The #NewsPenguin#TwitterQuiz for Monday April 12
20 general questions
5 bonus questions on 1980s
90 minutes (7-830pm) to answer 25 questions
Answers tweeted at 845pm
Q1: In their theme song, who did the 'Bananas in Pyjamas' chase
Q2: In the children's TV series who travelled to Button Moon in his homemade rocket ship
Q3: In the C S Lewis novel "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" what is the name of the youngest child in the Penvensie family who was the first to discover the land of Narnia
Q4: A UK fifty pence piece has how many sides
Q5: "Twenty four hours from Tulsa" was a hit for Gene Pitney, Tulsa is the second largest city in which US state
Q6: Elisabeth/Liza Beresford, MBE was an author of children's books, she was best known for writing stories about
Q7: Hughenden Manor is a Victorian mansion that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli
It is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public in which English county
Q8: "Forever Love" was a UK Number One solo hit in 1996 for which member of Take That
Q9: In the UK, a diamond wedding anniversary is celebrated for how many years of marriage
Q10: Alec Guinness played the part of Henry "Dutch" Holland in which Ealing Studios film
Q11: Fondante d'Automne is a variety of
Q12: Which poet wrote the collection of sixty-three poems titled "A Shropshire Lad"
Q13: In the Alice in Wonderland novel by Lewis Carroll, what is the name of the lizard who serves as a juror in the trial of The Knave of Hearts' supposed theft of The Queen of Heart's tarts
Q14: Which famous guitar player was/is also known as 'Slowhand'
Q15: How many people make up the crew in the University Boat Race team
Q16: In the film 'Babe', Babe is an orphaned piglet who is chosen for a "guess the weight" contest at a county fair
The winning farmer, Farmer Hoggett, brings him home
What is Farmer Hoggett's first name
Q17: Luxembourg has borders with how many countries
Q18: Robyn Fenty found fame as
Q19: How many US State names start with the letter 'C'
Q20: The Prado art gallery, widely considered to have one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, is in which European city
1980s1: In which year was the first episode of BBC soap Eastenders broadcast
1980s2: The 1982 film 'E T the Extra-Terrestrial' tells the story of a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed E T who is stranded on Earth, what is the boy's name
1980s3: From 1981 "women's peace camps" were established in protest at the deployment of cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common, the base was in which English county
1980s4: The Thames riverboat, The Marchioness, was hit by the dredger Bowbelle, resulting in 51 deaths, in August of which year
1980s5: "Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first music video shown on MTV in the US, airing at 12:01 am on August 1 1981, which group was it a hit for
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The Labour Party: A thread
Starmer has been leader for just over a year and in true Labour Party tradition members (and supporters) are getting restless, well if you look at Twitter they are!
We need to go back to December 2019 to start the discussion
It wasn’t simply a crushing election defeat, that was the result of something much worse, the loss of trust, our own rejection of our most recent achievements in government and the turning of a political party into a social club or debating society
Starmer (or whoever replaced Corbyn) was inheriting a hollowed out mess posing as a political party
Community organisers replacing election organisers, rallies more important that voter ID and contact
But away from the organisational issues we had done a ‘reverse Cameron’
Watching #Newsnight and @angelaeagle is spot on, this isn't just about Cameron, current ministers must be investigated
Away from the allegations, the interesting thing about this story is how it 'bubbled under' for a while and a lot of people (and the government) didn't think it would breal through the noise, now it has they are on the back foot and are desperately ...
trying to pin it on 'the old guy' and one bad company
For me it is bigger than that and strikes at the heart of how this government has been operating
The local flower shop and a bar have teamed up and tbh I quite like the look
Away from that and from a male perspective the barbers shops were very busy and a lot of smiling men with very short hair were wandering down the high street
The only other busy shop was the bakers and that has been open throughout
Personally I am happy to report that M&S are still selling #HotCrossBuns
The reason Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party - a short thread
The Tory brand was damaged
As someone famous said they were seen as ‘the nasty party’
Three election defeats and trying three different brands of ‘nastiness’ they were still failing
Cameron arrives and says ‘we need to change, we are nasty, we apologise for being nasty, for the nasty things we’ve done, this is a new era of conservatism’
He announced support for stuff both he and the wider Conservative party had rejected previously
The party listened
They wanted to be back in government, they still opposed almost everything the Labour government was doing
Losing a 4th election and Labour winning a 4th term along with a growing Lib Dem parliamentary party would’ve been a disaster and probably another decade out of power
The #NewsPenguin#TwitterQuiz for Sunday April 11
20 general questions
5 bonus questions on ROADS
90 minutes (7-830pm) to answer 25 questions
Answers tweeted at 845pm
Q1: Curious George lives at the house of a man with which colour hat
Q2: In the film 'Finding Nemo' what is the name of the Australian pelican, who often visits the dentist clinic and is friends with the aquarium fish
Q3: In the 2009 Disney film, 'The Princess and the Frog', what is the name of the young, aspiring chef working as a waitress, who eventually marries Prince Naveen of Maldonia and becomes a princess
The #NewsPenguin#TwitterQuiz for Saturday April 10
20 general questions
5 bonus questions on THE SEA
90 minutes (7-830pm) to answer 25 questions
Answers tweeted at 845pm
Q1: What is Harry Potter's middle name
Q2: Who is Tintin's friend, an absent-minded professor who invents sophisticated devices during their adventures
Q3: In the children's TV series, Raa Raa is a noisy