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  3. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    Posted · Edited by Canny lass

    Answers to last week's quiz:

    1. Zeus* (½ point to those who answered Uranus. See note below)

    2. 1944

    3. M90

    4. Sir Edwin Landseer

    5. Mildew

    6. A young hawk (especially one taken early from the nest for training)

    7. 3 minutes

    8. Guadalcanal

    9. Hinny

    10. Monopoly

    11. Dr Christiaan Barnard

    12. Somalia

    New quiz tomorrow.

    * I also answered Uranus but the correct answer is Zeus. Uranus is primarily known as the God of the heavens. However, he was also, but only for a very short while, the King of the Gods, and therefore ruler of the universe (including the earth). He was a nasty piece of work who refused to let any of his 18 children leave their mother’s womb (imagine that if you can!). His perpetually pregnant and long-suffering wife, Gaea, must have been well fed up with the situation. She plotted with one of the captive sons, Cronos, who castrated his father with a sickle while said father was attempting to excercise his conjugal rights, thus bringing about his downfall.


     

    However, it is Zeus, the son of the sickle wielding Cronos, who became, and remained, the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and therefore of the heavens and the earth. Amazingly, Zeus was the only child of Cronos who managed to escape being eaten by his father at birth and that because his mother handed a baby-sized stone, wrapped in swaddling clothes to the famished Cronos who duly ate it, presumably without unwrapping it. I understand that he later spewed the stone up and Zeus set it into a path near Parnassos (I may have walked on it during my travels)!
     

    You really couldn’t make this up, could you!

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  5. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    This week I'd like to know if you know:

    1. In Greek mythology who was God of the Heavens and Earth?
       
    2. In what year did the D-Day landings take place?
       
    3. Which motorway runs south from Perth to the Firth of Forth bridge?
       
    4. Which painter and sculptor was responsible for the lions in London’s Trafalgar Square?
       
    5. What is the general name for the fungus that forms a thin white coating on plants?
       
    6. Who or what is an eyas?
       
    7. In professional boxing, how long does each round last?
       
    8. Which is the largest of the Soloman Islands?
       
    9. What is the name for the sterile offspring of a female ass and a male horse?
       
    10. What board game was invented by Charles Darrow?
       
    11. Which surgeon performed the first human heart transplant?
       
    12. Mogadishu is the capital of which African country?


     

    I’ll bet you didn’t know ….

    Elton John played the piano on the Hollies record He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.

    Answers on Thursday next week.

  7. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    Answers to last week's quiz:

    1. Henry I

    2. King Creole

    3. Indian Ocean

    4. None

    5. Jimmy White

    6. Formic acid

    7. A type of worm

    8. Double vision

    9. August

    10. Anode

    11. Joe Cocker

    12. Mounties


     

    ... and yes, Eggy, Joe Cocker did have a hit with a little help from his friends in 1968, one year after the Beatles released the original version. Apologies from me for not noticing my typing error.

    New quiz tomorrow (hopefully without typing mistakes).

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  11. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    Pencils poised, here it is:

    1. Which King of England was the youngest son of William the Conqueror?

    2. Which Elvis film was based on the play A Stone for Danny Fisher?

    3. In which ocean are the Seychelles?

    4. How many kings of England have been called Philip?

    5. Which snooker player was runner-up in six World Championships in the 80s and 90s?

    6. Which acid is found in bee stings?

    7. What is a nematode?

    8. Diplopia is the medical term for which disorder?

    9. In which month does the grouse shooting season start in Britain?

    10. What is the correct term for a positive electrode?

    11. Who had ‘a little help from his friends’ in 1986?

    12. By what name are the RCMP more commonly known?


     

    I’ll bet you didn’t know ….

    George Simenon, the man who created the French detective Maigret, claimed to have slept with 10,000 women.

    My comment: That’s roughly one a day for 27 years or 3 a week for 64years!

