Is there a general formula for calculating the answer to a question like this one? If an item has been bought for £500 after a reduction of 60% on the original price, what was the original...
27 across - Plunder or steal goods (5 letters) (r*a*e). I can't find any word that fits in here, not just a word to match the clue. R is from "weather"; L is from "leap"; E is from...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 30a In hunting, to direct the hounds to spread out over grounds the quarry may have passed [4] 33a Toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another...
I have recently had an extension built on my house. There is now a new bedroom where the flat roof used to be on top of the kitchen; the old bathroom is now part of a larger landing area and the old...
When I first registered with AnswerBank, I used to get e-mails notifying me if anybody replied to my questions. In the last year or so, I don't get any notifications and I don't know why. I don't...
I've got a new xpelair with a circular air vent through the bricks to the outside. The plastic cover fitted on the outside wall is designed to keep dust, birds and insects out, but when the weather is...
Here are today's shaded questions for you - 16a Textual matter for a publication. especially a newspaper or magazine article [4] 33a Amoured vehicledesigned to move on caterpillar tracks [4] 10d A...
All my neighbours are getting on in years, with grown-up families who've now left home. They've made our lives a misery (children moaned at if they play outside and make a noise, etc.). Because of...
I can't find any information about any laws regarding train travel without any toilets on the train. Can any of the train operating companies legally put a train into service without any toilet...
Some time ago (I can't remember when) I bought a Sky+ box. I must have paid for it by credit card. Now I have got my latest credit card statement saying that £89-99 has been taken TWICE by...
I recently installed Norton 364 and then removed several thousand temporary internet files which it had discovered. After this time, whenever I have used the blue up and down arrow on the right of the...
I can't get 24 down and 27 across to match up. 24 down - Ancient Egyptian queen, wife of sun-worshipper Akhenaton (9) - I put NEFERTITI. 27 across - A non-resident doctor or medical student of a...
On Thursday this week I recorded and watched the quiz show "One versus 100" on Challenge channel. It finished with a competitor called Richard (the man in the wheelchair) with about 40 remaining...
Tonight I watched the quiz show "one versus 100". This was one of the questions - Which day of the week was named after the Anglo-Saxon god of war? The two remaining competitors both got the answer...
Unlike so many people that I know, I have to nap and have siestas throughout the day even when I have had almost my full 8 hours sleep at night. After breakfast, I always fall asleep except when I...
Decorative valance hiding curtain fixings (*E*M*T) (6 letters). It looks like "helmet", but I looked in my dictionary and the on-line dictionary and it wasn't in either of them.
Tonight I have been successfully on the internet, using google, outlook express and Facebook. I tried to use the know-it-all trivia quiz section on Facebook, but it gave me the words:- "Know-it-all...