The Patrician

No. The Spamalot is probably right, I haven't seen it. The quote was originally from MP's Holy Grail film.

No. You'll have to stay behind afterwards if you won't take this seriously!

Here's one set by my lady wife, because I can't think of anything. She works with books so: Who wrote "The Once and Future King" about Arthur, King of the Britons ("King of the who?")? Bonus points for where "King of the who?" comes from.

Yes I saw that in the news, if ever my old pink paper license gives up the ghost and I'm forced to buy a photo license I might try it myself! Anway back to the job in hand :- What are "The Leonids" and where would you see them? Meteors. The sky! Specifically probably the constipation, sorry constellation of Leo.

The Danube? Ding!

I'm in Malvern so they're coming from all directions! I must remember to put a long lens on the camera and go and sit on the hills tomorrow to see if anything interesting floats past. I haven't been to Fairford for a long time, the last time we spent so much time driving around in circles that we swore "Never again". On with the questions..... Which river separates Buda from Pest?

Air Display There's been heavy metal zooming over my house for some days now!

@MartyBartfast I see that you too have been Touched by His Noodly Appendage. Have you seen this?

Shall we have a sing song while we're waiting for someone to get it? How about the greatest drunken chorus song of all time... I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window

How so? I Googled, there was no way I'd have got the answer.

I know the answer! But I cheated.

I'm out!

Spot on! Hard luck Pajaholic, so close. Over to Natty.

I see that Helen herself launched 1186 ships, giving her a rating of 1.186 Helens, and that there are also negative Helens which cause the ships to be launched but to row off in the opposite direction. Some other units of measure are the beard-second which is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but used for extremely short distances such as those in nuclear physics. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second (Kemp Bennet Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 angstroms) and of course the Thaum is a measuring unit used in the Terry Pratchett series of Discworld novels to quantify magic. It equals the amount of mystical energy required to conjure up one small white pigeon, or three normal-sized billiard balls. It can, of course, be measured with a thaumometer. On with the question, an easy one I hope: Broadsword calling ..... Who, and in what?

"Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?" or similar - Faust? The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. Edit for speellling

DING! Hugo Boss Over to you.

No!

Nope

I thought it was Yves-Jacques, but I see it's actually Jacques-Yves, and I didn't know it was hyphonated. Which world famous fashion house originally made its fortune by using slave labour to produce uniforms for the Hitler Youth and SS?

Yves Cousteau Errrr 1940s?

IEEE regs?

I don't think he's left a forwarding address - and our American cousins might have a more pointed communication for him!

I'm always very suspicious of the figures that are bandied about in situations like this. The police and army are being paid anyway regardless of whether they're doing this or something else. The cost an accountant works out based on hourly rates and the use of kit, etc might come up to this figure, but I doubt much, if any, actual money changes hands anywhere.

Not that I do many urban caches, 'cause I don't like them much, but I frequently wear a hi-vis vest and carry a clip board when looking for them. Nobody takes a blind bit of notice of you.

My first thought was something to do with dwarf tossing but I see from Google that I am, as usual, utterly and totally wrong.