We like to mix it up on The Dabbler, as Nige looks at a National treasure, and Brit sets the third fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous two and their solutions here). Ripped off from Based on Radio 4's long-running Round Britain Quiz, the idea is to find the link ... Read More...
RB Quiz
Yesterday Nige posed the second Round Blogworld Quiz question, namely: Can you link a theologian and a political philosopher with a singer called Harry, a poetically named DCI, and Updike's doughty legumes? And the answer is…. Comic strips!. Well done to Adelephant, Worm and anyone else who got some or all of ... Read More...
Right, Dabblers, time to get your thinking caps on, as Nige sets another fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz (see the first one here and its solution here). Ripped off from Based on Radio 4's long-running Round Britain Quiz, the idea is to find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each ... Read More...
Here Nige posed the Dabbler’s first Round Blogworld Quiz question, namely: What word links a cult TV series that started with a bang to the following? A weary organist’s quest. A solitary Oxford bondmaid. And Hudson’s Purple Land. And the answer is …LOST. And the particular elements… The TV series LOST began with a ... Read More...
Like Antiques Roadshow, Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz is one of those comforting programmes that reassure us that England - 'Platonic England' as Geoffrey Hill calls it, though he probably wasn't thinking of Antiques Roadshow - still exists, and all's well with the world. It's been running for ever - ... Read More...
