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Old 04-11-2013, 21:59
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3/3 P_P
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Old 04-11-2013, 21:59
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3,7,8,10,11 are wrong bcdee
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:00
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1. thorn

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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Old 04-11-2013, 22:00
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Oh, Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan district
Knew Eugene would get it !

oh and happy 5th birthday to QN !
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:01
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that was said in the question
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:01
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Knew Eugene would get it !

oh and happy 5th birthday to QN !
I'd be ashamed if I didn't.

Nice place South Shields.
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:01
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All correct Sallysally
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:01
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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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Old 04-11-2013, 22:03
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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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Old 04-11-2013, 22:03
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7 Scarsdale?
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:04
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It's him Barracute
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:04
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Not Scarsdale lightdragon
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:05
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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?
1) Thorn
2) Mouth?
This is hard! are these quizzes usually that hard?
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:07
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It's all north and south isn't it?

7) South Beach?
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Old 04-11-2013, 22:08
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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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Old 04-11-2013, 22:09
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Both correct and no lunchables. Please take a look back in the thread

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Old 05-11-2013, 12:17
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1 Thorn
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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Old 05-11-2013, 12:30
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All correct anne
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:39
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Thanks for that QM, now I'll have a snoop for the answers I didn't know.
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Old 05-11-2013, 21:52
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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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Old 05-11-2013, 21:54
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3) B
4) Potato
6) Natalie Portman
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Old 05-11-2013, 21:55
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Old 05-11-2013, 21:55
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3. B
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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Old 05-11-2013, 21:55
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1.Scorpio
2. Yorkshire
3. B
4.Potato



8. Devon
9. Was Guy Fawkes school.
10. 7?
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Old 05-11-2013, 21:56
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