Trivia quiz
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Some trivia for you
Hello, and welcome to the GhostOfClayton twice fornightly blog. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. . . .
The club in our village runs monthly quiz nights during the 'off-season' months. Each month they have a different 'guest host' (a bit like Have I Got News For You? does, since Angus Deayton's little 'ahem' adventure with a prostitute and some cocaine.)
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I do the Christmas and Easter ones, and I've made a start on setting the questions for the Christmas bash. A couple of questions may be of interest to this forum (one that you should all know the answer to, and one that, hopefully, may cause you to exercise your brain cells.)
Q1. What was known to the Romans as the Mare Nostrum? (Shame on you if you don't know that one!)
Q2. Which modern word derives from the Roman practice of posting news items at a junction of three roads?
Later addition: Q2a. What was the name of Frankie Howerd�s character in �Up Pompeii�?
Answers in the next GhostOfClayton twice-fortnightly blog.
Exciting, huh?
Another (non-Roman) question:
Q3. Which English electronic 'new wave' band formed in Sheffield, in 1977, and had hits with (among others) "Don't You Want Me?", "Mirror Man", and "(Keep Feeling) Fascination"?
I'll tell you the answer to that one now. Human League. Why did I ask? Because tomorrow night, I shall be going to Sheffield City Hall to see none other than Human League. Exciting, huh? (the answer to that question, by the way, is 'Yes', though 'Not Half!' is also acceptable.)
Update (Wednesday 1st December)
It seems my dream of seeing Human League is fated to go unfulfilled. The little village of Aquis-of-the-Romans is under half a metre of snow, and it's still falling. The Ghostmobile is stuck at the end of the drive at OfClayton Towers, able to move neither backwards nor forwards. Curses!
Weekly stuff
Only 73 more days to go until The Eagle of the Ninth.
Asterix book of the week is 'Asterix The Gaul'.
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