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Allan Harmer

Grrr - Only 15 and 9 for Tuesday - had to listen on playback as I was in a work call yesterday. I did get 3 for N Diamond - Crackling Rosie, Sweet Caroline and I am I said Will have to listen to today's on playback too as I was in a phone call yet again. Sue - Unfortunately, I came up against one Ch...

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Haha Kai - Lesley was talking about being willing to give fans autographs and being mistaken for other people and getting her name wrong.

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Ben Wilson wrote:
Allan Harmer wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:Is this challenger an apterous player?
Don't recognise him Sue - He must be a Scrabbler.
Nope, don't recognise him.

R14 alt: (6*6+25)*10+4

In that case very well done - That was a fantastic performance for a 'Joe Public'

Allan Harmer

Sue Sanders wrote:
Chris Philpot wrote:I was hoping for a final W in round 11 so that we might have had WANKERED.
Yes, it would be nice if we could all get WANKERED together!

Haha - Good idea Sue. You can't beat it!

Allan Harmer

Sue Sanders wrote:Is this challenger an apterous player?

Don't recognise him Sue - He must be a Scrabbler.

Allan Harmer

DEXTROSE for an equaliser in R8

+ Sue - It was only 7 in the PECULIAR Round - OOps! our posts crossed.

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MENISCUS for an equaliser in R2

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Congratulations Craig.

It was good that your achievement got an acknowledgment from Sarah Kennedy on Radio 2 this morning.

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My son Mike reckons that it is
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Allan Harmer

I would suggest 'The Power - My Autobiography' by Phil (The Power Taylor).

Reading about someone you admire is always a good way to get into books and I would imagine that he has a few interesting and funny anecdotes to relate.

I wouldn't mind it for Xmas myself

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12, 15 and 2 for Thursday thanks to Cliff and the Shads in R1 and REO Speedwagon in R2

Big bomb-out today with the caterwauling 'Power' music - It really does all sound the same old cack and I just switch off
Got 12 , 3 and not a clue on J Lo apart from her arse!!

mumble mumble

Allan Harmer

9) If Thomas is to 1, Edward to 2 and Henry to 3, who is to 4? GORDON :D That was the only one that I got Kai - I spent hours reading the Thomas books to my son, Mike. Eventually, I used to start reading and after the first few lines he used to tell me the rest of the story, as he has such a good m...

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I got 18 and 12 Wednesday.

Diana Ross was not my bag of chips either, but managed to recognize Michael Jackson.

Two good lady contestants today and I was thoroughly beaten by both of them

Got Love Me For A Reason and Crazy Horses for 3/10 v. quickly but then dried up like an old prune.

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NEGATORS was there for 8 in R9 as well

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Love Damian's sense of humour. What a lot of Bullocks -

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Actually did a little worse on Phil's percentage wise (8,8,8,9,8,8) than Allan's (8,8,9,8,10), although I made some good guesses on the latter. Will have a crack at yours now Ian! Phil - Zabriskie Point is not right, although a good try. You are on the right lines with 10, but there is a more speci...

Allan Harmer

Great work, Allan. As a hardened quiz aficionado myself, there's some good questions there, although I'd say the level of difficulty seems to vary hugely. Love the tangential Greek/George Michael link! I've written quizzes before, usually general knowledge but with a twist, such as knowing the answ...

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Me and my mate Neil used to do quizzes at work. He normally gave random questions which normally included a Wild West question, which I'm completely hopeless at. The quizzes I like to do are just random knowledge, but my quizzes are 26 questions long, since the answer to the 1st question begins wit...

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Don't know if this is of any use to you Allan but, even if not, some of the other forumites (especially the PopMaster aficionados) may enjoy having a go. It's a lyric quiz I set as a Christmas diversion in the office where I worked in 1996, so all the songs are at least that old - and some are a lo...

Allan Harmer

Allan, I've been setting quizzes for years, and have a large stock of quizzes that you might find useful. Swaps would be appreciated as it'll save me work next time I'm on duty! EDIT: My rough scores off the cuff are 6, 7, 9, 5, 9. My quizzes aren't themed by the way, is that okay? Well done Ian - ...

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Nice stuff Allan - in some of those rounds I can answer most of the questions and in some I'm really struggling, which is always good for a team quiz as you don't want one member of the team knowing all the answers while the rest just sit there getting bored. Can't resist pointing this out: What is...

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[quote="Rosemary Roberts"]Allan, are these supposed to be answered off the cuff? If so, that lets me out - I would need around twenty minutes internet research per question.[/quote Yes Rosemary - but by teams of 6-8 people, so the spread of knowledge helps to cover a broad range of topics....

