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I didn't want to use jQuery as I would only be using a small portion of that code and I wanted to try and keep the site as tightly written as possible, without excessive code. I have seen another website that does use jQuery and interestingly that is based more on Ceefax rather than mine which is Teletext based. You can find the site here: https://worldofpaul.com/teletext/.

SO WHY DIGITISER?

Around 2017, Mr Biffo (Paul Rose) of Digitiser fame, surfaced back into the "limelight" and was attending retro gaming events talking about the old Digitiser days. I thought it'd be pretty cool to make an online teletext simulator using nothing but HTML, CSS and Javascript. This would be a cut down challenge from the Windows based one and so here we are.

You stand before Knightmare Castle. With you is Treguard, Master of the Quest.

"Welcome, Adventurer! Your quest will take you to the Great Northern Ice Field, a frozen realm inhabited by ferocious Polar Bears! You travel to rescue a captive maiden. I will aid you when I can: you will hear my voice at time of need. Hold to the adventurer's code:

Answer truthfully, choose wisely, use force only in direst need. And remember

Cheats never prosper!

Treguard indicates the northern trail. Pulling your cloak tightly about you, you stride into the freezing wind. Ahead you see a tall figure: it is Hordriss the Confuser, magician extraordinary.

"Imprecations! Is this the best Treguard could find? One doubts if you are wise enough for such a Quest: one will test you. Tell me, puny adventurer those who dwell in this land are known to outsiders as Eskimos. How are they more properly called?"

Hordriss shakes his head sadly.

"One's worst fears are confirmed. One must go and find another to undertake this task. Farewell, ignorant adventurer."

He turns and leaves you standing alone in the freezing wind as the snows fall more heavily around you.

You wander through the snow as it falls ever harder and harder. All paths vanish in the white torrent that swirls about you. You tire rapidly as the warmth drains from your body. After long, confused wandering you feel yourself losing consciousness and falling into the deep, soft snow.....

You have been found wanting. This time, your Quest may not succeed. But take courage. You have journeyed far and attempted that of which many only dream

Next time you set foot beyond the walls of Castle Knightmare, who knows whence your path may lead?

"Ah," says Hordriss, " an enlightened Adventurer. Remarkable! Listen then: one's foolish daughter Sidriss has been captured by Aesandre the Ice Sorceress. Her palace lies far to the North. She awaits my rescue mission and has set magic traps for me. She will not expect YOU. There is a slight chance you might get through...

"One gifts you with a spell: HEAT. You may use it only once. Good fortune!"

You set out across the ice sheet along the path Hordriss indicates. Soon he is lost behind and you can see nothing but ice and snow in every direction. The chill enters your bones and you shiver in every limb.

Then ahead you spot a small white dome: An igloo!

Do you:

The valley path is filled with snowdrifts and as you push forward you find the snow reaches your knees. The fur coat is weighed down by heavy ice. You step boldly forward onto a slab of ice. It gives way beneath you and frozen snow closes over your head...

"Oh dear," says Treguard. "Frosted Adventurer! And not a microwave in sight!"

Inside the igloo it is slightly warmer. You find a collection of objects left behind by the owner.

A sack. Opening it you find it to be full of greasy, smelly lumps of something unpleasant.

A pair of snowshoes.

A white fur coat.

Which do you take?

Wrapping the coat around you and feeling warm and snug, you step out into the snow again. Heading ever northwards, you come to a divide in the path. You may travel down the valley or along a high rocky ledge.

Which route do you take now?

You climb up above the snowy valley, across bare rock jutting through the ice. At the top of the rise you pause to look down...

And turn at a snarling sound behind you

A large polar bear is growling and forcing you back towards the edge of the ledge.

"Very tactless to go around wearing one of his relatives," whispers Treguard as you fall from the rock-face. Oh dear

Strapping the huge snowshoes onto your feet, step out into the snow again. Heading ever northwards you come to a divide in the path. You may travel down a valley or along a high rocky ledge.

Which route do you take now?

Slinging the weight of the of the sack over one shoulder, you step out into the snow again. Moving north again you come to a divide in the path. You may travel down a valley or along a high rocky ledge.

Which route do you take now?

You climb up above the snowy valley, across the rocks jutting out of the ice. At the top of the rise you pause to look down...

A hideous snarling sounds behind you.

A large polar bear is growling and forcing you back towards the edge of the ledge.

"Decide quickly," says Tregaurd. "He looks hungry."

The valley path is filled with snowdrifts and as you push forward you find the snow spilling over your snowshoes. Once or twice you feel the ice below shifting as you step onto solid-looking surfaces but moving carefully with your snowshoes you manage to make your way to the easier path beyond the valley.

