bar called "Glenister's".
Rather like your Tabard guess
-
OR. Fictional public schools ?
I think better with fictional schools.
-
And another one I would like but think falls into too obscure is The Vatican from Community. I will recommend the series though. Particularly the first 3 series
-
Here's another: Fillet of Soul.
-
Here's another: Fillet of Soul.
oh I like that one. Live and Let Die.
-
One I think might be too obscure again is The Vigilante from Citizen Smith - but it's a great name given the series
-
And another with that issue is The Gentleman Loser from Neuromancer - which is the title of the pub I would open
-
Definitely putting in The Garrison
-
What about The Bull?
-
What about The Bull?
Certainly a possibility. Though if you let me count the ways I hate The Archers, we would need a new board.
-
Certainly a possibility. Though if you let me count the ways I hate The Archers, we would need a new board.
When I used to listen to Radio 4, if the Archers tune started, I'd sing along to the first bit, "What a load of bloody shite, what a load of bollllllocks", and then switch it off. My late wife was an Archers addict, so in the 80s, I half-followed events against my will.
-
Certainly a possibility. Though if you let me count the ways I hate The Archers, we would need a new board.
The trouble is that the usual soap pubs, the Queen Vic and the Rover's Return are too obvious - so obvious, even I know them. I couldn't be arsed to look up whatever pub is in Emerdale, so the Archers it was.
-
The trouble is that the usual soap pubs, the Queen Vic and the Rover's Return are too obvious - so obvious, even I know them. I couldn't be arsed to look up whatever pub is in Emerdale, so the Archers it was.
Emmerdale is The Woolpack. There are a couple of other pubs that have featured in Coronation St and Eastenders. The Dagmar comes to mind for Eastenders
-
Will use The Slaughtered Lamb
-
Do the six jolly fellowship porters, and the Angler's rest, mentioned in this list, among others. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-top-10-fictional-pubs-a7585896.html
-
And a much longer list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_bars_and_pubs
-
Don't forget the Nag's Head, from OFAH.
-
And a much longer list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_bars_and_pubs
Thanks, already been using that. I'm allowed as the quiz setter to use the net to work out the quiz. Interesting that a couple the thread aren't on the list. I'm thinking that I might give some details such as whether it's a book, film or tv and possibly whether the TV programme is American British or other. I am also thinking of doing some theming such as soaps, comedy, sci fi
-
Started a thread on this, in the Hemel Hempstead Facebook group. Someone came up with Foley's, from Mrs Brown's Boys.
-
Started a thread on this, in the Hemel Hempstead Facebook group. Someone came up with Foley's, from Mrs Brown's Boys.
One of the themes I was thinking of was 'Irish' bars. This would be one of the answers - other possibles would be Cohan's - The Quiet Man, Kavanaugh's - The Wire, MacLarens' - How I Met Your Mother, Fitzgerald's - Ballykissangel.
-
And another that I think is probably too obscure is The Flying Swan from The Brentford 'Trilogy' which is a pity because it's central to the stories
-
There's also the Red Swan Hotel but I doubt many people would get that one - despite it being in a brilliant book.
-
And a much longer list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_bars_and_pubs
oh, you have to have Bob's Country Bunker: "we have both kinds country and western"
-
oh, you have to have Bob's Country Bunker: "we have both kinds country and western"
And The Brick.
Once when I was in Seattle on a course with a work colleague, we did a road trip to the town that serves as Cicely. We found the Brick and decided to go in for a drink. Much to our surprise, the inside was completely different to what we expected, being a fairly sleazy redneck bar.
-
And The Brick.
Once when I was in Seattle on a course with a work colleague, we did a road trip to the town that serves as Cicely. We found the Brick and decided to go in for a drink. Much to our surprise, the inside was completely different to what we expected, being a fairly sleazy redneck bar.
I visited Cheers and it was the only time I have been carded in my life. I was 35