Fruit Machine Chat

Continuing in a rich vein of form did my first word up JP this afternoon.

Think I'll turn pro.

Welll I got my first £20 JP on cluedo reloaded on the way home last night. It made me work for it though- had collected four rooms, the second of which was the correct one . By the fourth I had got weapon and suspect so it was just a case of getting back round the board to the conservatory. On the w...

I was going to link it to John Buchan if I was charged with coming up with the title for Phoenix 39.

Re the Queen: How about The Falkland Islands - (is that even a country?)

very good. Apparently the locals were so impressed by the spectacle that it inspired them to start up their own regatta.

For completeness the third multiple choice was Hambledon Lock which I have since ascertained was the starting point for the first race.

Over to you

MattB is closer although not geographically

Warmer- the answer does have a relatively obvious connection

further but you are in the right direction- one of the multiple choices was Thames Barrier

Try a bit further out of town

No to both and neither of those featured in the 3 answers offered by C&R

'twas a guess- presumably they harness all that hot water somehow.

Anyway, carrying on from the Cops and Robbers thread, I will ask:

Where did the first ever University Boat Race finish?

Won't give you the multiple choice at this stage.

Iceland would fit with the unlikely climate

total guess but I eould say Netherlands on the basis that they have all of those huge greenhouses where they grow peppers etc

Re C&R, after a couple of easy £1 today, got the third key through collecting it on the safe bonus whilst still at a relatively low number of moves and then b*lloxed it by timing out (surely a cardinal sin) on the £3 question which was the very gettable: "Where was the finish for the first ...

Well done jimmymac- nice to see it go to a red.

Nope but it is to do with achievements on the pitch