Saturday 20 August 2011 7 words/phrases which are incorrect in common English usage

  1. Ciabattas - The plural is Ciabatte
  2. Aquariums - The Latin plural is Aquaria
  3. Salsa sauce - Salsa is Spanish for sauce
  4. A piece of data - Data is the plural form of datum
  5. 1 Pinini, 2 Pininis - Pinini is already the plural form, with Pinino the singular
  6. Agendas - As agenda is Latin for 'Things to be done' you cannot pluralize it
  7. Rhinoceri/Rhinoceruses - The Latin plural is Rhinocerontes

Friday 19 August 2011 7 characters played by Vincent Price

  1. King Charles II - Hudson's Bay
  2. Cardinal Richelieu - The Three Musketeers
  3. Professor Henry Jarrod - House of Wax
  4. Roderick Usher - The Fall of the House of Usher
  5. Dr. Erasmus Craven - The Raven
  6. Felix Manderville - House of a Thousand Dolls
  7. The Inventor - Edward Scissorhands

Thursday 18 August 2011 7 Linux landmarks

  1. April 1991 - Linus Torvalds began working on his own operating system kernel.
  2. May 1992 - The first distribution of Linux, Softlanding Linux, is shipped.
  3. July 1993 - Slackware Linux, the first commercial Linux is launched.
  4. March 1994 - Linus Torvalds releases kernel versioon 1.0
  5. November 1998 - Microsoft lawyers present a box of Red Hat Linux at its antitust lawsuit, as evidence that Windows did not represent a monopoly on the OS market
  6. October 2004 - Canonical release Ubuntu 4.1 (Warty Warthog) with a six-month release cycle
  7. November 2007 - The Open Handset Alliance announces a preview version and SDK of Android

Wednesday 17 August 2011 7 ingredients of Tiger Balm

  1. Menthol
  2. Peppermint Oil
  3. Camphor
  4. Cajuput Oil
  5. Clove Oil
  6. Cassia Oil
  7. NH3 Solution (Ammonia)

Tuesday 16 August 2011 7 zombie movies

  1. Night of the Living Dead
  2. Return of the Living Dead
  3. Zombie Flesh Eaters
  4. 28 Days Later...
  5. The Serpent and the Rainbow
  6. Army of Darkness
  7. Shaun of the Dead

Monday 15 August 2011 7 questions we got right in this week's University Challenge

  1. Croydon
  2. Harpies
  3. Mead
  4. Argon
  5. Feather
  6. Catherine Parr
  7. David Cameron - Benny Hill

Sunday 14 August 2011 7 UK Art Deco Buildings

  1. Battersea Power Station, London
  2. Shell Mex House, London
  3. The Rex Cinema, Berkhamsted
  4. Daily Express Building, Manchester
  5. Beresford Hotel, Glasgow
  6. Luma Tower, Glasgow
  7. Senate House (UCL), London