Bbc Quiz : Week 50

[Buenchico]

Good evening all!

 

It’s nearly Christmas. If you’ve got any foreign visitors coming for Christmas lunch, it’s probably about the right time to start boiling their sprouts. (Yes, I know that you’ll all have had the sprouts for the Brits around your table on the boil for several months now but those strange continental-types seem to prefer their veg just a little bit firmer than we do here).

 

If Aunty Beeb follows her usual form, we should have the big Quiz of the Year to come some time next week (in four parts, with 13 questions in each). In the meantime though, I’ve done badly again on the main quiz this week, with just TWO out of seven:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67715869

 

Appropriately enough for Christmastime, maybe, it seems that I’m a perfect kid this week, with FIVE out of five:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51318780

(I wonder if that means that Santa will remember to come this year?)

 

Your turn anyway!

 

[Sam1960]

Evening Chris.

 

3/7

 

2/5

 

Hope this finds you well ; ))

[roopower]

Good evening. Three for the main quiz and four for the childrens. I buck the trend and like my sprouts slightly underdone and all other veg too! 

Feeling rather pleased with myself as I'm managing to totter without any aids, as long as I can grab something if I need it! 

[Buenchico]

Hi, Sam.

I'm fighting fit, thank you (as long as it's only a fight to get to the bar first!).  I hope that you're well too!

You're a better grown-up than me this week, anyway!

[jourdain2]

Feel triumphant, Buen!  A 1/7 (I really hadn't heard of nearly all these people) and I couldn't equal your score on the second -  4/5.

Good advice re. the sprouts.  Could answer me this, please?

An elderly Scottish couple we are friends with (and to whom I have just sent a Christmas card at their address in France) have suddenly sent me a card from  their new home in Edinburgh! They were so busy moving animals, selling up etc. that they've only just got around  to notifying friends (arrived in UK 3 weeks ago)!

Now - what  do I do about their sprouts, please?.... It's a teaser.

[kwillmott]

3/7

3/5

[Buenchico]

>>>  ". . . and like my sprouts slightly underdone".

Not less than a week on the boil though, surely, Roo?  That's simply not the British way!

I'm sure that all the very best people will have an aggregate score of 7 this week 😉

I hope that you'll be dancing the conga soon (because you get to hold onto the person in front of you anyway!)

[Buenchico]

Thanks for letting me beat you, Jourdain2!
(I don't feel so bad about my score in the main quiz now!)

I also get confused by all this cross-border stuff.  My Scottish friend lives in Italy (with her Italian husband) and I never know whether to boil their sprouts for months (to keep Margaret happy) or to serve them nearly raw (for Boby's benefit).

 

You're a better grown-up than me, I see, Kwillmott!

[haras2]

2/7 v 3/7

5/5 v 2/5

Don't think some of this is news : niether does Shady.

I see  we are on week 50 , are you working out who is the Champion News Quizzer for the year or is that getting a bit nerdy?

Hope your lovely trio are keeping out of trouble - and you!

[haras2]

neither 😉

[Buenchico]

>>> "Don't think some of this is news"

Excuses, excuses, Haras2! 😄

I've not been keeping totals throughout the year - largely, I think, because my own would look so pathetic!

The Troublesome Trio are always in trouble but, of course, I never am.  (Or, to put it another way, I've not been caught yet!) 😁

[Karamia]

Good Evening, Chris!

My scores are 

5/7, 4/5

Well done on your perfect kid score this week. I am sure Santa will be rewarding you with extra treats in your stocking this year!

The sprouts have been on for months as I like mine well cooked. (Non of that al dente stuff) With a delicious gravy I am happy to have a bowl of sprouts on their own.

I have been watching Christmas movies Elf and Nativity while wrapping presents, but have just realised, after wrapping a present for my son, and after then  spotting it in his bedroom, realised that he already has it!! Now I will need to unwrap and return it before going back to the drawing board!!

A frustrated Karamia wishes you and the kitties a wonderful week ahead :-)

[Buenchico]

Hi, Karamia!

Well done on going top of the table at the moment!

I hpe that you can get your Christmas gift problem sorted out easily.

I've not watched any Christmas movies yet but I'm planning to watch this.  (I bought the DVD in a pound shop some years ago but I've never gotten around to watching it. The DVD's packaging describes it as a 'cult movie' but most review sites simply rate it as possibly the worst movie ever made!):

[Moorea7]

Good Evening 😊

Scores 2/7 and 2/5  Must pay more attention!

[Buenchico]

Good evening, Moorea7!

I'm sure that your low scores are simply the result of you having spent so much time getting everything exactly right for Christmas.

Er, you have got it all in hand, haven't you?

😊

[Karamia]

Having watched that preview of your Christmas movie Chris, I am not persuaded it would be anything I would like (and am wondering whether you may even like it either!).

If you get the chance give the movie "Nativity" a go sometime- especially as it centres around a teacher in a school reluctantly trying to put a Nativity on, with rivalry between other teachers in 'posher' schools. 

At the end of the day though can't beat "Elf" as great Christmas movie, with all the humour, feel good and festive spirit  that you need :-)

[Moorea7]

21.43  I wish I could reply in the affirmative!  Did do some online ordering tonight.😊

[Buenchico]

I only want to watch that movie to see if it can really be as bad as everyone says it is, Karamia.

I'm almost certain that I've got 'Nativity' on DVD somehere around the house but I can't recall ever watching it.  Maybe I'll catch up with it over Christmas though.

My favourite Christmas movie though has just got to be 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' 😊

 

Unusually for me, Moorea7, I seem to be on top of Christmassy things for once.  I delivered my last Christmas present this evening and I've just got a few Christmas cards to write out now for people that I'll be seeing at a meeting on Monday.  Otherwise, apart from buying some ridiculously expensive cheese at the local farm shop at the weekend https://www.aldercarrfarm.co.uk/farmshop , I'm just about done.  (Suffolk Blue is a gorgeous cheese!)

[Canary42]

2/7 and 3/5 - the child wins as usual 😀   😀   😀   

[Buenchico]

Christmas is a good time of the year to be a kid, I reckon, Canary42 😊

[10ClarionSt]

4/7 and 5/5. Not bad for me, Chris! However, I still don't understand Q1 in the adult quiz, something about whamageddon? I've looked at it a few times now. What am I missing? I guessed it wrong, btw!