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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2019, 08:28:26 AM »
The Bronze would be BTVS

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And following on from that

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2019, 08:48:43 AM »
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.

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2019, 08:55:59 AM »
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Bones.

Pushing the definition of 'fiction' perhaps...

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2019, 09:00:08 AM »
Bones.

Pushing the definition of 'fiction' perhaps...

The Winking Skeever

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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.

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2019, 09:06:40 AM »
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?
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2019, 09:17:03 AM »
The Bunch of Grapes.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #31 on: December 17, 2019, 09:44:29 AM »
The Bunch of Grapes.
Nope, I'm getting nothing on that.

Now that the Tabard answer is up what was your guess?

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2019, 09:53:05 AM »
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

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2019, 10:16:16 AM »
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.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2019, 10:18:00 AM »
Another one: the Dog and Hammer.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2019, 10:57:51 AM »
Nope, I'm getting nothing on that.
Clue: it's on Easy Street. It might be considered a copper's pub.
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Now that the Tabard answer is up what was your guess?
A Knight's Tale.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2019, 11:05:27 AM »
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.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #37 on: December 17, 2019, 12:37:23 PM »
Clue: it's on Easy Street. It might be considered a copper's pub.A Knight's Tale.

Only got it by googling. And yes A Knight's Tale is oddly connected


Next one Club Obi Wan

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #38 on: December 17, 2019, 12:38:09 PM »
Another one: the Dog and Hammer.
Clue?

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #39 on: December 17, 2019, 12:39:14 PM »
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #40 on: December 17, 2019, 12:46:11 PM »
Scurrilous comic.
Ah, I am getting old. Tempted to say that I didn't know the PM had a pub but Viz. Good one

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #41 on: December 17, 2019, 01:37:59 PM »
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.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #42 on: December 17, 2019, 09:11:51 PM »
So waiting for answer to Club Obi Wan


And will add


The Duke of Burgundy


And

Rolliver's Inn

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #43 on: December 17, 2019, 10:00:44 PM »
The Mended drum. (But the peanuts are taken)
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #44 on: December 18, 2019, 05:38:21 AM »
The Mended drum. (But the peanuts are taken)
i am guessing this would be somewhere on Discworld?

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #45 on: December 18, 2019, 09:15:06 AM »
i am guessing this would be somewhere on Discworld?
   
Yep.
But the coppers drink in the Bucket on Gleam street.
Ooooook.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #46 on: December 18, 2019, 09:27:35 AM »
The Prancing Pony (or is that too easy?)
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #47 on: December 18, 2019, 09:30:14 AM »
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.

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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #48 on: December 18, 2019, 09:35:27 AM »
The Prancing Pony (or is that too easy?)
   

If you're a home bird, though, it would have to be the Green Dragon.
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Re: A Christmas fictional pub/club quiz
« Reply #49 on: December 18, 2019, 09:44:24 AM »
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.
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