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Quiz 393

Sorry, but there is only one post this week. What with blood tests and being called away I've been very busy this weekend. Anyway, casting my mind back to last Thursday: The Alliance were our winners with 91pts on a night when only four teams showed up. CJD were second with 88pts and Last again weren't as they came third with 79pts. I have actually managed somehow to get the majority of this week's quiz done. Later on this afternoon I will carry on with the picture round that I started last night and see if I can get the guest round completed. It's TV theme tunes which is sometimes a chore but a lot of teams enjoy it so it's well worth the effort. After that I only need eight general knowledge questions to finish it off, minus of course the obligatory last minute tweaking.

Questions and Answers

Thursday's pictures were: 1. Matt Damon 2. Mother Theresa 3. Miss Marple actress Joan Hickson 4. Donkey from the Shrek movies 5. George Best 6. TV chef Phil Vickery 7. Robbie Coltrane 8. Pink 9. Harry Potter star Emma Watson 10. Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic

Three for Fun (Last Monday's answers)

Life is Sweet, Naked and Secrets and Lies are films made in the 1990s by award-winning director Mike Leigh.

The two-word French term, meaning coercion or irresistible compulsion, that is used in commercial contracts to describe events that are outside the control of the parties involved is Force Majeure.

Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes intended to kill James I by placing barrels of gunpowder below the Houses of Parliament?

Today's questions (answers on Friday... hopefully)

1. In science, an ERG is a unit of what?

2. Classic literature: Who wrote the epic The Aeneid?

3. The M56, the M63, the M66, the M67 and theM602 all serve which northern city?

Joke of the Day

A young woman buys a mirror at an antique shop, and hangs it on her bathroom door.

One evening, while getting undressed, she playfully says "Mirror, mirror, on my door, make my bust-line forty four."

Instantly, there is a brilliant flash of light, and her boobs grow to enormous proportions.

Excitedly, she runs to tell her husband what has happened, and in minutes they both return.

This time the husband crosses his fingers and says, "Mirror mirror on the door, make my manhood touch the floor!"

Again, there's a bright flash and both his legs fall off.