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News from the 1980’s that never made the headlines

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The 1980's Quiz Book

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The 1980's Quiz Book (UK)

The 1980's Quiz Book (US)

 

This quiz book focuses on news from the 1980’s with 20 different categories and over 340 multi-choice questions.

 

These are weird, wonderful and odd stories and all true; for quiz masters needing new and unique material and those who enjoy reading about the slightly bizarre side of real life.

 

Take a short fun quiz on the 1980's Quiz Book page.

The Cambridge Hum

 

The Cambridge Hum is the name of an irritating noise giving hundreds of Britons sleepless nights.

 

The mysterious sound has been reported from various parts of the country over recent years, but despite intensive research into the subject scientists have been unable to locate the source or provide a convincing explanation.

 

Latest reports of the hum come from York where Mr Bill Lang said. “It woke me up about three o’clock in. the morning towards the end of August. I can only describe it at a humming noise like two, diesel engines idling away slightly off beat with each other. My wife heard it as well. It went on until about seven o’clock.

 

Initially the noise hit the Lang household about four to five nights a week, but the frequency has since gone done to two nights. None of their neighbours are affected. “It’s almost as if some malignant person was directing it at our house,” said Mr Lang.

 

York Local Pollution Control Officer, Mr Jim Thompson said. “It’s an airborne noise, low frequency with a beat. That’s really all I know about it.” He had established that the noise had a frequency of about 40 to 42 cycles a second but such a long wavelength that it was virtually impossible to establish the direction of its source.

 

Extensive research has been conducted into the Cambridge Hum by the Department of Acoustics at Chelsea College London. They have established that some complainants suffer from tinnitus, a high pitched whine generated in the ear.

 

Despite the use of directional microphones researchers have so far been unable to detect the source of the external hum plaguing the Langs. Theories include noise generated by the by the Jet Stream - a fast flowing, high altitude mass of air - or the sound of natural gas flowing along the national pipe network.