quiz446update

Good afternoon everybody. It's Monday and the shock, horror... the sun is out! I apologise in advance if some of the fonts appear too small or too large, I think it has something to do with the fact that a couple of weeks ago I got so fed up with Window's explorer that i changed my browser to Mozilla Firefox and I'm stillgetting used to it. This week's quiz is progressin g very well, apart from yesterday afternoon when I started to compile the music tape and the tape deck chewed up yet another cassete as I was recording Madonna's True Blue.So now I'm down to just five cassetes, I'll have to buy some new ones next month. Apart from that little glitch all that remains are the Faces round five questions - sport is proving a bit of a bugbear this week - a four-part question for the Pyramid guest round and a Leprechaun's Pot 'O' Gold question but, I have three to choose from, I just can't decide which one. Later this evening I am going to look for the six remaining pictures I need so that I can compile the Faces round and get it ready for printing. quizard_97@yahoo.co.uk is my email if you have any questions comments or suggestions. I'm sorry the link isn't taking you straight there anymore, just copy and paste it into your address box. Enjoy the sun while it lasts and I hope to see a full house at The Albert on Thursday.

Three for Fun (Friday's answers)

Used by accountants, for example, the letters WIP stand for Work in Progress.

The term that applies to the unofficial system under which two MPs, one for each of the two major parties, agree to be absent from the chamber of the House of Commons for a particular vote is known as Pairing.

Geodesy is the science concerned with the surveying and mapping The Earth's Surface.

Today's questions (answers on Friday)

1. Referring to the cargo capacity of a merchant ship, what is usually abbreviated to DWT?

2. In international trade agreements, for example, what do the initials MFN mean?

3. 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'. Who was the poet who wrote this line?

Joke of the Day: EVER GOT THIS CALL (Thanks Adil A)

"Hello?"
"Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?"
"No, Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."
After a brief pause,
Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
"Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, Right now."
Brief Pause.
"Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.
Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."
"Okay, Daddy, Just a minute."
A few minutes later The little girl comes back to the phone.
"I did it, Daddy."
"And what happened, honey?" He asked.
"Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes
On and ran around screaming.
Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn't moving at all!"
"Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?"
"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too.
He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window and into
the swimming pool.
But I guess he didn't know that you took out the water last week to clean it.
He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead."
Long Pause
Longer Pause
Even Longer Pause
Then Daddy says,
"Swimming pool?”
Is this 486-5731?"
No, I think you have the wrong number...