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Usual rules:

Rule 1) No Googling, before 1:30 (or using other search engines or asking friends etc!)

Rule 2) Maximum three answers per reply.

Rule 3) As always, watch out for booby traps :-)

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Here we gooooooââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚¦..!!

1) What is a "Besom"?

2) Who was a member of the "Sevateem"?

3) What are Vital Amines better known as?

4) Which football team plays at Ashton Gate?

5) What is the natural formation "Uluru" also known as?

6) Who drove a "Bulldog Mack with a Can on the Back"?

7) Which character said "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered"?

8) Who was known as "Satchmo"?

9) What airport was originally known as "Idlewild"?

10) Which WW1 flying award bears the words "Pour le Merite"?

11) Which film features "Operation Grand Slam"?

12) According to Lord Byron "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, his cohorts all gleaming in azure and gold", but who was the Assyrian?

13) What will Prince Charles be called when he ascends the British Throne?

14) If you were to pay a tithe on your income, what percentage would that be?

15) Whose "close friends get to call him T.C., provided it's with dignity"?

16) According to the Beatles, for the benefit of whom will there be a show tonight?

17) Who is Robert Zimmerman better known as?

18) In the words of "The Sweet", what happened after the man in the back said "everyone attack"?

19) Who directed "Triumph of the Will"?

20) Which spaceship landed on LV-426?

21) Where is the volcano Krakatoa?

22) Apart from being a member of "Queen", what else does Roger Taylor have in common with the Royal Family?

23) What is the place called Rapa Nui better known as?

24) In Greek mythology, what was the job of Stentor?

25) Which country is a confederation of Cantons?

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1 broom
2 the prisoner
3 louis armstrong

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1. a broom

17. Bob dylan

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3. Vitamines
8. Charlie Parker?

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1 right

2 and 3 wrong question numbers...!

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25. Switzerland

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14. one tenth

16. Mr Kite

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1 just too late

17 Correct

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2) Leela
7) The prisoner
17) The Emergency Medical Hologram - Version 1

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5) Ayers Rock

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3 Correct (I'll let you off the spelling :) )

8 Wrong

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20) The Nostromo

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Well done (I was wondering if anyone was going to try "China" :D )

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21) Technically nowhere, but Java?
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15) Top Cat

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Both correct
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2 and 7 correct

17 nice try, but no.
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Correct

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15. Top cat ?

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Trying to be too quick

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Correct
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Not precise enough.


Correct
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Just too late
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More haste, less speed :)

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10. Germany's highest WW1 military medal the 'The Blue Max'.

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12) East of Java (according to the book)

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Congratulations! Correct.

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4 - Bristol City

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14. Oooh a tithe is 1/10th, so a tenth of your income.

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*WHOOOP* *WHOOOP* *WHOOOP*

Sorry, but wrong!! :)
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Correct
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Sorry, already gone.

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I think Nugget meant East of Java for Q.21.

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12) About 100 miles east of Jakarta, not far from Anuk Krakatoa! I don't know any more specific than that (don't bother with 'The Day the World Exploded' cos it's not specific enough :p: )

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True, but it's still wrong :D

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Cheers Coggy - can't seem to type today :)

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Well I can't think today either so we are quits... :D

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Still looking for answers to 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 and 24!

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1) The twigs on the end of a broom
3) Vitamins
4) Bristol City
5) Ayers Rock
6) Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit?
7) The dude from the Prisoner?
8) Louis Armstrong
9) JFK
10) Shooting down a certain amount of enemy aircraft?
11) Goldfinger
14) 10%
15) Top Cat?
17) Bob Dylan
18) And it turned into a ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz kerchugachuga ballroom blitz!
20) the abandoned craft in Alien (and the Nostromo afterwards I guess)
22) He appeared on a stamp
23) Easter Island
25) China?

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Ok one more history one
24. The job of the Stentor was to urge people into battle, he shouted 50 times louder than a man.

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18. It turned into a ballroom blitz (I downloaded the song,that's not googling is it?)

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1. A broom or an old woman
2.
3. Vitamins
4. Bristol City
5. Ayers Rock
6.
7. The Prisoner?
8. Louis Armstrong
9. JFK, New York
10. DFC?
11. The Dambusters?
12.
13. King George VII!
14. 1/10th
15. Top Cat
16. Mr. Kite
17. Bob Dylan
18. And it turned into a ballroom blitz
19. Leni Riefenstahl
20.
21. In the straits between Java and Sumatra
22.
23.
24.
25. Switzerland

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I thought we were only allowed three answers per reply?

