Contributor Leaderboard

Here's a corona challenge for you Eggy: Tuesday night is 'Stand - Up Comedy Night*. One joke every Tuesday night for the duration of the lockdown. Get crackin! We could all do with a good laugh. Good idea!

Thanks CL. Tricky ones this week. Looks like I need to add a spoiler plugin to hide other peoples answers. 1. Anne Boleyn 2. No idea 3. Soup 4. Oxford 5. 9 if a US/modern interpretation billion. 12 if the older British definition (million million) 6. Don’t know 7. Don’t know 8. Vodka martini 🍸 (shaken not stirred) 9. Disraeli 10. Don’t know 11. Six 12. Don’t know

@Jammy - did you see the photos of Puddlers Row on page 4 of this topic? Can't remember ever seeing any photos of the gas lamps down Stead Lane. There are still a few (listed buildings) of the old gas lamps in the Seaton Sluice through to Whitley bay area :-

I don't have two accounts @John Fox (foxy) & @john fox but when I log in on different machines (= 2 x Desktop PC -one Windows Vista & one Windows 10) it is as if I have two accounts. I Log in on one machine and then I would have expected that I would not have to log in on the other machine but In do. However when I comment from either machine they do use the same member Id. @Andy Millne will probably be able to delete/remove one of your accounts.

Well done lads1 I'll have to make these a bit harder! 1. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth 1? 2. Which guitarist is nicknamed ‘Slow hand’? 3. In general terms, what kind of food is bisque? 4. Which English cathedral is also a college chapel? 5. How many noughts are there in 9 billion? 6. Who directed the 1989 film The War of the Roses? 7. Who did Maddy Prior sing with? 8. What is James Bond’s favourite tipple? 9. Which Prime Minister made Queen Victoria Empress of India? 10. Which football club chairman once called his fans ‘scum’ and offered to forfeit a match? 11. How many legs does a queen bee have? 12. In the 1962 TV series ’The Saint’, what was the registration number of the Saint’s car, a 1962 Volvo P1800? (Bonus point if you know the original registration number when newly purchased). I’ll bet you didn’t know … The liver of the polar bear is so rich in vitamin A that it’s poisonous to humans!