...getting back to "normal"...........

A day of phone calls, emails and letters..........starting to sort out Helen's "affairs".........pensions, insurance policies, car, credit cards etc, etc.

Forced myself to go to the quiz tonight...........didn't want to play......bad night last night..fell asleep just after 1.00.........woke at 2.20........fell asleep again around 5.00..........wide awake at 5.50.............forced into playing by team captain, Top of the table clash with The Shoulder of Mutton.

Round 1. Drew 6-6
Round 2 Lost 7-3 (individual questions, I got mine no one else did)
Running total 13-9
Round 3. Drew 6-6
Running total 19-15
Round 4 Won 4-8
Half time 23-23
Round 5. Drew 8-8
Running total 31-31
Round 6 Lost 12-11
Running total 43-42
Round 7 Won 4-9 (individual, we all got ours plus a bonus pass over)
Running total 47-51
Final round Lost 7-4
Final score 54-55
We won by a single point........last question!.........two points clear at the top of the table!

Some for you to try.......
1. Which chemical beginning with M does not have an M in its chemical symbol?
2. Which element beginning with L does not have an L in its symbol?
3.Which Swiss mountain has a German name meaning Maiden?
4. The footballer Pele finished his career with two seasons (1975-77) in the USA playing for which team?
5. What word meaning Old Man is given to the Head of a Bedouin tribe?
6. Where did Fats domino find his "thrill"?
7.What name is given to three Chalk stacks in the sea off the Isle of Wight?
8. How many digits are in a British banks sort code?
9. Which British destroyer was sunk by an exocet missile during the Falklands War?
10. The Argentine ship "General Belgrano" was sunk by which British submarine during the Falklands War?

Das vidanya moy padruga.





Answers
1.Mercury (Hg)
2. Lead (Pb)
3.Jungfrau
4. New York Cosmos
5, Sheik
6.Blueberry Hill
7.The Needles
8. 6
9. HMS Coventry
10. HMs Conqueror