Oooh - Room 101 stuff! I agree - purely on the basis of having gone in to one once and come out once - never again will I visit a modern cinema....
I used to go to Rayners lane as a kid with my nan who lived in Eastcote.... great days.... here in leeds we do have a couple of really old cinemas left... so much better......
I'll provide a question whilst we wait for whoever is supposed to be setting one. Which country has a bunch of bananas in its national flag?
Ok last one from me...... for a while What is the name of the famous site of ancient cave paintings near Bhopal?
I lived in Rayners Lane for several years...took my daughters to the noisiest double bill ever in the "elephant cinema" as they called it (art deco design on the front based on an elephant's trunk) to see 'Star Wars' followed by 'The Empire Strikes Back'... Emerged deaf...
O.K. Yorkie is on the way to India so may not be able to verify answers at the moment so. Who was the first novelist to complete a novel on a typewriter ?
Correct ! It was Mark Twain. Which was actually the first novel to be written in this way is uncertain - long thought to be Tom Sawyer it may actually be Life on the Mississippi. Over to you Frenchie.
Stephen Fry would probably categorise this as a 'nobody knows' type of question - and the answer 'Mark Twain' would elicit that klaxon-like noise on QI. Mark Twain is generally accepted as having submitted the first typed book for publication - Life on the Mississippi - but it wasn't a novel. So my answer is - nobody knows.
I am off to hit the hay shortly, so will give a clue. Theo or Yorkie should know and anyone who teaches English might.
