Joel Merrick, index page 100

Bamboozle

13 questions on old telly, Teletext and home computers. Get one wrong and it's back to the start.

  1. Q1. In which year did the BBC launch Ceefax?

    • 1968
    • 1974
    • 1981
    • 1986
    Reveal

    A. Green: 1974. September 1974. It kept going until 2012.

  2. Q2. On Ceefax, which page brought up the subtitles?

    • 100
    • 302
    • 500
    • 888
    Reveal

    A. Cyan: 888. Page 888. Try typing it here.

  3. Q3. Until the end of 1992, ITV's teletext service was called what?

    • Prestel
    • Minitel
    • ORACLE
    • Ceefax 2
    Reveal

    A. Yellow: ORACLE. ORACLE, on ITV and Channel 4.

  4. Q4. How many characters fit across one row of a Teletext page?

    • 32
    • 64
    • 40
    • 80
    Reveal

    A. Yellow: 40. Forty, which is why this whole site is forty wide.

  5. Q5. What was the BBC's in-vision teletext programme, with music over the pages, called?

    • Pages from Ceefax
    • Ceefax AM
    • Ceefax Tonight
    • Teletext Plus
    Reveal

    A. Red: Pages from Ceefax. Pages from Ceefax.

  6. Q6. What was the first programme on Channel 4 when it launched in November 1982?

    • Brookside
    • The Tube
    • Channel 4 News
    • Countdown
    Reveal

    A. Cyan: Countdown. Countdown.

  7. Q7. Which puppet kept Phillip Schofield company in the CBBC Broom Cupboard?

    • Edd the Duck
    • Gordon the Gopher
    • Roland Rat
    • Orville
    Reveal

    A. Green: Gordon the Gopher. Gordon the Gopher.

  8. Q8. In Knightmare, what did the dungeoneer wear on their head?

    • The Helmet of Justice
    • The Crown of Ages
    • The Hood of Shadows
    • The Visor of Truth
    Reveal

    A. Red: The Helmet of Justice. The Helmet of Justice, which meant they couldn't see a thing.

  9. Q9. Which company built the BBC Micro?

    • Sinclair Research
    • Amstrad
    • Acorn
    • Commodore
    Reveal

    A. Yellow: Acorn. Acorn Computers.

  10. Q10. The ZX Spectrum launched in 1982 with 16K of memory, or how much?

    • 32K
    • 48K
    • 64K
    • 128K
    Reveal

    A. Green: 48K. 48K.

  11. Q11. Which space trading game first came out on the BBC Micro in 1984?

    • Manic Miner
    • Chuckie Egg
    • Knight Lore
    • Elite
    Reveal

    A. Cyan: Elite. Elite.

  12. Q12. Joel spent five years at which research department?

    • BBC R&D
    • NASA
    • Jodrell Bank
    • The Met Office
    Reveal

    A. Red: BBC R&D. BBC R&D.

  13. Q13. Some of Joel's code is in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Where is that?

    • Under Lancaster Castle
    • Antarctica
    • A mine in Svalbard
    • Morecambe Bay
    Reveal

    A. Yellow: A mine in Svalbard. In an old mine in Svalbard. Morecambe Bay would have been cheaper.