On this date in 1971 the UK #1 was “Hey girl, don’t bother me” by the Tams. Treat yourself to this performance of a great chart-topper. Rod Stewart was at #2 with “Maggie May”, listed in some charts as a double A side with “Reason to Believe”, another pair of great songs. Here’s the classic… Continue reading “It’s late September, and …”
This piece from last weekend, and this earlier piece from the weekend before that, listed all the questions and answers from Weeks 1 and 2 of the new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. Here are the questions and answers from Week 3, Monday 17 September to Friday 21 September. The format is the same… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 21 September 2018
Leeds United FC drew 1-1 at Millwall last Saturday thanks to a late equalizer by Jack Harrison. Harrison is on loan from Manchester City for the season. Back in 2010-11 Leeds had George McCartney (a Northern Ireland international) on loan from Sunderland. He played 30-odd games for the club. Before that, Aaron Lennon came through… Continue reading Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Leeds United
This piece from last weekend listed all the questions and answers from Week 1 of the new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. Here are the questions and answers from Week 2, Monday 10 September to Friday 14 September. The format here is the same as last week’s piece: a list of the 30 “Tenable”… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 14 September 2018
Unlike other figures of speech that I learnt about at school, malapropism is one that stuck first time. I had to look up words like zeugma and synecdoche many times, but not malapropism. From the age of 12 onwards I knew that it takes its name from Mrs Malaprop, a character in Sheridan’s play “The… Continue reading Word of the week: malapropism
“Tenable”, the ITV quiz show that I first mentioned nearly a year ago in this piece, is back with a new series on weekday afternoons. It’s also back on “series record” on our multi-channel box. It is the most linear of quiz shows. Every episode has exactly the same number of correct answers: 10 answers… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 7-Sep-2018
This earlier piece contained 15 questions and 6 challenges related to James Bond films. The questions are duplicated here, and the answers follow immediately afterwards. 15 questions In which Bond movie does the villain’s car turn into a light aircraft? [From “The Chase”, 24-May-2018] Who recorded the theme to the 1997 movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”?… Continue reading James Bond Trivia: the answers
Last week I wrote about James Bond, a regular subject on TV quiz shows. Today’s piece gathers together a selection of questions and challenges about Bond movies and theme songs from the last couple of years’ worth of shows like “The Chase”, “Fifteen to One” and “Tenable”, and from the Pop Master quiz on Ken… Continue reading James Bond Trivia: 15 questions, 6 lists
“Fascinator” is an example of something that my brother calls “24 Hour Syndrome”, a word or phrase that you hear or read for the first time and then encounter again in a completely different context within the next 24 hours. Looking back over the 580 pieces that are available to you on this Blog right… Continue reading Word of the week: fascinator
Here’s another Word of the Week prompted by TV quiz shows, like earlier examples capercaillie, quotidian and Cadillac. Those last two words were on recent episodes of “The 100k Drop”, and so was “monotreme”, in the following question: “In biology which of these words refers to egg-laying mammals?” Options: Monotreme / Cetacean / Marsupial The… Continue reading Word of the week: monotreme
The Compartments 