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5 conversations recorded by `Michael' (PS19Y) on 3 February 1992 with 3 interlocutors, totalling 94 s-units, 1062 words, and 9 minutes 34 seconds of recordings.

6 speakers recorded by respondent number 64

PS19Y Ag1 m (Michael, age 18, sales person, Lancashire, )
PS1A4 Ag1 m (Elliot, age 22, inland revenue employee, Central Northern England, ) friend
PS1A5 Ag1 m (Jason, age 17, unemployed, Lancashire, ) friend
PS1A6 Ag1 m (Kenny, age 23, scientist, Scottish, ) friend
KDCPSUNK (respondent W0000) X u (Unknown speaker, age unknown) other
KDCPSUGP (respondent W000M) X u (Group of unknown speakers, age unknown) other

5 recordings

  1. Tape 063301 recorded on 1992-02-03. LocationLancashire: Morecambe () Activity: quiz night
  2. Tape 063302 recorded on 1992-02-03. LocationLancashire: Morecambe () Activity: quiz night
  3. Tape 063303 recorded on 1992-02-03. LocationLancashire: Morecambe () Activity: quiz night
  4. Tape 063304 recorded on 1992-02-03. LocationLancashire: Morecambe () Activity: quiz night
  5. Tape 063305 recorded on 1992-02-03. LocationLancashire: Morecambe () Activity: quiz night

1 (Tape 063301)

Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [1] Is there any more last minute entry for the quiz?
[2] Okay, sit, sit still, be quiet and listen to this, you ready?
[3] Question one ... which of Britain's colonies is most populated?
[4] Okay ... if it's any help just look at the opening
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [5] tonight, nothing tricky that, it's just ... er which of Britain's colonies is the most populated?
[6] Question two, which city did Lady Godiva ride naked through the streets of?
[7] ... I'm sure you know the story, which city did Lady Godiva ride naked through the streets of?
Elliot (PS1A4) [8] Coventry.
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [9] And number three whose was the signet ring which is sometimes known as the fisherman's ring?
[10] ... Okay, whose was the signet ring sometimes known as the fisherman's ring?
[11] ... Question four, fashion model and T V presenter Marie Helvin was married to which famous photographer?
[12] Maybe if you think along the lines of fashion
Elliot (PS1A4) [13] That's the only one I know
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [14] er
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Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [15] I'm not supposed to give clues, okay fashion model and T V presented Marie Helvin was once married to which famous photographer?
[16] ... I can see we're having difficulty with these questions ... no it's just the answers, okay, question five, now this one's easy if you're a surgery, if you have a tracheotomy, where would you show off the scar?
[17] Okay
Elliot (PS1A4) [18] The neck
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [19] if you've had a tracheotomy where would you show off the scar?

2 (Tape 063302)

Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [20] Question six ... okay for anybody who's interested in eating, as we are, pate de foie gras is made from what?
[21] Right we'll be even more specific right, a help for ya, pate de foie gras is made from the liver of what?
[22] Right, can't get any easier than that ... do you want it again?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [23] Right, okay question number seven
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [24] which substance used to be known as brimstone?
[25] Okay it's, shall we say a mineral?
[26] I shall
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [27] which substance used to be known as brimstone?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [28] she's giggling again, what the questions are a bit difficult?
[29] No, too easy, question eight, in Britain we play draughts what do the Americans call the game?
Elliot (PS1A4) [30] Checkers. ...
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [31] Okay
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [32] in Britain we play draughts, what do the Americans call the same game? ...
Elliot (PS1A4) [33] Brimstone I dunno what it is
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [34] Question nine, M G sports cars, famous in Britain, what does the M G stand for?
[35] I think everybody knows M G sports cars, what does the M G stand for?
[36] And question ten in medical terms ... tetanus is better known by what name?
[37] Okay to you and me tetanus is known by what?

