Travel Tips

I thought some of you might like a couple of little quizes I devised. You will find all the answers on my travel pages somewhere !

QUIZ 1 : THE BEATLES

1. In which English East coast resort can it be said that the Beatles were actually formed ?

2. What is the name of the road next to a railway station in London where the opening scene to "A hard Day's night" was filmed ?

3. In which hotel did the Beatles spend the summer of 63 ?

4. Which Peterborough pub has it's own urban legend about the fab four ?

5. Where in London would you remove your footwear to remember a Beatles Album ?

6. In which London Square can you still see a set of flowerbeds where they once posed ?

7. In which street did the Beatles give their last public perforamance ?

8. Where can you still find the Fab Four together ?

QUIZ 2 : Film & T.V. locations

1) From which London Train Terminal did the "Hogwart's Express leave", and why did J.K Rowling make a mistake here ?

2) What is the real name of the famous station in rural Ireland that was "Castletown" in the John Wayne film "The Quiet man" ?

3) Where did "Old Mother Riley" first tread the boards in a Lincolnshire town ?

4) Which film star spent the Second world war in Peterborough, England ?

5) Which Tunisian Hotel was the home of Luke Skywalker ?

6) Where in North Africa was Brian Crucified ?

7) Which small village in Ireland has built a tourist industry around a "Quiet man"?

8) Which film caused a row in Malaysia about the way the country was shown ?

9) Which American appeared in the film "The KIng and I", and whose house was left to the nation of Thailand.

10) Which town is the home of the BBC hit comedy series "The Office"?

Answers are at the bottom of 'odds and sods' album

I've been using a variety of Sourbuggers for my Membaers photo over the last six months or so - i've hope I captured them all here, although I may have missed a couple.

No 1 - Angus Deayton. Only up for a week as Berni started fancyin him

Star of "Have I got News for you", but left after lying about drugs and prostitutes (and not even paying for them)

No 2 - Leonard Rossiter.

Star of "Rising damp" in the character of Rigsby, the awful sour landlord of a rooming house.

No 3 - An american for a change.

I like one of his most famous lines :

"i'm not prejudiced...I hat everybody equally"

No 4 - Albert Steptoe.

British viewers need no introduction, Americans may know the series that was re-made in the US "Sanford & Son"

No 5 - My All time favourite

No 6 - The Original. Victor meldrew (played by Richard Wilson) from the series "One foot in the grave".

No7 - An Historical one : one evil sourbugger from ancient history : Herod the Great.....More than 2,000 years after he succumbed at age 69, doctors have now settled on exactly what killed the king of ancient Judea: chronic kidney disease complicated by a very uncomfortable case of maggot-infested gangrene of the genitals.

Not Father Christmas at all, as some thought !

- how did explain that one - i wonder ?