Oh yes, there will be a quiz in Live Chat at 9pm on Wednesday 10th June. As there is no "Apprentice" to watch anymore, I'm sure there will be a gap in your lives so come along to Live Chat and join the merry throng

Rounds are -

Great War Books, Great War Movies, General Stuff, Airports, Anniverseries, Armies, Animals and Anthems

Hope to see you there.

Alan

I'll be there

Brian

I guess I'll be in charge of the fairy cakes again....

I've searched and searched. I've gone through the Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War, all of Malcolm Brown's books, the collected works of Peter Barton, but despite all my efforts, I just can't find any trace of

General Stuff.

Was he a colonial?



Bruce

You'll have to come along tonight and find out!

I'll be around but am likely to be a few minutes late - not that it will make much difference to my scores!

Keith

Look forward to seeing you, Keith.

Hopefully others will be there to make it a challenge for you!

Sue

Just bringing this up to the top again!

Will there be pink icing on the fairy cakes?

And a cherry?



Bruce

I was thinking pink for the girls and blue for the boys amongst you. Would anyone like any other colour?

Cherries? Definately.

Sue

Sherry trifle and cheese straws please.

I wasn't going to be attend, as I should have been at the opera tonight, but I have ricked my knee and am confined to barracks, so another taker for pink fairy cakes and cherryade.

Hope your knee gets better but - the Opera?! Gosh, there's posh!

In the amphi at Covent Garden - and costs much less than a performance at a local theatre.

Kate....hope your leg is soon better.

Orson.....not, I hope, being a sexist, so I don't mind which colour icing there is atop the fairy cakes.
Please put me down for some of them, dandelion and burdock, and the bottom of the sherry trifle...hic....



Bruce

Here are the questions from last night -

GW BOOKS

WHICH POLITICIAN IS THE DAUGHTER OF THE VERA BRITTAIN, AUTHOR OF "TESTAMENT OF YOUTH"?
MOST OF US PROBABLY HAVE A MAJOR AND MRS HOLT GUIDE - WHAT IS MRS HOLT'S CHRISTIAN NAME?
WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"?
COMPLETE THE TITLE OF TE LAWRENCE'S WW1 MEMOIR - "THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM - A ________"
WHAT NAME DID SIEGFRIED SASSOON GIVE TO THE MAIN CHARACTER OF HIS GREAT WAR FICTIONALISED AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

GW MOVIES

GEORGE PEPPARD STARRED AS A GERMAN WW1 ACE IN WHICH MOVIE?
WHICH 1976 MOVIE IS BASED ON THE PLAY "JOURNEY'S END"?
WHICH OF STANLEY KUBRICK'S MOVIES WAS SET IN THE GREAT WAR?
THE LEAD CHARACTER IS WHICH GREAT WAR MOVIE WAS PLAYED BY MARK LEE?
MARLON BRANDO AND ALBERT FINNEY WERE BOTH CONSIDERED FOR WHICH GREAT WAR MOVIE ROLE?

GENERAL

WHICH US STATE CAPITOL IS THE ONLY ONE TO CONSIST OF THREE WORDS?
ACCORDING TO GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY, WHO WAS THE DAUGHTER OF EPAPHUS, KING OF EGYPT?
FILL IN THE MISSING WORD IN  NAME OF SOUTHPORT FC'S GROUND - _____ AVENUE
IN WHICH TOWN WAS WILFRED OWEN BORN?
WHO IS THE NEW POET LAUREATE?

AIRPORTS

IN WHICH CITY IS THE WORLD'S BUSIEST AIRPORT BY PASSENGER NUMBERS?
WHO IS NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NAMED AFTER?
IF YOU WERE TO FLY FROM GEORGE BEST TO JOHN LENNON, WHICH ISLAND WOULD YOU FLY OVER?
TO THE NEAREST HOUR, WHO LONG IS THE FLIGHT BETWEEN NEWARK (NEW YORK) AND SINGAPORE, THE LONGEST NON-STOP SCHEDULED FLIGHT IN THE WORLD?
TO THE NEAREST 10 SECONDS, WHO LONG IS THE FLIGHT BETWEEN PAPA WESTRAY AND WESTRAY, IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS, THE SHORTEST SCHEDULED FLIGHT IN THE WORLD?

ANNIVERSARIES

50 TODAY - WHICH PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL MANAGER?
60 TODAY - THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK - WHAT IS HIS SURNAME?
WHAT ANNUAL SPORTING EVENT FIRST TOOK PLACE 180 YEARS AGO TODAY?
WHICH AMERICAN PIANIST AND SOUL SINGER DIED 5 YEARS AGO TODAY?
WHO DID HENRY VIII MARRY 500 YEARS AGO TOMORROW?

ARMIES

WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE HIGHEST PROPORTION OF ITS POPULATION SERVING IN THE ARMY?
TO THE NEAREST 1, WHAT IS THE RATIO OF ACTIVE TROOPS TO POPULATION IN NORTH KOREA - 1 IN ???
ACCORDING TO THE LONG LONG TRAIL, HOW MANY BRITISH ARMIES WERE THERE IN THE GREAT WAR?
WHAT SONG IS ELVIS COSTELLO'S BIGGERST HIT IN THE UK?
WHAT WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO FORMALLY ABOLISH ITS ARMED SERVICES?

ANTHEMS

WHAT WAS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE UK IN 1950?
WHICH COUNTRY'S ANTHEM SHARES THE SAME TUNE AS GOD SAVE THE QUEEN/KING?
WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRY'S NATIONAL ANTHEM CONTAINS THE NAME OF ITS SECOND BIGGEST CITY IN ITS TITLE?
DURING WHICH WAR WAS THE "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" SEEN FLYING OVER FORT MCHENRY?
WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRY HAS NO ANTHEM OF ITS ONE (IT SHARES THE ANTHEM OF ANOTHER COUNTRY)

ANIMALS

WHAT INSTRUMENT DID ANIMAL PLAY IN THE MUPPETS?
WHO WAS THE LEAD SINGER OF THE ANIMALS?
WHICH THREE DIFFERENT ANIMALS ARE MENTIONED IN THE TRACK TITLES ON PINK FLOYD'S ANMALS?
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PIG WHO IS THE VILLAIN OF ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM?
WHICH LONDON PARK IS HOME TO THE "ANIMALS AT WAR" MEMORIAL?

Glad I didn't turn up !!

Thanks for a splendid quiz.
I was especially impressed with question 12.....or the Ken Lees Question as it is known.
Also scrumptuous were the fairy cakes, the trifle, and the dandelion and burdock! Thanks Orson.

Bruce

I have to confess to answering "Siegfried farnon" to question 5

Only just recovered from my 3 point score. Still embarassed by the point for Loois[Armstrong] for Louis/Lewis is a family name.

Well organised, efficient, and interesting in all sections, Alan. Well done.

Steven. One should vet those sort of answers.

Phil.