Here’s my weekly summary of questions and answers from the latest series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. These are for the shows broadcast week beginning Monday 18 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 46 onwards). The format is the same as in earlier pieces: a list of the 30 “Tenable” challenges, a note on how the… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 22 February 2019
Here, for the third month running, is a screenshot taken from the BBC website showing the top of the Championship, the second tier of English football. Like the previous two examples this one shows Leeds United (the team I have followed since the 1960s) top of the table and Norwich in second place. I wanted… Continue reading More about goal difference, and 2 points per game
Here’s my weekly summary of questions and answers from the latest series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. These are for the shows broadcast Monday 11 February to Friday 15 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 41-45). The format is the same as in earlier pieces: a list of the 30 “Tenable” challenges, a note on how… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 15 February 2019
The word “emirp” was featured in three bonus questions during last week’s episode of “University Challenge”, broadcast on Monday 4 February 2019 here in the UK. It’s available for another 22 days here on the BBC iPlayer. At 22:24 Jeremy Paxman introduces the bonus questions as follows: “‘prime’ spelt backwards is ‘emirp’, a term denoting… Continue reading Word of the week: emirp
This piece from last week listed all the questions and answers from Week 1 of the new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” (Series 3, Episodes 31-35). Here are the questions and answers from Week 2, Monday 4 February to Friday 8 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 36-40). The format here is the same as… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 8 February 2019
Last month, for the fourth time in my life, I travelled from our corner of West London to Southampton for a family funeral. The service took place in the same cemetery chapel as each of the other three. The four departed members of that side of my family are buried close together, a husband and… Continue reading Southampton: four decades, four funerals, no weddings
There was a brief news story on the radio last week about the sitcom “Friends”. It reported that the show has now become very popular with teenagers, many of whom weren’t even born when the final episode was originally broadcast in May 2004. That was nearly 15 years ago, but “Friends” has never really gone… Continue reading “Friends” and a catchphrase about a sandwich
A new series of the daytime quiz show “Tenable” began on ITV at the start of this week, on Monday 28 January. Last autumn, starting with this piece and ending with this piece, I kept a record of every show broadcast between 3 September and 12 October 2018 (Series 3, Episodes 1-30). Here are the… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 1 February 2019
Pop Master, the mid-morning quiz that forms part of Ken Bruce’s BBC Radio 2 show, has been mentioned many times on this Blog, including this lengthy piece from last summer (“600 Round of Pop Master”). As you will know if you are one of the 7.5 million people who tune in to that part of… Continue reading More Pop Trivia: 15 acts who had one big hit and at least one less well-known hit
Last summer, during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here in London, I wrote this piece about the sport, focussing on the Grand Slams, the four major events in the tennis calendar: the Australian Open (January, in Melbourne), French Open (May/June in Paris), Wimbledon (usually June/July) and US Open (September in New York). It included Trivia Challenges,… Continue reading Tennis Grand Slams, an update
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