Lunchtime Bonus Question
The fourth in our series of one-off, never-to-be-repeated revivals of the veteran Lunchtime Bonus Question, in which we give you an answer and you try to be funny by suggesting what the question might have been.
For one final time, the Lunchtime Bonus Question (in which we give an answer and you suggest a supposedly amusing wrong question) is milking its comeback tour again.
It would be all too easy to suggest that, on the 30th anniversary of the death of the original (something marked by our colleagues at Radio Two), that the LBQ's own comeback should commemorate Elvis's 1968 effort. But that would be too obvious.
Instead it seems fitting to mark the anniversary of the birth of Hugo Gernsback, dubbed the "father of science fiction", who by launching magazines such as Amazing Stories (great name, by the way) created a whole genre which has done so much to enrich the lives of modern man, woman, child and geek.
Intensive research (ie reading ) also credits Gernsback with creating "science fiction fandom" by taking the revolutionary step of publishing the addresses of people who wrote letters to his magazines. This meant they could contact each other, and whole networks of fans sprang up. Kind of reminds us here at Magazine Towers of the beauty of social networking. Like the on Facebook, now with nearly 500 members.
So today's answer is TWO NOTES FOR TWO DAYS. Send your questions using the comments box below. The most wrong will be published. The least wrong will be sniffed at.
Comments
How would you describe the worst guitar solo ever?
How did Pete Doherty bunk off school to go to Glastonbury?
What is the name of the new John Cage-inspired piece?
Let off P.E. again? How many excuses do you have this time?
Exactly what was it about his whistle that drove you attempted murder with a bread knife?
5 gold rings,
4 calling birds,
3 french hens,
er, whats next?
What do I have to do to get some time off round here?
Zoe Heller had a really good weekend?
The minute waltz, in slow motion?
Amid cries of A levels being too easy, the UK's top scoring student reveals her studies amounted to?
What's the motto of the Weekend Counterpoint Society?
Stalker versus secret admirer?
What did Mariah Carey threathen to sing?
How much does Gordon Brown now pay civil servants in subsistence allowance ?
So your wife hasn't spoken to you all weekend? How do you know when your dinner is ready then?
The Crazy Frog ring tone sounded like...?
Why am I never likely to win Secretary of the Year?
In the first draft of Wagner's ring cycle. What was the original weak ending (week-ending!) to the final opera?
'ere me old China what's it cost for me and me trouble n' strife to stay at your rubbadub ?
What drove Mrs X to murder her neighbour who could only remember the first bar of chopsticks?
What were the results of the 'giant post-it speed writing' record attempt?
Minutes of the AGM of Apathetics Anonymous?
So Mr Under Secretary, what was the result of the first Brown Bush meetings?
Pocket money inflation?
How much music will the Spice Girls sing for £2,000,000?
How do you know your canary's caught avian flu?
Why did the postman have to ring twice?
As you serious Beethoven? You've been composing solidly for 48 hours and all you've come up with is Ta-Da?
Given the current effects of the "credit crunch", what are the revised lending terms currently being offered by most high street banks?
How much did I bribe the Monitor to bring back the LBQ?
A typical Mike Leigh movie script.
After the Pussycat threatened to throw him overboard, what did the Owl confine himself to?
How does the MM know that Stig is busy in work?
How do you know when your MP3 player needs recharging?
The Daily Express has a new lead story – so what’s the ‘Diana conspiracy’ been demoted to?
What was Eric Clapton's original title for his album 'Slowhand'?
A Level Physics Q34. Describe the relationship between time and sound frequency?
When Bridget has drunk 8 glasses of chardonnay and feels v.v. bad?
How not to be seen as blowing your own trumpet?
How do you make £35 million last a lifetime?
Introducing our new policy to control the amount of emails in the office.
For how long has our daughter been singing the second part of "Over the Rainbow" ?