Lovin’ It: Fleetwood Big Mac Top Poll

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Voting is now closed for those bands and artists you would like to see at this summer’s inaugural “All You Need is Grub” festival, combining the best from the worlds of cookery and rock ‘n’ roll (see original post here).

A quirk of the festival is that, for a band or artist to appear, they must temporarily alter their name to reflect their foodie credentials. Thanks for all those votes and nominations.  Here we can now unveil the list of those that have made it on to the final bill:

  • Fleetwood Big Mac
  • Food Fighters
  • Bjorkie
  • Alabama Milkshakes
  • The Greggs Allman Band
  • Neil egg-foo Young
  • Stiff Little Fish Fingers
  • The Coqteau-au-vin Twins
  • Simply Bread
  • Madonna Kebab
  • The Feastie Boys
  • Derek and the Dominos Pizza
  • Simon le Bon Appetit
  • The Arctic Roll Monkeys
For the person who suggested Bread, Fish and Meat Loaf, we received an initial response from the first two, but Meat Loaf was unobtainable. Still, two out of three ain’t bad.What a line-up it promises to be!

Here for the Beer Race!

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Now this road race looks like fun.

The Romsey Beer Race takes place over 5 miles in quiet lanes set deep in the Hampshire countryside. At the finish, runners are rewarded with a pint of beer and a piece of cake. What a great way to rehydrate and restock on carbs!

I’m tempted, but am wondering if I can go the distance, as I usually work in kilometres. If it takes me one hour to run 10k, and a kilometre is 5/8 of a mile, how long should it take me to run 5 miles?

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The Best Exhibition You’ll Never See!

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Now this you have to see to believe – except you can’t!

The latest addition to the London 2012 cultural festivities is an exhibition of – wait for it – invisible art, at the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank. Exhibits are reported to include:

  • drawings made in invisible ink
  • a room with four blank pieces of paper on the walls
  • a plinth once stood on, briefly, by Andy Warhol
  • a movie that took over two years to make but had no film in the camera

There is also a report of a police investigation into an alleged theft of an invisible artwork from the boot of a car. This is described as a comment on the absurdity of bureaucracy.

The exhibition opens on the 12 June (further details here) and tickets cost £8. My advice is to say on the door that you are paying with invisible bank notes, as a performance art-type statement against bourgeois cultural materialism. I wonder how that will go down.

The Time Machine

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I will never be late for any appointment again. Or the train, for that matter, and will never fail to sit down to watch my favourite TV shows from the very start.

That’s the theory, anyway. You see, I’ve just bought myself a special wrist watch that receives a satellite signal so it always tells the exact time with ultimate precision. It looks like a traditional watch, having a round clock face with the hours 1 -12 shown, and the outer rim marked with 60 equally spaced divisions. As time progresses between, say, 3 0′clock and 4 o’clock, the hour hand moves at a steady rate between the 3 and the 4. When the minute hand points exactly to one of the minute marks, it means that a full minute has been completed.

I have noticed that there are four times in a day at which both the hour hand and the minute hand are each pointing exactly to minute marks that are next to eachother on the clock face (i.e. not to the same marker, but to markers that are alongside eachother).  At what times does this happen?

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Here Comes the Torch

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The excitement about the London 2012 Olympics is ramping up with the start of the Olympic Torch relay.  This involves the Olympic Torch coming to tour the UK over the period of 70 days in the run-up to the Games’ Opening Ceremony. There will be 8,000 torch bearers, each carrying it for a part of the route which is expected to be lined with crowds.

Some of the torch bearers will be celebrities. One of the most famous people involved with the Torch is David Beckham. However, although he will carry it for part of its journey, he won’t have to run or walk with it, nor will he be driven along the route.  How is this possible?

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Splash Landing

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At our local waterpark they have a great flume called the Sidewinder. It is 50m long, and includes loads of twists and turns along the way.

Little Bertrand likes to go head first and travels along on his tummy at 100m per minute. Being a bit heavier, I travel along it at twice that speed.

