Saturday, 4 February 2012 7 fictional fairies

  1. Tinkerbell - Peter Pan
  2. Titania - Midsummer Night's Dream
  3. Oona - Legend
  4. Maleficent - Sleeping Beauty
  5. Jareth - Labyrinth
  6. Nac Mac Feegle - Discworld
  7. Psammead - Five Children and It

Friday, 3 February 2012 7 traditional teas

  1. Jasmine Tea
  2. Black Tea
  3. Green Tea
  4. Yellow Tea
  5. White Tea
  6. Oolong Tea
  7. Puerh Teah

Thursday, 2 February 2012 7 types of Collar

  1. Mandarin Collar
  2. Butterfly Collar
  3. Wing Collar
  4. Eton Collar
  5. Middy Collar
  6. Ruff Collar
  7. Tab Collar

Wednesday, 1 February 2012 7 facts about Leonardo da Vinci

  1. Born, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15 1452 in Vinci, Italy.
  2. Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina.
  3. At the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.
  4. His collection of scientific observations and inventions are collected in the Codex Leicester, now owned by Bill Gates.
  5. In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span 220m bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople. Bayazid decided not to pursue the project as it was believed that the construction was impossible.
  6. In 2006 the Turkish goverment built the 220m bridge from Leonardo's drawings.
  7. Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on May 2, 1519 from natural causes.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 7 classical music riots

riot (n) - early 13c., "debauchery, extravagance, wanton living," from O.Fr. riote (masc. riot) "dispute, quarrel"

  1. 1830 - Daniel Auber - La Muette de Portici
  2. 1905 - Richard Strauss - Salomé
  3. 1913 - Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
  4. 1914 - Luigi Russolo - The Art of Noises
  5. 1926 - George Antheil - Ballet Mécanique
  6. 1926 - Béla Bartók - The Miraculous Mandarin
  7. 1968 - Hans Werner Henze - Das Floß der Medusa

Monday, 30 January 2012 7 Questions we got right on this week's University Challenge

  1. String theory
  2. Gout
  3. Royal Tank Regiment
  4. Henley
  5. Kebab
  6. Guernica
  7. 1p and 2p

Sunday, 29 January 2012 7 fixings from an Ikea chest of drawers