You climb up above the snowy valley, across bare rock jutting through the ice. At the top of the rise you pause..

A hideous snarling sounds behind you.

A large polar bear is growling, forcing you back towards the edge of the ledge. It leaps towards you...

...and rips the sack from your back. As you hurry away Treguard whispers: "You may not like the smell - but some regard two-week old whale blubber as quite a delicacy!"

The valley path is filled with ever deeper snowdrifts and as you push forward you find the snow reaches to your knees. The heavy sack makes you sink deeper in.

As you step boldly forward onto a frozen slab it gives way beneath you and the freezing snows close over your head.....

"Oh dear," says Treguard. "Now you know how a frozen beefburger feels!"

You trip over the heavy snowshoes you are wearing as the bear pounces on you. You have a last impression of its mighty jaws, gaping wide....

"Oh dear," mutters Treguard. "Still never mind: think of it as doing your bit to preserve an endangered species."

You are temporarily refreshed, but the icy wind blows you harder from the north. Your fingers and toes go numb and your vision blurs. The icy cold extends its reach into your very lungs. It seems that you can go no further.

What do you do?

Summoning your last reserves, you push forward and suddenly the blizzard falters. Ahead of you is, miraculously revealed, the ice palace of the sorceress! Its crystal walls, carved from ice tower hundreds of feet into the air. Within, lie the captive - and the enemy!

A desperate final effort propels you to the entrance.

The spell conjures a glowing ball of red light. You step through it and an invigorating rush of warmth floods your limbs and seems to cause the blizzard to falter for a moment. Ahead of you is suddenly revealed the ice palace of the sorceress! Its walls, carved from ice, tower hundreds of feet into the air. Within, lie the captive - and the enemy

You make for the entrance.

Inside the palace, a great hall of ice stretches out before you. At the far end Aesandre stands on a high platform beneath a glittering ice-chandelier. Beside her, frozen in a block of ice is Sidriss.

"So," cries Aesandre, "That old fool Hordriss thinks he can outwit me by sending a young fool in his place. Absurd!"

She raises her hands above her head: she is casting a spell! Do you:

Tregaurd whispers in your ear: "You used your only spell outside. Do you think you can cheat the Quest?"

A bolt of magic force strikes you as you stand there dithering and blackness falls around you.

"And thus fail all who try to cheat their fate." Tregaurd adds. "Be off with you!"

Inside the palace, a great hall of ice stretches out before you. At the far end Aesandre stands on a high platform beneath a glittering ice-chandelier. Beside her, frozen in a block of ice is Sidriss.

"So," cries Aesandre, "that old fool thinks he can outwit me by sending a young fool in his place. Absurd!"

And she raises her hands above her head to cast a spell at you. What do you do?

But before you can manage a single step a bolt of mystic energy flies from Aesandre's fingertips and strikes you full upon the chest. You feel a strange tingling spread through your body...

In this arctic wasteland you cannot survive long without food. Sheltering in a frozen ice-cave you come across a ragged hermit.

"I have food - but share it only with the wise," he says. "You may eat of my bread but only if you can answer me this: The North people believe in a hammer-god.

Which day is his?"

Invoking the spell conjures a ball of red light to form in your right hand. It pulses with warmth as you look up and try to identify a target upon which to use it.

Do you aim for the:

The red sphere flies straight and true towards the evil figure of your enemy.. She deftly bats it aside, causing it to crash out through the ice wall. With a malicious grin she unleashes her own spell which strikes you full in the chest. You feel a strange tingling spread through your body...

You look down at yourself. You seem to be wearing an ill-fitting dinner jacket and baggy trousers. Then you notice that your nose seems to have got longer your arms shorter and the floor closer.

Yes, you have been turned into a PENGUIN!

"Oh dear," says Treguard. "I hope you like fish dinners...."

Your heat spell flies off above the sorceress' head but misses the chandelier. It strikes the ceiling and for a moment there is silence. Then the great sheets of ice above your head shiver and crack. You hurry for the door but before you can reach safety...

CRRRRRRRASSSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!

"Well," says Treguard, "that certainly brought the house down!"

The Sorceress blinks with surprise as the ball of HEAT flashes past her. She turns with alarm as the block the ice containing Sidriss shatters, exploding under pressure from within. The heat ball turns upon Aesandre and she abandons her attack on you to raise a hasty defence.

For a few moments you watch anxiously as the fight rages at the far end of the hall. But then the floor there melts, and with a hideous curse Aesandre sinks from view.

Sidriss conjures the ice to reform and runs towards you.

