quiz452/update

I'm playing catch up today after a hectic weekend. Where did it go? I have a stack of housework to do though, looking outside it doesn't look like a laundry day. I still have a lot to do for this Thursday's quiz notably the guest round which this week is True or False. I've only really just scratched the surface of it. I need another eight for that and 26 questions for other rounds plus the Faces but I rarely get round to that until Wednesday evening. Yesterday I did manage to compile a music montage in the afternoon and thought of a good Tempus Fugit question late last night. It's just turned 2pm so I'd better get some work done, I am so behind. Now that September is here I am hoping for a fuller room on Thursday at The Albert so hopefully I will see you all just before 9pm.

Three for Fun (Friday's answers)

The Puerto Rico Trench, South Sandwich Trench and Romanche Trench can be found in the Atlantic Ocean.

The British prime minister at the turn of the 1920s into the 1930s was Ramsay MacDonald.

Sayings: Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

Today's questions (answers on Friday)

1. Which eponymous character in a Shakespeare tragedy speaks these lines: 'I am very foolish, fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less, And, to deal plainly, I fear i am not in perfect mind'? (Phew!)

2. Ronald Reagan was the first US president to have been the head of a trade union. From 1947 to 1960 he was president of an organization called the SAG, representing whom?

3. Margot Asquith famously said of David Lloyd George: 'He can't see a belt without...' what?

Joke Of The Day:

Smart boy... An old man sitting on his front porch in Louisiana watching the sunrise sees the neighbor's kid walk by carrying something big under his arm.

He yells out, "Hey boy, whatcha got there?"

The boy yells back, "Roll of chicken wire."

The old man says, "What you gonna do with that?"

The boy says, "Catch some chickens."

The old man yells, "You damn fool, you can't catch chickens with chicken wire!"

The boy just laughs and keeps walking.

That evening at sunset the boy comes walking by and to the old man's surprise, he is dragging behind him the chicken wire with about 30 chickens caught in it.

At the same time the next morning, the old man is out watching the sunrise and he sees the boy walk by carrying something kind of round in his hand.

The old man yells out, "Hey boy, whatcha got there?"

The boy yells back, "Roll of duck tape."

The old man says, "What you gonna do with that?"

The boy says back, "Catch me some ducks."

The old man yells back, "You damn fool, you can't catch ducks with duck tape!"

The boy just laughs and keeps walking.

That night, around sunset, the boy walks by coming home and to the old man's amazement, he is trailing behind him the unrolled roll of duck tape with about 35 ducks caught in it.

At the same time the next morning, the old man sees the boy walking by carrying what looks like a long reed with something fuzzy on the end.

The old man says, "Hey boy, whatcha got there?"

The boy says, "It's a pussy willow."

The old man says "Hold on, I'll get my hat."