If there are enough takers, a quiz can be provided on the above date. Usual time and place: Live Chat, 2100 hours (UK time).

Usual rules - no spitting, clinching or punching below the belt. Gouging only allowed for Springboks.

Spot prizes for all categories, and special prizes for humour, resilience and tolerance.

Fig Rolls are provided.

Given the date, there will be a special round of questions on 1st July in history.

Let me know if you're interested, people.

I would have enjoyed being there, but I am afraid I shall be in Arnhem, and away from a computer.

Enjoy the mayhem!

Bruce

Given the fig rolls, I'll be there.

Keith

I'm up for the fig rolls too

I'll be in the fig-roll scrum, too.

Keith

There will, of course, be GW-related questions. I suspect there might be a few on Dad's Army as well, and possibly one or two on modern popular beat combos. And some Ska.

Ladies will be permitted to glow.

I will, upon my return, look forward to seeing what you ask for Question 12, or the Ken Lees Question as it is known.
There are a limited number of questions that can be answered to which Libya is the answer!

Bruce

Of course, if Libya were the question, rather than the answer ...

Looks like there's going to be a right bunch in for the fig rolls, leave some for me please.

Orson is looking forward to glowing - and I will skulk around in my usual disreputable fashion

Are Gentlemen not allowed to glow? It all sounds rather sexist to me.

I presume it's a reference to the old saying that horses sweat, men perspire and women glow but, like Andrew, I demand the right to glow!!!

(I'm sick of sweating and/or perspiring and would like a change.....)

Keith

Questions are ready; the fig rolls are marinading nicely; the Asti Spumante is gurgling down the sink - all is ready.

The questions (40) will be arranged in rounds as follows:

1. 1st July

2. Noms de Plumes

3. Dad's Army

4. Great War Art and Literature

(A short refreshment break)

5. Great War Memorials

6. Couples

7. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

8. Film & TV Cops

As a break with tradition, Libya will not feature. Nor will 17. Or Haig.

Will there be trout?

Just read the rules, if I can't spit, clinch, punch or gouge, am I allowed to nip ?


Mick

I'm afraid that I couldn't get live chat to work. I got a Java error to start with so I updated it. Then the computer hung when I tried to enter live chat. I rebooted the PC and now the home page shows me active in live chat even though I'm not! The joys of computers!

I suspect a few old trouts will be there.


Only if working at a Lyon's Corner House.

I hope Matron doesn't get to hear you talking about her like that or you'll be having a FULL medical - toot sweet!

Keith

No questions about Sue Perkins?

I have arranged a personal reserve supply of fig rolls in case of problems with the digital supply.

Keith

The Questions:

Round 1 - 1st July:

1. On 1st July in which year did Hong Kong revert to Chinese ownership
2. 1st July is the National Day of which former Dominion
3. 1st July was the opening day of which 1863 battle
4. What is the official title of the battle which opened on 1st July 1916
5. On 1st July 1960, Kwame Nkrumah became President of which Commonwealth country

Round 2 - Noms de plume

6. Stage name of Stuart Goddard
7. Mark Berry
8. Declan McManus
9. Farrokh Bulsara
10. Jennifer Anastassakis

Round 3 - Dad's Army

11. Who played the U Boat captain
12. What regiment were the platoon part of
13. In the GW, which regiment did Arnold Ridley serve in
14. In the later series', Fraser was an undertaker, but he started running what sort of shop in the earlier series
15. After which Saint was the Church named

Round 4 - GW Art & Literature

16. Who painted "Goodbye Old Man"
17. Her Privates We was a bowdlerised version of which novel
18. Who created the "George Sherston" memoirs
19. Which Forum member is currently producing a series of books on the german Army in the GW
20. Give the missing word from this Sassoon poem: He's a cheery old card, grunted Harry to Jack/As they slogged up to *** with rifle and pack

(A short fig roll break will take place at this point)

Round 5 - GW Memorials

21. Where is the Memorial to the Missing of the campaign in east Africa, from January 1917
22. And how many names are on it (to the nearest 100)
23. Which MP has a memorial at Loker Hospice
24. Which French Division's memorial is near the Canadian Memorial at Vimy
25. Where would you find a memorial to a pigeon and the colombophiles of France

Round 6 - Couples (name the person most closely associated with the person named)

26. Poirot
27. Abercrombie
28. Simon
29. Scarlett O'Hara
30. Catherine Earnshaw

Round 7 - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

31. In which year was it released
32. On the track Within You Without You, only one Beatle featured. Who.
33. How many holes are there in Blackburn, Lancashire
34. Who designed the album cover
35. Who had a No. 1 in 1968 with the song, With a Little help from my Friends (Bonus - what was the name of this singer's backing band)

Round 8 - TV and movie cops

36. Detective Bobby Crocker was which TV cop's sidekick
37. Who played Shaft in 1971
38. In which film did Dirk Bogarde shoot Jack Warner
39. Which 1931 Fritz Land movie featured Peter Lorre as a child murderer
40. Who played Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun movies

That's it. Answers on Sunday. Have another fig roll while you're pondering.

And surely as night follows day, the answers:

1. 1997
2. Canada
3. Gettysburg
4. Battle of Albert
5. Ghana

6. Adam Ant
7. Bez (Happy Mondays)
8. Elvis Costello
9. Freedie Mercury
10. Jennifer Aniston

11. Philip Madoc
12. Quuen's Own Royal West Kent
13. Somerset Light Infantry
14. Philatelist's
15. St. Aldhelm's

16. Fortunio Matania
17. The Middle Parts of Fortune
18. Sassoon
19. Jack Sheldon
20. "Arras"

21. Dar Es Salaam
22. 1545
23. Major W Redmond
24. Moroccan
25. Fort Vaux

26. Captain Hastings
27. Fitch
28. Garfunkel
29. Rhett Butler
30. Heathcliff

31. 1967
32. George Harrison
33. Four Thousand
34. Peter Blake
35. Joe Cocker (and the Grease Band)

36. Kojak
37. Richard Roundtree
38. The Blue Lamp
39. M
40. Leslie Nielsen

I thank you.