"At last one of my spells has worked! Now we must hurry from here. I doubt my magic will hold her long. Spellcasting: H.O.M.E........."

In the merest instant you are returned to Castle Knightmare. Hordriss is reunited with his daughter.

"Foolish one to risk the perils of the Ice Palace," he chides her.

"Well Done, brave traveller," says Treguard. "You have proven worthy and have achieved your Quest. You may now count yourself among the Knights of Knightmare Castle."

Written by Mike Cule. "Knightmare" is a Broadsword Production for Anglia TV

Digitext would like to thank castleteletext.com for permission in allowing this on here

Credits

Story written by Mike Cule

Original Teletext artwork by Mr Biffo

Thanks to Al for archiving the original Teletext pages. ROBOTFUZZ

Thanks to Mark from ‘Fighting Fantasy (and other gamebooks)’ for mapping it out FFAOGB

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LA wildfires: why they escalated so quickly with such dramatic effect 301

Murakami on AI, anime and his pop-infused visual universe 302

Government to unveil plan on artificial intelligence regulation 303

LA fires root cause is fossil fuels says climate expert 304

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LA wildfires: why they escalated so quickly with such dramatic effect

Everywhere you go, in the mountains, foothills and canyons that surround the bowl of Los Angeles, you cannot miss the signs telling you what you cannot do because of the fire risk – smoke; have a barbecue; loiter with a running engine – the list goes on.

It is clear that California’s biggest city, and one of the richest urban areas in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, has spent hugely and for decades on the art of trying to prevent wildfires.

So the question so many are asking here is how all this failed so spectacularly in the Angelinos’ hour of need, indeed, days of need.

Well, the first answer, and the most important answer, comes down to global climate change and the effect burning fossil fuels is having on climatic events.

The autumn rains simply didn’t happen in the LA area. This, on top of years of drought and years of ever increasing summer and indeed winter temperatures, coupled with the annual winter Santa Ana winds being exceptionally strong.

So the ground – chaparral scrubland – is parched behind tinder-dry.

What’s key here is that these factors of weather intensification are now happening all over the world, and now here comes the ominous lesson.

I have spoken to junior firefighters on the frontline, right through to their seniors, at many locations in the past few days, and all of them say the same thing, which tragically appears to have gone all but unreported.

If you have the climatic factors noted above, you cannot use large fixed-wing aircraft to drop water and fire retardant on a burning area. You cannot use helicopters to do the same with the precision that you require, the dispersants and water will simply blow away and you cannot fly anyway in wind conditions much above 35 mph.

Wind conditions last week were often 60 to 100 mile an hour hurricane force gusts. Moreover, you cannot deploy human beings into these areas because the speed of the fire’s movement means that is impossibly dangerous.

So too for tenders and fire appliances, many vehicles were overwhelmed by the flames. All of this memorably summed up by one senior firefighting coordinator as we sat on a balcony in Mandeville Canyon, watching the Palisades fire –  the biggest one.

I asked him: “What can you do in conditions of extreme high winds, drought and wildfires?” He looked at me and said: “Frankly sir – run away.”

It wasn’t a joke. It was stating the fact of self- preservation in those conditions. There is no such thing as firefighting when conditions are as they were last week.

Let me repeat that: no such thing.

We know from climate modelling, from scientists, that those conditions will become more common, not just here, but around the world.

A second factor is that the anti-fire measures, supposedly mandatory for all homeowners, were widely ignored. Wealthy people, in particular, do not want to cut a minimum five foot space without vegetation around their homes, as the regulation requires. They want the opposite, dense greenery to provide privacy and, of course, wooden fences, which turned out to be a key accelerant in the fires which entered and obliterated large urban areas.

Third, the terrain means that clearing dead wood, which is a significant fire accelerant, in areas which are often steep-sided canyons, cannot be done mechanically. You have to put people in there, and often use ropes.

Frankly, it is virtually impossible.

Which brings us to the problem: urban sprawl. How is it that planners allowed people to build homes, when in the Pacific Palisades area, these homes are often minor palaces? And in these canyons, which everybody knows are prone to bush fires as a natural process on an almost annual basis?

And yet, in the Palisades area, these lavish homes are perfectly aligned along the canyons in areas where clearing brush is virtually impossible, and because of the terrain, the only access is endlessly winding, snaking roads, which again hampers fire defence. In short, allowing the building of houses in these areas around Los Angeles is like allowing the building of homes on flood plains in the UK. You can do it by all means, but one day, you will pay a price.

A fifth critical factor in all this is the water supply. Despite the Los Angeles authorities being acutely aware of fire risk, the water supply system is just that: a water supply for humans, for homes and businesses. It simply  is not designed for sudden, massive surges in the requirement needed to fight fires.

