Monday Madness 4th June 2007

Loads happened again this week!

• Peri gave us the local and national news stories. 
• Oli continued educating us with his healthy recipes and described a fresh fruit salad. 
• Rhys with ten useless facts and a riddle, see below. 
• George's interview with Tom from Crusaders, find out more at Doddinghurst Road Community Church
• Florence with her music review, this time it was The Portfolios live at the YMCA in Chelmsford, she then played a song of theirs called Friday Nights. 
• Tom C, The Movie Master, reviewed Pirates Of The Caribbean 3, no time for a DVD review as he was soooo excited about this film!
• Josh and Tom I's local and national sports round-up, Josh told us about the Hutton vs West Horndon cricket match, and Tom gave us a run-down of the England v Brazil match from the weekend.  

Rhys' useless facts;

1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321. 
2. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 
3. Playing cards in India are round. 
4. The most difficult tongue twister is "The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick". 
5. Mentioning pigs is bad luck at sea. 
6. Bananas don't grow on trees, but on "rhizomes". 
7. The toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. 
8. Bats are more closely related to humans than they are to rats. 
9. The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.
10. In 1993 Mickey Mouse received 800,000 fan letters. 

Last time's brainteaser was;

Question; A man stopped his car opposite a hotel and immediately knew he was bankrupt.  How? 

Answer; He was playing Monopoly!

This time's brainteaser is;

Question; You enter a deserted house late at night.  Inside is an oil lamp, a gas fire and a stove full of wood.  You only have one match however, so which one would you light first? 

Tune in in two weeks (18th June) to find out the answer, see you then!

Article by Steve Mead, 6 Jun 2007
Posted in Monday Madness

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