We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Quiz GB Chat Date: Thursday, May 2, 2002 Time: 9:00PM - 11:00PM BST (GMT+01:00) Chat and questions in the...
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May 2, 2002 8:02 am
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I suppose I shouldn't point out... http://www.theonion.com/onion3816/bar-trivia_champ.html...
... Not if it causes the sort of recrimination that it caused on the US group, no :) r. -- Rob Linham: E-mail: rob_linham@... Phone: 07855 079433 Web:...
... To slightly amend something that someone posted on the US group (and I don't think it was "recrimination", so much as an amused observation, Rob): "You...
Sorry about the delay in setting these. This was due to a deadly combination of writer's block, lack of access to a computer and sheer bone idleness. Anyway,...
3 or 4 times in the last few weeks before 15-1, it has been announce that the show was recorded before her death. I wonder if Channel 4 feel this is a...
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Quiz GB Chat Date: Thursday, May 9, 2002 Time: 9:00PM - 11:00PM BST (GMT+01:00) Chat and questions in the...
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May 9, 2002 8:02 am
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Someone asks... "I have heard of something called "The Starter for Ten" campaign which was organised by someone called Dickie Goodlace. This was a campaign...
General question, here, though I'd prefer *private* replies: Do any of you know of any lists of words that are spelled differently in American English and...
... Apologies for replying to the group, but it reminds me of a question that people might be interested in. Which are the three chemical elements whose ...
... The name Sulfur is in standard use in Britain - Sulphur is now considered to be archaic (pre-1990). The other two are still mandated by the IUPAC. I think...
... Sulfur may be the agreed international spelling but that doesn't mean it is in standard use here. Chemists may have it forced upon them, as indeed is the...
... I do think that's changing. I've seen the new spelling used consistently in newly-published school textbooks and in journals and general-purpose ...
All-- I think this just gets under the bar as advertising, partly because it's more a tip-off for the benefit of all and sundry, and partly because I'm a ...
I've not had an overwhelming response to this NEQ. Don't know if it's because the questions are boring or simply because everyone's lost interest in the NEQ in...
Don't know if anyone has lost interest (I certainly haven't) but it does seem to be getting harder to think of original questions etc. Is it worth having ...
The BBC (or at least the 'Radio Times') seems to be advertising this evening's UC Reunited match as 'an all-Oxford tie in which 1986 winners Jesus College...
Still no full set of correct answers so I'm extending the deadline for this to 3pm on Wednesday (it says I can do this in the NEQ rules) and I'm making the...
Well done to Sean Blanchflower for getting these: 1) What links The Clash and a petrol-assisted suicide? Bobby Fuller, writer of I Fought The Law, died of...
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Happy Birthday Quiz GB! Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 Time: All Day Take a moment to mutter a swift "Happy...
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May 14, 2002 10:47 pm
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... Goodness. Is that a year? How time flies. I really never expected the group to make it to a year in such rude health. Happy birthday, old chap - and many...
Three linked questions to try, and fail, to bamboozle you... If the coastal city where the Thomson meets the Macalister and named after "Fighting Bob" is pink...
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Quiz GB Chat Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002 Time: 9:00PM - 11:00PM BST (GMT+01:00) Chat and questions in the...
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May 16, 2002 8:02 am
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First declarations, courtesy of my sauces at Oxford... Worcester College, who beat Somerville in the ICQ final, featuring Oxford ex-Prez Keith Owen Brasenose...
Time for a small clue, as many are onto answering the questions, but haven't worked out what the shape and colour are! You'll be disappointed in me when I...
Would anyone who is going to Milton Keynes next Saturday be interested in joining a team? If so please contact me off-list - I may be going if I can raise a...