Guess the Warwickshire building from clues

[Jonathan Scott]

What English cheeses do you know? It's probably the first one.

 

[1oldman2]

What English cheeses do you know? It's probably the first one.

English cheeses would be an area I'm unfamiliar with, however I have a feeling I'll learn a little more about them when I return from an appointment with my wife's doctor today, Thanks much.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

English cheeses would be an area I'm unfamiliar with,

It's a very familiar cheese in the USA as well, although it originates from England.

 

[Bebecol]

There are still some difference between British English and the US english

 

[wolram]

There are still some difference between British English and the US english

Thanks Bebcol, this is a very common cheese in the UK and i think it goes by the same name in the US.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

OK, I've found time to think up another one which I'll post in a moment, so here's the answer to Wolram's riddle.
The clue refers to caves (where stalactites grow on the roof) in the Cheddar Gorge. The main one is Gough's Cave, here: 51.2820578,-2.7657362

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Here's mine (stuffed with clues, so shouldn't be too difficult):

With fish and shell in hand
Near music, drama, art
He rules the sea on land
In this city's cultural heart

If I were thus undressed
With fountains everywhere
This pose I'd only test
When summer warmed the air

 

[wolram]

Is it the statue of Neptune in Versailles?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Is it the statue of Neptune in Versailles?

You're along the right lines (right god, different name, different country).

 

[1oldman2]

You're along the right lines (right god, different name, different country).

Sorry got AFK there for a few days, are we talking about Poseidon here? if so I need to figure out some locations.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Sorry got AFK there for a few days, are we talking about Poseidon here? if so I need to figure out some locations.

A clue to that is in the second last line of my little poem.

 

[1oldman2]

So does Milos figure in?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

So does Milos figure in?

Sorry, no, I think you've gone astray there.

 

[wolram]

I think this is the one
http://encircleworldphotos.photoshelter.com/image/I0000ryOvK2eZwXc

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I think this is the one
http://encircleworldphotos.photoshelter.com/image/I0000ryOvK2eZwXc

Yes, that's him.

That's the statue of Poseidon in Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden (where I lived and worked from 1983-1987) in the square between the concert hall, museum of art and theatre. Did you spot my contrived inclusion of the name "Poseidon" in the second last line?

OK, over to you again.

 

[wolram]

Yes i did spot your clue in line 7 some one else can have a go i have not thought one up.

 

[1oldman2]

Here we go then. If you spanned the Southern Cross, It is nearly 6,000 Arc seconds from the Pleiades to Melbourne. Where would this be located?

 

[wolram]

Here we go then. If you spanned the Southern Cross, It is nearly 6,000 Arc seconds from the Pleiades to Melbourne. Where would this be located?

You have me on this one 1oldman2 i would not have a clue how to work it out

 

[1oldman2]

You have me on this one 1oldman2 i would not have a clue how to work it out

Here is your first clue, "It is a real location/area on planet earth", and of course located in the southern hemisphere. Since the riddle involves an area rather than a specific location don't sweat the details.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I guess you mean the Pleiades in Tasmania, not in the sky.

 

[1oldman2]

I guess you mean the Pleiades in Tasmania, not in the sky.

Not the sky or Tasmania.

 

[wolram]

Not the sky or Tasmania.

I think you have stumped us on this one 1oldman2

 

[1oldman2]

I think you have stumped us on this one 1oldman2

Impossible! This local is a little "out of the box" but it will make perfect sense in the end. Don't let the astronomical terms lead you astray.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Well, there's a Southern Cross near Warnambool, Victoria, Australia, and if one takes a line from that towards Melbourne, then about 100 nautical miles (6000 arc seconds around the earth) from Melbourne there's an area shown on the map called "The Sisters" on the Noorat-Framlingham Road (although there's no mention of "Seven"). Is that what you have in mind?

 

[1oldman2]

Well, there's a Southern Cross near Warnambool, Victoria, Australia, and if one takes a line from that towards Melbourne, then about 100 nautical miles (6000 arc seconds around the earth) from Melbourne there's an area shown on the map called "The Sisters" on the Noorat-Framlingham Road (although there's no mention of "Seven"). Is that what you have in mind?

Wow, I can't believe all of the parallels you have come up with, but no that is not the answer. You are as they say "getting warmer" though.

 

[1oldman2]

You are as they say "getting warmer"

Okay then, let's just say the warmer you get the colder you will likely be.

 

[wolram]

Okay then, let's just say the warmer you get the colder you will likely be.

I think it is time to come clean 1oldman2, i have spent a lot of time on this one and can not figure it out.

 

[1oldman2]

Okay I noticed that with a search engine version of this, the riddle has to be a little ambiguous to be much of a challenge, so here goes. search by enabling volcanoes and earthquakes in the side pain, look at Antarctica, check geography

 

[Jonathan Scott]

That suggests that we are talking about the Pleiades volcano and Mount Melbourne, which too are about 100 nautical miles apart, in the part of Antarctica nearest to New Zealand, but I don't get the bit about spanning the Southern Cross. There was a ship called the Southern Cross involved in the first expedition which visited the interior of Antarctica (a few years before Amundsen and Scott) including Mount Melbourne. However, it's not there now; it returned safely and later sank in a storm off Newfoundland.

 

[1oldman2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Mountains
your up!