I was hoping for a few more people at the quiz last night as I had to shell out £5 for the printing and what i get back is scant reward for the twelve hours a week I spend compiling and researching. On the plus side, it was another close run thing with all seven teams having a chance to win going in to the final round. Our eventual winners were CJD with 89pts, The Alliance came second with 86 pts, Dale's back made up the top three with 84pts and with the next three teams scoring 83,82 and 81pts respectively, you can appreciate just how close it was. I'm not planning doing any quiz stuff today as I'm waiting for a plumber to come and connect my gas hob to the mains. If you hear a bang..... I also have about 6 months worth of video clips that my friend in the US keeps sending me that I've been unable to view as I kept getting an error message about a missing dll. I thought i was going to have to take my PC into be fixed... Again! However, on Tuesday I sought advice on the web, downloaded the dll in question succesfully installed it but managed to infect my system with a trojan. Anyway I ran Spybot and that twatted it and I downloaded the correct codec. For the next few hours I felt like I could cure a rainy day. Bill, if your reading this you can download Spybot Search and Destroy for free from http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2128856/spybot-search-destroy I can't stress how good it is. Yesterday all I went on the net in one session was to research the Anne Boleyn question and to look up some info on the American actress Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and when I logged on again Spybot found and destroyed three different adwares or malwares. Right I'm going to watch these funny video clips. quizard_97@yahoo.co.uk for any questions or comments you have. See you on Monday.
Leprechaun's Pot 'O' Gold
Carole managed to collect £32 from the room last night making the Pot £46.50. The question was What was the date of the execution of Anne Boleyn? With his guess of August 12th 1533 Andy of the Blackadders was closest and recieved half of last night's pot, £16, the other £16 rolls over and next week the pot starts at £30.50. The actual date of Anne Boleyn's execution was May 19th 1536.
Questions and Answers
Last night's pictures were: 1. Gloria Hunniford 2. Mohammed al Fayed 3. Raul Julia 4. Anjelica Huston 5. Steven Seagal 6. Kate Moss 7. Charlton Heston 8. Ruth Ellis 9. Bruce Willis 10. Captain Pugwash 11. Felipe Massa 12. Kylie Minogue 13. Omar Sharif 14. Anne Boleyn 15. AC Milan's Brazilian striker Kaka 16. Chuck Connors 17. ITV newsreader Julie Etchingham 18. Sarah Lancashire 19. Jack Nicklaus 20. Singer songwriter Kate Nash
Three for Fun (Monday's answers)
The poetic work Summoned by Bells is an autobiographical account of the early years of Sir John Betjamen.
The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path are two important teachings of Buddhism.
Private Jones was assigned to the Army induction center, where he was to advise new recruits about their government benefits, especially their Serviceman's Group Life Insurance (SGLI). It wasn't long before the center's Lieutenant noticed that Private Jones had almost a 100% record for insurance sales, which had never happened before. Rather than ask about this, the Lt. stood in the back of the room and listened to Jones's sales pitch.
Jones explained the basics of the SGLI to the new recruits, and then said. "If you have SGLI and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don't have SGLI, and you go into battle and get killed, the government has to pay only a maximum of $6000."
"Now," he concluded, "which bunch do you think they are going to send into battle first?"
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