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Old 01-09-2015, 21:57
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1 Z
2 November
3 Nothing
4 Sugar
5 Green
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Old 01-09-2015, 21:59
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Just 6 is wrong Sallysally, 8/8 eugenespeed and 5 is wrong bcdee

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Old 01-09-2015, 22:35
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1.What is the first letter on the bottom row of a standard computer keyboard? Z.
2.What is the last month of the year to have exactly 30 days? November.
3.If you were in your birthday suit, what would you be wearing? Nothing.
4.What sweet substance comes in icing, castor and granulated varieties? Sugar.
5.In chemistry, what is the usual colour of copper sulphate? Brown?
6.In The Five Nations, Kipling borrowed the title of a Wordsworth poem, Our Lady Of The Snows, to describe which country of the British Empire?
7.Mount Korab is a peak, forming a border between which two countries?
8.The powers of which English king were substantially reduced by the provisions of Oxford in 1258 and, six years later, by the Mise of Lewes?
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Old 02-09-2015, 21:51
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Just 5 is wrong from last night will

1.In an American hospital, what two letters are commonly used for emergency room?
2.What scale is used to measure wind velocity - Beaufort or Richter?
3.A troop/mob is the name given to a group of which Australian marsupials?
4.In a game of chess, each player starts with how many rooks?
5.Literally meaning heart's delight, what name is given to the small filled dumplings often served as a starter in Chinese restaurants?
6.Quotations: which political leader said "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for"?
7.The Rogers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse was based on which Shakespeare play?
8.Which Austrian painter died in 1918, during the Spanish flu epidemic, aged only 28?
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Old 02-09-2015, 21:54
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1 ER
2 Beaufort
3 Kangaroos
4 Two
5 Dim Sum
6 Sure as hell wasn't Tony Blair
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Old 02-09-2015, 21:54
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1. ER
2. Beaufort
4. 2
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Old 02-09-2015, 21:55
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5/5 bcdee and 3/3 Dare Devil
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Old 02-09-2015, 22:06
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1. ER
2. Beaufort
3. Kangaroo (?)
4. 2
5. Dim Sum
6. Ghandi
7. The Comedy of Errors
8. -
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Old 02-09-2015, 22:10
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1. ER
2. Beaufort
3. kangaroos?
4. 2
5. dim sum
6. Gandhi
7. Two Gentlemen of Verona?
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Old 03-09-2015, 13:35
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1.In an American hospital, what two letters are commonly used for emergency room? ER?
2.What scale is used to measure wind velocity - Beaufort or Richter? Beaufort.
3.A troop/mob is the name given to a group of which Australian marsupials? Kangaroos.
4.In a game of chess, each player starts with how many rooks? 2.
5.Literally meaning heart's delight, what name is given to the small filled dumplings often served as a starter in Chinese restaurants?
6.Quotations: which political leader said "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for"?
7.The Rogers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse was based on which Shakespeare play?
8.Which Austrian painter died in 1918, during the Spanish flu epidemic, aged only 28?
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Old 03-09-2015, 19:08
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1. ER
2. Beaufort
3. Kangaroos?
4. 2?
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Old 03-09-2015, 21:52
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From last night - all correct except Sallysally's 7.
8-Egon Schiele

1.What is half of 88?
2.Which TV channels does the TV licence fund?
3.In the toy world, who is Ken's girlfriend?
4.Tom Daley is an Olympic medal winner in which sport?
5.The ancestry website MyHeritage.com claims that which US Republican is a direct descendent of the fourteenth-century 1st Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt?
6.Which British broadcaster made his TV debut in 1970 in an advert for Rice Krispies?
7.Picture: name the US state where you would find this? http://www.postimage.org/image/qfamp5op9/
8.In British legend, which two giants were taken as prisoners to London and made to do duty at the royal palace on the site of the Guildhall, where their effigies stand?
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Old 03-09-2015, 21:55
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1 44
2 BBC
3 Barbie
4 Diving
5 Donald Trump
6 ITV
7 Mississippi
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Old 03-09-2015, 21:56
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Just 6,7 are wrong bcdee
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Old 03-09-2015, 21:57
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Old 03-09-2015, 21:59
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Old 03-09-2015, 22:25
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1. 44
2. All the BBC ones and Channel 4
3. Barbie
4. diving
5. probably Donald Trump
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7. Pennsylvania?
8. Gog and Magog
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Old 03-09-2015, 22:28
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1. 44
2. BBC (to be precise organisation, not channels)
3. Barbie
4. Diving
7. Texas?
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Old 03-09-2015, 22:35
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Shall be away for just over a month from Monday. Taking a long break to recharge batteries! So have a lovely time everyone - and happy quizzing!
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Old 03-09-2015, 23:18
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1.What is half of 88? 44.
2.Which TV channels does the TV licence fund?
3.In the toy world, who is Ken's girlfriend? Barbie.
4.Tom Daley is an Olympic medal winner in which sport? Diving.
5.The ancestry website MyHeritage.com claims that which US Republican is a direct descendent of the fourteenth-century 1st Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt?
6.Which British broadcaster made his TV debut in 1970 in an advert for Rice Krispies?
7.Picture: name the US state where you would find this? http://www.postimage.org/image/qfamp5op9/
8.In British legend, which two giants were taken as prisoners to London and made to do duty at the royal palace on the site of the Guildhall, where their effigies stand?
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Old 04-09-2015, 00:51
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6. Jonathan Ross (which I guessed before the clue QM )
7. Virginia?
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Old 04-09-2015, 01:24
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1. Could be 44, 8 or oo depending how it is halved
2. All the BBC ones plus S4C
3. Barbie
4. Diving
5. Donald Trump?
6. Jonathan Ross?
7. Indiana
8. Gog and Magog
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Old 04-09-2015, 12:04
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Just 7 is wrong Sallysally (we'll miss you, but have a good time ) just 7 is wrong Dare Devil, 3/3 will, 6 is right atg and 8/8 Chris

Back with you all on Monday
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Old 04-09-2015, 20:51
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Old 07-09-2015, 21:54
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Good evening. Haven't done initials for a while, so here's another set to start the week

1.TA-fruit on a stick that is often eaten at Halloween?
2.COD-system of paying for goods when dispatched?
3.GO-current Chancellor of the Exchequer?
4.GF-infectious mononucleosis is another name for this disease?
5.IDATB-they had a number 1 hit in 1979 with Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick?
6.TBONTB-it's said before "that is the question" in Hamlet?
7.CA-West Indian fast bowler who was knighted in February 2014?
8.DED-deadly tree condition caused by the fungus Ophiostoma ulmi?
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