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3/3 P_P
All correct eugenespeed Yes and thanks Dare Devil All correct QofSheba 3,7 |
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3,7,8,10,11 are wrong bcdee
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2. mouth? 5 seamus Heaney 6. Pyongyang 8. Rogers and Hammerstein 9. Catharine Morland 10 Tyne and Wear? 11. Polaris 12. South Sea Bubble |
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Oh, Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan district
![]() oh and happy 5th birthday to QN !
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Knew Eugene would get it !
![]() oh and happy 5th birthday to QN ! ![]() Nice place South Shields. |
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All correct Sallysally
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In fact, here's a local rapper doing a song about South Shields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQbRfM8TEI4 |
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3) Christopher Eccleston - just a guess i know he was in it but no idea who he played, remember it being mentioned during his Dr Who period
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7 Scarsdale?
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It's him Barracute
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Not Scarsdale lightdragon
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Good evening. Yesterday marked five years of quizzing on the thread
We start this week with another new quiz.1.What sharp pointed object along a rose stem is an anagram of north? 2.North and south is Cockney rhyming slang for which part of the body? 3.Which British actor starred as Nicky Hutchinson in the TV series Our Friends In The North? 4.Which two members of The Housemartins formed the group The Beautiful South in 1988? 5.North is a collection of poetry by which Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who died in August of this year, aged 74? 6.What is the capital of North Korea? 7.What links a diet plan and a neighbourhood in Miami, Florida? 8.Which duo composed the 1949 musical South Pacific? 9.Who is the heroine of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey? 10.South Shields or Shields is a coastal town in which metropolitan county of England? 11.Commonly known as the north star, which is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor? 12.What name was given to the famous financial collapse of 1720? 2) Mouth? This is hard! are these quizzes usually that hard? |
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It's all north and south isn't it?
7) South Beach? |
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That was the limit of my diet knowledge except Atkins and F-plan.
I thought it sounded reasonable.
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Both correct and no lunchables. Please take a look back in the thread
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2 Mouth 5 Seamus Heaney 6 Pyongyang 7 South Beach diet 8 Rogers and Hammerstein 9 Catherine Norland 10 Tyne and Wear 11 Polaris 12 South Sea Bubble. |
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All correct anne
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All correct anne
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Quiz night 5/11 Bonfire Night
Another special tonight
![]() 1.What star sign would you have if you were born on Bonfire Night? 2.Which historic county in England goes before parkin to name the food traditionally eaten? 3.When a sparkler goes out, you should: A-Touch it B-Put it in a bucket of cold water C-Put it in your pocket? 4.As well as burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire, what common vegetable is wrapped in foil to heat/cook? 5.Which female singer had a number 3 hit in the UK in 2010 with the song Firework? 6.Which actress starred as Eavy in the 2005 film V for Vendetta? 7.The word for firework in which Asian language is hanabi, meaning fire-flower? 8.The Tar Barrels Festival in which men, women and children set light to wooden barrels and run through the streets with them, takes place in which English county? 9.Why does St Peter's School in York not celebrate Guy Fawkes Night? 10.After how many days of torture did Guy Fawkes confess to the plot? 11.The first recorded fireworks in England were at the wedding of which king in 1486? 12.In which inn did the conspiracy occur in May 1604? |
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4) Potato 6) Natalie Portman |
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3/3 Barracute
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4. Jacket spud ![]() 5. Katy Perry 9. because Guy Fawkes went to that school?? no idea 10. 4? I really should know that
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2. Yorkshire 3. B 4.Potato 8. Devon 9. Was Guy Fawkes school. 10. 7? |
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We start this week with another new quiz.
I thought it sounded reasonable.