Chris Hall
@chrishall62.bsky.social
Retired (former Librarian). History and genealogy lover and Man of Kent
155 on #UniversityChallenge - Starters (6) - Detective, Bonaparte, Collins, Romania, Hardy, organ. Bonus (19) - Turner, Woolf, Little Dorrit, picturesque,Chepstow,Unforgiven, Happy Valley, Cavour, Savoy, Papal States, Lille, Bismarck, Brief Encounter, Browning, Churchill, Heath, Major, Staffs, Salop
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
155 on #UniversityChallenge - Starters (6) - Detective, Bonaparte, Collins, Romania, Hardy, organ. Bonus (19) - Turner, Woolf, Little Dorrit, picturesque,Chepstow,Unforgiven, Happy Valley, Cavour, Savoy, Papal States, Lille, Bismarck, Brief Encounter, Browning, Churchill, Heath, Major, Staffs, Salop
115 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - St Peter, August, Ida, Denmark. 15 bonus - Edith, Otto I, Prague, Buenos Aires, Venice, Pip, Handel, Mango, Rousseau, Matilda, Sunday in the Park with George, Lenin, Ford Madox, Hans Christian and Asia
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
115 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - St Peter, August, Ida, Denmark. 15 bonus - Edith, Otto I, Prague, Buenos Aires, Venice, Pip, Handel, Mango, Rousseau, Matilda, Sunday in the Park with George, Lenin, Ford Madox, Hans Christian and Asia
120 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - Glasgow, Greece, Caravaggio, Gleneagles, Diego Garcia, 14 bonus - Duke of Wellington, Waverley, Sisyphus, Fray Bentos, Gluteus, Great Expectations,Waterhouse,Poussin, Turner, Edward I, Saxon Shore,Agatha Christie,Albert Finney,Jodie Foster
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
120 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - Glasgow, Greece, Caravaggio, Gleneagles, Diego Garcia, 14 bonus - Duke of Wellington, Waverley, Sisyphus, Fray Bentos, Gluteus, Great Expectations,Waterhouse,Poussin, Turner, Edward I, Saxon Shore,Agatha Christie,Albert Finney,Jodie Foster
165 on #UniversityChallenge 8 starters - Pakistan, coal, Benjamin Zephaniah, Beveridge, Macbeth, McCarthy, Botswana, Lincolnshire. 17 bonus - Shakespeare, Wheeler, Gone With The Wind, Howard's End, Martin Chuzzlewit, nuclear, solar, Thomas More, Morton, Horace Walpole. Mozart, signet, Woking....
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
165 on #UniversityChallenge 8 starters - Pakistan, coal, Benjamin Zephaniah, Beveridge, Macbeth, McCarthy, Botswana, Lincolnshire. 17 bonus - Shakespeare, Wheeler, Gone With The Wind, Howard's End, Martin Chuzzlewit, nuclear, solar, Thomas More, Morton, Horace Walpole. Mozart, signet, Woking....
Yesterday (15th Oct) was the anniversary of the 1854 marriage of my great-great-grandparents William Martin & Esther Jane Standen in St Mary's Church, Rye, East Sussex. I don't know who Bathsheba Horne who signed the marriage register was - she sounds like a character from Thomas Hardy
October 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yesterday (15th Oct) was the anniversary of the 1854 marriage of my great-great-grandparents William Martin & Esther Jane Standen in St Mary's Church, Rye, East Sussex. I don't know who Bathsheba Horne who signed the marriage register was - she sounds like a character from Thomas Hardy
110 on #UniversityChallenge - 5 starters - Seymour, Charlotte, Horror, Henry II, Lombardy. 12 bonus - Juniper, Salzburg/Verona, Australia, Southwell, Herefordshire, Durham, Austerlitz, Ypres, Praying mantis, red, Cote d'Azur, drumlin
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
110 on #UniversityChallenge - 5 starters - Seymour, Charlotte, Horror, Henry II, Lombardy. 12 bonus - Juniper, Salzburg/Verona, Australia, Southwell, Herefordshire, Durham, Austerlitz, Ypres, Praying mantis, red, Cote d'Azur, drumlin
115 on Monday's #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - 8.5, M-o-n, A Matter of Life & Death, Bourbon, La Scala. 13 bonuses - Ozymandias, Worcs, Vorticism, Elephant, Purcell, Master of the King's Music, Buxton, Mam Tor, Chatsworth, A Passage to India, To Catch a Thief, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Cornwall
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
115 on Monday's #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - 8.5, M-o-n, A Matter of Life & Death, Bourbon, La Scala. 13 bonuses - Ozymandias, Worcs, Vorticism, Elephant, Purcell, Master of the King's Music, Buxton, Mam Tor, Chatsworth, A Passage to India, To Catch a Thief, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Cornwall
