Saturday, 6 September 2008 7 toy cars we found whilst packing

Friday, 5 September 2008 7 reasons why this blog is rather later

  1. Too much wine
  2. Searching for the right retro phone for us
  3. Searching for a broadband provider
  4. Planning our open house
  5. Arranging bowls around the drips coming from our leaky flat
  6. Discussing correct van packing practices
  7. Wasting time trying to think of a 7th reason

Thursday, 4 September 2008 7 US presidents I had never heard of

  1. James Monroe - 1817-1825
  2. William Henry Harrison - 1841-1841
  3. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
  4. James Buchanan - 1857-1861
  5. Chester A. Arthur - 1881-1885
  6. Grover Cleveland - 1885-1889, 1893-1897
  7. William Howard Taft - 1909-1913

Wednesday, 3 September 2008 7 answers to questions we got right in this week's University Challenge

  1. Semi Colon
  2. Java
  3. Norfolk
  4. Gaia
  5. Digital Rights Management
  6. Dolomites
  7. X

Tuesday, 2 September 2008 7 former quiz hosts

  1. Bamber Gascoigne - University Challenge
  2. Magnus Magnusson - Mastermind
  3. Bob Holness - Blockbusters
  4. David Coleman - A Question of Sport
  5. Robert Robinson - Ask the Family
  6. Bob Monkhouse - Family Fortunes
  7. Terry Wogan - Blankety Blank

Monday, 1 September 2008 7 types of satellite orbit

  1. Geocentric orbit - An orbit around the planet Earth
  2. Inclined orbit - An orbit whose inclination in reference to the equatorial plane is not 0 degrees
  3. Molniya orbit - A highly elliptic orbit with inclination of 63.4 degrees and orbital period of half of a sidereal day
  4. Graveyard orbit - An orbit a few hundred kilometers above geosynchronous that satellites are moved into at the end of their operation
  5. Horseshoe orbit - An orbit that appears to a ground observer to be orbiting a certain planet but is actually in co-orbit with the planet
  6. Geostationary orbit - A geosynchronous orbit with an inclination of zero. To an observer on the ground this satellite would appear as a fixed point in the sky
  7. Elliptic orbit - An orbit with an eccentricity greater than 0 and less than 1 whose orbit traces the path of an ellipse.

Sunday, 31 August 2008 7 actors who have played Dracula in movies

  1. Paul Askonas - Drakula halála (1923)
  2. Bela Lugosi - Dracula (1933)
  3. Christopher Lee - Dracula (1958)
  4. Zandor Vorkov - Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)
  5. Gary Oldman - Dracula (1992)
  6. Gerard Butler - Dracula 2000 (2000)
  7. David Harbour - Awake (2007)