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PostPosted: January 13th, 2014, 8:46 am 
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Lazio - correct!

And so ends the quiz for another weekend.

More again on Saturday

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PostPosted: January 13th, 2014, 9:02 am 
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Well done H.

I need to brush up on my googling skills :P

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PostPosted: January 18th, 2014, 7:53 am 
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BBC wakes up to morning TV

People have been switching on their televisions a little earlier than usual to catch Britain's first breakfast news programme.

The BBC's new Breakfast Time programme went on air at 0630 GMT.

The two-and-a-half hour programme - presented live from the BBC's refurbished Lime Grove studios - is costing a reported £6m a year.

It is the corporation's biggest investment since BBC Two went on the air.

The battle for ratings will really hot up next month, when TV-am launches its new breakfast news programme.

The BBC's Director General, Alasdair Milne, was full of praise for this morning's show: "It was a terrific start. The first Tonight programme was not as good as this."

Breakfast Time editor Ron Neil said the show was intended to be relaxed and informal - and he dismissed suggestions it would fail to draw a big audience.

One survey in this morning's papers claims only four out of 10 people will watch the programme. Mr Neil said "That's an awful lot of people. If four out of 10 are watching, I will be delighted."

He added: "It isn't costing the licence fee payer any more money, the licence fee hasn't gone up. I think we will give people a very entertaining and informative two-and-a-half hours every morning."

The programme is catering for a wide variety of tastes - with its own resident astrologer, Russell Grant, and a regular exercise slot led by "Green Goddess" Diana Moran.

Families around the country got up especially early to watch the first programme. The BBC says it received 1,500 calls from well-wishers phoning to offer their congratulations.

a) Name the two presenters of the opening programme.
b) TV-am's Good Morning Britain launched two weeks later and the battle for ratings quickly hotted up, but TV-am faced financial ruin when ratings plummeted to 200,000 in May. Greg Dyke was brought in from London Weekend Television to save the programme -but who really saved TV-am?

UK Top 5 from this week

1. ???
2. A WINTER'S TALE - DAVID ESSEX
3. SAVE YOUR LOVE - RENEE AND RENATO
4. ORVILLE'S SONG - KEITH HARRIS AND ORVILLE
5. BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES - MODERN ROMANCE

Some classics in there - but which song topped them all?

Lyrics.....

No, I can't bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I, I can't go on
Well these precious words keep me hanging on

That was the week that was.....but what was the year?

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PostPosted: January 18th, 2014, 9:46 am 
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a) Frank Bough and the very lovely Selina Scott if memory serves.
b) David Frost?

The lyrics may yet come to me - they seem familiar but I just can place them.

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PostPosted: January 18th, 2014, 11:53 am 
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The real saviour of GMTV, Roland Rat.

And the lyrics, Phil Collins (and his two brothers) You can't hurry Love.

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PostPosted: January 18th, 2014, 12:41 pm 
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a) Frank Bough and the very lovely Selina Scott if memory serves.
b) David Frost?

The lyrics may yet come to me - they seem familiar but I just can place them.
a) only for Mr L today :thumbsup:

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The real saviour of GMTV, Roland Rat.

And the lyrics, Phil Collins (and his two brothers) You can't hurry Love.
Pasty nails it with a double ender.....sorry double correct answer :2Thumbs:

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PostPosted: January 18th, 2014, 12:43 pm 
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So.....what was the YEAR?

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1983? just remembering where I was at the time

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PostPosted: January 18th, 2014, 1:10 pm 
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:2Thumbs: 1983
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1983? just remembering where I was at the time

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1983? just remembering where I was at the time
Surely you were having a :wank: over Selina Scott?

Or maybe The Green Goddess :fit: :fit: :fit: :fit: with all that bending over in her tight green spandex!

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Surely you were having a :wank: over Selina Scott?

Or maybe The Green Goddess :fit: :fit: :fit: :fit: with all that bending over in her tight green spandex!

Not while I was watching it no, butt later I might have!

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Is it 1893 H?

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Tool ate this weak :fp:

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Is it 1893 H?

Tool ate this weak :fp:
and 90 years early

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:keepup: :keepup: :keepup: :keepup: :girlchair: :girlchair: :girlchair:

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Tool ate this weak :fp:
Thats about 23 times so far ....

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Indira Gandhi takes charge in India

Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader.

She was chosen at the end of a bitter leadership battle with former finance minister Morarji Desai.

Following her win, Mrs Gandhi pledged herself to serve the Congress Party and the country, and said she would "strive to create what my father used to call a climate of peace."

Crowds had gathered outside Parliament House while the election was held, and cheered Mrs Gandhi wildly as she went to the President's House to report.

She will not become prime minister until she submits her cabinet to the president.

Mrs Gandhi did not confirm she would be a candidate until four days ago, when chief ministers from 11 of India's 16 states let it be known they would support her to take over.

Another leading candidate, Gulzarilal Nanda, withdrew once it was clear Mrs Gandhi would be running.

He has been acting as prime minister since the unexpected death of Mr Nehru's successor, Lal Bahadur Shastri, earlier this month.

Mr Desai was under extreme pressure to pull out as well and avoid a potentially damaging leadership contest, but he insisted on going to a vote.

It was predicted he would get less than 100 of the 526 votes from Congress MPs, but he surprised many by winning 169 votes to Mrs Gandhi's 355.

Afterwards, Mr Desai pledged to cooperate fully with Mrs Gandhi. It is the second time running he has been defeated in a leadership contest: the first time, against Mr Shastri, he withdrew his candidacy without a vote.

Mrs Gandhi, 48, was educated at West Bengal and Oxford and has two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay, who are both studying in England.

She gets her name not from Mahatma Gandhi, the legendary independence campaigner and founder of the Congress Party, but from her husband Feroze Gandhi, a lawyer who died in 1960.

The couple spent 13 months in prison for subversion after fighting against British rule in India during the 1940s.

She has played a key part in the Congress Party since 1955, and served as information minister in Mr Shastri's government.

a) In what year did India become an independent nation?
b) In what year was Indira Gandhi assassinated by her own Sikh guards?
c) What is the capital city of India?
d) What is the largest, by population, city in India?

UK Top 5 from this week

1. ???
2. KEEP ON RUNNING - SPENCER DAVIS GROUP
3. WIND ME UP (LET ME GO) - CLIFF RICHARD
4. THE CARNIVAL IS OVER - SEEKERS
5. MY SHIP IS COMING IN - WALKER BROTHERS

The lyrics from the missing song.......

Tried to please her, she only played one night stands
Tried to please her, she only played one night stands, now

That was the week that was.....but what was the year?

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The song is Ticket to Ride by The Beatles.

c) New Delhi
d) Mumbai (Bombay)

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Mr L, I believe the top tune is actually:



The year is 1966.

a) 1947
b) 1984

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PostPosted: January 19th, 2014, 10:20 am 
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Google for me. :coat:

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PostPosted: January 19th, 2014, 11:17 am 
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The song is Ticket to Ride by The Beatles.

c) New Delhi
d) Mumbai (Bombay)
Wrong song but right band Mr L.

Paul has the correct song though

c) & d) both spot on

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Mr L, I believe the top tune is actually:



The year is 1966.

a) 1947
b) 1984

Paul
Paul closes out today's quiz with the correct song, a) and b) and also the year in which it all happened.

More brain teasing next weekend

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Mr L, I believe the top tune is actually:



The year is 1966.

a) 1947
b) 1984

Paul
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Mr L, I believe the top tune is actually:



The year is 1966.

a) 1947
b) 1984

Paul
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a :deer2: , a female :deer2: :santadeer:

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