If little Bertrand enters the flume first, how long should I wait before entering it, so that we both splash out the end of the flume into the pool below at precisely the same time?

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The Jelly Baby Dilemma

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It’s little Bertrand’s birthday party and I have been put in charge of one all-important aspect – the party bags. As if the little dears don’t get enough sweets, cake and toys to play with during the preceding two hours – they each expect to go away with the customary bag full of sugary nosh to keep them going until their next feeding time.

There were six kids in total requiring party bags. My strict instructions were that they must each contain the same number of jelly babies, otherwise there would be tears. Further, to stay within budget, no child should receive more than 10.

I went to our local sweet shop and bought exactly the right number of jelly babies. Sorted! Except, that was, for the news received one hour before the main event was due to start, that we are now going to have one additional guest.  What’s more, she will need to have a party bag also, and the requirement for all party bags to have exactly the same number of jelly babies remained intact.

What a dilemma! I’m pleased to say that, after some careful thought,  I worked out that, by removing one jelly baby from my original number, I could divide the rest equally amongst all the party bags. What’s more, I was so pleased at resolving my dilemma, I rewarded myself by eating that one spare jelly baby. It tasted yum!

From the information given, can you work out how many jelly babies each guest received in their party bag?

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The Crucible Rocks!

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Well done to Ronnie O’Sullivan on his victory in the Final of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible, Sheffield. Commiserations to the courageous runner-up, Ali Carter. I hear both are big music fans and so we are celebrating the occasion with a cool music quiz.

The answer to each of the following is a colour that you will find on a snooker table. See how many you can get!

1. Early track by Coldplay (6)
2. The Day of the American Idiot? (5)
3. Stars, and Stripes? (5)
4. The Cult of the Oyster (4)
5.  The Stones’ kind of sugar (5)
6.  Colour found on the dark side of the moon? (4)
7.  Crowes, and Keys (5)

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Check here for full results from the Championship.

You can catch up on our weekend of tweeting  from the action in Sheffield at @mygardnersworld

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Election Special – Vote Loony!

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As its local and mayoral elections time, we’re saluting that great bastion of democracy, the Monster Raving Loony Party. Inspired by a famous Monty Python sketch, their candidates bring fun and colour to the polls as they battle to avoid losing their deposits. They also have some superb manifesto commitments. Can you guess which one of the following is not something they have pledged to deliver, should they ever get into power?

  • economy: issue a 99p coin to save on change
  • antisocial behaviour: superglue teenagers together, on the basis that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
  • crime: superheroes to be prevented from using their superpowers to promote evil
  • terrorism: terrorists to be banned from having beards as it makes them look scary
  • roads and transport: pram lanes created in all shopping centres
  • defence: white cliffs of Dover to be painted khaki to camouflage our islands
  • environment: half the grey squirrel population to be painted red, to increase the red squirrel population

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All You Need is Grub!

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What with all these celebrity chefs on TV nowadays, they say cooking is the new rock ‘n’ roll. This has prompted a major music festival organiser to contemplate a new kind of cultural event this summer, bringing together the very best of the worlds of popular music and haute cuisine. With a working title of “All You Need is Grub”,  it promises to be a true gastronomic and cultural jamboree.

A quirk of the festival is that, for a band or artist to appear, they must temporarily alter their name to reflect their foodie credentials. Here at Gardner’s World we have been engaged exclusively to carry out some early market research amongst the online community, to find out who you would like to see at this event. We are therefore giving you the opportunity to say who you want on the bill, and to vote for your favourites.

Requests have been received already for the Food Fighters, Madonna Kebab, and Fleetwood Big Mac, amongst others.

Our poll below gives you the full list of nominations, and the opportunity to vote for your favourite!  No doubt there will be further suggestions – you can submit your own nominations by leaving a comment, or on Twitter at @mygardnersworld and/or #allyouneedisgrub

Poll now closed. See results here