A very pleasant evening at The Albert last night, okay, another couple of teams would have been better but seven teams is quite good for this time of year. Our winners last night were The Alliance minus Pete (get well soon mate) with 93pts This puts them second on the all-time wins table with 122 quiz victories just behind The Shrimps who have won one of my quizzes 123 times. Chairman of the Board were second with 90pts and CJD made up the top three with 88pts. They are joint third on the all-time list along with Hold the Back Page with 57 wins. Another blank templateawaits me now, all I know for sure is that the guest round is Connections, nine questions with a theme. What that theme will be I have no idea at the moment but I will have by Monday's update. Don't forget to check out the Joke of the Day at the end of this post, it's a real hoot.
End of the month which means just one thing. Some lucky bugger walks away with the whole pot. It has been a slow month luckily though, it was a five-week month. By the time it came to ask the question the pot held £77.50. Last night's question was: "In H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, in which year in the future does the central character become temporarily stranded?" (Well, you don't expect me to just give that sort of money away do you?) The correect answer is 802,701 and with a guess of 880,496 Helen and Jan of the 7Ts were closest and took the cash (thanks again for the pint). Next week we start all over again from scratch.
Questions and Answers
Last night's Faces were: 1. Tommy Cooper 2. David Beckham 3. Victoria Beckham 4. Carol Vorderman 5. David Coulthard 6. Sylvester Stallone 7. Marilyn Monroe 8. David Cassidy 9. Kyle Minogue 10. Gordon Banks
11. Yul Brynner 12. Myleene Klass 13. Billie Jean King 14. Renee Zellweger 15. Joe DiMaggio 16. Hugh Jackman 17. Denzel Washington 18. J.K. Rowling 19. Brian Turner 20. Patricia Arquette
Three for Fun (Monday's answers)
The husband of Mary I of England was Philip II of Spain.
The cathedral city and former capital of Wessex that lies on the River Itchen in Hampshire is Winchester.
The group of islands in the North Atlantic, part of the kingdom of Shetland that lie north-west of the Shetlands and south-east of Iceland are The Faroe Islands.
Today's questions (answers on Monday)
1. What is the Octateuch?
2. Norman Manley International airport serves the capital city of which Caribbean Commonwealth country?
3. Complete this verse from the Ira Gershwin song: The way you wear your hat/The way you sip your tea/The mem'ry of all that/No, no!...'
Joke of the Day: Double-Entendres (Thanks Dr Bebop)
Subject: 12 of the finest (unintentional) double-entendres ever aired on British TV and radio
1. Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator - 'This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.'
2. New Zealand Rugby Commentator - 'Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him.'
3. Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator - 'And this is Gregoriava from Bulgaria . I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing!'
4. Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 - 'Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew.'
5. US PGA Commentator - 'One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them ..... Oh my god !! What have I just said??'
6. Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on 'Time Team Live' said: 'You'd eat beaver if you could get it.'
7. A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked, 'So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?' Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!
8. Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: 'Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.'
9. Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on Look North said: 'There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this. '
10 Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on Sky Sports: 'Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets.'
11. Michael Buerk on watching Philippa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked: 'They seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts.'
12. Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: 'Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.'
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