1 What are currently determined by a reporting panel of 5,100 homes?
2 Which Shakespeare title character only gets his name in Act 1, Scene 9?
3 Which two US companies have reached a $3tn market value?
4 Who is claimed to have found the true cross around AD326?
5 In climate history, what was the LIA?
6 The highest point on the equator is in which country?
7 Threatened by Panama disease, what fruit is the Cavendish?
8 Who had a worldwide hit with a song first recorded by Gloria Jones?
Tough 1 (2 March)
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3 Which two US companies have reached a $3tn market value? Apple and Microsoft
4 Who is claimed to have found the true cross around AD326? Saint Helena, mother of Constantine the Great
5 In climate history, what was the LIA? Little Ice Age
6 The highest point on the equator is in which country? Ecuador?
7 Threatened by Panama disease, what fruit is the Cavendish? Banana
4 Who is claimed to have found the true cross around AD326? Saint Helena, mother of Constantine the Great
5 In climate history, what was the LIA? Little Ice Age
6 The highest point on the equator is in which country? Ecuador?
7 Threatened by Panama disease, what fruit is the Cavendish? Banana
Like the late Chaircat Midge, I am not always right.
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1. Most popular TV shows. Which is why I never like popular shows.
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6 The highest point on the equator is in which country?
Kilimanjaro is pretty close to the equator, which is in Tanzania
Kilimanjaro is pretty close to the equator, which is in Tanzania
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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8. Soft Cell wiith Tainted Love. In 1980 I was the first year rep on the Leeds Uni/Poly Ents committee and Marc Almond was on the same committee - he became an overnight superstar though he was a very dodgy bloke. The president was Andy Kershaw who went on to become a Radio 1 DJ and he was even dodgier. I will leave it to the reader to figure out the two word anagram of his name by which he was universally known!
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Oooh I got it the moment I looked at it (I was looking for a Rude Word and spotted one -? 
I loved Tainted Love! great tune
7/8, well done. tough set I thought
1 TV viewing figures (Barb).
2 Coriolanus.
3 Apple and Microsoft.
4 (Saint) Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine).
5 Little Ice Age.
6 Ecuador (Cayambe).
7 Banana.
8 Soft Cell (Tainted Love).
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I loved Tainted Love! great tune
7/8, well done. tough set I thought
1 TV viewing figures (Barb).
2 Coriolanus.
3 Apple and Microsoft.
4 (Saint) Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine).
5 Little Ice Age.
6 Ecuador (Cayambe).
7 Banana.
8 Soft Cell (Tainted Love).
"... not to be told a story, but to live inside a dream." - Hades, The Burnt City
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Why does WR's comment about Andy Kershaw remind me of a former work colleague whose surname was Wrankmore?
Names can be strange. One of the people who sent out the annual Revenue Outturn forms from what was then the Dept of the Environment was a gentleman who rejoiced in the name of Mansukh Makwana. Another person in a central department with whom I dealt with occasionally had the name Titi Windapo IIRC.
And who could fail to eternally admire Moira Stewart to whom fell the duty to read - completely deadpan - on the news the unfortunate assassination of the foreign minister of South Korea in what was then called Burma; without even a hint of a quivering tremble of her lips she read the details of this tragedy concerning Lee Bum Suk.
That's enough lowering of the tone from me for one day, I think.
Names can be strange. One of the people who sent out the annual Revenue Outturn forms from what was then the Dept of the Environment was a gentleman who rejoiced in the name of Mansukh Makwana. Another person in a central department with whom I dealt with occasionally had the name Titi Windapo IIRC.
And who could fail to eternally admire Moira Stewart to whom fell the duty to read - completely deadpan - on the news the unfortunate assassination of the foreign minister of South Korea in what was then called Burma; without even a hint of a quivering tremble of her lips she read the details of this tragedy concerning Lee Bum Suk.
That's enough lowering of the tone from me for one day, I think.
Like the late Chaircat Midge, I am not always right.
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Not lowering the tone but slightly amusing was a former colleague of mine whose name was Aula Robertson. Nothing amusiing there but it caused a great deal of mirth when she announced her engagement to a guy called Steve Board. She wisely kept her maiden name.
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@ WR's reminiscence.Tough 1 (2 March)
Kids, Ova and Bedan?
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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