So it was that in the critical time of need, the pressure in many fire hydrants simply wasn’t there, and they ran dry. As one firefighter in the Palisades area lamented to me, in the street his team was given to defend, every single house bar one was burned down.

That sole house survived because they could drain the swimming pool in the back garden to save it. The fire hydrant in that street was dry, overwhelmed by the pressure of demand.

Much has been made too of the fact that a key reservoir in the Palisades district wasn’t available for use because of long-running refurbishment.

Hardly a planning disaster, since key  infrastructure needs to be kept functional, but it certainly didn’t help.

So, when you put all those factors together, you pretty soon see why the situation escalated so quickly, with such dramatic effect, accelerating at dangerous velocity, down the hillsides and canyon valleys to gain access to urban areas.

And then there is one final factor, ever present: human idiocy. Even in this year’s punishing drought, on New Year’s Eve in the Palisades chaparral, people gathered to party and let off fireworks.

Yup, they really did.

Within hours, firefighters were tackling a blaze in the Palisades area caused by said fireworks . They put it out, or they thought they put it out and left the area. There is now considerable circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Palisades blaze – the biggest – may have been caused by that fire lying dormant only to reignite some weeks later in the bone-dry ground and hurricane force winds.

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Murakami on AI, anime and his pop-infused visual universe

He’s one of the most prolific artists working today – and he’s even been called the Japanese Andy Warhol.

Takashi Murakami’s pop-infused visual universe –  a mixture of anime, manga and seventeenth century fine art – has appeared on everything from the covers of best-selling albums to handbags.

He’s also produced music videos for Billie Eilish and Pharrell Williams. And – unlike many of his contemporaries – he embraces the use of AI in the creative process.

We went to meet him at his new exhibition in London.

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Government to unveil plan on artificial intelligence regulation

The government is promising to harness artificial intelligence to deliver growth and boost living standards.

But that’s after a week of attacks against the prime minister by one of the biggest tech players in the world – Elon Musk.

And along with new technology comes new dangers – with parents of children harmed by online content warning their protection must be paramount.

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LA fires root cause is fossil fuels says climate expert

We spoke to Dr Varun Sivaram, a senior fellow for energy and climate at the Council on Foreign Relations and Dr Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and the author of “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution’.

They have both lived and worked in the parts of Los Angeles reduced to ash.

We began by asking for their reactions to the devastating fires.

Peter Kalmus: It was devastating. It’s been a crazy, intense week. There’s kind of no words for it, I still am struggling emotionally.

Cathy Newman: You made the decision two years ago to move away from the Los Angeles area. Explain why you came to that decision?

Peter Kalmus: Los Angeles had been getting hotter since I moved there in 2008. More fiery, the droughts have been getting worse, and I just started kind of imagining if my neighbourhood burned, how would I get out? What would I take? And then in 2020, there was a really big fire close to our home, and that was a big wake-up call for us.

Cathy Newman: Dr Varun Sivaram, you also worked in the area in Palisades, which has been up in flames as well. Your response to what you’ve seen in the last few days?

Varun Sivaram: Absolutely, I started my career as a city official in the city of Los Angeles, senior adviser to the mayor, and the first project I ever did was to inaugurate a solar car wash, solar panels on a car wash in the Palisades. It’s now right within the active fire zone. It’s absolutely tragic, and my heart goes out to all my friends and everyone else who’s lost homes and businesses. What Peter said is correct, it is the case that climate change has contributed to many of the conditions that make wildfires much more common. The last four years, three of those last four years, have been the record-breaking wildfire years in recorded history. And this wildfire will be the most expensive in recorded history. But there isn’t very much that we can do about stopping climate change right this second. It’s not in the United States’ control, it’s not the United Kingdom’s control where you are. The number one response right this moment, pragmatically, is to build the adaptation resilience capability, both to withstand future disasters and to make them far less deadly, for example, by ensuring that folks don’t build in the most disaster-prone areas.

Cathy Newman: In terms of removing the brush and keeping things clear so the area is less flammable, that’s part of this sort of pragmatism you describe?

Varun Sivaram: Yeah, there are a lot of things we can do going forward. This disaster was unprecedented, but we sort of also could have seen some of this coming. Owing to climate change, owing to new precipitation patterns, for example, at least in part. We had record rainfall in California for two years and then record dryness or drought that created these bone-dry conditions ,where the previous two wet years created a lot of vegetation. And then we had these hurricane speed Santa Ana winds that contributed to these blazes, 100 mile plus winds that are blowing embers and spreading the fire faster than anybody could get ready for.

