Life Begins at the BH quiz #40
Could this be true? I wanted to believe it was, but then I read the "status" bit and saw the word "swinger". And so the facade that had been carefully weaved with such general interests as "Providing quality entertainment to the masses" was no so much as unstitched but torn apart by reality. It's worth a chuckle though.
I've been meaning to write about Deal or No Deal for quite a while since I am prone to watching it so much, it being daytime TV's mega-highlight, and my relationship with it has run hot and cold and extremely bloody scalding hot, but I will write about it another day. I was extremely disturbed by the site of Aaron going batshit crazy at someone winning a nice prize pot. He never did that on UC. I have to say however that regular visual contact with many of the female contestants has resulted in a phenomenon known by many: the DOND mini-crush. First it was Helen (didn't see her show - ach!) and now Lucy. Everyone is doing it (Google Lucy and "Deal or No Deal" now), although Richard Herring rejected her as a possible "secret girlfriend" because she thought collective willpower would make the next box go blue. Her tanktops have, however, got me bad.
Pubber
It was back to The George last nite. Jambo seems a bit sullen compared to the early days, but it didn't matter because we were happy. We won the jackpot. On account of identifying the Rhone as the fastest flowing river in the world and getting the closest tie-break answer concerning which year the Rosetta Stone was discovered. (Despite my crossing out the right answer I had put down (1799) and putting one perilously close to taking us out of contention (1803 to the next best 1805). Indeed the questions had got markedly better, even if he had two "questions for the ladeeeez" (on Jimmy Choo and Duchesse potatoes ... the last of which I was the only one who could identify it from its recipe and cooking methods in the entire pub, apparently).
Everybody else screamed alot at the moment of announcement, tasting as they did the heavenly elixir of triumph. Or beer. Not sure which really.
It was £60. The pot ain't what it used to be, but it'll certainly do. Unfortunately I got a Wicked Zinger Meal when I bot back to KX, which didn't really do me any good. Tant pis.
1. Which traditional "regal" British dessert is made of a baked, breadcrumb-thickened egg custard, spread with raspberry jam and topped with meringue?
2. Which passerine of the family Hiruninidae is Delichon urbicum?
3. Shuttlecock is the English name of what Asian shuttlecock game which originated in China during the Han dynasty, and is played using various parts of the body (but not the hands)?
4. Johannesberg is situated on which mineral-rich range of hills that runs through Gauteng?
5. Who hosted the unaired pilot of Blankety Blank in 1984?
6. In 1875 Bordalo Pinheiro created which cartoon character, a poor peasant who has come to symbolise the Portuguese everyman?
7. What word meaning, "people" or "entity", for a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congro group was first defined by Dr Wilhelm Heinrich Imannuel Bleek in his 1862 book A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages?
Some G2-derived questions...
8.Which town in California became the first place in the world to ban smoking in all public buildings in 1990?
9. At which London university is there a Centre for Suburban Studies?
10. Who designed a Paimio chair between 1930 and 1933, Paimio being the site of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium he had also planned?
11. Designed by Ergon Riss and Jack Pritchard, what was the Isokon Penguin Donkey?
And back to my yellow Silvine Refill Pad...
12. What word is used in Buenos Aires for any place a tango is danced?
13. Which Aston Villa defender scored all the goals in a 2-2 draw with Leicester in March 1976?
14. On what island would you find deep ravines that are known to locals as "chines"?
15. In genetics, what term describes the visible traits, i.e. those actually displayed by an organism?
16. Jerry Yang and David Filo famously founded what?
17. Julian Huxley, CEM Joad and Commander AB Campbell comprised the first panel on which radio show?
18. Who was the English earl and statesman now chiefly remembered for the letters he wrote to his natural son Philip Stanhope, and which were published in 1774?
19. Which Bob Merrill song was a six-week number one for Guy Mitchell in 1953?
20. Called "berr" in Kurdish and taking its name from the Turkish word for prayer rug, what reversible oriental carpets or rugs are produced by tightly interweaving the warp and weft straneds of the weave to produce its flat or pileless surface?
