Weekly Bonus Question
Welcome to the Weekly Bonus Question.
Each week the news quiz will offer an answer. You are invited to suggest what the question might have been.
Suggestions should be sent using the COMMENTS BOX IN THIS ENTRY. And since nobody likes a smart alec, kudos will be deducted for predictability in your suggestions.
This week's answer is IN TIMES OF JACUZZI. But what's the question?
UPDATE 1604 BST: The correct question is, Hugo Chavez has urged Venezuelans to stop singing in the bath and to only take three-minute showers to save water and energy. Why?
He said: "What kind of communism is that? We're not in times of Jacuzzi." (More details - )
Of your wilfully and deliberately wrong questions, we liked:
- TheRealCatherineO's When are parents most embarrassing?
- ClockworkBanana's Reading the newspaper in the bath?
- tengearbatbike's When should you break glass to remove emergency swimming trunks?
- And MightyGiddyUpGal's Working title of the next Bond film?
Thanks to all who entered.
Comment number 1.
At 23rd Oct 2009, BaldoBingham wrote:When can you safely break wind in the bath?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, rogueslr wrote:The line 'Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble' came to Shakespeare when?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ClockworkBanana wrote:When the Dreyfus Affair was big news?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ClockworkBanana wrote:When Jack Hughes joined the Mafia?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Rob Falconer wrote:When Michael Jackson named his chimpanzee?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:Pardon me for being free - It was not the food, it was just me
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At 23rd Oct 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:Andrew Flintoff's bath has a built-in supply of Alka-Seltzers
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At 23rd Oct 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:I told you I could smell gas.
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At 23rd Oct 2009, GervaseFen wrote:Michael Bubl茅's bath?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, GervaseFen wrote:Sir John Everett Millais gets an idea for a painting whilst in the bath
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:Pamela Anderson highlighting her best naked moments?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, GervaseFen wrote:OK, it's not the Times of London, but it's not a bad little Italian newspaper
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Pendragon wrote:Every newspaper gets so aerated about the BNP these days
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:You can be snoozy or a floozy....
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Pendragon wrote:What do you use to change the tyre on a little Italian car?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Pendragon wrote:What's not on Robert Pattinson's watch?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:It was the bath of times and the worth of times?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:Bad translation of Zola?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:MC Hammer enters an Easy Listening phase in his career.
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Dougie wrote:Nick Griffin is in your bath, so it's full of hot air.
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:Polanski revisits 1977?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Dougie wrote:Anagrammatically what does "I'm just oceanic fizz" make?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:When it's all going swimmingly?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Pendragon wrote:If Bollinger made baths ...
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Pendragon wrote:Dreyfus is innocent!
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Not a good time to have a dish washing soap mix-up?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, michaels118 wrote:Housing bubble bursts in times of Jaccuzzi.......
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:Which period in history was noted for its distinct lack of progress?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Where Katie Perry prefers being hot 'n cold?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Charlie Wilson's phwoar?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Mum's euphemism for cooking a lobster?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:When will a plastic pre-formed pond and a hosepipe turned on full mark you as being the wrong side of thrifty?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Hugh Hefner's wedding vows?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ten gear bat bike wrote:When should you break glass to remove emergency swimming trunks?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:When was Dan Brown's symbol lost?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, benny007 wrote:When is it socially acceptable to have a bath outside and in the winter?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Rubber ducky, you're the one?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Donald Barker wrote:When does it help to blow down your straw into a fizzy drink?
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Comment number 39.
At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:When does it pay to hold off remodeling the bath?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:When does Berlusconi get the most job satisfaction?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, benny007 wrote:鈥淚n times of great stress [...] it's always best to keep busy.鈥 - Lee Iacocca
"In times of jacuzzi, it's always best to tie up your dogs" - benny007
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Pendragon wrote:Spring?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:When Jan Moir decides what to write about?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Working title of the next Bond film?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Grandpa's code phrase to hide the copper coil on the still when the coppers arrived?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ClockworkBanana wrote:Reading the newspaper in tne bath?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ClockworkBanana wrote:Reading the newspaper in the bath?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, ClockworkBanana wrote:How to put the wind up Granny?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:What Windows 7 was initially called?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:In which obscure Italian newspaper did Pope Benedict announce that disaffected Anglicans could join with Rome, providing they brought with them sizable bits of real estate which Rome had previously lost between 1529 and 1536 (in other words around about half past three in the afternoon).
