+NattyBooshka Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 (edited) Wow... I remember my physics teacher arguing that as bulbs tend to blow when being turned on, it was cost effective to leave a bulb on. Showing my age then as electricity has gone up a hell of a lot, and bulbs have probably become cheaper! I need a stiff drink! Edited August 24, 2011 by NattyBooshka Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Wow... I remember my physics teacher arguing that as bulbs tend to blow when being turned on, it was cost effective to leave a bulb on. Showing my age then as electricity has gone up a hell of a lot, and bulbs have probably become cheaper! I need a stiff drink! They've also become much lower wattage, the energy saver ones anyway. What are they now 11-14 Watts? An 11 Watt bulb would cost about £13.50 to run all year. I'm off to the pub now for a stiff drink, so maybe see you all tomorrow! Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 £122.64 DING! Over to Pharisee! Mondays child is fair of face, Tuesdays child is full of grace, But what about Saturday's child ? Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Works hard for a living! (I'm a Saturday child, I'd say that's pretty accurate most of the time.) Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Works hard for a living! (I'm a Saturday child, I'd say that's pretty accurate most of the time.) Ding!!! I was born on a Monday.... Says it all, dunnit Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 (edited) My first correct answer! So to the next question... Known as Bacchus in Ancient Rome; Dionysus in Ancient Greece and the subject of a great song by Third Eye Blind - who is he? Edited August 25, 2011 by Hawkins2 Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Ding! Over to you... Quote Link to comment
jadenrich2101 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 wheres everyone gone? Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 wheres everyone gone? bank holiday weekend? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 wheres everyone gone? Dunno, I was lost... only turned the GPSr on once this week... shocking... stupid coursework! Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 I've emailed Fianccetto, perhaps she's been away somewhere. I know she found one of my caches [*] the other day. [*] For 'one of my caches' please read 'my cache' throughout. Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Thanks for the heads up there, Patrician! I was lost in cross stitching my snail for a TB race, among other things! Here is the question: Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)? Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Here is the question: Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)? Anne Boleyn? Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Here is the question: Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)? Anne Boleyn? DING! Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 (edited) Here is the question: Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)? Anne Boleyn? DING! Ta! What was used to execute Anne Boleyn? Edited August 30, 2011 by The Patrician Quote Link to comment
+thehalibutkid Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Here is the question: Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)? Anne Boleyn? DING! Ta! What was used to execute Anne Boleyn? I suppose an axe is too simple an answer. Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 If I taught my year 5 class correctly last year then it was a sword. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 If I taught my year 5 class correctly last year then it was a sword. Ding! A French swordsman specially hired for the occasion apparently. Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Phew, I haven't been feeding the kids false information! It's always a worry to me when a little fact slips out that I heard somewhere in case it turns out to be wrong and I haven't actually checked it! Where is the longest 'pleasure' pier in the world? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Phew, I haven't been feeding the kids false information! It's always a worry to me when a little fact slips out that I heard somewhere in case it turns out to be wrong and I haven't actually checked it! Where is the longest 'pleasure' pier in the world? Wigan? No... Southend on Sea? Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Lol @ Wigan Ding for Southend. The pier cache was our 5th find back in April on a very blustery day! How time flies when you're having fun. Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I know... Wigan was a working pier. Who/What "take silk" and when? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Barristers take silk when they are appointed as Queen's Counsels Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 (edited) Barristers take silk when they are appointed as Queen's Counsels Ding! Expensive business it is too... Then the rewards aren't bad! Edited August 31, 2011 by NattyBooshka Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 What is the psammead? Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 What is the psammead? I'm afraid Google had to be my friend, never heard of it Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Not sure if this is what you're after but I think that was what the sand fairy in the book '5 Children as It' called himself. I used to love the kids tv programme they brought out based on the book and was extremely disappointed by the more recent film! Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Not sure if this is what you're after but I think that was what the sand fairy in the book '5 Children as It' called himself. I used to love the kids tv programme they brought out based on the book and was extremely disappointed by the more recent film! DING! One of E. Nesbit's finest Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Indeed! Keeping with the book theme, which book's opening line is "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it" and who wrote the book? Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Indeed! Keeping with the book theme, which book's opening line is "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it" and who wrote the book? Is that The Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis? Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, now I think of the full title). Quote Link to comment
+Hawkins2.5 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Ding! Yeah, sure is. I do like that as a first line of a book. Being a teacher, I also like the first line from Matilda: "It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful." Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I like The Dawn Treader opening as well. As a young reader I found it very encouraging that the new character is introduced so cleverly and the action starts so quickly. As a parent it amazed me how vividly I could remember how I pictured it as a child. I gained a whole new appreciation of Roald Dahl when I was teaching! His humour seemed so wicked, but it is anything but. According to Roald Dahl, all the great classic chocolates were invented (Aero, Maltesers, Quality Street assortments, Whole Nut bars, Tiffin, Mars Bar, Black Magic Assortment, Caramello, Kit kat, Rolo, Smarties, Crunchie) in which decade? Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 (edited) According to Roald Dahl, all the great classic chocolates were invented (Aero, Maltesers, Quality Street assortments, Whole Nut bars, Tiffin, Mars Bar, Black Magic Assortment, Caramello, Kit kat, Rolo, Smarties, Crunchie) in which decade? 1950s? Edit - the more I think about it that's probably a daft answer, but I'll let someone else have a go now! Edited September 1, 2011 by The Patrician Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 It's not the 1950's. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 BTW Fianccetto, thanks for the 'Favourite' on my Wood Street cache. Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 You're welcome, we enjoyed a lovely walk, and it's well deserved. Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Slad valley on Newsnight! Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The 1930s I think. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The 1930s I think. That's what I'd have gone for with a bit more thought. Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The 1930s I think. Ding! Roahl Dahl was so before his time! Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 (edited) "He was the first, and so far the only, British illusionist to go out live on coast-to-coast American TV in his special" is the claim from his web page... calling it HIS show is a bit questionable as he shared the billing on the show, and it was the other billed act that were bigger in the states at the time... nonetheless he does hold this accolade. Who is he? Edited September 2, 2011 by NattyBooshka Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 It's not Paul Danials, is it? Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Had to google that one...and I've never heard if him before! Quote Link to comment
+MazdaRoy Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Being a Part-time Magican made this one easy enough for me.... Simon Drake PS If I am wrong I will have to hide and hang my head in shame? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 (edited) Being a Part-time Magican made this one easy enough for me.... Simon Drake PS If I am wrong I will have to hide and hang my head in shame? DING Simon Drake is correct. Just about the only British magician on telly apart from Paul Daniels back then. The show in question was Bruce Dickinson's last gig for Iron Maiden in 1993... Though he rejoined the band a few years later. Edited September 2, 2011 by NattyBooshka Quote Link to comment
+MazdaRoy Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Sorry was camping and caching all weekend.. Keeping with the TV theme... Which children’s TV show started with the words "Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play"? Quote Link to comment
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