Quiz 378

We were a little thin on the ground at The Albert last night. The place was quite busy but only six teams took part in the quiz and there was a definitive split between the top three and bottom three teams, the bottom three all in the seventies and the top three all in the nineties. The Alliance ran out the winners with 93pts, The Magic Numbers were second two points back on 91 and CJD were our third place team with 90pts.

Questions and Answers

Dingbats answers: 1. Sleep on it 2. For crying out loud 3. In the doghouse 4. Spots before the eyes 5. Goldilocks and the Three Bears 6. Out on a limb 7. Fingers crossed 8. The United States of America 9. More money than sense 10. Supporter's club

Pictures: 1. Former PM John Major 2. Christopher Lambert 3. Julie Goodyear who played Bet Lynch on Coronation Street for many years 4. TV chef Anthony Worrall Thompson 5. Former Australian cricket legend Allan Border 6. Captain Robert Falcon Scott 7. Omar Shariff 8. Tottenham Hotspur's Bulgarian striker Dimitir Berbatov 9. Sigourney Weaver (that one caught a few people out hehehe.) 10. New Dr Who actress Freema Agyeman

Three for Fun (Monday's answers)

Lake Maggiore lies on the border of Switzerland and Italy.

Wade Giles and Pinyin are two systems of a phonetic alphabet for Chinese.

Ankhesenamen was the Queen of Tutankhamen.

Today's questions (answers on Monday)

1. Humbley Grove and Stockbridge in Hampshire, Palmer's Wood in Surrey Welton in Lincolnshire. What is the connection?

2. Lindisfarne monestery, on Holy Island off the coast of Northumberland, was founded by which seventh-century Irish monk?

3. In a proportional representation system of voting, what does the abbreviation STV stand for?

Joke Of The Day:

This guy has been a fornicator and a villain all his life, but he decides he has got to mend his ways. So he decides to take up the monastic life. He goes to this monastery and is told the head monk will interview him to make sure his motives are right and that he is sure this is really what he wants to do. So they talk and discuss and the guy nods and seems to be giving all the right answers and he's happy with what it will mean to him. The conversation is just coming to an end and the head monk asks the man has he any questions that he now feels he needs to specifically ask. 'Well', he says, 'There is one thing bothering me father' 'Yes my son' says the father 'Well as i told you I am a fornicator and well I know I'd miss that relief of sexual tension and I just wonder how you lot manage' 'Ah yes, I was wondering when we'd get around to that', said the father. 'Well my son, we have this room, and in this room we have this barrel, and in this barrel there are a number of holes, and my son, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you would be allowed to relief your tension by making use of the facilities of the holes in this barrel' 'Ah', said the guy, thinking. 'But father, you said Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, um, what happens on Wednesday father?' 'Well my son, on Wednesday it would be your turn in the barrel.'