'Like a man with a fork, in a world of soup'. Does this describe anyone you can think of?
on February 14th, 2012 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Can anyone tell me why Switzerland has a navy?
on August 10th, 2009 | 7 answers | 6 people like this

Are there any artifacts that appear in the Silmarillion that also appear in The Hobbit and/or LOTR?
on November 30th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Which parts of Beleriand did not sink into the sea?
on November 29th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What happened to the inhabitants of Belegost and Nogrod during and after Beleriand sank?
on November 29th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What exactly was Ungoliant and where did she come from?
on November 29th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

Where does a catfish keep it's tastebuds?
on January 16th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What did Samuel Pepys bury in his garden during the Great Fire of London in 1666 in order to ensure it's safety?
on January 16th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Which earlier heroic love affair in Middle Earth does Aragorn and Arwen's relationship mirror? How are the two tales (and their...
on December 5th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

25 million tax records have 'gone missing' in the UK. This includes the bank details, National Insurance numbers and personal...
on November 20th, 2007 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Did rabbits and carrots originate in the same place?
on November 19th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

What colour were the first carrots? When and why did orange carrots appear?
on November 18th, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

For what reasons is King Edgar the Peaceful (c943 - 975) really badly named?
on November 18th, 2007 | One answer

'If it wasn't for ignorance, we'd never learn anything.' What do you think?
on November 18th, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Where is the 'last of the Bonapartes' buried?
on November 18th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What did Newton say he thought gravity was?
on November 18th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

I'm familiar with Love's Labour's Lost, but is there any evidence for the existence of a play called Love's...
on November 18th, 2007 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

If you shaved a male lion and a male tiger, how would you be able to tell them apart?
on November 17th, 2007 | One answer

What do Hobbits have a passion for, that resulted in Frodo getting into trouble when he was young?
on November 14th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many times was Samwise Gamgee Mayor of Hobbiton?
on November 14th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What title did Gimli take on after the War of the Ring?
on November 14th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

In what year of the Fourth Age did the 'Fellowship of the Ring' finally come to an end? How did this happen and what was...
on November 14th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What was the name of the Dúnedan who led the Dúnedain to meed Aragorn in Rohan? What was his 'official' position,...
on November 14th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Please help - this could save me days of work! Is is possible for info on a spreadsheet to be 'read' row by row and printed in...
on November 14th, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

What was the name of Aragorn's sword before it was reforged, and who originally made it?
on November 10th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many Dúnedain came to meet Aragorn in Rohan, what was their leader's name and what was the name of the horse they bring...
on November 10th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What is an absolute must for a Hobbit will to be 'legal'?
on November 8th, 2007 | One answer | 3 people like this

Who was Denethor's rival in his youth (and one of Denethor's reasons for mistrusting Gandalf), what was his name and who was he?
on November 3rd, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Would anyone on AB like to sign the petition to bring a UK television programme, QI, to the USA? All help gratefully received - I promise...
on October 29th, 2007 | 3 answers

What is a Crookes' Radiometer, what does it do and how does it work?
on August 26th, 2007 | One answer

Who was 'The Mad Lord'?
on August 26th, 2007 | no answers

Whose last words to a nun who was caring for him were, "Bless you, Sister. May all your sons be bishops."?
on August 14th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

What was a leotard called before it became known as a leotard?
on August 13th, 2007 | One answer

When shopping, will anyone out there admit to occasional 'trolley rage'?
on August 12th, 2007 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Are there any rules (universal or national) that govern/influence the naming of racehorses?
on August 4th, 2007 | 3 answers | 5 people like this

Work question unfortunately. Laptop with Vista. Can receive but not send e-mails. 'Create new message' button greyed out....
on July 25th, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Can anyone explain to me what 'white brethren' are when referred to in a spiritualist context?
on July 18th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Can someone give me an definition of the word 'Aristical'?
on July 14th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Can anyone explain the term 'Ethnomethodology' to me?
on July 7th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What are your feelings on the morality of the plea-bargaining system vs the ideal of justice within society? Please give examples where...
on June 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Me and Mrs Witch are planning to go to Menorca for our honeymoon in October, just the two of us. Can anyone suggest hotels, resorts,...
on June 20th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Can you think of any benefits that the modern 'cult of celebrity' can bring to society? If you can (or can't) please say...
on June 18th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Were 'Pulp' the last popular 'punk derivitive' band in the UK?
on June 18th, 2007 | One answer