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:When鈥檚 a good time to writhe around in terror screaming something about piranhas?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:Epileptics bathtime?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, rogueslr wrote:What's the wrong time to call on Noddy and Big Ears?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, rogueslr wrote:When is it unsafe to use the showers in prison?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:Little known subtitle for the song "I'm forever blowing bubbles"
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Catherine O wrote:When are parents most embarrassing?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:When did I feel least comfortable with my school geography teacher?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:Bath-time for grandfarter?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, rogueslr wrote:When shouldn't you go down to the woods today?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Anne Drogenous wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 23rd Oct 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:When the gift of a plastic wading pool is least appreciated?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:Watch-spring?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:Springwatch?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, BeckySnow wrote:When can you watch a dead spider shoot the rapids?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Raven Clare wrote:In Florence, visiting the Gallery of Sanitary Ware?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jayne Fletlcher-Tomlinson wrote:New work discovered by Emile Zola on why the French hate baths.
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:Complete this sentence which appears on a notice fixed to the wall close to the municipal swimming pool.
PLEASE QUEUE HERE ............
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Let them eat cake
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Raven Clare wrote:I'm afraid he can't speak to you for the moment - he's on the foam
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Eh bien, my leetle grey cells tell me it was the 91热爆 who stole the second 'c' from 'jaccuzzi'
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:Raven-Clare.
Que?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Dave wrote:What was also known as "The Stream Age"?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Dave wrote:When was the term "jetwash" invented?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, quizzzer wrote:Will Hugo Chavez ever have a 10 minutes bath?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Raven Clare wrote:George, I know you're having a bath, but have you seen my food-mixer?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:When should you NOT attempt to paper over the crack?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:In what publication would adverts for plush terry robes and bath salts be found?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:What was Gasseous Clay's favourite post fight passtime?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:In what publication do the main rivals to the journalists who work for the "Daily Bathroom Mirror" write?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, U14183932 wrote:Gabriel Garcia Marquez originally titled his Nobel Prize winning book, Love....what?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Ballanardo wrote:When I'm infectious jazz fell into the anagram machine, it emerged as...
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:What's Dyson's next venture called?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Ballanardo wrote:The mayor of Bath can be relied upon...when?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, RMutt-Urinal wrote:What lyric was changed from the early draft of "Let it Be".
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Jeremy wrote:Incontinence brings a fresh new meaning to "getting your own back" ....
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At 23rd Oct 2009, RMutt-Urinal wrote:When would be a bad time to service the toaster.
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Ballanardo wrote:If you move all the keys on your computer keyboard one place to the right and type "Ub Runwa id H#xy\\u" what actually appears on your screen?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Tony Doyle wrote:In the 21st Century before the recession, how was the first decaded described?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Rob Falconer wrote:Er, no, Derek, that's the washing-machine
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Kipson wrote:What do you get if to use the Babel Fish to translate, "It's bath night" into French, then into German, then Spanish and back into English again?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, tangerinesi wrote:An ancient Roman time zone
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Kipson wrote:If you translate "Wash 'n' Go" into Chinese what does it actually mean?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, TotallyBaffled wrote:When do chavs and chavettes take to the tub but never Chavez?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Kipson wrote:When isn't it a good time to discover you forgot to take your Rolex off?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:And the band played on?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Ulstershaker wrote:What was the original line written by Multi-Millionaire Paul McCartney on Let It Be....'in times of Jacuzzi, Mother Mary comes to me....'
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Dodie James wrote:Where do Media Studies students aspire to?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Candace9839 wrote:Mr Jacuzzi of London publishes his daughter's wedding announcement?
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At 23rd Oct 2009, Dodie James wrote:When you are not in trouble, where do you find yourself?
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