Monday 5 May 2008

quiz435/update



A brief post today, I hope you are all enjoying the bank holiday. (Why is bank holiday TV so crap?) I'm stuck in front of my PC today trying to get this week's quiz done. I still have quite a bit to do including 21 questions, most of the music tape, the pictures, a Pot 'O' Gold question and the guest round (Who Am I?). quizard_97@yahoo.co.uk as always for questions or comments and lets hope there is a sizeable crowd at The Albert on Thursday night.

Three for fun (Friday's answers)

In the UK it is the House of Lords. The name given to the upper house of the parliaments of France, Ireland, Spain, Belgium and Italy is Senate.


Heat energy can be transferred by three methods. They are: conduction, convection and radiation.

3. From the Latin for goat, the term used to describe a piece of music expressing the light-hearted and the whimsical is Capriccio.

Today's questions (answers on Friday)

1. What name, still in use for seats of learning, was given to the school in Athens by Plato?

2. The AUT represents workers in which field?

3. In Germany, what sort of event is a Sangerfest?

Joke of the Day- A man and his wife (Thanks Mako)

A man and his wife were sitting in the living room discussing a"Living Will"
"Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.
"His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all the beer.

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