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didnt read it as part of my GCSE but read the 1st book when my ex GF borrowed it from her dad. As far as I can remember it was memos of cryptic text that were found in the shelter. (memo pad)

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didnt read it as part of my GCSE but read the 1st book when my ex GF borrowed it from her dad. As far as I can remember it was memos of cryptic text that were found in the shelter. (memo pad)

It was something far more mundane than that and the answer I'm really looking for is what I suspect most of us would recognise it to be today. However, thanks to the 'Simplification', their academic abilities were so low that the monks took it to be cryptic text. So I'll give it to you if someone doesn't post the actual answer I'm looking for by tomorrow morning.

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DING!

 

Wanted to give it for your first answer... 8 days out 80 years on is very impressive deduction!

Thanks but it isn't that impressive as I should have known it was a Sunday from the last line of the chorus:

 

I may be a wage slave on Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday

 

Anyway, from a real ramble to that of the fictional 'Brother Francis', who is the central character of the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M Miller Jr. (I do so hope that someone's read this book, which I understand was a 'set book' in some areas for GCSE English Literature during the 1980s and may still be. If not, then I'm in trouble! ...)

 

The novel is set in the future after a global nuclear war and the following 'simplification' -- during which anyone of learning (or who could even read) was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs. Fairly early in the novel, Brother Francis came upon a fallout shelter in which he discovered a relic attributed to Leibovitz himself. The relic would be an everyday object to most of us, but what was it?

 

I've not read the book but I seem to remember a film fairly recently that followed a similar plot. In the film, it was a Bible.

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We've always called dogfish egg cases mermaid's purses.

 

DING!

 

It's the eggcase of a member of the shark family - dogfish egg cases are the most common use of the term :)

 

Your turn.

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A bloater is a smoked herring (like a kipper) the difference being it is smoked whole, whilst a kipper is gutted and prepared first.

 

Ding! Leaving the guts in gives it a distinct flavour.

 

Over to you.

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Who played coach Dave Dodds in Mike Bassett: England Manager?

 

Ricky Tomlinson

 

Ricky Tomlinson was Mike Bassett. Dave Dodds was played by a guy who I can picture but can't think of his name - he used to do game shows a lot and I think he might have been in Coronation Street.

 

(This is why I'm better at quizzes where I have a team to help me out, I often have an idea about the answer and useless information, just not the answer itself!)

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Who played coach Dave Dodds in Mike Bassett: England Manager?

 

Ricky Tomlinson

 

Ricky Tomlinson was Mike Bassett. Dave Dodds was played by a guy who I can picture but can't think of his name - he used to do game shows a lot and I think he might have been in Coronation Street.

 

(This is why I'm better at quizzes where I have a team to help me out, I often have an idea about the answer and useless information, just not the answer itself!)

All 100% correct :)

 

He used to do a game show... now he does another.

 

He used to be in Coronation Street... now he's in a different straight role.

 

Both of the new programs are currently being shown.

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FWIW, I'd only seen trailers and ISTR Ricky Tomlinson and Bradley Walsh being in the cast -- although I had no idea of who played who until Hawkins2 posted.

 

Anyway, a nice, simple one that many should be able to answer:

 

AFAICT, the price of electricity has recently gone up to 14p per kWh or more for many consumers. So, if the price of electricity is 14p per kWh, how much does it cost to leave a 100W lightbulb switched on for a whole (non-leap) year?

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FWIW, I'd only seen trailers and ISTR Ricky Tomlinson and Bradley Walsh being in the cast -- although I had no idea of who played who until Hawkins2 posted.

 

Anyway, a nice, simple one that many should be able to answer:

 

AFAICT, the price of electricity has recently gone up to 14p per kWh or more for many consumers. So, if the price of electricity is 14p per kWh, how much does it cost to leave a 100W lightbulb switched on for a whole (non-leap) year?

 

£122.64

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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!

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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!

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:anicute:

 

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?

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Thanks for the heads up there, Patrician! I was lost in cross stitching my snail for a TB race, among other things! :D

 

Here is the question:

 

Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)?

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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?

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