Money for Old Rope

Ancient Custard Races


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Idioms:

  1. Through thick and thin
  2. Every cloud has a silver lining
  3. Fly off the handle
  4. Sponsored by:

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    More chickens than people (I didn’t actually believe this one, that’ll teach me…)

    World population clock

    Battery farming

    Nandos (cheeky)

    Wedding vows

    CGI

    Banana’s Introduced to the UK

    It’s a Wonderful Life

    Fat sign of wealth

    Henriest Henry

    Feeding the multitude (5000, woop)

    Spartans

    300 (60%… it deserves much more than that…)

    Battle of Thermopylae (boom, got that one right)

    Midas

    The Land Before Time

    Triceratops (not one of those dinosaurs that textbooks got wrong!)

    Doomsday Book (got this one right too!)

    Non-Newtonian fluid

    Bird’s Custard (and this one, good podcast for vague history!)

    Smash (the very phrase ‘instant mashed potato’ inspires dread)

    Angel Delight

    Chaucer

    The Lord of the Rings (boring)

    Rosetta Stone

    Voynich Manuscript (didn’t recall this one though…)

    Berenstain Bears Pawadox

    Atlantis

    Batman: The Brave and the Bold

    Jason Momoa (will forever be Ronon from Stargate to me)

    P. T. Barnum

    Star Wars, misquoted

    Bleeding Gums Murphy

    Bleeding Gums’ voice actors (not JEL)

    James Earl Jones

    Kimba the White Li

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    Money for Old RopeBy Vamp Nation