23 December 2021 Betting on 2022? Faites vos jeux! By John Watson I don’t know whether Brooks’s Club still has a bet book but it certainly had one in the eighteenth century. The bets recorded in the book reflected its status as the home of aristocratic radical whiggery and often bordered on the treasonable –… Continue reading Issue 306: 2021 12 23: Betting on 2022?
Article Category: Quiz
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Christmas Quiz
20 December 2018 Christmas Quiz 2018 Questions by Boffles On which Greek island is Rupert Brooke buried? Where is Jim Morrison of the Doors buried? What temporarily ship-wrecked Amber Rudd’s ministerial career? What became legal in Canada in October 2018? In which cycle of novels is Kenneth Widmerpool a central… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Christmas Quiz
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz
31 May 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? What detached human body parts have been discovered on a number of occasions on the coasts of British Columbia and Washington State? What is a bonobo? Who is the captain of the England limited overs cricket team and where was he born?… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz – Answers
31 May 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles Feet. As far as far as can be established this is not the result of some odd form of foot fetishism or foul play- they have simply become detached as result of the normal process of decay from bodies in the sea. A dwarf chimpanzee.… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz – Answers
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Quiz – Answers
10 May 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles The journalist and restaurant critic, A A Gill, who died in 2016. The Labour Party, although prior to that he had sat as a Conservative MP and then as an Independent. He had to take over the family firm following the death in 1994… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Quiz – Answers
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Quiz
10 May 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? Who was Amber Rudd’s former husband? To which mainstream party did Oswald Mosley belong before he founded the New Party (later merged with the British Union of Fascists)? Why did Bashar al-Assad change career from eye doctor to dictator? Which Government minister… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Quiz
Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Quiz
05 April 2018 Quiz by Boffles Do you know? 1. With what did Stormy Daniels spank Donald Trump? 2. How in 2008 did Putin circumvent the rule barring anybody from holding the Russian Presidency for more than two consecutive terms? 3. Who was assassinated at Kuala Lumpur Airport in February 2017? 4. Who will succeed… Continue reading Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Quiz
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Quiz – Answers
08 March 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles 1.Sir Peter Lely 2.The wren 3.Iceland and Liechtenstein 4. Hedy Lamarr with her co-inventor, George Antheil 5. President Garfield, shot by a madman in a railway waiting room in 1881 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Quiz
08 March 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? Who painted the set of portraits of ladies of the court of Charles II known as ‘The Windsor Beauties’? What is the commonest bird in the UK? Which non-EU countries apart from Norway are members of the European Economic Area? Which female… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Quiz
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz
08 February 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? What do Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have in common apart from billions of dollars and computing? Who were the fourth and fifth men of the Cambridge spy ring? What was the Red Orchestra? What was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz – Answers
08 February 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles They both dropped out of Harvard. Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. The collective name given by Nazi counter-intelligence to Soviet spy rings operating in Europe and a resistance group in Germany itself in World War II. The eruption of Mt Tambora in Indonesia… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz – Answers
Issue 136:2018 01 11:Quiz – Answers
11 January 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles Do you know? The Quarrymen. The name was coined by the Finns who used such petrol bombs during their war with Russia 1939-40, and is a sardonic reference to Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister at the time, who had claimed that Russian aircraft were… Continue reading Issue 136:2018 01 11:Quiz – Answers
Issue 136:2018 01 11:Quiz
11 January 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? What was the original name of the Beatles? Why is a Molotov cocktail so called? Who wrote in a letter to Walt Whitman in 1889 on the occasion of his 70th birthday: ‘You have seen the monarchy banished from France, & reduced in… Continue reading Issue 136:2018 01 11:Quiz