3 (Tape 063303)

Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [38] question eleven, what is the length of time of an association football match?
[39] Okay
Michael (PS19Y) [40] Ninety minutes.
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [41] an F A football match, what is the length of time of an F A football match?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [42] question twelve who hosts the T V programme, sorry T V quiz The Krypton Factor?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [43] who hosts the T V quiz The Krypton Factor?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [44] number thirteen, okay ... I'll be very surprised if you don't know this one, who painted the Mona Lisa?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [45] again, who painted the Mona Lisa?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [46] question fourteen ... Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market, okay, better known as which market?
[47] Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market and the street's better known by this name, what is it?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [48] and question fifteen, right listen carefully
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [49] which of the following names is not a bone in the body a femur, patella, radius, cornea or temporal ...
Kenny (PS1A6) [50] Cornea.
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [51] so you've got a choice of five, one of them is not a bone, which is it?
[52] Femur, patella, radius, cornea or temporal
Jason (PS1A5) [53] It's radius innit?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [laugh]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]

4 (Tape 063304)

Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [54] Final section questions sixteen to twenty ...
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [55] question sixteen which country is the world's leading coffee producer?
[56] Okay, I've said go for the obvious ones didn't I?
[57] Which country is the world's leading
Michael (PS19Y) [58] Could be
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [59] coffee producer?
Michael (PS19Y) [60] either Brazil
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Michael (PS19Y) [61] or Kenya ...
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [62] Question seventeen
Jason (PS1A5) [63] Coffee producer
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [64] the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries?
[65] ... Okay and we want 'em both ... no half points for this
Kenny (PS1A6) [66] What is it?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [67] The Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries?
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [68] Question eighteen, in which book would you find the character Long John Silver?
Michael (PS19Y) [69] Desert Island er not Desert Island
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [laugh]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [70] okay, in which book would you find the character Long John Silver?
[71] ... Question nineteen ... which letter of the English language is most used? ...
Jason (PS1A5) [72] E
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [73] Which letter of the English language is the one we use most?
Jason (PS1A5) [74] I'd say E
Elliot (PS1A4) [75] I don't know
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [76] And finally question twenty, which country uses the Drachma as its unit of
Kenny (PS1A6) [77] Greece
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [78] currency?
[79] Okay ... again, the final question number twenty, which country uses the Drachma as its unit of currency?
Elliot (PS1A4) [80] Cross it out you plonker ...

5 (Tape 063305)

Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [81] Question six, pate de foie gras is made form the liver of, okay literary of a fat goose, but we accepted goose alright, so pate de foie gras from a goose liver.
[82] Question seven, which substance used to be known as Brimstone?
[83] That's sulphur
Elliot (PS1A4) [84] I'd erm cod liver oil.
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [85] question eight, in Britain we play the game draughts, in America the same game is called checkers ... er, number nine, one or two of you got it right, most of you caught out with M G sports cars, the M G actually stands for Morris Garages
Elliot (PS1A4) [86] Ah got that one
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Elliot (PS1A4) [87] oh shit
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [88] Okay, you got half, you got Morris, question ten, tetanus is better known by what name to you and me it's lock jaw, at least if you've ever had it, it is, question eleven
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [...]
Unknown speaker (KDCPSUNK) [89] what is the length of time of an [laugh] of an F A football match?
[90] Ninety minutes, excluding injury time and all that stuff, ninety minutes, question twelve, who hosts the T V quiz The Krypton Factor?, that's Gordon Burns ... question thirteen, who painted the Mona Lisa?
[91] Leonardo de Vinci ... fourteen, Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market lends its name to the street it's Petticoat Lane ... question fifteen, which of them is not a bone, okay, we, we asked you which of these is not a bone, a femur, a patella, radius, cornea or temporal, the one is cornea, that's part, that's part of the eye ... question sixteen, which country is the world's leading coffee producer?
[92] I said go for the obvious one Brazil ... question seventeen, the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries?
[93] France and Spain, okay, if you only got one of those countries right we couldn't give you the point, it has to be both, question eighteen, in which book would you find the character Long John Silver?
[94] Treasure Island