....a pencil full of lead.....

First day back at work today! God I'm knackered already.

I, like many of my colleagues in schools up and down the country, and despite being still in a pay freeze, spend my own money buying what should be essential supplies....essential for the pupils to actually have themselves....but they don't....so we have to lend them out.



These are to replace the ones that got stolen, broken, used up, sharpened to nothingness or damaged last term....another £20 forked out.

The quiz resumed tonight....after a run of poor results we got back on the winning trail by beating last years Champions and arch-rivals the Cricket Club for the second time this season. We probably won't win the league this year...but we bloody well made sure they won't either!.....49-40 to the good guys.

Some for you to try out:
1. Which 54 year old, competing in his sixth Olympics helped Team GB to win an equestrian gold in last year's Games (2012)?
2. Which 40 year old, a gold medalist in Barcelona, helped the mens 8 to a rowing medal in the 2012 Olympic games?
3. Which 5 letter French word is used to describe a style of theatre, cinema, literature or art?
4. Which 7 letter French word, meaning segment, is used to describe the splitting of something, particularly in the field of stocks and shares?
5. Which organisation won the Nobel Peace Prize for the third time in 1963?
6. Gary Cooper won an Oscar for portraying the most decorated World War I soldier in which film?
7. The Tasmanian Devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial after which creature became extinct at the beginning of the 20th Century?
8. Which song, written by Paul Anka is played at 15% of all funerals?
9. Which criminal was crucified alongside Jesus?
10. After the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University which is the third university in Gasgow?

I'll catch up with comments tomorrow.

Das vidanya moy padruga.






Answers
1.Nick Skelton
2. Greg Searle
3. Genre
4. Tranche
5. International Red Cross
6. Sergeant York
7. Thylacine (Tasmanian wolf/Tasmanian Tiger)
8. My Way
9. Barabas
10. University of Strathclyde