Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
From the last blog:
Deebee,, you were at Wits in the 1980s how hard can it have been to work out what the lecturers/examiners were looking for?
You had undercover apartheid supporters, sloppy NIMBY liberals and everything to the left of that from reasonable to bug eyed Stalinists. Knowing their views was worth a grade or two.
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Way too pickled to attempt the cwizzes Thauma – will try in the morning! It’s been quite a day. And I decided to give two fingers to humanity and pour my first glass at about 3pm. Cheers!
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Thanks for the quiz.
One small error – Yoda was a Jedi, not a Cavalier.
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Got six of the first seven plays pretty quickly, struggling after that. Not so good on the prisons, maybe three or four, but just don’t know the rest.
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Still need numbers 3 & 8.
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8 is by Tennessee Williams.
Am quicker on the prison ones. The SA prison one is the only prison in SA most people’ll have heard of.
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And Play 3 / Prison 6 are (c)linked.
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Ha, well spotted, TomP!
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Humbly report knew most of the prisons, but none of the jumbles.
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SBT – surely you can work out jumble 2?
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“Hydroxychloroquine: Trump’s Covid-19 ‘cure’ increases deaths, global study finds”
At the end of FebruaryI got a text of one of my students recommending I get hold of some of this stuff . Sometimes the feedback you get isn’t the feedback you want.
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Hydroxychloroquine might make my typing better. Beer doesn’t seem to be improving it.
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The Eldest got jumble 2. And jumble 9 when I told her it was an animal. And also jumble 10 when I told her there was one on the landing.
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Aspall Imperial Cyder was all that was left in the shop this evening
8.2%
Well that’s that, then – I did ask for “at least four bottles of chilled lager/cider type drinks”
I’ll probably start arguing about the spelling of cyder in a bit, don’t mind me
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I still haven’t got number 3.
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I like Aspalls though I haven’t generally gone beyond the one that’s 7-something (Premier Cru?). Great shaped bottle. Feel a bit guilty about drinking anything from Suffolk though, especially cider when I have the Hereford link as well.
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I’m surprised you weren’t given Stella ‘Cidre’.
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Hrmm, strong alcohol and cwizes don’t seem to mix.
I’ll try tomorrow, I’m sure it will be easier with a stonking hangover
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I have no such allegiance CMW, I like Thatcher’s cider from the west of England, although it still is difficult to reconcile that name, those and Aspall’s have been my favourites so far
A farm that I used to work on and play rugby with the proprietors have recently produced cider, I have to say it isn’t as good as the two mentioned above
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Weston’s is the nicer of the readily available Hereford ones. Bulmers is the big employer there though, but I’m not that fond of it. I sometimes buy an Italian one from Morrisons that is nice, but also obviously unnecessary.
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I do like the Weston’s one that is widely available, though again it’s strong so not exactly something you’d have loads of.
There is a cider place near where I used to buy guitar wood, I think it is Merrydown, which was indeed merry, it was a fun summer drink
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I’ve just read that Merrydown was available in 2l plastic bottles at 8% for a while – so not at all what I thought it was
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Have the Guardian managed to nail Cummings for breaking lockdown? Fingers crossed.
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Remember a bottle of Merrydown getting smashed in a University Halls kitchen and the floor tiles lifting up the following morning when people walked around in the sticky mess.
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The street drinkers were all moving on to ‘White Lightning’ and so on at about that time.
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And in its heyday White Lightning was made by Bulmers.
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Will do the cwiz later.
Hairstyle life goal achieved.
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Should have written ‘sausage’ on the side of my head.
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Permanent marker, craigs.
Or some plastic letters and a tube of superglue. A stapler might work as well.
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Realised today that it’s a year since the Pro Woo final at Celtic Park – the weather today is bloody miserable which reminded me of that match.
It’s also a year since the original AoD disappeared (I remember wondering of Sag had some premonition about the result which is why he’d taken it down. Didn’t realise at the time it would be permanent until Thaum rescued us),
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The advice was confusing, Many people didn’t realise you could drive 280 miles if you wanted.
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It did amuse me when people would refer to the “mandatory one hour exercise” as if was compulsory.
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Really think that Biden is turning into Trump more and more each day.
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Hitler’s Alligator RIP:
“Saturn somehow survived and then lived for three years in a city ravaged by war, and a climate unsuited to alligators.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52784240
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Oops
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Can’t wait for tonight’s drop.
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TomP – I’ve been speculating that Johnson has gone away for the recess. However, as Cummings has gone into No 10, perhaps not.
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So. What rugby is everyone looking forward to this afternoon?
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Exeter trashing all comers………………………
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@Thaum
many thanks for the kwiz – will do later
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Deebee, I see the Lions, your Lions, are losing more players. Looking forward to your debut when rugby starts up again.
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Looks like someone will be out of work soon, and it’s not D Cummings
https://twitter.com/UKCivilService/status/1264600481688702977
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Must say my jaw dropped at that, OT!
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Tweet got deleted between me copying and then pasting it. Someone has a screenshot
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Beeb’s just shown it on their news broadcast. :-)
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So Cummings spent the afternoon writing down what Johnson should say in about 3 words a page looking, at the press conference.
Britain is really following the US, but it now takes 3 hours rather than 3 years for the adaptation.
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Sorry for the comma straying out of quarantine there. Quality that Johnson refers to responsible fatherhood as a key principle.
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Iks – aye, when he made the comment about ‘what any father would do’, I finished the sentence for him as run out on the kid & get divorced.
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