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!

 

[Ken4155]

Almost but not quite, this week, chris.

6/7 and 4/5 - some educated guessing and some not quite so educated - went for the craziest name for the baseball question and got it correct:-)

[Ken4155]

10C, a group of people have been trying to avoid listening to Last Christmas by Wham. If they hear it, they are 'dead' - but only in the game. The DJ at the football match played it, deliberately killing 7,000 players instantly. He later apologised saying he didn't know folk took it so seriously.

[JJ109]

5 and 3 - but nearly all the adult ones were guesses

[Arksided]

A bit late to the party this week... I shouldn't have turned up at all, Hangs one head in shame getting the meteor shower one wrong.

Main: 3/7
Jnr: 4/5

[Buenchico]

Well done, 10CS!  Joint top when you posted - and a perfect kid too!

Whamageddon is explained here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon
with the BBC report of the football DJ's gaffe here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67659010

You didn't stay top for long though, thanks to Ken's magnificent 10 this week.  Well done, Ken - a near-perfect adult and a near-perfect kid too!

Guesses all count, JJ109!  Well done anyway!

You matched my aggregate, anyway, Arky!  (Welcome to the club!)

[Patsy33]

Good evening Buen.x Sorry I'm late..

Needn't have bothered really..

2

2

[Buenchico]

Don't worry, Patsy.  I have weeks like that too!

😊

[Arksided]

Well at least I'm in good company in the 'losers club' 😜

[Patsy33]

😁

[campbellking]

3/7, 4/5. Have abandoned the kitties to spend a few days in London and Bailey has developed new bravery in my absence and not wedged himself behind the bath every time Norman's human has come to feed him.Puss Puss always greets everyone with big purrs and love. Hope all is good with you and yours, can't stand sprouts myself .

[Buenchico]

Welcome to the 'aggregate 7' club, Campbellking!

I hope that you'll be making an extra big fuss of Puss Puss and Bailey (with plenty of treats, of course) when you get home.

All's well here, thanks, (apart from Moonbeam having a bit of an upset tummy, which is nothing new - he's always been a bit 'delicate' in that respect).

I hope that you're well and that you'll enjoy your stay in London.

[Caran]

4/7. 1/5.

 

[Buenchico]

Well done on getting a decent score on the main quiz this week, Caran!

We knew that you'd get better at it eventually!

[10ClarionSt]

Thanks for the reply Ken. A bit of a whammy from the DJ then?