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Old 11-01-2016, 21:56
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1. Jail
2. arson
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4. Robert Peel
5. scales and a sword
6. Dostoevsky (sp?)
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Old 11-01-2016, 21:57
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1. Jail
2. Arson
3. 12
4. John Peel
5. Scales and Bible
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Old 11-01-2016, 21:57
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7/8 bcdee and 8/8 Sallysally Just 4 is wrong binbits and 5 (bible)

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Old 11-01-2016, 22:37
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1.What J is another word for prison? Jail.
2.What name is given to the crime of deliberately burning someone else's property? Arson.
3.In England and Wales, how many people sit on a jury? 12?
4.Policemen got their nickname Peelers from which prime minister?
5.The Old Bailey figure of justice holds what two items?
6.Who wrote the novel Crime and Punishment?
7.What method of execution is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution? Beheading?
8.Which former Nazi was abducted by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960, then tried for war crimes and hanged in Israel in 1962?
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Old 11-01-2016, 22:44
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Old 12-01-2016, 15:55
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The first new quiz of 2016

1.What J is another word for prison?
Jail (Gaol)

2.What name is given to the crime of deliberately burning someone else's property?
Arson

3.In England and Wales, how many people sit on a jury?
Twelve Just Men!!

4.Policemen got their nickname Peelers from which prime minister?
Robert Peel

5.The Old Bailey figure of justice holds what two items?
Sword and scales of justice

6.Who wrote the novel Crime and Punishment?
Tolstoy?

7.What method of execution is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution?
Guillotine

8.Which former Nazi was abducted by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960, then tried for war crimes and hanged in Israel in 1962?
Bother!!!
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Old 12-01-2016, 21:52
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All correct will, 3/3 Dare Devil and just 6 is wrong Hieronymous

1.What C is a small, wooden house in the woods?
2.How many days are there in 5 weeks?
3.Blackjack, poker and bridge are what types of games?
4.What type of electricity does a battery produce - AC or DC?
5.The brand Kleenex is known for making what items?
6.Bayern Munich beat Shakhtar Donetsk 7-0 in the UEFA Champions League in March 2015, falling one goal short of Liverpool's record 8-0 victory against Besiktas in 2007. Who scored a hat-trick for Liverpool that night?
7.What object is less than 1,000 kilometres in diameter, accounts for almost a third of the mass of the Asteroid Belt, and in 2006 was classified as a dwarf planet?
8.The period of constitutional monarchy in France from 1830 to 1848 is often known by what two-word term, after the month in which the Bourbon King Charles the Tenth was overthrown?
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Old 12-01-2016, 21:54
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2. 35
3. Card games
4. DC
5. Tissues
6. Wayne Rooney? Steven Gerrard?
7. Pluto
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Old 12-01-2016, 21:55
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1 Cabin
2 35
3 Card
4 DC
5 Tissues
6 Gerrard
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Old 12-01-2016, 21:55
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1. chalet?
2. 35
3. card
4 DC
5. paper products like tissues
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7. Pluto?
8. July monarchy
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Old 12-01-2016, 21:56
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1. Cabin
2. 35
3. Card Games
4. DC
5. Tissues
6. Michael Owen
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Old 12-01-2016, 21:59
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All correct except Dare Devil's 6,7, bcdee's 6,7, Sallysally's 1,7, and binbits's 6

6,7
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Old 12-01-2016, 22:00
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6 Fernando Torres
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Old 12-01-2016, 22:01
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Not him either bcdee
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Old 12-01-2016, 22:05
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[quote=The quizmaster;81067230]All correct will, 3/3 Dare Devil and just 6 is wrong Hieronymous

1.What C is a small, wooden house in the woods?{/QUOTE]

Cottage

2.How many days are there in 5 weeks?
35

3.Blackjack, poker and bridge are what types of games?
Card games

4.What type of electricity does a battery produce - AC or DC?
DC

5.The brand Kleenex is known for making what items?
Tissues

6.Bayern Munich beat Shakhtar Donetsk 7-0 in the UEFA Champions League in March 2015, falling one goal short of Liverpool's record 8-0 victory against Besiktas in 2007. Who scored a hat-trick for Liverpool that night?
2007? Steven Gerard?

7.What object is less than 1,000 kilometres in diameter, accounts for almost a third of the mass of the Asteroid Belt, and in 2006 was classified as a dwarf planet?
Dunno.

8.The period of constitutional monarchy in France from 1830 to 1848 is often known by what two-word term, after the month in which the Bourbon King Charles the Tenth was overthrown?
?
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Old 12-01-2016, 22:06
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6 Xabi Alonso
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Old 12-01-2016, 23:48
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1.What C is a small, wooden house in the woods? Cabin.
2.How many days are there in 5 weeks? 35.
3.Blackjack, poker and bridge are what types of games? Card.
4.What type of electricity does a battery produce - AC or DC? DC.
5.The brand Kleenex is known for making what items? Tissues.
6.Bayern Munich beat Shakhtar Donetsk 7-0 in the UEFA Champions League in March 2015, falling one goal short of Liverpool's record 8-0 victory against Besiktas in 2007. Who scored a hat-trick for Liverpool that night? Yossi Benayoun (I looked it up but filling it in for the sake of it - was gonna go for Florent Sinama-Pongolle otherwise and I don't know why his name came into my head!)
7.What object is less than 1,000 kilometres in diameter, accounts for almost a third of the mass of the Asteroid Belt, and in 2006 was classified as a dwarf planet?
8.The period of constitutional monarchy in France from 1830 to 1848 is often known by what two-word term, after the month in which the Bourbon King Charles the Tenth was overthrown?
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Old 13-01-2016, 00:30
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:53
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1,6 are wrong Hieronymous, all correct will, and ceres is right atg

1.The phrase bless you is a customary response to which involuntary nasal reflex?
2.In travel, what D is the usual term for the place you are going?
3.What is five sixths of 18?
4.According to the proverb, you shouldn't cry over spilt.... what?
5.Leonardo Dicapprio won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture at the 2016 Golden Globes for his role as Hugh Glass in which film?
6.Resembling a cornet but having a slightly larger bell, which instrument is a standard in British brass bands - it's name being the German for wing horn?
7.Which locomotive won the Rainhill Trials during the development of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829?
8.Which elegant European aristocratic dance is featured onstage in the fourth act of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni?
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:54
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1. Sneeze
2. Destination
3. 15
4. Milk?
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:55
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4/4 Dare Devil
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:56
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1 Sneeze
2 Destination
3 15
4 Milk
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6 Trumpet
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:57
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Just 6 and 7 are wrong bcdee

5-8
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:59
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1. sneeze
2 destination
3. 15
4. milk
5. The Revenant
6. flugelhorn
7. The Rocket?
8. minuet?
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:59
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8/8 Sallysally

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