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Here are Rounds 1-5 of my latest quiz - I'll post the answers on Friday. Have fun! 1) It’s all Greek to me 1 Her Roman counterpart is Diana, what is her Greek name? 2 What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet? 3 How many labours did the Oracle of Delphi set Hercules as penance for killing his wi...

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I am a parent Trustee at my kids' school and run a couple of general knowledge quizzes a year. They usually make a fair bit of cash to boost the Trust funds to help buy minibuses, etc. However, it does get quite tiresome, albeit challenging, trying to think up new themes and questions. My quizzes al...

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I was middle of the road with two solid if uninspired 18's. Bugger all for Shalamar as Ian rightly said, it all sounds the same to me. Annoyingly, I have never heard of Kashmir as I'm not a big LZ fan. Funny, when I was about 16, I had the choice of buying tickets to watch LZ at Portsmouth Guildhall...

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Okay who's actually heard of that word in the tea time teaser? It's not even in CSW (Scrabble's dictionary) which has just the 200,000 words or so. Pas moi. Maybe they're best after flambeing. Haha Sue, that tickled me and I laughed at the screen - silly old sod! ....and no, I hadn't heard of it ei...

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A respectable 21 and 18 for me today. Like Ian, I got all three bonus Q's right in R1. Luckily, I heard 'The Lights of Cincinatti' by Scot Walker in one of the 'Tracks of my Years' recently and also listened to the Chris Rea set on Friday, which included the new single 'Come So Far Yet Still So Far ...

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Countdown recap for Friday 9 October 2009. C1: Champion Steve Wood (3 wins, 263 points.) Apterist Steve comes from Woking but is completing a MA at Manchester. Very handy for filming then. C2: Challenger Paul Broadhead. Paul is a Councillor from Tuckton in Derbyshire. His hobbies are pipe smoking an...

Allan Harmer

Bob De Caux wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:That's my moral victory then today eh Sue?
It's a fair cop, especially if you got Pseudo Echo!

Never heard of them either, so I too bend a knee in awe

Allan Harmer

33, 30, 2/3. Annoyed at not getting XTC and the Yvonne Elliman song from Saturday Night Fever! I got 18 and 15 and 3/3 I got the XTC question before Ken even listed the songs. Some things, the back of my brain knows although the front of my brain doesn't. That Yvonne Elliman question was on a few w...

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When can we set up our breakaway Duffers Club Sue? I am really feeling inadequate in such illustrious showings from messrs DeCaux, Bentley and Volante, but I do love it. Oops! that sounded a bit Dick Emery. :D I had a rare trip into the office yesterday and listened to it on the way to the office. I...

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Oh dear! I'm being shafted in all directions.

Got 9 and 12 yesterday. Could'nt get Kelly Marie out though I knew it.

Got plenty on 3 in 10 as I like Beautiful South.

Impressive effort by JIm - well done mate. I got the ELO ones arse about face too.

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Round 15: V E G A N B R I E C1 buzzes on 2 seconds to say BEREAVING which is incorrect. A reasonable attempt by Jeffrey, who has struggled a bit with the Conundrums. A few seconds later Jeffrey smiles ruefully when he gets the solution and realises how close he was. The honour of getting it goes to...

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Countdown recap for Friday 25 September 2009. C1: Champion Jefrey Burgin (7 wins, 612 points.) Oxford bound Jeffrey has played solidly throughout his run and is a tough nut to crack. He is yet another successful product of the apterous training school, which has produced a high perecntage of the rec...

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Crap and not bad today. Got 6 on the first round (First and last Questions + bugger all in the middle) and 21 on the second thanks to Depeche Mode and Duran Duran. I had a couple of lucky rushes of shit to the head!! Got 2 of the 3 in 10. Just the two obvious ones and dried up. Looks like you will b...

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Had work phone meetings yesterday and today so missed it live both days. I have just done them both on Catch-Up and got 21 for both rounds yesterday + 3/3 for Suzi Q - The same 3 as the contestant. Was chuffed with that but on got 2 of the Rod Stewart q's. He is one of my all-time fav's but I didn't...

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Much beter day for me today. I got 24 on the first round and got lucky with the bonus q's as managed to get The Band and Abbey Road (pure guess). The second round I got 15 - Dean Friedman was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't spit him out ;) Only got Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Want TO Hu...

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Thank you all for your trouble guys. She has only just started the syllabus and hasn't done calculus or integration yet. I think the teacher set them this to make them think and use it as in into to calculus and integration. She had sort of worked out that it was about a 1/3 of the way up so now tha...

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My daughter is doing GCSE Add'lMaths in year 11 as she managed to get an A grade GCSE a year early. She has been set a problem that she can't solve. We have tried the internest and physics books to understand the principle required but can't find it What she is trying to do is calculate the centre o...

