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Bbc Quiz : Week 48
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After yet another ridiculously short week, it's quiz time again!
A 'middling' start for me this week, with FOUR out of seven in the main quiz:
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'Middling' again in the junior quiz too. THREE out of five for me:
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I managed 'just on the right side of middling' with the Timed Teaser. SIX out of ten:
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So that's an aggregate of 13 for me - unless the rules of arithmetic have changed recently, that is! Can you beat it, I wonder?
A 'middling' start for me this week, with FOUR out of seven in the main quiz:
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'Middling' again in the junior quiz too. THREE out of five for me:
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I managed 'just on the right side of middling' with the Timed Teaser. SIX out of ten:
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So that's an aggregate of 13 for me - unless the rules of arithmetic have changed recently, that is! Can you beat it, I wonder?
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Apologies for the delay in responding to posts tonight. I was feeling very tired when I posted, so I decided to rest on my bed for a while (with two cats taking it in turns to sleep on my chest, as it turned out).
Very well done, DTC! Straight into an early lead and one which looks like it might well remain unbeaten this week (although the mighty Lie-in King has yet to post as I type).
Thanks for keeping me company on 13, Karamia. I hope that your weekend goes well too.
Yes, Canary42. After due consideration, and checking with Google, I reckon that I can put a nice big tick next to your answer for three times three. However any gold stars for you will have to wait for another week, I feel ;-)
Well done on sneaking ahead of me by a single point this week, Canary42 ;-)
I see that Milo2 is another one keeping me company on 13 this week. Welcome!
I reckon that the difference between our scores probably counts as 'statistically insignificant', Jourdain2. So I'll say 'Welcome to the club', anyway ;-)
Well done with those impressive scores, Zebo. Second place at the moment!
Guesses all count, Sharon! Well done on beating me this week!
£100 on the Premium Bonds, Haras2? My begging letter is already on the way! I'm not sure that many, if any, of my contributions here ever count as being 'erudite' but part of the reason for me posting a little less than usual this week might have been that my friends from Italy are over here at the moment and we celebrated Margaret's birthday in Norwich yesterday. (I've also been doing some Christmas shopping today too). Your aggregate score of 9 places you at the bottom of the table so far this week but you've got Canary42 for company anyway. I hope that you'll buy Shady something really nice from your winning and that you'll both have a good weekend.
Hi, Tony! 10's not a great aggregate but at least you're not last. By a strange coincidence, I was thinking about Mann's Brown Ale for the first time in years only this afternoon. That was because I spotted it in Morrisons when I was browsing the beer shelves and remembered that I used to treat myself to a single bottle of it just once a month in the days when, through unemployment, I was really hard up. It was always the cheapest beer on the shelves then (apart from canned supermarket own-brand 'value' bitter and lager) and it seems that it still is. (Most bottled ales are priced at £2.25 in Morrisons but Mann's, I noted, only costs £1.09) . I couldn't find any dark beers that I fancied though, so a trip to B&M, for some Station Porter, definitely seems to be on the cards.
Very well done, DTC! Straight into an early lead and one which looks like it might well remain unbeaten this week (although the mighty Lie-in King has yet to post as I type).
Thanks for keeping me company on 13, Karamia. I hope that your weekend goes well too.
Yes, Canary42. After due consideration, and checking with Google, I reckon that I can put a nice big tick next to your answer for three times three. However any gold stars for you will have to wait for another week, I feel ;-)
Well done on sneaking ahead of me by a single point this week, Canary42 ;-)
I see that Milo2 is another one keeping me company on 13 this week. Welcome!
I reckon that the difference between our scores probably counts as 'statistically insignificant', Jourdain2. So I'll say 'Welcome to the club', anyway ;-)
Well done with those impressive scores, Zebo. Second place at the moment!
Guesses all count, Sharon! Well done on beating me this week!
£100 on the Premium Bonds, Haras2? My begging letter is already on the way! I'm not sure that many, if any, of my contributions here ever count as being 'erudite' but part of the reason for me posting a little less than usual this week might have been that my friends from Italy are over here at the moment and we celebrated Margaret's birthday in Norwich yesterday. (I've also been doing some Christmas shopping today too). Your aggregate score of 9 places you at the bottom of the table so far this week but you've got Canary42 for company anyway. I hope that you'll buy Shady something really nice from your winning and that you'll both have a good weekend.
Hi, Tony! 10's not a great aggregate but at least you're not last. By a strange coincidence, I was thinking about Mann's Brown Ale for the first time in years only this afternoon. That was because I spotted it in Morrisons when I was browsing the beer shelves and remembered that I used to treat myself to a single bottle of it just once a month in the days when, through unemployment, I was really hard up. It was always the cheapest beer on the shelves then (apart from canned supermarket own-brand 'value' bitter and lager) and it seems that it still is. (Most bottled ales are priced at £2.25 in Morrisons but Mann's, I noted, only costs £1.09) . I couldn't find any dark beers that I fancied though, so a trip to B&M, for some Station Porter, definitely seems to be on the cards.
'Brown and mild'. That takes me back, Tony!
When I first worked in a pub (aged 18, in 1971, between 6th form and college), everyone knew that the draught beers was rubbish when consumed on its own. (It was Tolly Cobbold. 117 of the 120 pubs in Ipswich were tied to their brewery, meaning that finding a decent pint was far from easy!). So all the regulars drank a half pint of bottled beer (to get a bit of decent flavour), topped up with a half pint of draught beer (in the interest of economy). 'Brown and mild' was usually referred to as a 'brown topper' or, if Tolly's Cobnut brown ale was used in it, as a 'cob topper'. I can't remember the price of a bottle of brown ale but mild was 10p per pint!
When I first worked in a pub (aged 18, in 1971, between 6th form and college), everyone knew that the draught beers was rubbish when consumed on its own. (It was Tolly Cobbold. 117 of the 120 pubs in Ipswich were tied to their brewery, meaning that finding a decent pint was far from easy!). So all the regulars drank a half pint of bottled beer (to get a bit of decent flavour), topped up with a half pint of draught beer (in the interest of economy). 'Brown and mild' was usually referred to as a 'brown topper' or, if Tolly's Cobnut brown ale was used in it, as a 'cob topper'. I can't remember the price of a bottle of brown ale but mild was 10p per pint!