Cathy Newman: Peter Kalmus, is it possible to approach this problem of climate change in that pragmatic way that Varun’s just described?

Peter Kalmus: My view is that this is only the barest beginning. The planet is still getting hotter and will keep getting hotter as long as we burn fossil fuels. These kinds of disasters will get much, much worse. So, yes, we have to take measures now, but at some level, eventually all these suggestions will be completely overwhelmed by how hot the planet gets. We’re only at about one and a half degrees now, what is it going to be like when it’s two degrees or two and a half degrees above pre-industrial levels? It’s going to be a nightmare that we can barely imagine right now. So these kinds of little adaptations, we need to do them, but it’s going to be a little bit like trying to stop a huge wildfire like this with a garden hose. At some point, it’s just not going to work at all. So we have to address the root cause, which is fossil fuels, as quickly as we can for our survival. We’re going to have impacts that we can’t even really predict right now. They’re going to be synergistic things hitting at the same time, impacts to our food system, heat waves that kill millions of people in a matter of a few days. And I want to make the point that the fossil fuel industry in the 70s saw this coming with uncanny accuracy. They chose to spread disinformation and block action when they could have chosen to alert world leaders and work with us to transition. That’s the choice I would have made. It’s just the biggest moral failure, I think, in human history.

Varun Sivaram: Peter’s right to be angry. We should all be angry. But I hate to say it, Peter, it’s not going to get us very far. Going forward, here’s how I look at this problem. I completely agree with Peter, by the way, that the disasters will only get worse in scope. The world is going to blow right past our climate goals. We’re on track for more than three degrees of warming, which an expert like Peter will probably tell us is going to lead to some very scary consequences. And so, therefore, I think we don’t need to do garden hose adaptations. We need to do large adaptation interventions. I agree with Peter that the ultimate solution for ensuring that the world is not consumed by these disasters is in fact to reduce fossil fuels globally. Over the next 75 years, the United States, and we can throw in the United Kingdom too, will account for less than 5 per cent of future greenhouse gas emissions. We alone don’t really matter. The emissions are actually falling in the developed world. They’re rising in emerging economies, India, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, and China is by far the world’s largest emitter. Unless we reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, we won’t make any progress. And that’s why I think this should be the number one foreign policy priority of the United States, United Kingdom, and every one of our allies.

Cathy Newman: Let’s land up then at the political row that has erupted as the fires rage. Peter, the Republicans blaming Democrat mismanagement, whether that’s failure to clear the brush, the empty reservoir, the low pressure in the fire hydrants. The Democrats saying ‘this is climate change, it’s a horror and we got to deal with it’. How do we find any political way forward here?

Peter Kalmus: Maybe there could have been somewhat better management. I don’t think it would have made a lot of difference. I think this is a red herring. It’s a distraction by the Republicans, it’s political blame shifting. We have a problem on the planet. The planet is overheating. It’s gotten to an emergency level. We have to start working together. And I think it is really important to get angry because the public right now is quite unfocused. They’re confused. They’re afraid. A lot of people don’t realise that global heating is caused by fossil fuels. A lot of people think recycling will solve this. A lot of people don’t know that the fossil fuel industry has been lying for decades and there’s powerful interests that want to block action. The only way to get those powerful interests to change is if the public pushes for that change. And I think anger is one way to get the public to push coherently.

Cathy Newman: Just final word from both of you. Peter, do you have any hope for the future?

Peter Kalmus: Producing electricity from solar is now by far the cheapest way to produce electricity, and I think we have the solutions. We just have basically this very wealthy class which continues to profit from fossil fuels and is blocking the implementation of these solutions. So, yes, we will not transition away from fossil fuels overnight. But there’s a ton that we could be doing right now to transition that we aren’t doing.

Cathy Newman: Varun, can you have any hope?

Varun Sivaram: If we ultimately decide the global energy transition is just too expensive and hard, the United States and others may take leadership in embarking on geoengineering approaches. These are kind of extreme, but they could enable us to limit the world’s temperature increase through these extreme interventions, such as reflecting radiation from the Earth’s atmosphere. And I think we may have to turn to those as the emergency brake to prevent further catastrophic global warming.

Cathy Newman: Peter, you were shaking your head.

Peter Kalmus: We’ve got to stop beating around the bush. Yes, we may end up geoengineering, but it’s a horrifying thought to me. We could have catastrophic termination shock in that scenario. Why is it so hard to actually look at this directly and say it’s caused by fossil fuels? We have to work together to end fossil fuels.

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Bamber Boozler poses another 12 questions. Answer using fasttext at the bottom. One wrong and you must try again.

Can you answer all 12 in one attempt?

