1. Love Apples.
This is the first (£100) question in the Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Quiz Book. Nigel thinks it is too hard for a £100 question even though he was able to guess
the correct answer (after taking 50/50). Apparently people think it's funny that Nigel struggled
on a £100 question.
2. Sensuous refers to stuff, sensual refers to people.
Nigel once got this wrong in an email (!!!).
3. Royaume Uni
It would take way too much time to explain why we think this is funny.
4. A gaberlunzie bus can be booked like a mini-cab.
Check out
http://www.atco.org.uk/news/news992/kerr.htm
for details of this innovative service. We like the word gaberlunzie.
5. Famous stigmatic and recently canonised saint Padre Pio appeared in the sky, spoke
to the American aircrews and put up a force-field round the town.
For details of this fascinating story check
http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/162_padrepio.shtml
.
Nigel and Jan used to hang out in the Padre Pio bookshop in Victoria back in 1989 and each
kept 35p rosary rings as a memory of each other from this time, which we wore as
engagement rings thirteen years later.
6. Vivien played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind and Blanche DuBois in
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Jan is very proud of this question.
7. An alpha particle is a Helium nucleus.
Nigel is very proud of this question.
8. La Mer.
We like this song.
9. Reading Town or Exeter City.
Nigel didn't know about Exeter City but the majority of answer sheets had this so we marked
it correct on the night. Apparantly both answers are correct - see
http://www.uri-geller.com/newc.htm
.
In fact Uri seems to have helped most successful football teams ;-)
10. Charles Webb.
Nigel's favourite bonkers, sincere, eccentric hippy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,764772,00.html
. So many 'hippies' are just breadheads in denial, but not Charles Webb.
11. "If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life,
never make a pretty woman your wife."
Nigel decided to ignore the advice of Jimmy's 1961 hit as featured in the film Mermaids.
12. Ozzy Osbourne.
Jan likes Ozzy. Nigel tries to hide his enthusiasm for old heavy metal.
13. Roy Keane.
Nigel likes Morrissey. The song is Roy's Keen. "We've never seen a keener window cleaner."
14. Brian Jones.
Nigel likes Psychic TV. "This is a story, a very special story, it's about Brian Jones,
one of the Rolling Sto-o-ones."
15. Ode To Billy Joe.
by Bobbie Gentry. We both like Bobbie Gentry. We like this song a lot.
16. Approx 12 Krone to the pound.
17. York.
18. William Topaz McGonagall.
The famously terrible poet. See
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/index.shtml
19. The Inner and Outer Circle.
These are two lines in the sense that London's Circle Line is two lines - one going clockwise
and one going anti-clockwise.
20. GNER.
GNER brought us together many times in 2002, though not always on time.
21. Nigel.
Nigels prefers stove top whistling kettles.
22. Jan.
Jan can't fully explain this theory (or even believe it) but does like to wind Nigel up from
time to time.
23. Nigel.
Nigel prefers locally hand-crafted furniture.
24. Nigel.
The thick purple section at the end of the spectrum is no more two colours than any of the
other sections. So says Nigel.
But then this is the same man who described his bride's 7" silver plaform shoes
as "cream satin".
25. Jan.
The subject of much debate chez Barker.
26. Crisps.
On the night Emily was giving all sorts of answers to this question. "Erm, ... sausages !"
So we accepted anything.
27. The Royal Artillery.
28. Doncaster.
Where Jan spent her first four years and where Nigel lived between the ages of ten and
eighteen. Our paths first crossed when we both saw John Cooper Clarke and Nico play
Rotters nightclub in 1985, but we didn't know each other then.
29. Fifteen to One.
Hank made it to the last three, appearing under his real name of David. Half of Forest Gate
now calls Hank Dave.
30. The Hernandez brothers, Gilbert and Jaime and sometimes Mario, Los Bros.
Nigel likes comics as much as Emily likes crisps.
Tiebreaker 1897.