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All already gone.

And if I wanted to be picky I'd mention Rule 2, but it's 20 minutes into the quiz so everyone else has had a chance by now :)

6) Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit?

Nope.

7) The dude from the Prisoner?

Nope.

8) Louis Armstrong
9) JFK

Both Correct.

10) Shooting down a certain amount of enemy aircraft?

Nope and already gone.

11) Goldfinger

Correct

14) 10%
15) Top Cat?
17) Bob Dylan

Already gone

18) And it turned into a ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz kerchugachuga ballroom blitz!

Ah, someone else who listens to the classics :D

20) the abandoned craft in Alien (and the Nostromo afterwards I guess)

Already gone.

22) He appeared on a stamp

Be more specific

23) Easter Island

Correct

25) China?

Already gone (but see above re: boobytraps ;) )

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21) It's the Sunda Straits!!!!!

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Oops - sorry. [edits]

Was trying not to read everyone else's answers.

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I'll give you this one, although the answer I was actually looking for was that in Greek Mythology he was the Herald of the Gods and "had a voice as loud as 100 men".

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Well it is sort of.
21. The island of Rakata in Indonesia

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It's certainly a little dodgy (and possibly a little illegal!) and it's gone anyway :D

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Ok thanks! I thought it was 50!

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24) A herald

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All already gone and 11 is wrong.

13. King George VII!

Well done!

14. 1/10th
15. Top Cat
16. Mr. Kite
17. Bob Dylan
18. And it turned into a ballroom blitz

All gone.

19. Leni Riefenstahl

Correct.

21. In the straits between Java and Sumatra

Already gone.

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Ah, but you need to know the name of the song to download it, so it does have more merit than googling for 'and the man in the back said everyone attack' :)

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He was in the background of a postage stamp released to commemorate Freddy Mercury's life.

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See my note above.

(And since that rule was only ever brought in to try to slow me down, I'm not that bothered by it! :D )
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Oops, missed this one!

I'll give you this, because the boobytrap was that the film and the book got it totally wrong, Krakatoa is *WEST* of Java, not *EAST*! :D

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8) Duke Ellington
21) West of Java

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:notopic: Bifta: Shouldn't that be 'sponsor' in your sig?

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Already gone
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Yes, but if you'd just put the name of the song as your answer I'd probably have given it anyway :)

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Should have watched the same dodgy Discovery channel historical reconstruction I did! Who says we should read books instead of watching TV?

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Still not quite the answer I'm looking for :)
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8 wrong and already gone.

21 right, but already gone :(
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Still looking for answers to 6, 12 and 22 and Google season is open!

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Ahem, can I just point out this post

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...5&postcount=37

:)

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I've no idea then, other than them both appearing on a stamp I didn't think there was any other link.

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7. The Prisoner, No.6 er name is....

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joining late, what's left ?

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16) Fool on the Hill
23) New Zeland

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And I can point out this one, post #34!

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...1&postcount=34
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It's something a little more specific :)

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6) Rubberduck

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Already gone
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Both gone and both wrong, sorry!

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Was the Assyrian Assurnasirpal II? [googling's allowed now, ok?]

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Ahem, that's The Rubber Duck!

10-4 Good buddy! Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a Convoy!! :D
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Ahem "According to Byron"...!

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23) Easter Island
24) A herald in the Trojan War
25) Switzerland

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Now you're just being silly...but I like it... :D

Oh no I'd thought I'd forgotten that stupid song....

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What's left now?

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All already gone
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Only looking for 12 and 22 now...

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Roger Taylor appeared on a stamp *while alive* if that's still going, which only the Royals do, normally.

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Hey, it's one of my all time favorite films :D

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20) Nostromo

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Congratulations! Yes, that's what I was looking for.

Traditionally only the Royal family are supposed to appear on stamps whilst they're alive, anyone else has to be dead first.

But when they did a stamp feauring Freddie Mercury it had Roger Taylor in silhouette at the drum kit behind him, thus breaking the tradition :)

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Hang on, is the Assyrian gentleman Sennacherib, reading it again? He gets bumped off by the Lord, which strikes me as unfair.

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Already gone.

Only #12 is left...

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22. In 1999 Taylor appeared in the background of a Royal Mail stamp commemorating the life of Freddie Mercury. This caused controversy as it was an understood rule that the only living people allowed to appear on British stamps could be members of the Royal family.

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er .. ok, not sure why you felt the need to PM me telling me about a typo though.

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12) King with some weird unpronounceable name
22) dont know

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Correct!

