I'm being taught

[EFM's Librarian]

to do quizzes! Our seminar this morning was an hour and a half of teaching us how to find the answers to these questions! (message to AFF - Tony is really spending the public's money wisely - isn't he?)

 

See how many you know

1. What was the laidly worm, and where might it have been found?

2. Where might 'we all have eaten thee'?

3. Which is the most southerly of Britain's shipping forecast zones?

4. How long are the days of wine and roses?

5. When was Hammersmith and City line founded and how long is it?

6. Who wanted to make Hammersmith hum?

7. Who won the Grand National in 2002

8. Where were fish, cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions and garlic on the menu?

9. How old was Noah when he came out of the Ark?

10. Who is the Bishop of Birmingham?

11. What was the difference in the average weekly earnings of men and women in the UK in 1999

12. What was the name of the original Marathon runner?

13. What country is officially known as Shqiperia?

14. WHat is the address in London of the US ambasssador?

15. Whose last words were 'This wallpaper is killing me-one of us has to go?'

16. What is Occam's razor and how precisely is it expressed.

17. What is the difference between a buster and a boomer

18. We've all heard of raffia, but what would make of Taffia?

19. Of which of his works might Dr Wilkins be said to have laid the foundation of internet security

20. Who went to the land of Nod and why?

21. What were the 2 most popular british tourist attractions in Britain in 1996?

22. What is the Ivy league and who are its members?

23. What grows on a Jesse tree?

24. What is number 4 on the beaufort scale?

25. What is the origin of the public house name 'goat and compasses'?

26. To what extenty is 'similar to' similar to 'different to', or should 'different to' be treated differently?

27. What is the longest word is English with no repeated letters?

 

I knew 3,7,10,13,15,16,22 and 27. Apparently one bloke in the other group knew 22 of them from his head!!

 

If anyone gets no. 19 I'll be amazed.

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

13 is Albania.

 

Is 3 Biscay?

 

27 I've heard before. Remind me.

 

 

[JKiF]

 

5 is irrelevant

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Let's face it. They pretty much all are.

 

What is the fking point of knowing that load of trivial rubbish?

 

 

[JKiF]

ur right

tho i was thinkin more the Line never bloody works !!!!!

[mala_D]

Perhaps it's the new Weakest Link City & Guilds Diploma...?

[CANV EFM]

11. not enough..

24. a bit windy

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

21. Well it wasn't Music 100.

 

What exactly is the point of this garbage, I mean it won't get your car started on a cold morning or fix the plumbing, isn't it about time these universitys started teaching something worthwhile. And don't you just become a better librarian afterwards anyway, shouldn't they be teaching you how to arrange things in alphabetical order in record time?

[EFM's Librarian]

Forgot to respond to this abuse!

 

It's not pointless, the point is not to learn the specific answers to each of the questions, but how to go about finding information. Admittedly large parts of information can now be found through the internet, but there are still large swathes of information that can't be found just by searching for them on google. Firm voice, most of the work done by librarians (and I mean at the professional level, not just stamping books in public libraries) is related to organizing and finding information for people. If you believe education is important then what we do is important, if however you believe everyone should be learning how to start cars or fix the pluumbing, then yes, I guess what I do is completely pointless.

 

I'm guessing you've never had to, for example, write a lengthy essay on a subject for which you needed to do some research?, or produce a report for which you needed information that was not available on the internet? If not why do you feel like you can criticise what I do when you know nothing about it? I get the impression from what you say that your job is not particularly difficult, or complicated, but I'm sure you'd (rightly) tell us otherwise.

 

And as for the answers, I'm too demoralised to relay them all, but yes Zeal you were right, Shqiperia is Albania (I knew that from Panini sticker albums) The most southerly fishing zone is Fitzroy (formerly Trafalgar) and the word was 'uncopyrightable' I'm sure you told me that, and my lecture had to admit that her answer of ambidextrously was in fact shorter!

 

Rant over.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Rant? That wasn't a rant!!

 

Not a single profanity in that poofy little telling off!!

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I didn't even bother reading it.

 

A) It was too long

I can't imagine the libro ever ranting