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Old 28-10-2013, 21:56
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All correct bcdee
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Old 28-10-2013, 21:57
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4,9 are wrong Barracute
Both correct eugenespeed
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Old 28-10-2013, 21:57
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1.PTB- Pass the Buck

2.RH- Red Herring

3.DLL- Daddy Long Legs

4.TBP- The Black Pig

5.CP- Central Perk

6.AOC- Archbishop of Canterbury

7.AD- Al Dente

8.IOWTBWY I Only Want To Be With You

9.TSOE- The Spirit of Ecstasy

10.THGTTG The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy

11.VDM- Venus De Milo

12. International Talk Like a Pirate Day! (This is weird - I only found out about this earlier today from my grandson!)
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Old 28-10-2013, 21:58
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2. Red herring
5. Central Perk
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Old 28-10-2013, 21:59
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A clean sweep Sallysally Well done to your grandson too
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Old 28-10-2013, 22:00
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Old 28-10-2013, 22:07
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1. Pass the blame
2. Red herring
5. Central Perk
7. Al denté
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Old 28-10-2013, 22:10
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:54
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1.What Y is the involuntary response to tiredness in which the mouth is opened wide and a long deep breath is taken?
2.How many days after Halloween is Bonfire Night?
3.Which three-letter word can be a book of blank paper and a slang term for a living space?
4.What name is given to a flexible pipe that is attached to a tap to convey water to another area of a garden?
5.Current affairs: who is the Patron Saint of lost causes, whose name was given to the recent storm in the south of the country?
6.What two-word name is given to the small device that can be installed to give the early warning of the presence of a fire?

7.The benefit which replaced Incapacity Benefit is ESA. What does ESA stand for?
8.Which grape is the main component of the wine Chianti and is widely thought to take its name from an Italian phrase that literally means blood of Jupiter?
9.Which small European Principality is traditionally divided into two regions known as the Upper Country or Oberland, and the Lower Country or Unterland?
10.The works of which poet and designer, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, include News From Nowhere that describes a Socialist rural utopia?
11.In bioluminescence, light is emitted when luciferin is oxidised to oxyluciferin. There are several distinct types of luciferin; what enzyme catalyses their oxidation?
12.Which verdi opera is based on the French play Le pasteur, ou L'evangile et le foyer?
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:56
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1 Yawn :yawn:
2 5
3 Pad
4 Hose
5 St Jude
6 Smoke alarm
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:56
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:56
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1) Yawn
2) 5
3) Pad
4) Hosepipe
6) Smoke Alarm
9) Luxemburg?
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:57
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:57
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1. Yawn
2. 5
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4. Hose
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:58
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Old 29-10-2013, 21:59
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1. Yawn
2. 5
3. Pad
4. Hose
5. St. Jude
6. Smoke alarm
7. Employment support allowance

11. There are a lot of big, technical and complicated words in that question
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:01
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:02
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1. Yawn

2.5

3. pad

4.hose

5.Jude

6.smoke alarm

7. Employment and Support Allowance

8. Sangiovese (sp?)

9. Lichtenstein(?)

10. Just a guess - William Blake
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:02
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7. Employment and Support Allowance
8. Sangiovessi
10. William Morris
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:04
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Just 10 is wrong Sallysally
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:11
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1.Yawn
2.5
3.Pad
4.Hose
5.St Jude
6.Smoke alarm

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9.Liechtenstein
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:12
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Old 29-10-2013, 22:34
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1.What Y is the involuntary response to tiredness in which the mouth is opened wide and a long deep breath is taken?
2.How many days after Halloween is Bonfire Night?
3.Which three-letter word can be a book of blank paper and a slang term for a living space?
4.What name is given to a flexible pipe that is attached to a tap to convey water to another area of a garden?
5.Current affairs: who is the Patron Saint of lost causes, whose name was given to the recent storm in the south of the country?
6.What two-word name is given to the small device that can be installed to give the early warning of the presence of a fire?

7.The benefit which replaced Incapacity Benefit is ESA. What does ESA stand for?
8.Which grape is the main component of the wine Chianti and is widely thought to take its name from an Italian phrase that literally means blood of Jupiter?
9.Which small European Principality is traditionally divided into two regions known as the Upper Country or Oberland, and the Lower Country or Unterland?
10.The works of which poet and designer, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, include News From Nowhere that describes a Socialist rural utopia?
11.In bioluminescence, light is emitted when luciferin is oxidised to oxyluciferin. There are several distinct types of luciferin; what enzyme catalyses their oxidation?
12.Which verdi opera is based on the French play Le pasteur, ou L'evangile et le foyer?
1) Yawn! Or should I say:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn:yawn:

2) 5
3) Pad
4) Hose
6) Smoke alarm
That's all I know for now.

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Old 29-10-2013, 22:43
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Old 30-10-2013, 21:53
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11-Luciferase or photo-protein
12-Stiffelio

1.What is 98 divided by 7?
2.What is the collective name for a group of flying bees?
3.What T is the name given to the device that turns a heating system on or off at a certain temperature?
4.A whirlybird is an informal name for which means of transport?
5.What K is the name of the inner soft part of a nut, or seed with a hard shell?
6.Which actor stars as UN employee Gerry Lane in the 2013 zombie film World War Z?

7.The internal angles of any quadrilateral add up to how many degrees?
8.Picture: who are these literary figures? http://www.postimage.org/image/gev1dg2p3/
9.Which Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory, was sighted in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, who named it after a monastery in Catalonia and the jagged mountain it stands on?
10.Which king of England reigned from April to June 1483 when he was deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III?
11.Originating from the Latin for out and begin to bloom, which adjective describes a substance that has lost moisture and turned to a fine powder on exposure to air?
12.Regarded by some as a postmodernist although he rejected the label, which British architect's works include the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart?
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