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I always enjoy listening to PopMaster but have never yet plucked up courage to enter as the subjective difficulty of the questions is so variable. Some days I do really well and others I'd score about 3. Exactly - I got 24 in the first set today, and only 9 in the second set and 6 or 3 isn't uncomm...

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I always enjoy listening to PopMaster but have never yet plucked up courage to enter as the subjective difficulty of the questions is so variable. Some days I do really well and others I'd score about 3. Exactly - I got 24 in the first set today, and only 9 in the second set and 6 or 3 isn't uncomm...

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But, for 3 in 10, got 24 Hours from Tulsa and Something's Gotta Hold of My Heart, and if 'The Days of Pearly Spencer' is one, I got that! Yes I would def have picked 70's No 1's . I just looked it up and he did 'Somethings Gotta Hold of My Heart' with Marc Almond and not 'Pearly Spencer' - which I ...

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Total crap - I only got 6 on the second set after getting the first two right. Then only got one in 3 in 10 - '24 hrs from Tulsa' I bow to your superiority today Sue

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Sue Sanders wrote:First set of questions - Kinks questions worked well for me as I got all 18 points from that. 24 in total that round though I think Ken would have given me one point for knowing Dawn singer's first name, so 25.

Grrr - I dipped out - Only got 9 - Come Dancing and Tony Orlando

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Did you hear me win a digital radio last year? I may well have done! Don't give me the answers you gave, but let me have a go at your '3 in 10'! Sheryl Crow! (took me about 9.7s...) Everyday is a winding Road : If it makes you happy...................bollocks[/quote] I think I heard it too - The on...

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Self employed. Start work after listening to 'Pop Master' on radio 2 at 10.30 a.m. Finish again for 'Countdown'. Quite a chilled lifestyle. No, that's unfair to myself - work any day of the week, and week ends, sometimes still at my drawing board at midnight, most of clients are in the Midlands but...

Allan Harmer

Self employed. Start work after listening to 'Pop Master' on radio 2 at 10.30 a.m. Finish again for 'Countdown'. Quite a chilled lifestyle. No, that's unfair to myself - work any day of the week, and week ends, sometimes still at my drawing board at midnight, most of clients are in the Midlands but...

Allan Harmer

About a year ago Betty said to someone in the Rovers that her son Gordon (who I don't think has ever been shown on screen) had applied to go on Countdown. Betty's son is Gordon Clegg, who was played by Bill Kenwright, who is better known as the impresario and Chairman of Everton. Bill hasn't been s...

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Haha - Sorry to tease you Chris. He was wearing the blue one!! It looks like he wears the same one every night. Again, no reference to it and they did play the CD music in the last game too. It was great to see Graham Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor whom I have admired greatly for more than 40 years. B...

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Give my love to Samantha Allan and hope you enjoy the show. Chris - Unfortunately, the lovely Samantha couldn't make it. A long lost relative died and she took his ashes onto a ship in Portsmouth Harbour. The sailors stood to attention as she tossed them over the side. ;) My kids are still playing ...

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Countdown recap for Friday 11 September 2009. C1: Champion Bob De Caux (2 wins, 170 points.) Bob is a member of apterous but i have not come across him before - lucky for both of us! A former investment banker, who has presumably made his mega millions and taken early retirement. Or is he part of th...

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Jeffrey Burgin wrote:Surely Paul McCockard, Phil McCracken, Ben Dover and Mike Hunt are names far more suggestive of naughtiness?

Not forgetting dear old Rudolf Hucker and Tess Tickles

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I have never smoked a cigarette or taken any recreational drugs other than alcohol

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Allan Harmer wrote:Countdown recap for Monday 28 August 2009.
Allan, you make me laugh right from the start.

Cheers Kai - That makes it all worthwhile.

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Countdown recap for Monday 28 August 2009. C1: Champion Ed Rossiter (3 wins, 294 points.) Ed is the Scrabble playing barman from Southampton, who would look nailed on to be an Octochamp most times, Little does he know that he is facing one of the top rated apterists and not dear old Rudolf Hucker in...

Allan Harmer

I am using C4 On Demand which is really crappy with no rewind facility. You do know that you can skip back and forward by dragging the time slider underneath the playback window? It's a little bit approximate if you only want to skip back a few seconds, but I found I got used to it after a while an...

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Great performance Chris.

Well done mate, you have done us proud!

Allan Harmer

Sorry about the delay on Friday's recap folks. I forgot to reset my Sky Box after the break and I am using C4 On Demand which is really crappy with no rewind facility. Then I almost got it done and then lost the recap when my m/c had to be rebooted so I have to start all over again - Grrrrr! I'll tr...

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