Questions, questions

[wellinghall]

From Facebook:
1. If we woke up in prison together, what would you say to me, using exactly four words?
2. Which famous person do I look like?

From University Challenge:
3. Can you do simple sums in binary? (They couldn't!)

From Saki:
4. What did the Caspian see?

From Blake:
5. And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green?

Comments

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

From Facebook:

Any escape plans yet?

can you do simple sums in binary?

I think so. Mostly because I've gotten used to thinking in binary again since my flatmate bought a fluorescent binary clock for our shared bathroom.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The clock sounds interesting.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Where can I get a binary clock?

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

My roommate got hers from Think Geek (http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsforhim/59e0/). (Where it is ironically advertised in the "Gifts for him section" with the slogan "your mom can't read it". Um.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted ... but we already have too much Stuff (TM).

[emperor]

*groan*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I aim to please :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I thought they were very cheeky on the starter question, buzzing in before they'd got the answer.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Yeah well, cheeky can get you a long way in life, if used sparingly and appropriately.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

This is true.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

1. Why are we here?
2. Er, pass. I'm not good on famous people.
3. Oh yes. Or any other base you care to name.
4. The only Caspian I can think of saw the Dawn Treader, but that's the wrong one.
5. I very much doubt it. We'd have heard.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

#4 is from one of Saki's early Reginald short stories (although I can't remember which one).

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

1. What did you do?
2. Nuh uh
3. I get it! :D Yes I am that slow...
4. Whose feet...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

#4 (or #5 in my original post) - Christ's - from the hymn Jerusalem.

(Another nice icon, BTW)

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

I forgot two... oops

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We forgive you :-)

[segh.livejournal.com]

1. Oh no, not again.
2. Colin Firth.
3. Yes and no.
4. Why was Clapham Common?
5. Well, there was that story about Joseph of Arimathea taking Jesus on his trading voyages. But it was just put about by the monks of Glastonbury to increase their tourist revenue. Later they thought of rock bands.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

#2, thank you.
#4, I like it :-)

[segh.livejournal.com]

#4 I blush to admit, I had it from Dornford Yates.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It isn't original either, but have you ever wondered just what the knights in white sat in?

[segh.livejournal.com]

No, but they could get the stain out if they used Purcell.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Nnnnnn ...

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth? Where, where?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Calm down, it's only an advert

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

1 Bloody hell. What happened?
2 Pass...
3 Yes. Or at least I haven't tried recently. At primary school we used to do sums in lots of different bases.
4 For some reason I want to start singing 'Istanbul to Constantinople'
5 Probably not physically, but metaphorically yes.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know your song in #4

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I don't really know it, only the start (or possibly the chorus - who knows) - for some reason I have the Muppets in my head but that doesn't actually mean they sang it...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Manamana ...

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Dodooodidoodoo...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Manamama

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Dodoodidoo...

(Must dig out the Muppet Show Cast Album when I get home)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mananmana

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Dodoo didoodoo didoodoo didoodoo didoodoodududidadidoodoo...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Manamana manamamana manamana mannaamanna

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Could it be Istanbul (not Constantinople), which has a very catchy tune which I now can't get out of my head. (Grr! But at least it's better than the Dogtanian theme tune which was plaguing me yesterday.) I know it's on Youtube, since I found it last year, but I can't give a link at the moment, since I'm at work.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am barely aware of Dogtanian (although I did - briefly - see yesterday's discussion). I must have been doing something else when it was on tele.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I was thoroughly scarred when I read the real version and discovered that Juliet was the wife of D'Artagnion's landlord, and they had known each other about five minutes... I kept thinking "Well *this* didn't happen in Muskehounds..."

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I know the Three Musketeers from The Banana Splits.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

That'll be it!

And thanks for the Dogtanian earworm...which links to Willy Fogg in my mind. Oh, 1980s cartoons... *sobs*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hah. 1985. Was at Uni already, no TV.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.


(It's nowhere near the Caspian Sea though. Black Sea - yes. Sea of Marmara - yes. Aegean Sea - yes. Caspian Sea is miles away.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There's a rhyme from the Crimea at the back of my mind, but it's refusing to come out.