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Nope YES :) Fortran is formula translation isn't it? Used to program in that too. Never done Pascal, but assumed it was named after the mathematician.

COmmon B??? Oriented Language... not boolean. Used to be a COBOL programmer; not much boolean manipulation in there I'm afraid.

Happy Martian got this one right - Sargasso Sea

Not Picasso

Yep.

5 Was Harold Wilson, now answered. Wagner is correct. :)

Maybe they are too hard - this is my specialist subject so it wasn't deliberate. I tried to make them so that everyone would know some of them. Nothing worse than a pub quiz when everyone gets most of them wrong. I give more clues for any left in an hour or so.

Yes! :)

This is where we are: History 1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives did he consider ugly? – Ann of Cleeves 2. Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis? - JFK 3. In early life I was known as Soso (one of many pseudonyms I used) and trained to be a priest. After leaving the...

Yep, not far from finishing now. I can imagine Baku as an awful polluted place, from the description but it was a long time ago, maybe it's healed. I've also read about Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg so many times, not only in this book but loads of Russian novels mention it. So yesterday I...

Of the new ones, 23 is correct. :) 1 &12 still correct but the others are not.

Correct... I wouldn't have known 2 weeks ago but I'm reading a biography on his early life just now. :)

1 and *12* are right. 3 and 5 are wrong.

Yep

All correct - there's actually a bit of the Mariana Trench that's the deepest, called the Challenger Deep, but I wasn't expecting anyone to be so specific. :) I remember a massive argument with my wife many years ago when she told me not to be so stupid: the sun is not a star.

Both correct

Here's something to possibly keep you amused during the lockdown... a pub quiz. Questions below. History 1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives did he consider ugly? 2. Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis? 3. In early life I was known as Soso (one of many pseudonyms I used)...

Of course you are absolutely right. And some teams will come back better and others worse than they were before the hiatus. But what if the choice were to be between finishing this season or culling next season entirely? Because that's where I think we'll end up.