125 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters-Hull,Saxony,Walesa. 19 bonus-Modric,Shirley Temple,Aylesbury,Great Leap Forward,Cultural Revolution,Gang of 4,Touching the Void,Head of John the Baptist,Jezebel, Delilah,Cheshire Cat,Mahler,Goethe,Gray's Elegy,Tintern Abbey, Sondheim,Ruskin,Arts/Crafts,Grasmere
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
125 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters-Hull,Saxony,Walesa. 19 bonus-Modric,Shirley Temple,Aylesbury,Great Leap Forward,Cultural Revolution,Gang of 4,Touching the Void,Head of John the Baptist,Jezebel, Delilah,Cheshire Cat,Mahler,Goethe,Gray's Elegy,Tintern Abbey, Sondheim,Ruskin,Arts/Crafts,Grasmere
120 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - Wordsworth, Canterbury Cathedral, Cliff, Blithe, out out. 14 bonus - Dunkirk, Queens Club, Phillipe Chatrier, Arthur Ashe, Monet, Dickens, Jane Austen, Tom Jones, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Ritchie Valens, Rump, Aioli, Cabaret, Janus
September 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
120 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - Wordsworth, Canterbury Cathedral, Cliff, Blithe, out out. 14 bonus - Dunkirk, Queens Club, Phillipe Chatrier, Arthur Ashe, Monet, Dickens, Jane Austen, Tom Jones, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Ritchie Valens, Rump, Aioli, Cabaret, Janus
110 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - Arnolfini wedding, Rear Window, Carnation, Umbria, Abraham/Isaac, Norway. 10 bonus - Chirac, China/N Korea, Mongolia, aphid, Byron, Grieg, Lady Macbeth, Manila, Damascus, Biafra
September 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
110 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - Arnolfini wedding, Rear Window, Carnation, Umbria, Abraham/Isaac, Norway. 10 bonus - Chirac, China/N Korea, Mongolia, aphid, Byron, Grieg, Lady Macbeth, Manila, Damascus, Biafra
70 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters Leonard Cohen and Thomas Telford, 10 bonus - Breakfast at Tiffany's, George Peppard, Givenchy, Braganza, Strauss, Smetana, barley, grass, Rossetti, 10th
September 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
70 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters Leonard Cohen and Thomas Telford, 10 bonus - Breakfast at Tiffany's, George Peppard, Givenchy, Braganza, Strauss, Smetana, barley, grass, Rossetti, 10th
150 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starter -Mustard,Saddam Hussain,spinnaker,Finnish,Ambassadors,Gothic,Shropshire. 16 bonus-Smeaton,London Midland Scottish,Hogarth,oystercatcher,Epsom Salts,vellum,sporran,Anne Fine,Frank Cottrell Boyce,Jacq Wilson,Bosch,Manet,Saudi Arabia,UAE,Ted Roosevelt,Russo-Jap war
September 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
150 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starter -Mustard,Saddam Hussain,spinnaker,Finnish,Ambassadors,Gothic,Shropshire. 16 bonus-Smeaton,London Midland Scottish,Hogarth,oystercatcher,Epsom Salts,vellum,sporran,Anne Fine,Frank Cottrell Boyce,Jacq Wilson,Bosch,Manet,Saudi Arabia,UAE,Ted Roosevelt,Russo-Jap war
95 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - total football, Mozambique, Babylon, Jamaica, Nova Scotia. 9 bonus -All Quiet on the Western Front, Athens, Paradise Lost, Rhine, Ruhr, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Canto, North East
August 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
95 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - total football, Mozambique, Babylon, Jamaica, Nova Scotia. 9 bonus -All Quiet on the Western Front, Athens, Paradise Lost, Rhine, Ruhr, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Canto, North East
Went to Appledore (Kent) Flower Festival - this year's theme was hobbies - such as painting, stargazing, tennis - some very clever displays
August 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Went to Appledore (Kent) Flower Festival - this year's theme was hobbies - such as painting, stargazing, tennis - some very clever displays
St John The Baptist, Barham, near Canterbury - interesting church with some attractive modern stained glass plus a war memorial featuring Lord Kitchener, who lived nearby at Broome Park
