In the last few weeks, several quiz shows on British TV have featured questions about UK cities. Three jackpot rounds in the latest series of “Tenable” have been based on the subject, but none of the teams could come up with the required 10 answers. If any of them had, they would have won some… Continue reading Quiz Research and Mnemonics: UK Cities, Part 1 (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
A new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” began last month. Here are the questions and answers for Friday 26 March, Series 5 Episode 25 (S5Ep25). For previous series I have included at least a week’s worth of questions and answers in each post, as in this piece from last year. For this series I plan… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, Fri 26 March 2021 [Series 5 Episode 25]
A new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” began last month. Here are the questions and answers for Thursday 25 March, Series 5 Episode 24 (S5Ep24). For previous series I have included at least a week’s worth of questions and answers in each post, as in this piece from last year. For this series I plan… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, Thursday 25 March 2021 [Series 5 Episode 24]
A new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” began last month. Here are the questions and answers for Wednesday 24 March, Series 5 Episode 23 (S5Ep23). For previous series I have included at least a week’s worth of questions and answers in each post, as in this piece from last year. For this series I plan… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, Wed 24 March 2021 [Series 5 Episode 23]
A new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” began last month. Here are the questions and answers for Tuesday 23 March, Series 5 Episode 22 (S5Ep22). For previous series I have included at least a week’s worth of questions and answers in each post, as in this piece from last year. For this series I plan… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, Tue 23 March 2021 [Series 5 Episode 22]
Yesterday was Census Day here in the UK. Once every decade, in the years ending in “1”, adults are obliged to fill in a form recording details about themselves and their household. I don’t recall how we filled in the form in 2011, whether it was online or on paper, but yesterday it was all online. It was a… Continue reading Word of the week: census
A new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” began last month. Here are the questions and answers for Monday 22 March, Series 5 Episode 21 (S5Ep21). For previous series I have included at least a week’s worth of questions and answers in each post, as in this piece from last year. For this series I plan… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, Mon 22 March 2021 [Series 5 Episode 21]
Last October I wrote this piece about air mail letters, or aerogrammes as they are also known. I had just learnt that they have not been available in the UK since 2012. I was planning to send pre-Christmas greetings to a handful of friends overseas but figured that the extra steps of finding air mail paper and envelopes, and having to sort out… Continue reading More about aerogrammes, and an example
I am a reluctant user of WhatsApp, as has been mentioned more than once in these pages. I am a member of two WhatsApp groups, and am the only link between the two of them: one (which has gone very quiet in recent months) contains cousins on my father’s side; the other consists of half a dozen friends from college. Late last year there… Continue reading Word of the week: Brutalism
Happy Pi Day to you, belatedly. I write these words in the last hour of 14 March here in the UK, or 3/14 in US notation. Out there in California, Oregon and everywhere else in the Pacific time zone, you still have many hours to celebrate. For the first time ever, my children and I… Continue reading “How I want a drink, alcoholic of course…”
The Compartments 