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Trivia Contest: Can you win without using Google?
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:09 am
by Roy Hersh
Challenge: Explain exactly what I am referencing and where it comes from without using Google.
Hints: To be Frank, 655321 has to deal with Taylor, although this has nothing to do with the IVDP Seal of Guarantee.
Rules:
a. The guessing game ends at Midnight (US Pacific Standard Time) May 31st, 2006. The winner will be announced no later than June 1st
b. All entries must be placed in this thread
c. No email entries permitted
d. You must not refer to Google or other web search engine for assistance
e. All of the above
No further hints beyond the (4) above will be provided, so I wish all of you, best of luck!
The prize for the winner is 10% off of any of the 3, 2006 Harvest Trips ... which is worth far more than any (non-Nacional) VP in the past 43 years if used for either of the trips on the Travel Page. Of course, if used for the shorter 3 day trip, it is equivalent to a 1970 something, bottle. The winner's discount can only be used by that individual or a guest that comes along on the trip with them and is not otherwise transferrable.
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:20 am
by Tom Archer
Sorry Roy, but you've completely lost me here
Tom
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:23 am
by Derek T.
Exactly how many glasses of port do you need to drink before the hint makes any sense?
Derek
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:11 pm
by Andy Velebil
WOW :!: :!: I think I need a few more glasses to try and figure this one out. Hmmm, huh, well, ahh, I'll get back to you...maybe
Guessing...
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:15 pm
by Guest
I'm guessing there is more coming soon...
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:16 pm
by Roy Hersh
Stewart,
All the clues are right there in the first posting.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:27 am
by Al B.
Roy,
Where is the question or the reference that we need to decode?
If its all in the original posting, you missed your vocation as a crossword clue writer!
Alex
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:49 am
by Derek T.
Roy,
Can you confirm that the 4 hints are:
1. Frank
2. 655321
3. Taylor
4. IDVP Seal of Guatantee
Derek
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:55 am
by Andy Velebil
Derek, that is what I figured as the 4 hints. I think Roy saw the Da Vinci Code Friday
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:20 am
by Al B.
I've got it! Frank was the person at the IVDP who tasted the Taylors 2003 vintage port. He is IVDP employee number 655321 and it is his number that appears on the IVDP seal for that wine, for ever more.
How's that! I'm seeing the Da Vinci code Friday!
Alex
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:55 am
by Roy Hersh
All I will say is that Alex is the closest so far!
Derek, you have the four clues correctly in order.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:26 am
by Derek T.
Frank Taylor founded the company that makes Taylor's Port in 1794 - 655321 days after the birth of his Great Great Great......Grandfather, Jesus (Taylor) of Nazereth
Derek
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:15 am
by Al B.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:18 am
by Frederick Blais
Can you tell us if the number has to be taken in its entity or it is encoded ? And is the answer related to Port or you just chose a trivia with a few hints related to Port?
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:20 am
by Roy Hersh
The number is "as is" Fred, no coding. You have been reading or watching too much of the Da Vinci Code.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:10 pm
by Frederick Blais
First 655321 is clearly not an important number in the meaning that it is no milestone or stuff like that. It is an identification number. This number identify the good Frank you are talking about. The good Frank must have spoke or write about Taylor somewhere on the Net that could be easily found with google :)
This is what I'd say, a guy named Frank who is identified somewhere on a forum or website as 655321 (or cell number
) already wrote something about Taylor, or maybe its name is Frank Taylor after all
Another try... You picked a guy on the street and you asked him his name. Then you told him to write a six digit number behind a Taylor's Port bottle
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:09 pm
by Gary Banker
I think that "Frank" may refer to Frank Yeatman, who did work on grape varieties with Taylor. Perhaps the number refers to a grape variety.
Gary Banker
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:03 pm
by tvstorey
Roy,
If memory serves, "six-double five-three-two-one" is part of a bit of famous -- or infamous -- cinema dialogue. Do I need to go rent the film and watch it again to find all the rest of the reference?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:03 am
by pgwerner
Roy - are Internet references like Internet Movie Database acceptable if the information isn't Googled? I know roughly what the clues are referring to, but am still trying to figure out how they fit.
Peter
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:30 am
by Roy Hersh
No database can be used. I will have to take the winner at their word, that they did not use google or any other search engine at all.
Providing ALL details mentioned in the very first post, is the only way to win.
Who will be first?
I guess it will be up to who watches the movie. I never said this had anything to do with wine. 8)
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