QUESTIONS FOR TEENS (AND HOW SARAH’S COOL KIDS ANSWERED)
1 Who is Peter Sellers? Will and Bea: No clue
2 What was Morecambe and Wise? Will: A shrimp company? I know shrimp comes from morecambe. Bea: Some sort of old person’s alcohol?
3 Who was Terry Wogan? Will: The British Larry King. Bea: Dunno. Football player?
4 Who was the Queen’s sister? Will: ummm. No clue. Bea: Diana?
5 Who was Liz Taylor? Will: Err. oh. Actor, daughter of the bloke from Aerosmith. oh no, that’s
Liv Tyler. Bea: The founder of cath Kidston?
6 Who is the heir to the throne? Will: Prince William. No, wait. Prince Philip. Bea: The old one. Wait, is he her brother or her son?
7 Name three abba songs. Will: Easy. Winner Takes It All, Dancing Queen, Waterloo. Bea: mamma mia. The christmas one. Waterloo Bridge?
8 Who was Richard Nixon? Will: American President in the Eighties. Bea: That.
9 Who is Cliff Richard? Both: Singer. (Sir Cliff really
is the eternal teenager, it seems.)
10 What is a fax machine? Will: One would use a fax machine to type a message to someone else with a fax machine. Bea: It’s like it transports a paper to another fax machine. It’s like email but you put paper in a machine.
11 What’s the difference between 45 and 33rpm? Will: Um. RPM is a measurement of revs per minute in a car and the difference between 45 and 33 is quite substantial. Bea: Is it to do with motorbikes?
12 Why is real ale real? Will: Because only men drink it? Bea: Because it makes people real drunk?
13 What was the Berlin Wall? Will: It was a wall separating the West from the rest of Berlin. Bea: Big wall put up by Soviets. Taken down when Soviets ended. People were happy.
14 What was the Cold War? Will: It was a war of negotiation in the 20th century between Russia and America. Bea: Basically, two big countries being rather childish.
15 Complete: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier . . . Will: Spy. Obviously. Bea: Wife?
16 What is a gamp? (Who needs an umbrella when a hoodie will do?) Will: A broken ankle? Bea: An STD?
17 Who was Arthur Scargill? Will: Author. Bea: No clue.
18 Who was Jeeves? Will: A character composed by P.J. Wodehouse and he was a butler. Bea: A bassist?
19 What is a cat’s eye? Will: Er, old people slang for female genitalia? Bea: Similar to a katsu?
20 Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the fandango. What does this have to do with Prague? Will: Ah, yes. Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemia is a place in the Czech Republic. Capital of Czech Republic is Prague. Bea: No idea. But there were thunderbolts and lightning and it was very frightening.