Some Random Ponderables, mostly off the top of my head so of debatable factitiude. No googling or use of the word 'shirley' instead of 'surely', please, they're both quite annoying ;)

Anyway...

1) Classical music/sport: Which composer was a fan of Wolverhampton Wanderers and wrote an attempt at an early football chant?

2) Fashion: Who's this sartorial nightmare?



3) Literature: Which author reputedly learnt English by doing The Times crossword?

4) Manufacturing: What was originally treated with its maker's urine?

5) Geography: What is so special about Finchley Road tube station in North London?

6) Gardening: Which iconic garden-feature associated with English gardens, was actually invented in Germany in the Mid 19th Century?

7) Medicine: What was invented originally to make an anti-malarial drug more palatable?

8) Music: Who's This?



9) Linguistics/swearing: According to a world-famous English novelist of the last century, whose language's strongest epithet translates as "I have made a mistake". (This has since proved bollocks, byt the way)

10) Bonus Bastard/Music: What's the connection between Dad's Army and Lou Reed?


I'm off out for lunch now for an hour or two, but my assistant Miss Whiplash of the Remove will be invigilating... :)

6. Garden Gnome?

10. Arthur Lowe's favourite record was Hangin' Round.

Is 1 Elgar?
There was a question on the weakest link the other day about he and football chant(s).

2. Chris Evans?
3. Nabokov?

Good quiz.

2. Malcolm McLaren?

10. Herbie Flowers. He played bass on "Walk On The Wild Side" and wrote Clive Dunn's "Grandad".

God, 8 looks so familiar. If it wasn't for the fact that it's inconceviable that he'd be gracing the Getty Images library, I would've guessed that that would be how I'd imagine Barrie Masters might look now!

Yes!

Correct - the chant was apparently basd around the words "We bang'd the leather for goal", which is so much more poetic than You're Gonna Get Your Fuckin' 'Ead Kicked In.

Neither I'm afraid - but I can see how it might be Chris Evans

2. Nooo

10. Back of the net, well done (is Herbie Flowers not the most Pub Quiz-friendly bassist in history?)

I don't know who Barrie Masters is, sorry (no Bamber Gascoigne, me). This chap is pictured 'off duty' as it were.

Yes. You know his mother invented Tippex?

Is 8 Alastair Campbell?

Looks quite like him

Medicine: What was invented originally to make an anti-malarial drug more palatable?

Jagermeister. It's the only possible explanation.

Nabokov was the only one I was sure of. :lol:

Oh well... :(

No, 'fraid not. It did occur to me that it could be Keith Chegwin, but then the category is Music.

Polo, any more of that silliness and you'll be doing your homework in the company of the school leopard. (I'm guessing Michael Nesmith's mother was wrongly credited after all? She in fact made the ham sandwich that Mama Cass didn't choke on)

I think the choking on a sandwich myth was sparked by a "joke" the coroner made about it being the most likely cause. Tactful.

2. The legendary "Man with only one hand that looks like a small foot" of travelling circus fame?
3. I have a feeling it was Nabokov, too, actually.

2. He's been in everything but that.

3. Oh blimey, I'm worried that Mr. Pearce might have misinformed me all those years ago. Probably as revenge for us turning his Reliant Robin upside down that time.

I'll check some more up-to-date sources, while the humble pie is in the oven...

4. Is this something to do with printing? Or a drink?
5. Is someone buried there?
7. Nutrasweet?
9. Japanese?

Okay, I'm guessing - help!!!

Is Finchley Road one of those ones that isn't in use anymore?
erm...something to do with WW2 as well, I think.

I saw a Channel 5 thing a while ago about haunted tube stations and I think it was on that. Where they kept records or something.

Of course, if it's still in use, I'll look like a plum....

Think we're getting there - does Finchley Road exist?
I won't check a tube map - and I'm sure I've been there.
Is it where Quatermas appeared?

If it is the one I'm thinking of (and if it isn't I'd like to find out which one I am) I wanted to go there myself.
It still has all the old signs up everywhere and endless tunnels, etc.

It's either a ghost station they erected to confuse the Nazis if they invaded.
Or Quatermas was filmed there.
Or it's a real station with some delightful award-winning flower displays outside.

Am I even close??????

Hmm, the thing about Nabokov was, according to Wiki:

"Nabokov's childhood, which he called "perfect," was remarkable in several ways. The family spoke Russian, English and French in their household, and Nabokov was trilingual from an early age. In fact, much to his father's patriotic chagrin, Nabokov could read and write English before he could Russian." so I don't think it was him.


4. Neither. Even more revolting than that, really.
5. No - it's a Geography question, and a Physical Geography question at that, not the other sort that talks about the GDP of countries etc.
6. Not nutrasweet - something much more delicious.
7. CORRECT! Yes, according to Ian Fleming in 'You Only Live Twice', the Japanese don not have any swearwords other than 'Shimata'. Fleming probably thought he was showing his worldy 'look-at-me-I've-been-to-Japan' credentials, but he obviously missed the part of town where they say things like "Aa warui kedo,onkobo ni ikitai!".

It definitely exists. It's an above-ground station on the Metropolitan and Jubilee.

On the wrong track entirely I'm afraid. But it has reminded me to rewatch Deathline again this weekend.

Page 2 Update:

Highest rate of suicides or deaths on the underground?

No, it's a Physical Geography question. As you get warmer, you'll get colder (and vice versa).

KING OF THE WORLD!!!

I know all the other ones too, just giving dem losers some time to catch up...

Can you get your glamourous dollybird assistant to re-post the questions, and show the ones answered thus far, please?
It's getting a bit confusing...
BK?!

Quite, you may now make that air-punching manoeuvre :D

I have to go to B&Q to buy some fencing now - will be back for cocktail hour.

It's the only station in London where we can see penguins in captivity.

As opposed to most of the Northern and Bakerloo Lines where you get to see penguins just flying around overhead.
Think you've nailed this one, Zoot.

I've abandoned the quiz trade to focus on my workout DVD...available in time for christmas, folks.

It's called, 'Fuck exercise - You'll be as ugly thin as you are fat'.

That's nice, dear.
As my mum would say...

Exercise is brilliant. I walk 10 miles every day.

Thanks to the Alzheimer's, I can't remember where I parked the car.

No.7 is tonic water, and by extension the noble G+T.