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September 11, 2006
The night Dale Winton saved my life....
Of course there I was coming over all smug because I know when Jane Austen lived and aren’t I all clever and hi-brow and everything. Today, because I either a) have too much time on my hands or b) I have so little time on my hands that Saturday night TV is such a novelty to me, I have been thinking of the question I actually got wrong.
DALE ‘What is Bakelite? Is it …. a) Wood b) Plastic or c) Aluminium?’
Now I thought to myself I know this one, Bakelite must be the non-stick cousin of Bacofoil (please humour me and agree that you at least know where I’m going with this) perhaps when you use Bakelite you don’t have to grease the pan quite so much, hence you don’t pile on the pounds, hence Bakelite.
After what was, with hindsight, probably too much thought I guessed the answer was aluminium.
The answer was indeed plastic and if you don’t believe me here’s the Wikipedia article to prove it.
Getting the Jane Austen question wrong, or the Harper Lee question or whatever you want to call it, is probably not going to kill you. However if I perhaps cared to lose some weight and lined my cookie sheets with Bakelite rather than Diet Bacofoil and happily slid them in the over at gas mark 6, then there is little chance that I’d be around to say, ‘Oh well, got that wrong! Try again!’
Therefore I shall now eat humble pie and bow down to their superiority.
The winners also went home with just over 17 grand and I’m scraping the pennies.
I bow again.
Posted by purple elephant at September 11, 2006 07:31 PM