Trivia

[natnnnat]

Gregory reckons he was a pool player.  Played by Jackie Gleeson in The Sting.  Doesn't know the answers to the other questions.  Probably, Alaska or Hawaii I suppose.  :-D

[Stoday]

For an extra point what one unique state he has never played in. Drunk & incapable? 

[ChickenLittle56]

I stated the question wrong because although Natnnnat got the answer correct for the movie but what I was looking for was the name who he thought the movie 'The Hustler' was based on. As far as the where Rudolf 'Minnesota Fats' Wanderone never played in was the state of Minnesota. Natnnnat has the next question.

[natnnnat]

Stoday, I was almost going to put that the state he hadn't played in was sober.   Confused by the rest of the question /answer process for this one but willing to step up to the crease.  May as well make it a kidney-related trivia question to belatedly celebrate summer solstice.

The world's first artificial kidney that can mimic almost all vital kidney functions has been created, say news reports.
Who is credited as the inventor?

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

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[Stoday]

I found a reference to a demonstration of an "artificial kidney" by John Able in The Times (London) of August 11 1913. He was using it on animals. Later experiments on humans failed.

[cariad]

The world's first artificial kidney that can mimic almost all vital kidney functions has been created, say news reports.
Who is credited as the inventor?

What happened to Ms. Nat? Did Stoday get it?

I will guess Dr. Roy since I have been glossing over the recent thread on this topic and recall that name being thrown about.

[natnnnat]

Stoday should have it. 
Apologies, Cariad, you had the answer I wanted, for I was waiting for Dr Roy, so at the time I let Stoday's answer pass as the "wrong" answer.  But when you look at the reports, John Able's bizzo was the first time someone said they'd made an artificial kidney, it didn't work, now  Dr Roy is saying he's made the "first" artificial kidney, and we don't know yet if this new one will work in humans either.  Nor even in animals.  So, same, same.

Apologies Stoday.  Over to you sir. 

[galvo]

Have you dozed off, Stoday?

[Stoday]

Oops! Yes galvo, I did.

I'll think of something tomorrow

[natnnnat]

I thought maybe he was playing hard to get.

[galvo]

That old tart?

[cariad]

I thought maybe he was playing hard to get.

That old tart?

[Stoday]

Sorry I didn't get back the other day. Here we are now:

There's a Bordeaux Chateau in France producing expensive white wine. To make the best they pick over individual grapes in every bunch separating the good grapes from the mouldy.

They use the mouldy grapes to make the best and most expensive wine. They make another wine with the rejected grapes.

What's the name on the label of the best wine and of the lesser wine? How are they pronounced?

[cariad]

Oh, hell. I remember you mentioning this wine before but I did not investigate when I had the chance....

[Stoday]

Hint:

One of Thomas Jefferson's bottles of wine hit the records (which still stands) as the most expensive white wine ever sold. It was a 1787 bottle of Chateau XXX.

[Stoday]

OK, another hint: the wine was Chateau dYquem

[cariad]

Hmmmm, I don't know the answer, but I'd thought the Jefferson bottle was exposed as a fraud. Malcolm Forbes bought it - I also thought that was a Chauteau LaFite. Perhaps it was a red I am thinking of? This is all information that I sort of remember from reading the book review for The Billionaires Vinegar.

Sorry, I'm an oenophile in that I do love tasting and sipping wines, but I am hopeless at remembering anything about them, and I operate within strict monetary limits. I walk into our local wine shop and throw myself at the mercy of the attending manager. If you happen to have a future trivia question about decent, cheap wines, I may just know the answer!

[okarol]

With TH.J engraved on the bottle, once owned by Thomas Jefferson, a bottle of Chateau Lafite from 1787 sold for a drunken amount of $160,000.00 USD.

Due to it's age the wine is undrinkable, it was bought by a collector of Thomas Jefferson memorabilia.

Chateau d’Yquem Sauterne (1787) from France was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It is the most expensive commercially available bottle of wine ranging in price from $56,000.00 - $64,000.00.

[galvo]

Stoday, this question's getting stale,

[Stoday]

Yeah, it's as bad as ...fy. So here's a substitute:

Six labourers who lived in the villiage of Tolpuddle (UK) were sentenced to transportation to Galvo's country. Why wasn't the sentence carried out?

[galvo]

Because some 800,000 signatures were collected for their release and a huge march was also undertaken by their supporters. The public pressure was so in tense that  they were released with the support of the Home Secretary.

A slight correction. They were actually transported and returned to England on release. All bar one migrated to Canada where they lived and died in the vicinity of London, Ontario. The one who remained in Tolpuddle, James Hammett, died in the Dorchester workhouse in 1891.

Their leader, Methodist Minister, George Loveless wrote the following lines, on being sentenced to transportation:

"God is our guide! from field, from wave,
From plough, from anvil, and from loom;
We come, our country's rights to save,
And speak a tyrant faction's doom:
We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!"

[Stoday]

Right Galvo. Your turn now.

[galvo]

What one city must a movie play in to be eligible for an Oscar?

[rsudock]

New York