How do I know this? Well I watch lots of television quiz programmes.
As you know I collect stupid quiz answers. And there were a couple involving Queen Vic on Monday. First of all on Tipping Point we had a question about who was the British female monarch on the throne in 1702. Both contestants agreed it was Queen Victoria - Only the best part of a couple of hundred years out there.
Then on The Chase we had a question about who was Queen of the Iceni and again the answer of Queen Victoria was given. Of course the real answer was Boudica. Boudica was around in 60BC. Victoria actually reigned from 1837 until 1901.
But worry not, it gets worse. Good old Tipping Point comes up with more stupid answers than you can poke a stick at. This time it was a question about which writer included the pub The Three Broomsticks in their stories? The alternatives were: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling. When asked if she had ever heard of the writers, the contestant said she had heard of Rowling and she had heard of CS Lewis because he wrote 50 Shades of Grey. At that point I threw myself off the settee. 50 Shades of Grey was written by EL James who is not only not CS Lewis but is also a woman whilst CS Lewis was definitely a man. Sometimes I despair. Another question was who was prime minister of the UK in 1960. The alternatives were Margaret Thatcher, John Major or Harold MacMillan.
Now the same contestant that had given the earlier stupid answers tried to use logic and actually she wasn't doing too badly.
"I'm sure Margaret Thatcher was in the 1990s because it was just before I was born." So far so good.
"I think John Major was around the same time as Thatcher." So far so good again.
"I haven't heard of Harold MacMillan." Ok this is good. The logic here is sound as it suggests Harold MacMillan was Prime Minister long before this contestant was born. So far so good and here came the answer:
"I'm going to go with Margaret Thatcher." I'm convinced some of these people never went to school or studied a strange subject by the name of history.
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There has been quite a bit in the news over the past few days about the 200th birthday of the RNLI. That came at the same time as Julie Davies posted numerous photographs on Facebook to mark 50 years of her fresh fish shop in Garden Street in Cromer.
There's a link here from way back when. Julie's husband Richard was coxswain of the Cromer Lifeboat for many years including my time working there on the local newspaper. I also lived next door to Richard and Julie at 7 Corner Street. They lived at number nine. I have lots of memories of them - good memories. Julie included a number of press cuttings with her Facebook piece and I wonder whether I wrote any stories about them whilst I was there.
I talked a few days ago about heroes of mine and one of those was certainly Henry Blogg who was cox of the Cromer Lifeboat and I believe the most decorated lifeboatman in the history of the RNLI.
Sadly Richard died some years ago. He was an extremely brave man and a charming one as well. I remember him as being great fun but I just have one question for North Norfolk District Council. Why isn't there a blue plaque to Richard on the wall of number nine Corner Street stating that Richard Davies once lived there?
Hope you enjoy my photographs from the holiday today.. We visited the capital of Madeira Funchal twice. These were taken on the first of those visits.