Ok, that's your lot, there will be a brief pause as I collate the results.

In the mean time here's some music, just for Incognitas:

# Arizona, noon, on the seventh of June,
When they highballed over the pass.
Bulldog Mack with a can on the back
And a Jaguar hauling ass!

He's ten on the floor, stroking bore,
Seat cover's starting to gain.
Now beaver, you're a truckin' with the Rubber Duck
And I'm about to pull the plug on your drain!

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Just because I wouldn't want a typo in bold in my sig. I thought perhaps you hadn't noticed and might want to change it. Is there something wrong with that? :shrug:

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Apart from being a bit anal, no ;)

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:p:

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Hey, we all have hidden talents :)

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1) Incognitas
2) dilligaf1701
3) danielf
4) gazzae
5) Nugget
6) Nugget
7) dilligaf1701
8) Bifta
9) Bifta
10) Strzelecki
11) Bifta
12) BBKing
13) BBKing
14) homealone
15) Nugget
16) homealone
17) homealone
18) Bifta
19) BBKing
20) dilligaf1701
21) BBKing
22) BBKing
23) Bifta
24) Strzelecki
25) danielf

5 Bifta
5 BBKing
3 homealone
3 dilligaf1701
3 Nugget
2 danielf
2 Strzelecki
1 Incognitas
1 gazzae

So it's a tie between Bifta and BBKing, but since I think BBKing googled for a couple your winner this week is BIFTA!!!

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Hurrah, do I get a cake?

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So Bifta when is the next quiz? :angel:

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No, but you get a green rep and the privlilege (?! :D ) of running the quiz next week :)

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(Yeah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck,
you got a copy on me Pigpen? C'mon.)
(Ah yeah, ten-four Pigpen, for sure, for sure.
By golly it's clean clear to Flagtown. C'mon.)
(Yeah, that's a big ten-four there Pigpen. Yeah, we definitely got the
front door good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy)

It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin logs
Cab over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin hogs
We's headed for bear on eye-one-oh
About a mile outta Shakeytown
I says Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck
And I'm about to put the hammer down

Coz we got a little old convoy rockin' thru the night
Yeah we got a little old convoy aint she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy aint nothin' gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA
Convoy

(Ah, breaker,
Pigpen this here's the Duck and you wanna back off on them hogs?)
(Ah, ten-four, about five mile or so)
(Ten roger, them hogs is gettin' IN-tense up here)

By the time we got into Tulsa town we had 85 trucks in all
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears 's wall to wall
Yeah them smokeys 's thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air
I says Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck
We about to go a-huntin' bear

Coz we got a great big convoy rockin' thru the night
Yeah we got a great big convoy aint she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy aint nothin' gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy across the USA
Convoy

(Ah, you want to give me a ten-nine on that Pigpen?)
(Ah, negatory Pigpen, you're still too close.
Yeah them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses.
Mercy's sakes you better back off another ten)

Well we rolled up Interstate Forty-Four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
And left 'em sittin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Shi town
Them bears was a-gettin' smart
They bought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard

There's armoured cars and tanks and jeeps
And rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops was full of bears
And choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line
We went for broke
With a thousand screaming trucks
And eleven longhaired friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus

(Ah, Rubber Duck, this is Sodbuster. C'mon here?)
(Yeah, ten-four Sodbuster.
Listen, ya wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?)
(Yeah he's haulin' dynamite and he needs all the help he can get)

Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I says Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck
We just aint gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I says Let them truckers roll, ten-four

Coz we got a mighty convoy rockin' thru the night
Yeah we got a mighty convoy aint she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy aint nothin' gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy across the USA
Convoy

(Ah, ten-four Pigpen. What's your twenty? OMAHA?
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there, for sure.
Well mercy sakes good buddy, we gonna back on outta here,
So keep your thumbs off your glass and the bears off your ......tail.
We'll catch you on the flip-flop.
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. We gone. bye bye.)

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Fair enough, but I didn't realise there was a quiz on till quarter past one :P

I'll get yer next week, Bifta.

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I can handle that, I'm going to spend all week finding non-googleable questions.

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'Swans sing before they die,t'were no bad thing if certain person's die BEFORE they sing.'

By that underated poet Anon. ;)

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It's just been pointed out to me by the non-idiot part of my brain that I'm on holiday next week. Week after, then.

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Ah, someone's been googling for the lyrics of the original CW McCall song that the film was based on :D

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Even though I was late arriving, it was a nice quiz, with some fiendish questions. Well done Graham. :tu: