Question of the day

[midlifecrisis]

Enough of boy bands, what's the next question?

 

[JonW]

**** - you saw through that then?

 

[JonW]

Am 100% sure it's not someone from a boy band

 

[spkennyuk]

Looks like this question will RUN a bit. Its turning into a bit of a snickers.

The boy band rings a bell. I cant remember which group they were from. Possibly Blue or someone like that. Thats not the answer the QM is looking for so are we talking sports person, actor, tv person, singer ?

 

[JonW]

Looks like this question will RUN a bit. Its turning into a bit of a snickers.

The boy band rings a bell. I cant remember which group they were from. Possibly Blue or someone like that. Thats not the answer the QM is looking for so are we talking sports person, actor, tv person, singer ?

Like the puns a lot

The thing that's really surprising about this fact is that the individual who holds the record for having raised the largest amount ever is not a celebrity. This is partly why my question was about what the amount was, rather than who the individual is.

To recap what we know, this individual ran the marathon in 2011, and raised more than the £1.8 million that Sir Steve Redgrave raised in 2006.

Let's see if anyone can get close to the number this morning, and if not we can call it quits and someone else can set a question...

I'm off for a run!

 

[daverichardson]

Question of the DAY?

 

[zagatoes30]

What was the bloke who use to run for Oasis foundation called, he held the record before Steve Regrave but don't know if he beat it again later

 

[JonW]

What was the bloke who use to run for Oasis foundation called, he held the record before Steve Regrave but don't know if he beat it again later

Well done Andy - Steve Chalke is the founder of Oasis, and he's held the world record three times.

First was £1.25 million in 2005. Steve Redgrave raised just under £1.8m in 2006, so Steve Chalke raised £1.9m in 2007, and then went one better in 2011 when he raised £2.3 million. Astonishing achievement.

Your question...

 

[zagatoes30]

How did I win that when I didn't know how much he raised or his name - the joy of the SM world

OK as yesterday we spent most of the day looking for one of these and like that search I suspect we might get a few false trails

When and where was the first passport issued ?

 

[JonW]

How did I win that when I didn't know how much he raised or his name - the joy of the SM world

Fair question - I got the impression that people were bored of the question and wanted to move on, so grabbed the nearest thing to a right answer...

 

[zagatoes30]

Fair question - I got the impression that people were bored of the question and wanted to move on, so grabbed the nearest thing to a right answer...

Sounds reasonable

 

[spkennyuk]

How did I win that when I didn't know how much he raised or his name - the joy of the SM world

OK as yesterday we spent most of the day looking for one of these and like that search I suspect we might get a few false trails

When and where was the first passport issued ?

Depends what you mean as a passport. Travel documents were issued by countries like Persia and China but they were letters of safe passage bit of a guess as to when so i will start the bidding at 500 bc.

The passport as we know it now is a different matter altogether.

 

[zagatoes30]

Depends what you mean as a passport. Travel documents were issued by countries like Persia and China but they were letters of safe passage bit of a guess as to when so i will start the bidding at 500 bc.

The passport as we know it now is a different matter altogether.

Agreed which is why I used the word Passport

 

[spkennyuk]

Photo passports as far as i know were around the time of WW1.
Thats about the total knowledge i have on the subject.

 

[allandwf]

I would have thought somewhere where criminality was rife, or there would have been no need for them. Don't know where though.

 

[JonW]

This doesn't answer the question, but I remember reading that the early passports didn't include photos, but included basic descriptions of people, face, height, distinguishing features. I also read that if you objected to how you had been described, you could submit an appeal and present arguments as to why it was an innaccurate description.

Just imagine the letters....

In terms of when and where they originated, I'm going to guess they were introduced as part of the expansion of the British Empire, so some time in the 16th century, and the first one was issued in one of the major sea-going ports of the time.

 

[zagatoes30]

This doesn't answer the question, but I remember reading that the early passports didn't include photos, but included basic descriptions of people, face, height, distinguishing features. I also read that if you objected to how you had been described, you could submit an appeal and present arguments as to why it was an innaccurate description.

Just imagine the letters....

In terms of when and where they originated, I'm going to guess they were introduced as part of the expansion of the British Empire, so some time in the 16th century, and the first one was issued in one of the major sea-going ports of the time.

Impressive most of the above is correct

 

[JonW]

Impressive most of the above is correct

Oh sugar - that was a random guess!

 

[zagatoes30]

King Henry V of England is credited with having invented what some consider the first true passport, as a means of helping his subjects prove who they were in foreign lands. The earliest reference to these documents is found in a 1414 Act of Parliament. In 1540, granting travel documents in England became a role of the Privy Council of England, and it was around this time that the term "passport" was used

So as I said near enough now your go again

 

[JonW]

OK - nice easy question, which I only learnt earlier this week

What is the dot that goes above a lower case i (or a j) called?