{"id":3821,"date":"2020-11-17T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:32:49","slug":"the-demon-head-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"The Demon Head Master&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a socially distanced walk with one my old <strong><em>Head Teacher<\/em> <\/strong>friends this afternoon so guess what today&#8217;s quiz theme will be?<\/p>\n<p>Again there was a marvellous <em><strong>murmuration<\/strong> <\/em>to watch and a noisy <strong><em>Water Rail<\/em> <\/strong>giving an additional soundtrack to the wing beats!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Answers on <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Paul Simon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Scarborough Fair<\/strong> <\/span>was the traditional song that Simon and Garfunkel recorded\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Widnes<\/strong> <\/span>is the railway station (Warrington also claims it but Widnes had the plaque on the wall!) c) Graceland broke the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Apartheid cultural boycott<\/strong> <\/span>d) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>America<\/strong> <\/span>was the song e) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Tom and Jerry<\/strong> <\/span>was the first name Simon and Garfunkel performed under<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Horrible Head Teachers and Teachers in Literature<\/strong> <\/em>(I might do a positive one in a future blog!)<\/p>\n<p>a) Who wrote the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Demon Head Master<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 b) Who was the cruel teacher in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Nicholas Nickleby<\/strong><\/span> and the name of his school?\u00a0\u00a0 c) Who is the horrible Headteacher in <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Matilda<\/strong><\/span>? d) Who was the unpleasant short term <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Headmistress of Hogwarts<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 e) Which book does <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Mr Brocklehurst and Lowood School<\/strong> <\/span>come from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a socially distanced walk with one my old Head Teacher friends this afternoon so guess what today&#8217;s quiz theme will be? 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