Dude, Where's My BH#67? Oh, it is below. Sweet.

I was so bored today that I went to Blockbuster video and bought 15 used DVDs. This was an egredious error. I should have known that buying an amount that must be cradled with two arms will always elicit dumbbell comments like: "These'll take you a long time to watch, hee hee". Yes, what you might call an attempt to initiate friendly banter.

This unfortunately means you have to come out with jolly, bluff responses of some kind, like "I haven't got any in ages", while you are mentalling giving the witless wonders the middle finger and want them to smirk off. You really want them to say: I've heard Primer is a brilliant low budget sci-fi film that messes with your mind, a bit like Pi which I loved, hey isn't Aronofsky great and did you get that Requiem for a Dream ref in The Simpsons with the ribwich? Fantastic.

Or, on second thought, maybe not. You just want them to be quiet. The lovely silence that arises between people you will hopefully never ever stand in close proximity to ever again. What will make it even better is their looking away and avoiding even the slightest chance of eye contact. If you haven't realised already I'm really channelling the misanthrope in me today. He is in a bit of a difficult mood.

And no, I haven't yet opened a question file. The distractions (wait, is that a good band name?) have won for today; curse their seductive mindless charms. Now all I need is to find some bubblewrap to finish this bank holiday off with a suitable flourish. Because when I pop I cannot stop.

Date for your Calendar
Masoquizm details on Buzzerquiz. Will Gibson and Ashman return to defend their crown? Will the BHs be the relentless and remorseless machine in the new buzzer quiz age? Don't ask me. I'll probably be running up and down the beach like a nutter and later in the day, nodding my head in indie-rock fashion, over again and over again, until all the facts I have learned during the last few months have been shaken into forgetful oblivion. Ah, the glory of nihilism.

1 Scholars believe that which Scottish king of the House of Stewart wrote The Kingis Quair, an allegorical romance that is one of the earliest extant major works of Scottish literature?
2 First appearing in the Order of the Phoenix installment, what is the wizarding hospital of Britain in the Harry Potter books?
3 Named after the man who led it, what British expedition explored and surveyed the open prairies and wilderness of western Canada from 1857 to 1860?
4 Moor Park in Hertfordshire was originally built for which infamous Duke and rebel?
5 What company was formed in 1711 by Robert Harley was originally exclusive trading rights in Spanish South America?
6 Held by Captain Sir Harold Campbell from 1937-54, what obsolete office in the Royal Household was the equivalent to a Lady-in-Waiting for Kings and Queens Regnant?
7 The New Current was a broad leftist social and political movement that is thought to have begun in 1886 and culminated in the 1905 Revolution in which country?
8 Developed in the 1940s at the Rand Corporation as a forecasting tool, the Wideband Delphi method is used to estimate what?
9 The helicon is a musical instrument in which family?
10 What stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border is the highest active volcano on Earth, the second highest mountain in the western hemisphere and the highest in Chile?
11 Senator Frank Harrison Walker is the current Chief Minister of what island?
12 Marek's disease is a highly contagious viral disease that affects what creatures?
13 What everyday objects are currently in their Series E designs?
14 In the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg is hunted across the globe because he is suspected of robbing what?
15 Possibly the oldest volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, the island Mangaia or Anau Enua as it is traditionally known is the most southerly of which group and its second largest?
16 Author of the popular 1882 story Vice Versa and successful 1901 farce The Man from Blankleys, which Punch magazine staff member and comic novelist had the real name Thomas Anstey Guthrie?
17 The name of a Jupiter moon, what figure in Greek mythology was the third and last wife of Athamas, but when he returned to his second wife Ino, accidentally killed all her children when the white clothes she had dressed them in were switched for the black of Ino's?
18 Who were declared illegitimate by the Act of Parliament known as Titulus Regius?
19 Named cuitlamiztli in Nahuatl by the Aztecs, the onza was a wild species of what animal that was reputed to exist in Mesomaerica at the time of the Spanish conquistadors?
20 The Marine is the protagonist of which series of computer and video games created by id Software?
21 The location where the bungee jump scene at the beginning of Goldeneye was filmed, what Swiss dam was constructed from 1960-65 and forms an artificial reservoir called the Lago di Vogorno?
22 Built between 1964 and 1968, the Kainji Dam is situated across which river?
23 Due for release on May 8, Waterloo to Anywhere is which English rock band's debut album?
24 Which village in northern Norfolk was home to a famous large oak tree that measured 36ft in circumference and branches over 70ft long, but which was destroyed after abuse by locals in 1860?
25 Which albino Malian singer, born in 1949, is "the Golden Voice of Africa"?
26 What Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site, located near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle in Oxfordshire, was excavated by Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson during 1962-3 and is so named for its association with the Norse and Saxon god of blacksmithing?
27 Famous for more than 2,000 recitals throughout Europe, US and Australia that established him as one of the greatest organists of the 20th century, which French composer and teacher is known for such works as Trois Preludes e Fugues, which he wrote while still a student, and his cantata Psyche?
28 What 1904 novel features the character Wolf Larsen, the captain of the seal-hunting schooner Ghost?
29 An early major influence on Nietzsche, which German wrote the 1866 philosophical work Geschicte des Materialismus?
30 All in use during WW2, which British aircraft companies made a) Anson b) Battle and c) Lysander?
31 Kenneth Williams played Sandy on Round the Horne and who played Julian?
32 John Reid was the Scottish manager of Queen between 1975-8, as well as which musician until their 25-year relationship ended in legal action in 2000?
33 Which Lockheed four-engine propeller driven airliner, known for its dolphin-shaped fuselage, was built between 1943 and 1958 in Burbank, and was used by Eisenhower as the presidential aircraft?
34 Who played the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files?
35 Who wrote his first work, No Villain during spring break in his sophomore year at the University of Michigan in 1936, reportedly because of a contest offering a $250 prize?

Answers to BH#66
1 Jaromir Vejvoda 2 Johann Strauss II 3 GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) 4 Throughput 5 Outgassing 6 Richard Parkes Bonington 7 Eugene Delacroix 8 Antares 9 Kisumu 10 Sweden 11 Sir John Blackwood McEwen 12 Total denazification of Germany 13 Yasunari Kawabata 14 Birds 15 Ethiopia 16 Barnabe Googe 17 Tottel's Miscellany 18 Gorboduc 19 Niger 20 Hakodate Airport 21 Electronic Arts 22 Bald mountains 23 The Border League in Scotland 24 Styrene 25 Newtown 26 a) Bedfordshire b) Shropshire (and partly in Wales) c) Avon d) Dorset e) Cambridgeshire f) Cornwall 27 Holly Vallance 28 Tennesse Titans 29 Ho Chi Minh 30 Medal of Honor 31 Serialism 32 Luigi Nono 33 The Tridentine Mass 34 Atari Jaguar 35 North Atlantic Current