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Old 21-07-2014, 22:44
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:55
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12-Irwin Stone

1.What G is a severe traffic jam, usually at a junction, in which no one can move?
2.What name is given to a slight raising of the shoulders to indicate indifference or uncertainty?
3.In the original arcade game, what colour was Pacman?
4.What is the name of the soft, fluffy confectionary, often toasted over fires?
5.Current affairs: which energy company sent a couple a £500m bill after a computer error?
6.In computing, nooglers is a nickname given to new employees of which technology company?

7.The Talmud is a sacred text in which religion?
8.The duodecimal system is a numbering system with which number as its base?
9.An element has an atomic number of 26 and it has 30 neutrons. What is its atomic weight?
10.Leopoldville is the former name of which African capital city?
11.The paintings Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto are by which Renaissance master?
12.Who was the Milesian woman, celebrated for her talents and beauty, who lived at Athens as Pericles's mistress?
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:57
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1. Gridlock

2. Shrug

3. Yellow

4. Marshmallow

5. No idea

6. Microsoft
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:57
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7. Hebrew/Jewish

Changed 6 to Google, as Noogle
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:58
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2.Shug
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5.Scottish Power
6.Google

7.Sikhism
8.2
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10.Kinshasa
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:58
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2. Shrug
3. Yellow
4. Marshmallow
5. British gas?
6. Google
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:58
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:58
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All correct Mrs Teapot (Judaism) AxG (except 5,7,8)
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:58
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1. Gridlock
2. Shrug
3. Yellow
4. Marshmellow
5. That's got to be NPower. They're useless and had a lot of technical issues over the last 2 years.
6. Google
7. Jewish?
8. 2
9. It's been a long time since I've done physics
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Old 22-07-2014, 21:59
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Just 5 is wrong P_P and 7 bcdee

8,9,11,12
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Old 22-07-2014, 22:00
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8. 12?
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Old 22-07-2014, 22:00
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Just 8 is wrong Dare Devil

8,9,11,12
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Old 22-07-2014, 22:01
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Posted at the same time 12 is right

9,11,12
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Old 22-07-2014, 22:01
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ignore, got it right with my second guess.
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Old 22-07-2014, 22:08
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1.Gridlock
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6. Got to be Google
7.Jewish
8.12
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Old 22-07-2014, 22:10
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All correct Sallysally

9,12
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Old 23-07-2014, 21:55
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12-Aspasia

1.If you strive not to be outdone by your neighbours you are keeping up with the... whom?
2.A trick or prank played on someone to make them look silly is known as a practical.... what?
3.What D is the rehearsal of an evacuation procedure so that it can be carried out in case of an emergency?
4.In classified property listings, what do the letters GCH stand for?
5.The wife of the president of the United States is known as the First.... what?
6.Which word follows doner and shish to give the names of two varieties of a Mediterranean dish?

7.Picture: this is the spaceship from which 1986 film? http://www.postimage.org/image/90of0s663/
8.In American history, the state of Vermont in 1777 was the first to abolish what practice?
9.In nature, Bornean and Sumatran are the two subspecies of which of the great apes?
10.Which area of central London, in the borough of Camden, gives its name to the group of writers, artists and thinkers who lived or met there in the early twentieth-century?
11.Which abbey became the main meeting place for the Hell Fire Club?
12.Which Puccini opera is dubbed the poor man's Traviata?
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Old 23-07-2014, 21:58
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4 Gas Central Heating
5 Lady
6 Kebab
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Old 23-07-2014, 21:58
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All correct bcdee

3,7,9-12
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Old 23-07-2014, 21:58
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1. Kardashians Jones'
2. Joke
5. First Lady
6. Kebab
7. Alien?
8. Slavery?
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Old 23-07-2014, 22:00
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Just 7 is wrong P_P
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Old 23-07-2014, 22:03
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1. Joneses
2. joke
3. drill
4 gas central heating
5. Lady
6. kebab
7. The Navigator
8.slavery
9. orang utans
10. Bloomsbury
11 Medmenham Abbey
12. La Rondine
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Old 23-07-2014, 22:05
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All correct Sallysally, but there is a bit before The Navigator for Q7 please

7
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Old 23-07-2014, 22:08
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All correct Sallysally, but there is a bit before The Navigator for Q7 please

7
Sorry, I thought you just wanted the ship identified.

How about The Flight of the Navigator?
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Old 23-07-2014, 22:09
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That's it

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