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1. Leave - Trivial Pursuit 2. Leave - nothing? 3. Take 4. Leave 5. Leave - Kentucky 6. Leave - sheep 7. Take 8. Take 9. Take 10. Leave - pole vault 11. Leave - Somerset 12. Take 13. Leave - can't remember despite driving past it regularly! 14. Take 15. Leave - hinnie 16. Take 17. Take 18. Take (Was ...

Not a failure Dinos!

Nobody knows everything.... I was a bit narked when a very experienced colleague published a paper with a mistake in the title! Anyway IUPAC will now spite me by using propanone when they publish the next rule book, which was due last year.

Kevin

No Dinos, the answer to question 3 is acetone! Propanone is not IUPAC (well, not yet anyway - the Americans will probably try to get that changed.) Schools in UK use propanone because they have amended IUPAC names to be more systematic, (e.g ethanoic acid instead of acetic acid - as "ethan"...

Quiz before last.... 1A 2A 3D 4 5C 6A? 7D 8 9A (I think - I viewed it from a lodge in Kenya, but I think the mountain is actually in Tanzania) 10 11A? 12 13 14 A? ( I think) 15 16 17A? as the Scottish play is partly about jealousy 18 19 20 C? maybe, A was fairly old for his final and unprecedented 3...

1.D
2.A (need to get that one right)
3.B
4.B
5.C (although I think one more accidental touch may not count...)
6.D
7.A
8.C
9.B
10.A
11.A
12.B
13.C
14.C
15.C

Kevin

1. Peak District 2. Bismarck 3. Tenerife 4. Wasn't from England - that's for sure. 5. Genesis 6.Heinrich Himmler 7. Constantino Rocca 8. Hamlet 9. Jews? 10. Steve Collins 11. Riga 12. Raven 13. 1 14. 11th 15. Westlife? 16. White 17. Siegfried 18. 14th 19. Hawks? 20. Tony Blair Several (un)inspired g...

I agree

Kevin

After very few minutes thought and includes some outrageous guesses.... 1. 2. Q 3. Manila 4. La Paz? 5. Hardness 6.1760 ish 7. B McFadden 8. King Charles 9. Magellan 10. Andy McNab 11. Hand 12. Wyoming 13. Prisoner 612379 14. 1890ish 15. Knight 16. Baikal 17. 1926 (first "public" broadcast...

Something like... In some radio show or other with "JK and Joel", what does the JK stand for? a) James Kenneth (?) b) Jason King c) something else they specified beginning J K Chris said that Jason King was a 70s fantasy TV programme so he would go for another answer, sadly Jason King was ...

I see in Sandi Toksvig's column in the Sunday Telegraph, that to day is the birthday (born 1899) of the inventor of Scrabble, Alfred Mosher Butts. Crazy name, crazy guy.

No, I suspect Joseph Goebbels invented that to make her look good. Maybe it was Wernher von Braun?

Good point - a friend of mine suggested that the best way to foul up the game was to take the first offer!

Noel hasn't killed any contestants yet, but that might do the trick.

Thanks guys - absolutely brilliant. I think if Eva Braun had confined herself to designing the Braun electric shaver, how much different the world would be. I was at the Alamo a few years ago, always marketed as USA versus Mexico, and of the "179" defenders, there were 12 from England, a s...

And because of this, it is quite likely for one player to have seven wins and then lose the final game, and yet have a higher points total than another player who wins all eight games. Who, then, is higher in the seeding table? Does number of wins take precedence, or is total points counted first?[/...

Ginger Jono wrote:I eat it the homo way

Well you are ginger.......

Kevin

Rather high "okey-doke" count today I thought.

Kevin

The aficianodos will know this already but I observed in this morning's game that "Y" counts as a vowel, and the electronic randomness of the letters gave "Q" in two successive selections and 2 "Z"s in one selection!

Kevin

And that dress Carol was wearing! What was she thinking? David Beckham was good in Dictionary Corner though.

Tex Ritter's version of D of C was much better! Is "Lingo" still broadcast in USA? It used to be on an obscure satellite channel over here. A major worry with American game shows (and most English ones now) is the unnatural, interminable, inane screaming and wild applause. I don't mean thi...

"Wink Martindale "

Is this the Wink Martindale who released a version of "Deck of Cards"? Oh no.

Kevin

"I wish I'd wowed my chemist friends and gone for a benzene ring. Centre top, the 2 diagonally outwards, the 2 below those, then diagonally inwards. Sadly it was not to be... dinos_the_chemist " That's brilliant - I wish I'd thought of that; of course it could also be a cyclohexane, pyridi...

It's certainly on Sky, on TV5 (which is channel 799). At present it is on 0945 but it has been shown at other times. Later on you have "Questions pour un champion", which is same format as "Going For Gold", for those with long memories...

Kevin

Today's programme had an impossible numbers game, 1 2 2 3 4 6 with target 670 or some such, but one player got points despite missing the target by about 300! The standard is good - all the other numbers games were possible, although two were really difficult, but both contestants got them all. I wa...

Alternative first numbers within the time

[(2 x 10) + 7] x 25 = 675
9 x 4 = 36 and subtract

Kevin

Damian E wrote...

"Fancy being wired up to Jon O'Neill. I'd rather be wired up to an electricity pylon wearing a tin-foil suit while taking a Morphy Richards foot spa, simultaneously serenading Chris Wills with extracts of 'Moves From The Romantic Era'."

Is a DVD available of this?

Kevin

Round 5: 10, 8, 1, 9, 8, 50. Target: 212.
C1: -
C2: 210.Mistake in working.
CV: 212. (10+8)*9+50 (late) (10)
Score: 11–24 (max 37)

Or indeed (9+8) * 10 = 170 then + 50 -8 seems a bit easier....

Kevin

Strangely I scored 19 as well - obviously the chess questions helped....

Kevin

Good luck everybody - sorry I can't be there, a really annoying clash of events.....

Kevin

I am not entirely convinced but will have a bash. It looks good. I reached the semi-final of series 47, (the octo-octochamp series) after an exciting QF against Lee Hartley, (the crowd went wild) but then lost to Tom Hargreaves. I work as a consultant for a scientific company, mainly advising on che...