Press RED to begin

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Sam Rockwell is 52 this month, but in what film did he play a small role as a head thug with the line: "Regular or Menthol?"

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Red:Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles


Green:Clownhouse


Yellow:The Last Exit to Brooklyn


Cyan:Strictly Business


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Super Mario World is 30 this month. Which new character is introduced?

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Red:Toadstool


Green:Bowser


Yellow:Yoshi


Cyan:Wario


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What do the initials HAL for the HAL 9000 computer mean in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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Red:Hateful Artificial Lifeform


Green:Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer


Yellow:Hardware AI Language


Cyan:Highly Advanced Language


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Which board game is played with teams of players trying to identify specific words from their teammates’ drawings?

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Red:Scattegories


Green:Charades


Yellow:Pictionary


Cyan:Sketchy


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What is the chemical symbol for silver?

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Red:Ag


Green:Au


Yellow:Al


Cyan:Pb

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Bad luck!

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Do you wish to play again? If so, press red below

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In regards to beer, what does IPA stand for?

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Red:Independently Pumped Ale


Green:Independently Produced Ale


Yellow:Indian Pale Ale


Cyan:Indian Produced Ale


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What type of farm did Taylor Swift grow up on?

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Red:Ranch


Green:Flower Farm


Yellow:Micro Farm


Cyan:Christmas Tree Farm


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Who was Henry VIII's last wife?

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Red:Catherine Howard


Green:Catherine Parr


Yellow:Anne of Cleves


Cyan:Jane Seymour


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What is the lifespan of a dragonfly?

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Red:12 hours


Green:8 hours


Yellow:24 hours


Cyan:48 hours


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Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and which other film make up the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy?

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Red:Run Fatboy Run


Green:The World's End


Yellow:Paul


Cyan:Big Nothing


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Which famous boxer could "float like a butterfly" and "sting like a bee"?

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Red:Muhammad Ali


Green:Mike Tyson


Yellow:Frank Bruno


Cyan:Evander Holyfield


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What is the nickname of the character played by Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption?

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Red:Blue


Green:Green


Yellow:Brown


Cyan:Red


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Well done! How many did you get right first time? Check your rating below

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White: Howell, David W L
Black: Horton, Andrew P
Date: 12/01/2019


1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d6 5. a3 Bxc3 6. Qxc3 O-O 7. d3 a5 8. b3 e5 9. e3 Re8 10. Be2 Nbd7 11. Bb2 Qe7 12. O-O Nf8 13. Nd2 Ng6 14. Rae1 Bg4 15. f3 Bd7 16. f4 Bg4 17. fxe5 dxe5 18. Nf3 b6 19. h3 Bd7 20. Nd2 Bc6 21. Rf2 Bb7 22. Nf1 Rad8 23. Ng3 Bc8 24. d4 exd4 25. exd4 Qe3 26. d5 Qxc3 27. Bxc3 Ne4 28. Nxe4 Rxe4 29. Bf1 Rxe1 30. Bxe1 Re8 31. Re2 Rxe2 32. Bxe2 Ne5 33. Bg3 f6 34. Kf2 Bf5 35. Ke3 Bc2 36. b4 axb4 37. axb4 Kf7 38. Kd4 Ke7 39. Bxe5 fxe5+ 40. Kxe5 h6 41. h4 Bb1 42. g3 Bc2 43. Bf1 Bg6 44. Kd4 Kd6 45. Bd3 Bf7 46. c5+ bxc5+ 47. bxc5+ Ke7 48. Ke5 Kd7 49. g4 Ke7 50. h5 Kd7 51. Bf5+ Ke7 52. Bd3 Kd7 53. Bf5+ Ke7 54. c6 Bg8 55. Bg6 Kd8 56. Bf5 Ke7 57. Bg6 Kd8 58. d6 Bc4 59. Be4 Bb3 60. Bf3 Bc4 61. Be4 Bb3 62. Bd5 Bd1 63. Be6 Bc2 64. Bd7 Bd3 65. Kd5 Bc2 66. dxc7+ Kxc7 67. Ke6 g6 68. Kf6 gxh5 69. gxh5 Kd8 70. Kg7 Ke7 71. Kxh6 Bd1 72. Kg6 Bf3 73. h6 Kf8 74. c7 Bb7 75. h7 1-0


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

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White: Adams, Michael
Black: Harvey, Marcus R
Date: 12/01/2019


