Saturday 27 March 2010 7 winners of the Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year

  1. 2009 - Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
  2. 2008 - The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
  3. 2006 - The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
  4. 2004 - Bombproof Your Horse
  5. 2002 - Living with Crazy Buttocks
  6. 1996 - Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
  7. 1992 - How to Avoid Huge Ships

Friday 26 March 2010 7 editorial cartoonists

  1. Gerald Scarfe
  2. Clive Uptton
  3. William Hogarth
  4. Nicholas Garland
  5. Peter Clark
  6. Michael Cummings
  7. Steve Bell

Thursday 25 March 2010 7 films by Akira Kurosawa

  1. Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)
  2. Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low)
  3. Kakushi toride no san akunin (The Hidden Fortress)
  4. Ikiru
  5. Akahige (Red Beard)
  6. Yume (Dreams)
  7. Hakuchi (The Idiot)

Wednesday 24 March 2010 7 facts about the @ symbol

  1. One origin theory is that it was originally an abbreviation of the Greek preposition ανά, meaning at the rate of or per.
  2. In Perl, the @ prefixes variables which contain arrays
  3. In chemical formulae, @ is used to denote trapped atoms or molecules
  4. the @ symbol has been admitted into the Museum of Modern Art in its design collection
  5. In Swedish the symbol is known as kanelbulle which translates to 'cinnamon roll'
  6. The symbol was added to Morse Code in 2004 for use with e-mail addresses, the only change since World War I.
  7. The @ was included on the keyboard of 1885 American Underwood, the first typewriter

Tuesday 23 March 2010 7 towns/cities in Australia with the same name as ones in England

  1. Ipswich
  2. Warwick
  3. Ashford
  4. Richmond
  5. Newcastle
  6. Torquay
  7. Croydon

Monday 22 March 2010 7 answers we got right in this week's University Challenge

  1. Evolution
  2. Tower of Hanoi
  3. Hotspot
  4. Dart board
  5. Before current era
  6. MacBeth
  7. 7

Sunday 21 March 2010 7 fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen

  1. The Emperor's New Clothes
  2. The Little Mermaid
  3. The Snow Queen
  4. Thumbelina
  5. The Ugly Duckling
  6. The Nightingale
  7. The Princess and the Pea