This is the Illusionist, in which I, Helen Salzman, wafted language with a fan while

it drinks a tall icy beverage. I'm on a holiday with my family for the first time since

1988, so for this episode I have enlisted my brother Andy, who some of you know from comedy

or cricket commentary or his podcast The Bugle or episode one of this podcast about puns

or bartending at the High Rocks Inn in Kent in the 1990s, I don't know how you might

know him, and it's the annual Quiz Illusionist episode. It is multiple choice, 13 points

are available, so grab a pencil and paper to log your answers, or you can use the interactive

answer sheet at theillusionist.org slash Andy Quiz. Also, if you go to theillusionist.org

slash donate and sign up to be a member of The Illusionist by 31st of August 2023, you

can choose a word or phrase and I will record it for you, and you can use it as your ringtone

or text alert or alarm or little phrase of affirmation, or it could be finer than me

barking you awake in the morning. Someone has already asked for me to do a Logan Roy

impression, so I'm as curious as anyone to hear how that's going to turn out, and I am

open to more succession requests, so get yourself to theillusionist.org slash donate you ludicrously

capacitors bags, and now on with the quiz.

Who are you? There's no points for this question.

All right, I am Andy's ultimate, I am one of your two brothers, I am a comedian cricket

statistician, and I think that's about it actually, those are my two skills in life.

We've really done more with them than we ever thought possible. I have constructed a quiz

for you to celebrate our family holiday, so it's quite heavy on the classics, some mention

of the comedy, but the first question is about the word bugle, because of your podcast

of eagle, not your childhood trumpeting career, which was hugely impressive, I think moderately

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