Idioms:

1. Through thick and thin
2. Every cloud has a silver lining
3. Fly off the handle

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More chickens than people (I didn’t actually believe this one, that’ll teach me…)

World population clock

Battery farming

Nandos (cheeky)

Wedding vows

CGI

Banana’s Introduced to the UK

It’s a Wonderful Life

Fat sign of wealth

Henriest Henry

Feeding the multitude (5000, woop)

Spartans

300 (60%… it deserves much more than that…)

Battle of Thermopylae (boom, got that one right)

Midas

The Land Before Time

Triceratops (not one of those dinosaurs that textbooks got wrong!)

Doomsday Book (got this one right too!)

Non-Newtonian fluid

Bird’s Custard (and this one, good podcast for vague history!)

Smash (the very phrase ‘instant mashed potato’ inspires dread)

Angel Delight

Chaucer

The Lord of the Rings (boring)

Rosetta Stone

Voynich Manuscript (didn’t recall this one though…)

Berenstain Bears Pawadox

Atlantis

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Jason Momoa (will forever be Ronon from Stargate to me)

P. T. Barnum

Star Wars, misquoted

Bleeding Gums Murphy

Bleeding Gums’ voice actors (not JEL)

James Earl Jones

Kimba the White Li