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QI: - 'Eat, drink and be Merry'
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Feb 26, 2010
There is always someone who wants to spoil the party....
Who was the leading protagonist who kicked it all off???
Where did he start his movement???
When???
Accuracy and details are important as they vary country by country, for which QIs are available.
The main QI is UK centric....
Beware Klaxons...
No Google or Wiki please!!
GT
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 26, 2010
mahatma gahndi
south africa
1920s
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
Ding-Dong-Ding Taff!!
Not Ghandi! (so not India) 
-5
South Africa......?????? Where??????
1920s, definelitely not!!!
Sorry
GT
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 26, 2010
dr kellog yes him of corn flake fame
the usa
1800's
diets??????
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
Taff!!!
Do you do it deliberate, like???
Kellog -5
USA -5 (you were told main QI is UK centric. I let you off South Africa!!)
1800s?? need to get closer, thought nineteehth century is right. +1
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Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Feb 26, 2010
Pre-Raphaelites
William Holman
1840's
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
Post 6 Taff t'up north....close, +1
Post 7 Keith Pre-Raphs..-No
Holman Hunt...No
1840s...closer to the date I am looking for...+1
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Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Feb 26, 2010
Abolishionists, the anti slavery movement...oops, I smell a blue light perhaps
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
Ahhhh
Keith!!!
'Preview is my friend!'
'UK centric'!!!!!
Abolishonists????...correct!! I smell a too!!! -5
Nothing to do with slavery!
GT
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Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Feb 26, 2010
I had to try.
Why should Taff hog all the blue stuff ?
Lewis Caroll and his ' MH Tea Party', I think there are lots of societies set up around the world that do 'it'
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
Post 10 Taff...
Yorkshire???? Wash your mouth out with soapy water!!! -5
However, I will give you your guess at 1830. The actual year was 1832. +3
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 26, 2010
luddites
ludd
smashing steam engines and factory spinning equipment
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
You are closer to the mark than you may think!!!!
'MH Tea Party', and Societies.....Yes, bears thinking about does that!.....getting closer, so +1
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 26, 2010
Posts 14 and 15 Taff...
+1 for Lancashsire
Luddites, Ludd and smashing equipment is so far off beam that I never even considered them as klaxons!!!!
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Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Feb 26, 2010
I do know an act of parliament from that date called 'the reform act' and my wife's drank Earl Grey tea for the 30 or more years I've known her for and I think he was a involved in it but I can only think of Whigs and Tories as parties back then.
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 26, 2010
If the Mad Hatter's tea party bears thinking about then I'm game to go for
The Teddy Bears Picnic, which would be fortuitous as an answer because as we all know, today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Though 1832 seems a bit early for Giles Brandreth.
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ekky99 Posted Feb 26, 2010
George Fox
Pendle Hill
1650s
I worked for Pendle Borough Council for some time in the 1980s. This is the second most well known thing that happened there. George Fox had a vision on Pendle Hill that led to the Quaker movement.
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