BBC Online Quizzes

[Aperitif]

You do these.
Do you do these?
Would you do these if you weren't so important?
I know that nowt much goes on in Birmingham, so the BBC has one happy customer in @BrumJim but don't you think this is a waste of taxpayers money - having some overpaid Beeb employee trawl through the week's "headline" news, just so that idle sods on a Cycling forum for example (I'm talking about the glitterati that pop across from Politics and Life etc - not the hard working people of the Café) can pretend they are current and up to date.(Who thought current affairs was Ashley Madison territory? Score 1 point if you did).
It's disgraceful the amount of fun that can be generated at the BBC's expense.

 

[Beebo]

Katherine thinks they're Great

 

[BrumJim]

...and for some strange reason, after a re-count, @Aperitif 's score has dropped from 78 to 8, putting him 71st. Must be a glitch in the software.

 

[Aperitif]

...and for some strange reason, after a re-count, @Aperitif 's score has dropped from 78 to 8, putting him 71st. Must be a glitch in the software.

Be my guessed. Most of my answers are.

If I knew them and came top every week ( Reg does that doesn't he?) the 'Froome Effect' might come to play a part..."I assiduously read all the topical news in order to achieve my best. Trouble is, with the thickos in the peloton and the media who are watching such skill, and offering an uneducated opinion, there will always be the easy option of saying that I have re-read the quiz and got them all right! In reality I'm a genius, and I'll offer David Cameron my biological passport to prove I'm not an undesirable quiz terrorist."

Good work Jim. (Deduct some points from @Dayvo and @threebikesmcginty too, because one likes golf and the other banged his head last week and will not remember a thing.)

 

[EltonFrog]

I quite enjoy doing them, but I cant be bottomed to trawl through gawd knows how many weeks to catch up.


EDIT: it appears I don't have to, someone has already done it. OK chaps, I'm going in.,

 

[Cheddar George]

Dear Points of View,

why, oh why, oh why etc. ........

 

[EltonFrog]

I've just done one of the old ones and scored 2/7 I don't think I'll bother with the rest, I've got DVD cases to dust.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Does the BBC do a weekly quiz? First I've heard of it. If I win will Mrs R be able to get a new kitchen?

Yes indeed Rocky. But first you must win. This means a cosy up to @BrumJim. Guess why I'm loosing so heavily?

 

[BrumJim]

Does the BBC do a weekly quiz? First I've heard of it. If I win will Mrs R be able to get a new kitchen?

No reason why you can't get her a new kitchen now.

 

[Aperitif]

Does the BBC do a weekly quiz? First I've heard of it. If I win will Mrs R be able to get a new kitchen?

Only if Mrs R goes to Buckingham Palace...with Aliss...Anyway, having a new kitchen might get people a little fitter.
Unless, like me, they are taller.

 

[Tim Hall]

Never mind the Beeb online quiz, what about the Saturday Guardian quiz? The one in the back of the magazine. A team effort this week scored eight. Eight. That's a new record, even without the help of the cat. And one of the answers featured Half Man Half Biscuit, while I got the one about Jack Ruby all because it featured in a free disc from the NME.

 

[Speicher]

@Aperitif The Glitterati in Politics and Strife start the day with a cross word.

 

[BrumJim]

It's brought me up to 1000 likes, so that makes all the BBC effort worthwhile.

 

[Aperitif]

@Aperitif The Glitterati in Politics and Strife start the day with a cross word.

I agree. It's easy enough to get one down. The easiest ones are found in the Mirror...

 

[Aperitif]

Never mind the Beeb online quiz, what about the Saturday Guardian quiz? The one in the back of the magazine. A team effort this week scored eight. Eight. That's a new record, even without the help of the cat. And one of the answers featured Half Man Half Biscuit, while I got the one about Jack Ruby all because it featured in a free disc from the NME.

You can't have a new kitchen in the Hall, Tim. And just because you remember being old, and have the evidence, there's no need to flaunt it! Jack Ruby was shot on a Tuesday - hence the song, and that was only after he had bumped off Oswald Moseley, who was trying to epitomise Henry Ford in shirt attire at least - back in the day.
Did you get the Latin in the crossword btw?
PS Send me the link to the fixie balancing theory please. Trackstanditis I think it's called, and the reason why. Ta.