When you open this website sometimes you must think “I don’t want this. This is just what I don’t want. What I want is Wodehouse and I want Wodehouse now.”
” I want the old reliable, quick service and I want service with a smile. If I were you I’d fix this or else you’ll be in hot water.” Well I am a gentleman of leisure so now there is a PG Wodehouse category that takes you to every post that mentions Plum.
If you are a subscriber to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography daily e mail you will have been gratified that yesterday’s Life of The Day was PG Wodehouse, perhaps chosen because it marks his 136th birthday. Now here are the answers to yesterday’s quiz.
1 Henry VIII’s third wife was Jane Seymour
2 The capital of Albania is Tirana
3 The only letter not to feature in any US state name is Q
4 The Queen faces to the left on stamps. British monarchs always do – unlike on coins, where they have alternated left/right since Charles II. The Queen faces right.
5 Sir Frank Dyson invented the pips of the Greenwich Time Signal
6 The 1962 film ws Dr No – the first James Bond movie
7 You would find all those elements in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen – Scaramouche, the fandango, Galileo, Figaro and Bismillah
8 The capital of Australia is Canberra
9 The Queen has a bath, Prince Philip a shower
10 The Bran Flake measured 22 square inches (5.5 x 4 inches)
11 The building next door to the Balmoral Hotel is Edinburgh Waverley railway station
During lunch at The Crooked Billet,(Stoke Row near Henley), my son and I tackled the quiz. In the end we managed all except the bran flake. It took time but we scored 10.Can recommend the venue.
When I was a tenant of the Orangery at Basildon Park I used to bicycle there for bibulous lunches. The Beetle and Wedge at Moulton was another favourite.
I am very impressed at your team effort. I thought Bohemian Rhapsody was extremely challenging.