Answers to BH #39
1 Maripol 2 John Wiseman 3 Pete Townshend 4 Hotmail 5 The West Wing 6 Ghostwriting 7 Shigeru Miyamoto 8 Shinai 9 Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin 10 Alberto Cavalcanti 11 Neil Richardson 12 Playfair cipher or Playfair square 13 Arditti Quartet 14 Bob Monkhouse 15 Blogger 16 Tommy Cooper 17 Richard Hannay 18 Sony Playstation 19 Bones 20 Charles I
I've been meaning to write about Deal or No Deal for quite a while since I am prone to watching it so much, it being daytime TV's mega-highlight, and my relationship with it has run hot and cold and extremely bloody scalding hot, but I will write about it another day. I was extremely disturbed by the site of Aaron going batshit crazy at someone winning a nice prize pot. He never did that on UC. I have to say however that regular visual contact with many of the female contestants has resulted in a phenomenon known by many: the DOND mini-crush. First it was Helen (didn't see her show - ach!) and now Lucy. Everyone is doing it (Google Lucy and "Deal or No Deal" now), although Richard Herring rejected her as a possible "secret girlfriend" because she thought collective willpower would make the next box go blue. Her tanktops have, however, got me bad.
Pubber
It was back to The George last nite. Jambo seems a bit sullen compared to the early days, but it didn't matter because we were happy. We won the jackpot. On account of identifying the Rhone as the fastest flowing river in the world and getting the closest tie-break answer concerning which year the Rosetta Stone was discovered. (Despite my crossing out the right answer I had put down (1799) and putting one perilously close to taking us out of contention (1803 to the next best 1805). Indeed the questions had got markedly better, even if he had two "questions for the ladeeeez" (on Jimmy Choo and Duchesse potatoes ... the last of which I was the only one who could identify it from its recipe and cooking methods in the entire pub, apparently).
Everybody else screamed alot at the moment of announcement, tasting as they did the heavenly elixir of triumph. Or beer. Not sure which really.
It was £60. The pot ain't what it used to be, but it'll certainly do. Unfortunately I got a Wicked Zinger Meal when I bot back to KX, which didn't really do me any good. Tant pis.
1. Which traditional "regal" British dessert is made of a baked, breadcrumb-thickened egg custard, spread with raspberry jam and topped with meringue?
2. Which passerine of the family Hiruninidae is Delichon urbicum?
3. Shuttlecock is the English name of what Asian shuttlecock game which originated in China during the Han dynasty, and is played using various parts of the body (but not the hands)?
4. Johannesberg is situated on which mineral-rich range of hills that runs through Gauteng?
5. Who hosted the unaired pilot of Blankety Blank in 1984?
6. In 1875 Bordalo Pinheiro created which cartoon character, a poor peasant who has come to symbolise the Portuguese everyman?
7. What word meaning, "people" or "entity", for a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congro group was first defined by Dr Wilhelm Heinrich Imannuel Bleek in his 1862 book A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages?
Some G2-derived questions...
8.Which town in California became the first place in the world to ban smoking in all public buildings in 1990?
9. At which London university is there a Centre for Suburban Studies?
10. Who designed a Paimio chair between 1930 and 1933, Paimio being the site of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium he had also planned?
11. Designed by Ergon Riss and Jack Pritchard, what was the Isokon Penguin Donkey?
And back to my yellow Silvine Refill Pad...
12. What word is used in Buenos Aires for any place a tango is danced?
13. Which Aston Villa defender scored all the goals in a 2-2 draw with Leicester in March 1976?
14. On what island would you find deep ravines that are known to locals as "chines"?
15. In genetics, what term describes the visible traits, i.e. those actually displayed by an organism?
16. Jerry Yang and David Filo famously founded what?
17. Julian Huxley, CEM Joad and Commander AB Campbell comprised the first panel on which radio show?
18. Who was the English earl and statesman now chiefly remembered for the letters he wrote to his natural son Philip Stanhope, and which were published in 1774?
19. Which Bob Merrill song was a six-week number one for Guy Mitchell in 1953?
20. Called "berr" in Kurdish and taking its name from the Turkish word for prayer rug, what reversible oriental carpets or rugs are produced by tightly interweaving the warp and weft straneds of the weave to produce its flat or pileless surface?
Answers to BH #39
1 Maripol 2 John Wiseman 3 Pete Townshend 4 Hotmail 5 The West Wing 6 Ghostwriting 7 Shigeru Miyamoto 8 Shinai 9 Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin 10 Alberto Cavalcanti 11 Neil Richardson 12 Playfair cipher or Playfair square 13 Arditti Quartet 14 Bob Monkhouse 15 Blogger 16 Tommy Cooper 17 Richard Hannay 18 Sony Playstation 19 Bones 20 Charles I
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