Fruit Machine Chat

Occassionally a question comes up and you get that self-satisfied feeling from knowing the answer only because its previously came up the Phoenix thread.

Today I had which berry has the latin name...? It was the Elderberry from the sambucca question we had a while back.

Have also had the which city's underground is the Clockwork orange? one in recent memory and countless others over the year.

Post your examples here. (If you can be arsed)

Can't remember any off-hand, but it is very satisfying to read some obscure article about something on Wikipedia, then a question on that very subject appearing on a quiz machine.

Does anyone else get a ridiculous amount of satisfaction from winning a pile on the SWPs and then heading to a nearby bookshop and spending the winnings on books? I love the feeling of knowledge begetting knowledge.

Northern Monkey wrote:Have also had the which city's underground is the Clockwork orange?

Glasgow?

grecian wrote:Does anyone else get a ridiculous amount of satisfaction from winning a pile on the SWPs and then heading to a nearby bookshop and spending the winnings on books? I love the feeling of knowledge begetting knowledge.

I did it the other way round recently - went to Oxfam, bought a huge Children's Encyclopedia and got through the whole thing making notes on two days of train journeys/quizzing.
Although I often fear for my sanity these games have broadened my knowledge to a ludicrous extent.

I know a lot about the things I'm interested in (not just football... ). I read reference books but it won't stick unless I'm interested. I'm not going to memorise boring crap just to play quizzers.

Because of the way the Itboxes are playing at the moment, I've gone 10 days without withdrawing cash. Won't last I'm sure, but a nice feeling anyway.

To answer the original question: I pretty much know all the answers to one game now (not Itbox Soccer..) - entirely through repeated plays. It's usually enough to get me 3 quid, after which I hit the ridiculously small set of spoilers, which I can battle through infinitely with presumably (I give up through boredom) no chance of another pound.

One Q I've had a few times now:

Which TV presenter committed suicide after being convicted of shoplifting?

Never came across this before (and I have quite an interest in Celebrity Deaths). There are a few snippets about it on the intraweb but this person doesn't even make it onto wikipedia (sic).

lady isabell barnett / whats my line?

I think that's right - it's either her or Gilbert Harding, who I think also topped himself.

i had one from the phœnix (and a cursory googling reveals few other sources)

in little voice what is LV's real name?

could be just coincidence

Laura, don't know if there was a surname

Laura, don't know if there was a surname

Got the "what was the profession of Abraham lincoln's assassin?" last night which was mentioned just that afternoon in Phoenix 60.

What was unusual about Burnley's 1959/60 Championship winning season?

only topped the table on the last day of the season