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  15. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    A bit late, but better late than never:

    1. Who was Flash Gordon’s arch rival?

    2. How are the Yeomen of the Guard commonly known?

    3. How many notes are there in two octaves?

    4. Which famous former American federal prison was sited on an island in San Francisco Bay?

    5. What does a hippophobe fear?

    6. What is the family name of the Dukes of Northumberland?

    7. What was called the jewel in Queen Victoria’s crown?

    8. What nationality was World Motor Racing Champion Juan Fangio?

    9. Which chemical element is found in all proteins?

    10. Which style of architecture is the Parthenon in Athens?

    11. What did Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in 1671?

    12. Proverbially, what do late workers burn?


     

    I’ll bet you didn’t know ….

    International athletics races are always run in an anti-clockwise direction

    Answers on Thursday next week.

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  17. Ukraine

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    16 hours ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

    Great effort by all involved. 

    I can't quite remember who coined the phrase (it might have been Moe) but whoever it was I certainly agree with them "Bedlington is terrierific"!

  19. Ukraine

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    War is a terrible, terrible thing anywhere in the world. I hope your son can avoid being involved in it if it’s at all possible.

    This last week or so, I’ve been researching that member of the Aisbitt family of Toll Cottage who married into my father’s family in 1900. He was posted to France 9th September 1915 and was presumed dead 17 days later, having presumably lost his life in the Battle of Loos 26 September 1915. As he was recorded as ’presumed dead’ rather than ’killed in action’ it seems probable that there weren’t enough pieces of him left to be able to make a definite identification. He left a wife and 3 children who together received the princely sum of £2. 2s and 6d. So much was a 37 year old man’s life worth in 1915.

    The details of the Battle of Loos, if you are not familiar with them already, make horrendous reading, not only for casualty details but also for the ineptitude of some Generals. 26 September, when Edward Aisbitt died, the British Army at Loos had no less than 8 000 casualties among their 10 000 men! Many of those were caused by poison gas, used by the British army, drifting back into their own lines and causing more casualties among the British than among the Germans. Why? because of one General who refused to listen to advice about wind direction.

    Well done Bedlington for the efforts you are making to help the people of Ukraine. It makes me very proud of my roots.

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  20. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    It's Friday! Time to get your thinking caps on:

    Who did Neil Kinnock replace as leader of the Labour party?

    Who owned the High Chaparall ranch?

    Scenes from which battle were the first to appear on a British commemorative postage stamp?

    Which letter of the Greek alphabet is equivalent to U?

    What would you find on a periodic table?

    How old was Pele when he first played in the football World Cup Finals?

    Which island country has two official languages, Sinhalese and Tamil?

    What kind of dish is Bouillabaisse?

    How old is a quadragenarian?

    Which international airport was previously known as Dum Dum Airport?

    Why do flags fly on British government buildings on February 6th?

    Venetian blinds originated in Japan. True or false?


     

    I’ll bet you didn’t know ….

    Devout Jews obey no fewer than 613 commandments including the 10 of the Christian faith.

     

    Answers on Thursday next week.

  22. Small building at the end of Furnace Bridge?

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    Posted · Edited by Canny lass

    I don't suppose anybody knows when that bandstand was built? Could it have been there in the 1930s when my family lived there?

    Eggy, in that last picture, is it the roofs of Rose Cottage and Clock House that can be seen between the road and the seven sisters? If so, have you any idea when the picture was taken?

  23. Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)

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    Posted

    ...and here it is:

    1. What was the name of Prospero’s daughter in The Tempest?

    2. Near which British seaside resort are the Great and Little Ormes?

    3. Which animal caused the death of William III?

    4. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?

    5. In which film is the last line “Tomorrow is another day”?

    6. Who described Newcastle’s women as dogs, Alan Shearer as Mary Poppins and football fans as mugs?

    7. What is a bullace?

    8. What name is given to a cow that has not yet had a calf?

    9. What have Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain all got that Germany, France and Italy have not?

    10. Who was the supreme God in Norse mythology?

    11. Who was the Wimbledon Women’s Singles Champion in 1994?

    12. What is the only insect that can turn its head to look directly behind it?

     

    I’ll bet you didn’t know ….

    The Roman Emperor Claudius choked to death on a feather that his doctor used to tickle his throat to induce vomiting


    Answers on Thursday.

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