1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 gxf6 7. Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O f5 9. Nc3 b5 10. Nf3 Qd6 11. Ne5 Nd7 12. f4 Bb7 13. Rg1 Nxe5 14. fxe5 Qb6 15. g4 Rg8 16. Qf2 fxg4 17. Bg2 O-O-O 18. Bxb7+ Kxb7 19. Rxg4 Rxg4 20. Qf3+ Qc6 21. Qxg4 f5 22. exf6 Bxf6 23. Kb1 b4 24. Ne2 e5 25. d5 Rxd5 26. Rxd5 Qxd5 27. Qxb4+ Kc6 28. Qc3+ Kb7 29. Qe1 e4 30. Ng3 Be5 31. Nxe4 1/2-1/2


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

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White: McShane, Luke J
Black: Clarke, Brandon G I
Date: 12/01/2019


1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. d4 cxd4 5. Qxd4 a6 6. Bxd7+ Bxd7 7. Nc3 e5 8. Qd3 Rc8 9. O-O h6 10. Nd2 Qc7 11. Rd1 Bg4 12. Re1 Nf6 13. Nf1 Be7 14. Qg3 g6 15. a4 Be6 16. Ne3 Qc6 17. Qf3 Kf8 18. a5 Kg7 19. Bd2 Qd7 20. Red1 h5 21. Qe2 h4 22. f3 g5 23. Na4 Qc6 24. Nb6 Rcg8 25. c4 Nh5 26. Nbd5 Nf4 27. Qf2 Bf8 28. b3 f6 29. Ng4 Bxg4 30. fxg4 h3 31. g3 Nxd5 32. exd5 Qd7 33. Qf3 Be7 34. Be3 Rc8 35. Ra2 Bd8 36. Qe4 Rf8 37. Rf1 b5 38. axb6 Qb7 39. c5 dxc5 40. Bxg5 Qxb6 41. Raf2 Qd6 42. Rf5 Be7 43. Bh6+ 1-0


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

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White: Pert, Nicholas
Black: Jones, Gawain C B
Date: 12/01/2019


1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. Bg5 c5 6. d5 h6 7. Bh4 d6 8. e3 Bf5 9. Nd2 g5 10. Bg3 Nbd7 11. Be2 a6 12. O-O Qb6 13. e4 Bg6 14. Rb1 e6 15. a3 Rfe8 16. b4 cxb4 17. axb4 exd5 18. Nxd5 Nxd5 19. cxd5 Bxe4 20. Nc4 Qd8 21. Bd3 Bxd3 22. Qxd3 Ne5 23. Bxe5 Bxe5 24. Nxe5 Rxe5 25. Qd4 Qe7 26. Rbc1 Re8 27. h3 Qd7 28. f4 Rf5 29. Rf2 Qe7 30. fxg5 Rxf2 31. Qxf2 hxg5 32. Kh1 Qe4 33. Qd2 Re5 34. Rd1 g4 35. Qc3 Rh5 36. Kg1 gxh3 37. Qg3+ Qg6 38. Qxg6+ fxg6 39. gxh3 Rxh3 40. Rc1 Rb3 41. Rc8+ Kf7 42. Rc7+ Kf6 43. Rxb7 Ke5 44. Ra7 Rxb4 45. Rxa6 Rf4 46. Ra5 Rd4 47. Kf2 Rxd5 48. Ra8 Kf4 49. Ra4+ Kf5 50. Ke3 g5 51. Ra8 Re5+ 52. Kf2 Kf4 53. Ra4+ Re4 54. Ra5 Rd4 55. Ke2 g4 56. Ra8 Kg3 57. Rg8 Rf4 58. Rg5 Rf6 59. Rg8 Kh3 0-1


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

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White: Horton, Andrew P
Black: Howell, David W L
Date: 12/01/2019


1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Bg4 4. Bg2 e6 5. O-O Nf6 6. b3 Nbd7 7. Bb2 Bd6 8. d4 Qb8 9. Nbd2 O-O 10. Re1 Re8 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Rxe4 Bh5 14. Qd2 a5 15. a3 Qc7 16. Rae1 Rad8 17. Qc3 Nf6 18. R4e2 c5 19. dxc5 Bxc5 20. b4 axb4 21. axb4 Bf8 22. h3 Bxf3 23. Bxf3 b6 24. Rc1 Rc8 25. Rec2 Red8 26. c5 bxc5 27. bxc5 Nd5 28. Bxd5 Rxd5 29. c6 h5 30. h4 Rc5 31. Qe3 Rd5 32. Rd2 Qd6 33. Rxd5 Qxd5 34. Qc3 f6 35. Ba3 Rc7 36. Bxf8 Kxf8 37. Qb4+ Kf7 38. Qb6 Qd6 39. Qb5 Kg6 40. Qe2 Qd5 41. Qc2+ Kf7 42. Qc3 Kg6 43. Qc2+ Kf7 44. Qc3 Kg6 1/2-1/2


