Hirarious Names
(That's not casual racism. It's a Big Brother reference. Yep, I'll get me coat - DARNELL TO WIN!)
I'm never cutting my own hair again
NEWS FLASH: Yes, earth-shuddering news of such great magnitude you will be awed in the hearing. My Battle of the Brains appearance will not be on August 14 NOT August 13. A letter has since corrected me. It is the day after the monkey paw strikes again. Obscure in-joke there that only about three people will understand. Me elitist? Yah.
Babble
I still can't believe we're into August. I remember when University Challenge series started in September. Think of all the student quartets being denied the chance to watch their dismal round one failures in their common rooms, bars or pubs. What's the point if you can't be a television star within your higher education circle if those people you kinda know are around to see it and are instead frolicking round Europe, like in the Hostel films? Please, won't someone think of the overgrown adolescents who need to fulfill their dream of appearing on UC before their peer group? I know I did. I was booed every time I won the pub quiz in the same bar after we watched the first round there, but thems the breaks.
Keeping my deep disappointment with some of the students on display tonight in silent check - they are young after all and we were young once and made idiot mistakes on UC that forced viewers to scream disparaging comments about our nascent quiz abilities at the TV screen - I noticed a brilliant and evocative name on the Queens' Cambridge team. I won't say which one it was; if you watched it you'll know. But I'm just glad she wasn't surnamed in the singular. That would've really sucked growing up.
FE: XVIII
1 Which musician pioneered "Somali jazz", performing solo and with Waaberi a 300-member music group, but after criticizing the Somali government was banned from singing for two years, and made her living driving a taxi before the civil war forced her and her five children to move to Djibouti where she found asylum in the Danish embassy? This ordeal provided the germ of her solo recording The Journey, with guitars, sequencers and back-up vocals from Peter Gabriel.
2 Considered one of the all-time badminton greats, which Dane won 16 Grand Prix titles, the All England Open Badminton Championships singles title in 1999, four European Championships crowns in the men's single event and topped the world rankings from 1998 to 2001?
3 According to the 2007-2008 Globale Peace Index, what are the three most peaceful countries in the world?
4 Which Luxembourg town, located in a namesake canton and district, is home to the National Museum of Military History, having played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Bulge, since it was here that the river Sauer was crossed on the night of January 18, 1945, by the US 5th Infantry division?
5 Named after a west-central province that was called Thifalia (or Theiphalia) in the 6th century, which donkey breed was developed in France for the sole purpose of producing mules and is characterised by a very long shaggy coat and no dorsal stripe?
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Answers to FE: XVIII
1 Maryam Mursal 2 Peter Gade 3 The most peaceful is Iceland, then Denmark and Norway 4 Diekirch 5 Poitou Donkey
I'm never cutting my own hair again
NEWS FLASH: Yes, earth-shuddering news of such great magnitude you will be awed in the hearing. My Battle of the Brains appearance will not be on August 14 NOT August 13. A letter has since corrected me. It is the day after the monkey paw strikes again. Obscure in-joke there that only about three people will understand. Me elitist? Yah.
Babble
I still can't believe we're into August. I remember when University Challenge series started in September. Think of all the student quartets being denied the chance to watch their dismal round one failures in their common rooms, bars or pubs. What's the point if you can't be a television star within your higher education circle if those people you kinda know are around to see it and are instead frolicking round Europe, like in the Hostel films? Please, won't someone think of the overgrown adolescents who need to fulfill their dream of appearing on UC before their peer group? I know I did. I was booed every time I won the pub quiz in the same bar after we watched the first round there, but thems the breaks.
Keeping my deep disappointment with some of the students on display tonight in silent check - they are young after all and we were young once and made idiot mistakes on UC that forced viewers to scream disparaging comments about our nascent quiz abilities at the TV screen - I noticed a brilliant and evocative name on the Queens' Cambridge team. I won't say which one it was; if you watched it you'll know. But I'm just glad she wasn't surnamed in the singular. That would've really sucked growing up.
FE: XVIII
1 Which musician pioneered "Somali jazz", performing solo and with Waaberi a 300-member music group, but after criticizing the Somali government was banned from singing for two years, and made her living driving a taxi before the civil war forced her and her five children to move to Djibouti where she found asylum in the Danish embassy? This ordeal provided the germ of her solo recording The Journey, with guitars, sequencers and back-up vocals from Peter Gabriel.
2 Considered one of the all-time badminton greats, which Dane won 16 Grand Prix titles, the All England Open Badminton Championships singles title in 1999, four European Championships crowns in the men's single event and topped the world rankings from 1998 to 2001?
3 According to the 2007-2008 Globale Peace Index, what are the three most peaceful countries in the world?
4 Which Luxembourg town, located in a namesake canton and district, is home to the National Museum of Military History, having played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Bulge, since it was here that the river Sauer was crossed on the night of January 18, 1945, by the US 5th Infantry division?
5 Named after a west-central province that was called Thifalia (or Theiphalia) in the 6th century, which donkey breed was developed in France for the sole purpose of producing mules and is characterised by a very long shaggy coat and no dorsal stripe?
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Answers to FE: XVIII
1 Maryam Mursal 2 Peter Gade 3 The most peaceful is Iceland, then Denmark and Norway 4 Diekirch 5 Poitou Donkey
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