Good evening all (or, of course, good morning or good afternoon if you're a latecomer or overseas). It's been a poor week for me this week. First of all, for the umpteenth year in a row, Royal Mail...
Answers are all related to sport 9 owl sounds follow owl (8) 11 fast dancing drops 10 adds 4 (6) 20 twist the heather (9) 25 cake loses tellurium (7) 26 riding over obstacles(4 7) Thanks for any help...
They say that time goes faster as one gets older. If that's true then, going by how fast Friday has come round once again, I must be at least 190 - although I don't look a day over 150, honestly ;-) A...
Every year I buy my wife a box of chocolates for Valentine's Day, in an ironic way. Every year she tells me she is disappointed there in no make weight chocolate in the very bottom of the box like...
I’m not quite sure how we got here so quickly but it seems that it’s Friday once again! A ‘middling’ performance from me on the main quiz this week, with FOUR out of seven:...
It's that time again, folks! Just a basic pass mark for me in the main quiz this week. THREE out of seven: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64401053 The junior quiz is fairly straightforward though....
Just to say, it was Bromham we moved to. Just a nice country village then with a lovely bridge that set it apart. Not so good now! Seems to have joined Biddenham and then Bedford. I think we had a...
Another week has flown by! Good evening, all! A pathetic start for me this week, with just TWO out of seven in the main quiz: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64319567 At least I could manage...
It’s quiz time again, folks, but with [i]five[i] quizzes, instead of the usual three, to tax everyone’s brains this evening! I started off win a decent enough (for me) score of SIX out of seven in the...
The answers all relate to sport and the clues are a mixture of cryptics, anagrams and puns. 14. Aspire to jump in this event. 12 letters 25. Going down with painful-sounding muscles. 9 letters 27....
Well, that’s another year out of the way then, so let’s start all over again with Week 1: A typical middling score from me for the main quiz, with FOUR out of ten:...
Which actors voice is so
distinctive that you can put a name to the voice instantly .
To name a few
John Wayne
Yul Bryner
James Mason
Eddie Murphy
Arnold...
It can't get much better than this. I'm sitting in a nice, comfy armchair, with three happy and healthy cats nearby, with Cèilidh na Bliadhn' Ùire on the telly and a glass of decent port in my hand....
https://www.bbc.com./news/world-asia-china-64111492 as China abandons its zero covid approach, there are fears the infection surge this will precipitate could will allow new (and more deadly?)...
Hello again, everyone. Welcome to the final ‘Quiz of the Week’ thread for 2022. It’s a very quiet week, as there is no junior quiz this week and no Timed Teaser to frustrate us either. So we just have...
Hello again. I hope that you all had a good Christmas. One might think that the last part of the annual quiz should be the easiest because the events are all relatively recent ones. However, for each...
Listening to the radio today so many mentions about living alone and being lonely. Just thinking Living alone and being lonely are not necessarily linked You can be very lonely even if surrounded my...
Have you had enough turkey/mince pies/stollen/booze yet? Here's part three of Aunty Beeb's big quiz: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64025788 I managed a 'decent enough' (in my opinion) score of...