On Celebrity Mastermind The Question Asked Was Which 31 Mile Tunnel Was First Proposed

[gollob]

in 1902.The answer given was the Eurotunnel but the actual tunnel is only 23.5 miles long

[pauln90]

The under sea portion is 23.5 but the entire tunnel is 31.5 miles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

[Hopkirk]

Wiki has it at 31.35 miles

[Baldric]

Wrong again gollob?

[ichkeria]

1802

[ABerrant]

The Channel Tunnel is 31.4 miles long, with an undersea portion of 23.5 miles.


Do any of your quiz queries stand up to scrutiny?

[Baldric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

[mikey4444]

I can find plenty of references to the length of the Tunnel, but none to 1905.

[Mamyalynne]

It's not gone seven yet Mikey.

[Hopkirk]

Who mentioned 1905?

[mikey4444]

Mamy....yes....a teeny bit early for my G+T !

[Mamyalynne]

More importantly, who's on first base?

[mikey4444]

Hoppy...meant 1902 !

[tamborine]

Key dates from wiki link:
“January 1975: A UK–France government-backed scheme, that started in 1974, was cancelled”

Surely construction began in 1960s as it was a hot topic in my college

[mikey4444]

I think 1902 was a typo by gollob !

[Mamyalynne]

It would certainly have been in the News Tambo.

https://www.getlinkgroup.com/uk/the-channel-tunnel/history/

[jno]

from memory, Napoleon was thinking about digging it to invade Britain, so ichkeria's probably right about 1802

[Mamyalynne]

In 1802, French mining engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier put forward the first ever design for a cross-Channel fixed link based on the principle of a bored two-level tunnel: the top one, paved and lit by oil lamps, to be used by horse-drawn stagecoaches; the bottom one would be used for groundwater flows.

[ABerrant]

As is often the case with these queries, the quiz question has been incorrectly reproduced.

It should read " Which 31-mile-long tunnel was first proposed in 1802 by the French mining engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier and finally opened in May 1994?"

[zebo]

Pub quiz questions are notoriously bad, in ours at least, we were asked The M6 circles which city? After we queried it we were told it was right so we put Manchester (M60 in reality)and it was accepted, as the answer sheet is sacrosanct!

[Jackdaw33]

That's why I never do pub quizzes. The level of ignorance displayed is shocking.