Last Hussar's Quiz Night

[Ithoriel]

Guessing - but Corgi may well be it, admittedly there is a vowel in it though

No doubt it will be down to those wicked English speakers adding unneeded vowels.

[Last Hussar]

Well there's the obvious short legged Welsh dog, but Mr Hussar is seldom obvious

 

For 8, I would point out I used the phrase 'rock FRAGMENTS' not rocks.

[Leon]

Guessing - but Corgi may well be it, admittedly there is a vowel in it though

I hadn't considered Corgi, that's probably more likely than my sausage dog!

[Gwydion]

You should strike Corgi.

Ci is indeed 'a dog' in Welsh and the 'c' could mutate to 'gi' if it were a singular feminine noun - but it is masculine so it should stay as 'Ci' unless there are two of them - even masculine nouns with the right consonants mutate after 'dau', the Welsh for two, hence the kid's song 'Dau Gi bach' (two little dogs - yes I know ci is the singular and there are two of them so it looks like it should be 'cŵn' which is the plural-dogs, but Welsh nouns remain singular after numbers - I have no idea why, they just do, okay?).
 
So it should be Corci if it were the Welsh 'Dwarf dog' (Cor or Chor is 'Dwarf'). But really the adjective usually follows the noun in Welsh so it should be be a 'CiCor' if as is often claimed it is the Welsh for 'short/dwarf dog'.

Corgi doesn't in any configuration I can think of  mean 'short leg'.

PS - 'W' and 'Y' are vowels as anyone knows! - and LL, DD, FF, RH, PH, TH, CH, NG, are each single letters!

[Ithoriel]

 

For 8, I would point out I used the phrase 'rock FRAGMENTS' not rocks.

In that case I reckon I might have 10 .... or not

[fsn]

You should strike Corgi.

Ci is indeed 'a dog' in Welsh and the 'c' could mutate to 'gi' if it were a singular feminine noun - but it is masculine so it should stay as 'Ci' unless there are two of them - even masculine nouns with the right consonants mutate after 'dau', the Welsh for two, hence the kid's song 'Dau Gi bach' (two little dogs - yes I know ci is the singular and there are two of them so it looks like it should be 'cŵn' which is the plural-dogs, but Welsh nouns remain singular after numbers - I have no idea why, they just do, okay?).
 
So it should be Corci if it were the Welsh 'Dwarf dog' (Cor or Chor is 'Dwarf'). But really the adjective usually follows the noun in Welsh so it should be be a 'CiCor' if as is often claimed it is the Welsh for 'short/dwarf dog'.

Corgi doesn't in any configuration I can think of  mean 'short leg'.

PS - 'W' and 'Y' are vowels as anyone knows! - and LL, DD, FF, RH, PH, TH, CH, NG, are each single letters!

... and that is why I didn't do very well in Welsh class.

[fsn]

 

For 8, I would point out I used the phrase 'rock FRAGMENTS' not rocks.

Ah! So it's Sydney, not Melbourne.

[Raider4]

5 What does Wikipedia define as a sauce made of apples?

Eh? Seeing as Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." it could be anything at all at any given time, and something completely different 5 seconds later.

If I edit that entry to say "a sauce made of apples is a small relative of the gerbil, native to Easter Island" and then put that as my answer, then I am technically correct (at least until someone notices the vandalism and reverts or rejects that edit).

I once viewed the entry for Henry II (of England), and someone had replaced the normal medieval image with something similar to the one below.



Using Wikipedia as your source is a really, really, bad idea.

[Gwydion]

... and that is why I didn't do very well in Welsh class.

Mae'n ddrwg gen i. Fy nghydymdeimlad i chi. Dydw i ddim yn athro da iawn yn anffodus

See? It's simple really!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice to see authentic utter gibberish.

[Roy]

What Google Translate spat out:

Iawn. Gawn ni weld pa mor dda yw Google Translate. A yw hyn yn gwneud unrhyw synnwyr, ynteu a yw'n gibberish?

A thra dwi wrthi. Dyma Fforwm Pendraken. Ynghlwm wrth wefan Pendraken Miniatures. Lle i brynu milwyr tegan bach.

What I originally wrote into Google Translate:

Okay. Let's see how good Google translate is. Does this make any sense, or is it gibberish?

And whilst I'm at it. This is the Pendraken Forum. Attached to the Pendraken Miniatures' website. A place to buy little toy soldiers.

[Gwydion]

And this is the 'fun stuff' board.
Isn't a quiz and a spin off about one of the constituent languages of the UK fun?

[and not bad - a bit formal perhaps but it makes sense]

[fsn]

Mae'n ddrwg gen i. Fy nghydymdeimlad i chi. Dydw i ddim yn athro da iawn yn anffodus

See? It's simple really!

Diolch. I was an RAF brat in a school where you could hit a cricket ball from Wales into England. There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm to learn Welsh as a second language when this time next year you could be in Cyprus, Germany or Lincolnshire.

I can ask if you like coffee.

[Last Hussar]

I meant to post the answers and next round at lunch, but was doing something else. All the quizzes are on my computer at work.

It's just a bit of fun!

[Roy]

In case I've dropped a clanger again with something I wrote in the Google Translate post, it wasn't meant as any criticism of this thread - I just meant, whilst I'm at it (writing on Translate) [here I needed something to write, with obvious words ie. Pendraken Miniatures] I'd waffle on a bit longer to see how Google does.

I've no problem with this thread, nor anything else on this Forum, certainly nothing in the Fun Stuff sections. In fact, I've compiled my own British Military Quiz - complete with verbal waffle - to post on this forum at a later date.