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Old 14-07-2016, 21:58
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All correct bcdee and Dare Devil (tig or tag)

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Old 14-07-2016, 21:58
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1 tag
2. post office
3. 3rd
4. cucumber
5. Theresa May
6 Ghostbusters
7 Society Islands
8. Mesmer?
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Old 14-07-2016, 21:59
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Old 14-07-2016, 22:01
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1) Tag
2) Post Box
3) 3rd
4) Cucumber
5) Theresa May
6) Ghostbusters
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Old 14-07-2016, 22:03
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Old 15-07-2016, 13:35
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1.What T is the three-letter name for the children's game in which a player tries to touch one of the others who then becomes the chaser? Tag.
2.When the phrase po box is featured as part of an address in the UK, the letters po stand for what? Post Office?
3.In athletics, a bronze medal is awarded to the winner who finishes in which position? Third.
4.If its pickled before it is ripe, which long green salad ingredient is known as a gherkin? Cucumber.
5.Current affairs: who recently became the new British Prime Minister? Theresa May.
6.Picture: a still from which 2016 film? http://www.postimage.org/image/3pj5a0y1t/
7.In which group of Polynesian islands would you find Tahiti?
8.Who was the Viennese physician who first used hypnotism in the treatment of patients in the late eighteenth-century?
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:54
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5/5 from last quiz will. We start with a new quiz this week with dance.

1.What T is a style of dance where dancers wear shoes with metal plates on the heels and toes?
2.Which one of these is a British dancer - Wayne Sleep or Wayne Doze?
3.How many couples take part in a square dance?
4.Which two dances represent letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
5.Who had a number 1 hit in the summer of 2008 with Dance Wiv Me?
6.Which dance style takes its name from a famous 1920s aviator?
7.The Mazurka is a traditional folk dance from which European country?
8.Named after the French for petticoat, which lively dance with varies steps was popular during the Regency period, and is the title of an historical novel by Georgette Heyer?
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:55
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1. Tap
2. Wayne Sleep
3. 4
4. Tango?
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:56
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1 Tap
2 Wayne Sleep
3 Two
4 Foxtrot, Tango
5 Usher
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:56
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:57
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1) Tap
2) Wayne Sleep
3) 4?
4) Foxtrot and Tango
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:57
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3 and 5 are wrong bcdee
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Old 18-07-2016, 21:57
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Old 18-07-2016, 22:16
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1.What T is a style of dance where dancers wear shoes with metal plates on the heels and toes? Tap.
2.Which one of these is a British dancer - Wayne Sleep or Wayne Doze? Wayne Sleep.
3.How many couples take part in a square dance? Four?
4.Which two dances represent letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? Tango and Foxtrot.
5.Who had a number 1 hit in the summer of 2008 with Dance Wiv Me? Dizzee Rascal.
6.Which dance style takes its name from a famous 1920s aviator?
7.The Mazurka is a traditional folk dance from which European country?
8.Named after the French for petticoat, which lively dance with varies steps was popular during the Regency period, and is the title of an historical novel by Georgette Heyer?
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Old 18-07-2016, 22:41
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Old 19-07-2016, 21:56
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All correct will and Poland is right tanstaafl
6-Lindy Hop (Charles Lindbergh)
8-Cotillon

1.What H is a five-letter greeting commonly used when answering a phone?
2.In superstitions, a horseshoe when hung the correct way up for good luck, most closely resembles which letter of the alphabet?
3.In classrooms, the board used by teachers which they use chalk to write on is named after which colour?
4.In nature, to make their webs, spiders spin threads of which fibre - rayon or silk?
5.Which American soap returned to TV screens in 2012, 21 years after the previous series was aired?
6.What colour is the Mall, which leads to the gates of Buckingham Palace, London?
7.In 1938, which British politician was expelled from the Labour Party after advocating a united front with the Communists?
8.Which Lebanese-American mystic poet and philosophical essayist wrote much of his work in Arabic?
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Old 19-07-2016, 21:57
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1 Hello
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4 Silk
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Old 19-07-2016, 21:58
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Old 19-07-2016, 21:58
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1. Hello
2. U
3. Black (more like interactive white boards now)
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5. Dallas?
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Old 19-07-2016, 21:58
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Old 19-07-2016, 22:00
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Old 19-07-2016, 22:00
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6/6 Dare Devil and Barracute too

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Old 19-07-2016, 22:01
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Old 20-07-2016, 13:58
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1.What H is a five-letter greeting commonly used when answering a phone? Hello.
2.In superstitions, a horseshoe when hung the correct way up for good luck, most closely resembles which letter of the alphabet? U.
3.In classrooms, the board used by teachers which they use chalk to write on is named after which colour? Black.
4.In nature, to make their webs, spiders spin threads of which fibre - rayon or silk? Silk.
5.Which American soap returned to TV screens in 2012, 21 years after the previous series was aired? Dallas.
6.What colour is the Mall, which leads to the gates of Buckingham Palace, London? Red?
7.In 1938, which British politician was expelled from the Labour Party after advocating a united front with the Communists?
8.Which Lebanese-American mystic poet and philosophical essayist wrote much of his work in Arabic?
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Old 20-07-2016, 21:53
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6/6 will
7-Stafford Cripps
8-Khalil Gibran

1.What is the current cost of a first class stamp - 64p or 84p?
2.The expression often used to taunt someone accused of not telling the truth is liar, liar, pants on.... what?
3.What is half of 580?
4.Which word means weapons and the upper limbs of the human body?
5.A thick slice of beef that has varieties called T-bone, rump and sirloin is known by what general name?
6.Chaitra is a month in the calendar of which religion?
7.One of the deepest lakes in the world, Lake Matano is in which Asian country?
8.Who was the founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession?
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