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Quiz 391

Last night's quiz was hard work. You get a bit of pussy in the room and some blokes just turn into complete eejits. Anyway, let's see, who won? The Magic Numbers (Happy birthday Andy) with 97pts. The Alliance were second on 94 pts and VCJD or new variant CJD made up the top 3 with 91 pts. Now my PC is almost back to normal I am going to bring all my files up to date over the weekend before I even consider next week's quiz. Contact me as usual by posting a comment on this blog or email me at: quizard_97@yahoo.co.uk Now I'm going to BonDs to drink copious amounts of fermented vegetable products.

Questions and Answers

Last night's pictures were: 1. Gordon Brown PM 2. Steve Martin 3. Graham Norton 4. Tommy Lee Jones 5. Ron Atkinson 6. Shilpa Shetty 7. Twighliht Zone creator Rod Serling 8. Gwen Stefani 9. Maria Sharapova 10.Salma Hayek

Three for Fun (Monday's answers)

Only two leaders of the Conservative in the twentieth century were not also Prime Minister. William Hague and Austin Chamberlain.

Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were all US Presidents during the 1920s.

'The stately homes of England/How beautiful they stand/To prove the upper classes/Have still the upper hand.' words written by Noel Coward.

Today's questions (answers on Monday)

1. In which profession did Somerset Maugham qualify, in the same year in which his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, was published?

2. What is the title of the three-volume work by Karl Marx which appeals for a classless society where rewards are shared equally?

3. Under which act of parliament of 1707 were England and Scotland united under the name Great Britain?

Joke of the Day

A city slicker shoots a duck out in the country. As he's retrieving it, a farmer walks up and stops him, claiming that since the duck is on his farm, it technically belongs to him. After minutes of arguing, the farmer proposesthey settle the matter "country style."

"What's country style?" asks the city boy.

"Out here in the country," the farmer says, "when two blokes have a dispute, one bloke kicks the other one in the bollocks as hard as he can. Then that bloke, why, he kicks the first one as hard as he can. And so forth. Last man standin' wins the dispute.

Warily the city boy agrees and prepares himself. The farmer kicks him in the groin with all his might. The city boy falls to the ground in the most intense pain he's ever felt, crying like a baby and spluttering. Finally he staggers to his feet and says, "Alright, n-now it's m-my turn."

The farmer grins. "Oh, hell, you win. Keep the duck."

Grrrrr, I hate computers. This week's quiz is around halfway complete but what I really need is the back up memory stick that my brother has with all my templates on as wghen I took my computer back to Wishbone during that deluge on Friday I found out that the slave drive with all my quiz stuff on it - previous quizzes, templates, databases etc - was dead and all those years of work were gone. Luckily, a couple of month's ago I put the whole quizard file on a memory stick but... it's at my brothers and he went away for the weekend and I can't get to it. Nevermind, one way or another I will get it sorted by Thursday including a guest round which this week is due to be Dingbats.

Three for Fun (answers from whenever the f**k it was)

The name given to the conspiracy of 1683 by English whig extremists intent on murdering Charles II and his brother, the future James II was The Rye House Plot.

In Parliament The Speaker's principal adviser in all matters of procedure, who sits at the Table of the House during sittings is The Clerk of the House.

In the Bible to someone who prepared perfumes and spices was called an Apothecary.

Today's questions (answers on Friday)

1. Only two leaders of the Conservative in the twentieth century were not also Prime Minister. William Hague and who in the early 1920s?

2. Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were all US Presidents during which decade?

3. 'The stately homes of England/How beautiful they stand/To prove the upper classes/Have still the upper hand.' Who wrote these words.

Joke of the Day: How Paris Hilton prepared for Jail.

1. Asking Martha Stewart for "shower fight" tips.

2. Meeting with Revlon to market signature delousing spray.

3. Seeking permission to videotape her conjugals.

4. Seeing what Prada had in orange jumpsuits.

5. Trying to figure out how she's going to avoid Brenda, the weightlifter.

6. Attending Birmingham City games to get used to solitary.

7. Giving guards a list of how she likes to be searched.

8. Telling herself, "Heck, 45 days? That's not even a month".

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Quiz 390

Hooray! I'm back. Okay, this is going to be a very brief post as I have to take my computer back down to those good people at Wishbone in the Bolebridge Mews to have a slave drive reconnected as all my quiz stuff is on it. Last night's joint winners were The Alliance and The Magic Numbers with 93pts and joint third with 86 pts were VCJD and Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead. (bloody stupid name). Hopefully, things will be back to normal by the time I have to post Monday's blog. quizard_97@yahoo.co.uk as always is my Email if you wish to contact me. Enjoy the weekend and you think its really inclement for the time of year, spare a thought for those poor eejits in a field in Glastonbury.