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

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White: Harvey, Marcus R
Black: Adams, Michael
Date: 12/01/2019


1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 e6 4. e3 Bd6 5. c4 O-O 6. Qc2 c5 7. cxd5 exd5 8. d4 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nc6 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Nd2 c5 12. Bd3 Bb7 13. O-O d4 14. e4 Ng4 15. Nf3 Qc7 16. h3 Nh2 17. Nxh2 Bxh2+ 18. Kh1 Bf4 19. Bc1 Rac8 20. Bxf4 Qxf4 21. Qc1 Qd6 22. f4 f6 23. Qc4+ Kh8 24. Rae1 Rfe8 25. Qf7 Re7 26. Qh5 Qc6 27. Rf2 Ba6 28. Qe2 Bxd3 29. Qxd3 Rce8 30. Rfe2 Qd6 31. Rf2 g6 32. Kh2 a5 33. g3 Qc6 34. Rfe2 Kg7 35. h4 h5 36. Kg1 Re6 37. Kf2 R8e7 38. Qf3 a4 39. e5 Qxf3+ 40. Kxf3 axb3 41. axb3 fxe5 42. fxe5 Rb6 43. Ke4 Rxb3 44. Kd5 Rd7+ 45. Kc6 Rbb7 46. e6 Rbc7+ 47. Kb5 Rd8 48. e7 Rb8+ 49. Kc4 Re8 50. Re4 Kf7 51. Rf1+ Kg7 52. Rfe1 Kf7 1/2-1/2


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

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White: Clarke, Brandon G I
Black: McShane, Luke J
Date: 12/01/2019


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. Bg5 Be7 7. O-O d6 8. Nbd2 Ng4 9. Bxe7 Nxe7 10. d4 Ng6 11. Re1 Qe7 12. Nf1 Nh4 13. Ng3 Nxf3+ 14. Qxf3 Qf6 15. Qxf6 Nxf6 16. Bc4 Re8 17. f3 Be6 18. Bxe6 Rxe6 19. d5 Ree8 20. c4 a5 21. Ne2 Kf8 22. Nc3 Ke7 23. b3 c6 24. Red1 Nd7 25. Kf2 g6 26. Ke3 h5 27. Rd2 c5 28. g3 h4 29. g4 g5 30. Kd3 Ra6 31. Nb5 Rc8 32. a3 Kd8 33. Rda2 Rca8 34. Kc3 Kc8 35. Rb1 Kd8 36. a4 1/2-1/2


Results from: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/

This week we have a new Eagle Quest game to play. A new adventure will appear here on Wednesday afternoon 29 December. Bamboozle will return in January. Press red to enter the mysterious world of Castle Knightmare...


This is an adventure game using the fast text colour buttons on certain televisions. Once you begin your adventure, you will undertake a fantastic journey. Mistakes may force you to retrace your steps - only perseverance, wit and courage will take you to the end of the Knightmare trail.

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This Month in....1985 (ZX Spectrum)


1 Sabre Wolf

2 Lords Of Midnight

3 Daley Thompson's Decathlon

4 Monty Mole

5 Matchpoint

6 Underwurlde

7 Jet Set Willy

8 Full Throttle

9 Atic Atac

10 Pyjamarama


ZX Spectrum Charts taken from Crash

Others will be added when available

This Month in....1990 (ZX Spectrum)


1 Paperboy

2 Batman: The Movie

3 Crazy Cars

4 Mansell's GP

5 Short Circuit

6 Barbarian

7 MiG 29

8 GB Super League

9 Soccer 7

10 International Football


All Charts taken from C&VG

This Month in....1995 (Amiga)


1 Tower Assault

2 Football Glory

3 Premier Manager 3

4 Guardian

5 Rise of the Robots


Sega Charts taken from C&VG

Nintendo Charts taken from C&VG

Amiga Charts taken from Amiga Format or C&VG

This Month in....1997 (Saturn)


1 Daytona USA CCE

2 Sega Worldwide Soccer '97

3 Tomb Raider

4 Fighting Vipers

5 Night Warriors

6 Madden NFL '97

7 Virtua Cop

8 NiGHTS

9 Bust-a-Move 2

10 Athlete Kings


Sega Saturn Charts from Sega Saturn Magazine, with thanks to @SegaMags

This Month in....2000 (PC)


1 Theme Park World

2 Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings

3 FIFA 2000

4 F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2000

5 GTA 2

6 Driver

7 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000

8 Pharaoh

9 Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

10 Rally Championship


N64 & PlayStation Charts taken from C&VG

PC Charts taken from PC Zone

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