Welcome to India

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1. NeutralDanBCDec 3, 2012

   A) In the 1980s there was a rabies scare in the UK. There was a TV series about rabies; a man tried to extort money by threatening to import rabies and release infected foxes.

   i) What was the name of that TV series?

   ii) Are there any newspaper reports about that man and his scheme?

   B) Recently on british tv (probably BBC) there was a programme about people (possibly Indian?) who lived by reclaiming gold.

   i) What is this tv programme called

   ii) BONUS: Is there an on-demand legal playback for this programme? Is there a transcript for this programme?

   (it is Welcome to India (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n8278) )

   C) I watched a movie / tv programme.

   i) What was the song played during that scene?

   ii) What make of watch was the character wearing?

   D) ALMOST ANYTHING USING AMAZON'S SEARCH TAKES FAR FAR TOO LONG AND IT IS A HATEFUL EXPERIENCE (apologies to any Amazoners reading this, but come on, the search is broken.)

   E) I want a new spectacles case. I want it to be really freaking nice. I'm not sure what I want, but I'd know it when I saw it. I think I want something machined from a lump of aluminium / aluminum or a nice titanium shell. A solid, well made, box.

   i) How can I find the case I want, while avoiding the SEO'd warehouses of bulk cheap and nasty glasses case websites?

   I have lots of examples of things that take me too long to find. I used to know how to tweak the search query to get Google to give me better results. I've lost that ability, and the tweaking sometimes takes me longer than I'm interested in the subject. Sometimes I go back with a fresh mind and the tweak is obvious.

   I'll keep a list of queries that don't work. (And the fixed query if I find it.)