Thursday 4 March 2010

Question Time quiz


David Dimbleby will be joined in London by the Lord Adonis, Boris Johnson, Shirley Williams, Carol Vorderman and Will Self.

Shirley Williams is on so often she must have a reserved sticker on her chair. Usual rules - 6 guesses. Bonus points for correctly predicting the spurious links that politicians make between the questions.

This week we may even have a player in the audience..

BQ
1} Bulger killer : We have a right to know, for some ill defined reason. Bravest will point the absurdity of this stance.Populists will go with the Mail. Gordon wades in unnecessarily today.

2} Michael Foot was the last honest politician. Didn't stop him being the most out of touch for his age, but he was a socialists socialist. Shirley 'gang of four' will be generous.Can Will Self resist languidly asking her Ladyship and His Lordship to comment on Mr Foot's decision to decline all bourgeois honours.

3} Ashcroft non-dom - non-interest story.

4} BBC cuts - Boo-Hoo round . Will anyone dare mention reducing,rather than maintaining the inflation proofed increases to the licence fee?

5} Londoners will not get preferential treatment for the Olympics, despite paying for it.

6} Footie - England in the top 8. Bound to win the world cup now.

11 comments:

Nick Drew said...

scored 1 a fortnight ago, 1+bonus last week - we can see where this is going & I am really getting the hang of it

OK

1) maths education - why is UK so crap? (vowel please, Carol) Adonis will attack Tory policy on requiring teachers to have at least a 2:2

2) those PM TV debates - unfair to SNP? unfair to audience, why can't they make animal noises in the back row as usual?

3) killer hens - unfair to foxes?

if time permits would Boris and Adonis care to step into the middle and slug it out over a new London Airport?

Bonus prediction - Adonis will use the word optimism / optimistic at least once

Miss CD said...

1} Venebles privacy
2} Ashcroft cleared by commission. Labour not satisfied
3} 2% lead, hung parliament
4}£ value plummets
5} Leaders debates
6}Michael Foot tributes

hatfield girl said...

Staying with the local news this week:

Longest suicide note in history;why is Labour still a statist redistributive party?

Why is school education unable to deliver mass numeracy and literacy for eleven yearolds, like the rest of Europe?

Helping the deprived should not be identified with ignoring most of the people's reasonable expectations of government provision as it leads to creating entire populations of deprived.

Arithmetic should not be confused with mathematics.

Did Brown funk calling the election last weekend?

Miss S-J said...

1 Sarah's Law
2 Foot. Someone works in Argentina
3. Frontline cuts - BBC cuts
4. Non Doms all
5. Social services and fleeing mum
6. Tony Blair's book.

Botogol said...

Should a non dom be a lord
Digital economy bill (joker - mention pirate party)
Should we know what venables has done
Should interest rates have gone up today

Elby the Beserk said...

No preferential treatment for Londoners? Aaaaah. So what, thinks this South Westerner, who helped stump up for god knows how many London Vanity schemes - the Dome, the Jubilee line, none of which benefited him in any way whatsoever.

Tough.

Anonymous said...

But the Dome was a huge success and cost nothing at all.

Malcolm Tucker said...

Brown at Chilcot
Tory lead down
Leaders debate
Michael Foot
Ashcroft

Olympics

Botogol said...

And my fifth choice
Isn't it embarassing for the queen and parliament to have to welcome Zuma to UK in the way we have

Bill Quango MP said...

Q1 : Ashcroft. Not a non dom Q but a Tory honesty one. Big round of applause too. Boris tries his best but the mood is anti Tory and don't care about Lib/Labs. Once the public wades in it all becomes a load of politicos squabbling about very little.

Q2 : Brown and Chilcot. Lack of funding. I will eat my John Lewis list if the commission even gets close to eliciting anything other than Gordon's monosyllable responses that show Brown provided everything that was asked of him.

Q3 : Venebles. 50/50 Public anger. Panel objectivity, except carol who is checking the mood of the arena. Sarah's law gets a mention!

Q4: Leadership debates. Went normally enough until the beardy lefty made a party broadcast against Boris. Dimbleby? What is your role here? Then does the Cameron/Johnson split and doesn't let him answer. Rambled on so only four questions.

BQ - 2
ND: 1 for leaders - bonus for audience whining over reform party not getting to blab, and another bonus as Dimby bought up Heathrow. = 3
Miss CD - 3 hits out of 4.
HG - none I'm afraid. I was sure a maths one would crop up too.
Miss S-J: 1 + bonus for sarah's law = 2
Botogol : 2 solids no bonuses =2
Elby. If Dimby had controlled it better I'm sure olympics was on list 5th or 6th. however - zip
Malcolm Tucker : 3 hits.

So ND/Malcolm/Miss CD all on 3.

This weeks winner is Malcolm Tucker for being the only one to spot the obvious Brown at Chilcot story.

{Notice how story hasn't been in the media much. Bumped off by Ashcroft. was it luck ? Or Dr Mandelson and Dr Campbell working the old magic?}

Botogol said...

2 - could do better :-(

Sadly I didn't get into the audience (obviously) but if anyone is mildly interested I did make the question time audience two years ago