August 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
St John The Baptist, Barham, near Canterbury - interesting church with some attractive modern stained glass plus a war memorial featuring Lord Kitchener, who lived nearby at Broome Park
Walk round Barham near Canterbury this morning - along part of the Elham Valley Way and other paths
August 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Walk round Barham near Canterbury this morning - along part of the Elham Valley Way and other paths
130 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - Van Gogh, Carnegie, Marconi, Isabella of Castille, Offa, lag, Ely. 12 bonus - George, Puritans, Huguenots, Mary Queen of Scots, Blake, Trig point, Paul McCartney and Wings, Farne Islands, Tees, Rennet, Verona, Taming of the Shrew
August 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
130 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - Van Gogh, Carnegie, Marconi, Isabella of Castille, Offa, lag, Ely. 12 bonus - George, Puritans, Huguenots, Mary Queen of Scots, Blake, Trig point, Paul McCartney and Wings, Farne Islands, Tees, Rennet, Verona, Taming of the Shrew
145 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - Nina Simone, rainbow, New Zealand, Carlyle, Zambia & Malawi, 12 Angry Men, Washington Post. 15 bonus - Dickens, Duke of Monmouth, Rye House Plot, Bloody Assizes, Jack/Bobby Charlton, John Wyndham, Murder on the Orient Express,Thessaloniki, Jane Eyre....
August 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
145 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - Nina Simone, rainbow, New Zealand, Carlyle, Zambia & Malawi, 12 Angry Men, Washington Post. 15 bonus - Dickens, Duke of Monmouth, Rye House Plot, Bloody Assizes, Jack/Bobby Charlton, John Wyndham, Murder on the Orient Express,Thessaloniki, Jane Eyre....
100 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - MMA, pistachio, WB Yeats, Canberra, Richard II, bubble. 8 bonus - Sucre, ileum, Caspar David Friedrich, Waiting for Godot, National Gallery, Turner, Van Gogh, Magyar
August 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
100 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - MMA, pistachio, WB Yeats, Canberra, Richard II, bubble. 8 bonus - Sucre, ileum, Caspar David Friedrich, Waiting for Godot, National Gallery, Turner, Van Gogh, Magyar
165 on last night's #UniversityChallenge 9 starters - West, Constable, Cyprus, Merchant of Venice, Liverpool,Hiroshima, Elizabeth Line,Britten, Tawny. 15 bonuses - Existentialism, Yekaterinburg,Vladivostok,Dryden,Gray,Widor,Vaughan Williams,Ptarmigan,Corgi,Peckham,Tyne,Epstein,Hepworth, Essex, Polio
July 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
165 on last night's #UniversityChallenge 9 starters - West, Constable, Cyprus, Merchant of Venice, Liverpool,Hiroshima, Elizabeth Line,Britten, Tawny. 15 bonuses - Existentialism, Yekaterinburg,Vladivostok,Dryden,Gray,Widor,Vaughan Williams,Ptarmigan,Corgi,Peckham,Tyne,Epstein,Hepworth, Essex, Polio
At the Proms last night - seat upgrade from high up in the circle to the front stalls
July 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
At the Proms last night - seat upgrade from high up in the circle to the front stalls
Yesterday to London to Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens and then to the Proms
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Yesterday to London to Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens and then to the Proms
Weekend trip to Northampton - mainly to attend a funeral but did have walk at Hunsbury Hill on Saturday morning. The Northants Ironstone Railway was not open that day though
July 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Weekend trip to Northampton - mainly to attend a funeral but did have walk at Hunsbury Hill on Saturday morning. The Northants Ironstone Railway was not open that day though
90 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bears, Mull, diplomacy. 12 bonuses - daub, Mary Pickford, My Fair Lady, Chiefs, St Stephen, Sanhedrin, St Paul, Northanger Abbey, Thetford, Bordeaux, Brueghel, Rubens
July 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
90 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bears, Mull, diplomacy. 12 bonuses - daub, Mary Pickford, My Fair Lady, Chiefs, St Stephen, Sanhedrin, St Paul, Northanger Abbey, Thetford, Bordeaux, Brueghel, Rubens