OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

The Smurfs

or something like the band of the Royal Scots Guards playing on other peoples records

 

Neither of those.

 

Right track? I am preparing to be very irritated with the answer.

 

England World Cup Squad?

 

You clever bugger

 

Not even close I'm afraid, and you will be irritated. I'm a little bit ashamed.

 

Nice one Roller.

 

Good question, I didn't have my Edward de Bono lateral/six hats thinking head on. Nor will I ever, pretentious old charlatan that he is. If he's still alive.

 

Who was the first female in space?

 

The dog (Laika??). Or a fruit fly. Or some other creature. Definitely not a human lady.

 

If human then Valentina Tereshkova.

 

Yes the dog, or bitch really. Laika (known as Muttnik in the American press). She didn't get to enjoy her celebrity life as she died a few hours after launch from stress and overheating.

 

She can't have had as stressful a day as Stan the dog. He's lying here, stupid cone thing on head, minus bollocks staring at me in a very accusatory way. He hasn't even got the energy to bark at next doors dog, Figo (yes the owner is Portuguese).

How many cooking programmes is it possible for the BBC to show in one week? Too easy, the answer is, apparently, an infinite number.

Where would you be if you were eating poutine?

 

In the French speaking part of Canada I think ?

 

Yep. Chips, gravy and cheese curds.

 

Yay - 1-0 to the Horns ! Ok. a quickie here - Which book begins with the words 'Please call me Ishmael' ?

 

The Miller's Tale

 

Sorry Rollercoaster - not the one I was thinking of........still 1-0.

 

Moby Dick by Hermann Melville. Not an easy read, but a worthwhile one.

 

Yep. All yours Stan.