Where did the people who were first given the name 'Aborigine' live?
on June 17th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

What, by area covered, is the largest living thing on our planet?
on June 17th, 2007 | 2 answers

Who was the first person known to have postulated the theory that the Earth goes round the Sun?
on June 17th, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What do a Greasy Butcher and Jean Pitney have in common? It's nothing to do with music.
on June 17th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Which creature has the largest brain size as a % of it's body mass and what is the %?
on June 17th, 2007 | One answer

Apart from humans, what is the only creature that is known to be capable of contracting leprosy?
on June 17th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What do Sherlock Holmes and the longest creature on earth have in common?
on June 17th, 2007 | 10 answers | 9 people like this

What is the dryest place on earth and when (roughly) did it last rain there?
on June 17th, 2007 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

"Civilisation is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades." (Thomas B. Aldrich). Would you agree? Please state why...
on June 15th, 2007 | One answer

Why are so many people dissatisfied with life in the UK? Please explain why in as much detail as you can. Equally, and again with as much...
on June 15th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Can anyone in the medical profession (from any country) confirm that motorbike riders are often known as 'donors'?
on June 14th, 2007 | One answer

What is the only car (that was once) made in Wales?
on June 13th, 2007 | One answer

What in your experience is the most completely useless pet or 'working' animal you have ever known or owned? Something which is...
on June 11th, 2007 | 2 answers

Our ancestors from c. 500 AD and before often used but did not encroach onto already established (and sometimes very old) burial sites,...
on June 11th, 2007 | One answer

What's your view on why Neanderthals no longer exist?
on June 11th, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Do plug-in sonic deterents really work against rodents?
on June 7th, 2007 | 3 answers

Which way do you think a moral compass points?
on May 18th, 2007 | 11 answers | 5 people like this

Can anyone provide an historical background for the term 'Swashbuckling'?
on May 17th, 2007 | One answer

Can anyone estimate how alcoholic the wine of the ancient world (that the Greeks for example, watered down) would have been?
on May 12th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What was D'Artagnan's real name?
on May 12th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

How can you tell if a wine is 'corked'?
on May 12th, 2007 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

Assuming Florence Maybrick, 1862-1941 was not guilty, should her descendents in the US have a claim for compensation on a modern UK...
on May 11th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Which is better, the origional filmed-for-tv production of 'Salem's Lot' with David Soul or the more modern version with...
on May 11th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Does anyone out there (probably in the UK) possess a vinyl copy of 'The Wit & Wisdom of Ronald Reagan', produced by Stiff...
on May 11th, 2007 | no answers

How does one go about getting an ex-husband to remove his name from the deeds to a UK property?
on May 10th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Is the superb mid-90's comedy series 'Father Ted' viewed or indeed known about in the US or anywhere outside the UK?
on May 10th, 2007 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Does anyone who works in a sausage factory and sees what they are composed of actually eat them?
on May 10th, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Does humanity's (and by extention the planet's) best hope for the future lie in religion, politics or science? Please give...
on May 10th, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Has anyone read the complete works of Carlos Castaneda, and has anyone tried some of the 'exercises' his books advise? If so,...
on May 8th, 2007 | 2 answers

Given the amount of 'evidence' (ESP/ghost sightings, premonitions, spiritualists, mediums, etc), can it possibly be true that...
on May 7th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

I'm curious, does anyone out there still play Runequest?
on May 7th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Who was the first American-born woman to stand trial in the Uk for murder? I think I know, but would be interested to find any others...
on May 6th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Husband goes into residential care, treatment of mental problem. Can wife move between housing association home to council house or to...
on April 24th, 2007 | One answer

I'm a great fan of 'The Far Side' cartoons. Anyone have same/other opinions? Please recommend others with info if possible.
on April 18th, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

I've looked and looked but nowhere can I find copies of the first few 'Q' series (Q5-Q8) by Spike Milligan. Can anyone help?
on April 11th, 2007 | no answers

I remember reading a semi-fictional book about Sawney Beane, infamous Scottish cannibal, in the late 70's/early 80's. Now I can...
on April 11th, 2007 | 8 answers | 4 people like this

Anyone know of a band, c. early 80's called 'Wilmot Langenkopf', favourably reviewed by John Cooper-Clarke in 1981?
on April 10th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this