They are the seemingly simple questions that have become a staple of the popular pub quiz, but for the first time, a new research study has pinpointed the top ten frequently asked general knowledge questions that leave Brits baffled.

The research, which was specially commissioned to launch digital channel Dave’s new website, asked 3,000 adult respondents from across the UK to answer 20 of the most common posed pub quiz questions.

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Stephen Fry was very nearly an American. Just before he was born, his father was offered, but turned down, a job at Princeton University. The writer and actor explores the country which he might have called home and which has always fascinated him. Stephen hires a US cab and sets about visiting each and every one of the 50 US States, to experience for himself the variety of people and places that make up the country.

In this first episode, Stephen explores the states that make up New England, before heading south to the nation’s capital and ending up at the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, where Abraham Lincoln made his famous address. Read more & comment »

Following on from his widely acclaimed series The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive, Stephen Fry tackles the world of HIV and Aids in this two-part documentary.

In the early Eighties, little was known about Aids or how to treat it but, in the UK, people were warned of its dangers via the “Don’t Die of Ignorance” campaigns. Twenty years later, however, we are told that we’re “losing the fight against Aids”. Infections are rising, particularly amongst three groups: the young; black African communities; and heterosexuals. The number of new infections amongst straight people now outweighs those in the gay world.

Illustrating the changing face of the virus, Stephen meets a range of people one wouldn’t expect to be affected, including a positive grandmother, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was born with the virus and HIV-positive couples who set out to have HIV-free children. Read more & comment »