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Old 16-05-2016, 21:56
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1. Comma, full stop, speech marks, colon
2. MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
3. Australian open, Wimbledon, French Open?
6. France, Spain, Italy, Potugal
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Old 16-05-2016, 21:57
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All correct Fizzbin, not Denmark, Norway and Sweden Barracute
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Old 16-05-2016, 21:57
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All correct Dare Devil
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Old 16-05-2016, 21:59
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1 Comma, Full Stop, Colon, Semi Colon
2 Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet
3 Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open
5 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus
6 France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Belguim, Luxembourg, Iceland
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Old 16-05-2016, 21:59
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6. Greece
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Old 16-05-2016, 22:00
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6. France, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Ireland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Czech Republic.
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Old 16-05-2016, 22:01
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Just Iceland, Greece are wrong bcdee

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Old 16-05-2016, 22:03
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Not Hungary or Czech Fizzbin

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Old 16-05-2016, 22:04
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6 Does Father Christmas live there?
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Old 16-05-2016, 22:09
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1. Northern Ireland?

ETA - ignore that guess... Barra's on the wind up!
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Old 17-05-2016, 19:24
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1.Name four punctuation marks? Full stop, Comma, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark.
2.Name three Shakespeare plays? Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet.
3.What are the four tennis tournaments that make up the Grand Slam? Wimbledon, French Open, US Open and Australian Open.
4.Give the names of the three metallic elements which have alphabetically successive one-letter symbols? Nitrogen, Oxygen, can't think of the P.
5.Name the five religious books that make up the Pentateuch? Bible, Quran...
6.Supergroupies: eleven countries adopted the Euro as their official currency on January 1st 1999. Name them? France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Netherlands...
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Old 17-05-2016, 21:54
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Both wrong for 4 and 5 will.
4-Uranium, Vanadium and Tungsten (W)
6-Finland

1.In the phrase 24/7, the final figure refers to the number of days in what length of time?
2.In decorating, what P goes before thinner and stripper to give the names of two useful liquids?
3.What is the smallest positive whole number with three digits?
4.The abdominal muscles are in which part of the body: legs or stomach?
5.In 1989, which long-running TV soap opera dropped the word Farm from its title?
6.What were the forenames of A.A Milne's son, for whom he wrote the Winnie the Pooh stories?
7.According to legend, where was King Arthur taken after his final battle?
8.The son of a favourite of Elizabeth I, who became the first Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentary army in 1642, but resigned his commission in 1645?
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Old 17-05-2016, 21:56
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1 Hours
2 Paint
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4 Stomach
5 Emmerdale
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Old 17-05-2016, 21:56
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1. Week
2. Paint
3. 100?
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Old 17-05-2016, 21:57
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3) 100
4) Stomach
5) Emerdale
7) Camelot
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Old 17-05-2016, 21:57
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7 is wrong bcdee and 5/5 Dare Devil

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Old 17-05-2016, 21:58
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Just 7 is wrong Barracute

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Old 17-05-2016, 22:14
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6 Christopher Robin
8 The Earl of Essex
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Old 17-05-2016, 23:07
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7 Avalon
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Old 18-05-2016, 11:54
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Both right eveningstar (Robert Devereux ) and Avalon is right Fizzbin

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Old 18-05-2016, 14:35
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1.In the phrase 24/7, the final figure refers to the number of days in what length of time? A week.
2.In decorating, what P goes before thinner and stripper to give the names of two useful liquids? Paint.
3.What is the smallest positive whole number with three digits? 100.
4.The abdominal muscles are in which part of the body: legs or stomach? Stomach.
5.In 1989, which long-running TV soap opera dropped the word Farm from its title? Emmerdale.
6.What were the forenames of A.A Milne's son, for whom he wrote the Winnie the Pooh stories?
7.According to legend, where was King Arthur taken after his final battle?
8.The son of a favourite of Elizabeth I, who became the first Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentary army in 1642, but resigned his commission in 1645?
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Old 18-05-2016, 21:52
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5/5 from last night will.

1.What is the singualr of the word teeth?
2.The letter q is almost always followed by which vowel?
3.What W is the term for a magical request that can be made when seeing a shooting star or when blowing out birthday candles?
4.In chivalry, the rescuer of a damsel in distress is known as a knight in shining.... what?
5.Picture: name the team? http://www.postimage.org/image/nlg737cxt/
6.Which town in Derbyshire is famous for its mineral waters and for being the highest market town in Britain?
7.Quotatios: "You may not doubt that this object, unwanted even in commercial America, is the deflowering of our capital." This statement concluded a protest by notable figures including Zola, Gounod and Dumas against the building of which structure in the late 1880s?
8.The subject of a biography by the historian Tacitus, a statue of which Roman general stands above the doorway of Manchester Town Hall?
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Old 18-05-2016, 21:55
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1. tooth
2. u
3. wish
4. armour
5. Leicester City
6. Buxton?
7. Eiffel Tower
8. Agricola (answered by husband who knows manchester well!)
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Old 18-05-2016, 21:55
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1 Tooth
2 U
3 Wish
4 Armour
5 Leicester
6 Buxton
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Old 18-05-2016, 21:57
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1. Tooth
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5. I'm guessing Leicester with all the news recently
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