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Old 22-08-2016, 21:53
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5/5 will and just 2 is wrong P_P from last quiz. New group quiz next Monday, but until then, we start this week with initials.

1.ISWMLE-guessing game where a person has to guess an object that somebody sees?
2.SO-if you have made no progress, you are said to be back to this?
3.TTM-he wanted a heart in The Wizard of Oz?
4.GBCA-only UK airport to be named after a footballer?
5.KMK-musical based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew?
6.SM-former President of Yugoslavia who was found dead in his cell during his 2006 war-crimes trial?
7.RAMC-initials of which corps of the British army?
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Old 22-08-2016, 21:55
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1) I spy with my little eye
2) Starting Over
3) The Tin Man
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5) Kiss Me kate
8) Royal Army Medical Corps
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Old 22-08-2016, 21:56
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I Spy With My Little Eye
2 Starting Point
3 The Tin Man
4 George Best City Airport
5 Kiss Me Kate
6 Slobodan Milosevic
7 Royal Armey Medical Corps
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Old 22-08-2016, 21:57
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Just 2 is wrong Barracute/bcdee - 6/7
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Old 22-08-2016, 22:01
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1. I spy with my little eye
3. The tin man
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Old 22-08-2016, 22:02
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1.I spy with my little eye
2 starting over
3. the tin man
4.George Best City airport
5. Kiss Me Kate
6. Slobodan Milosevic
7. Royal Army Medical Corps
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Old 22-08-2016, 22:02
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Both right Dare Devil, and just 2 is wrong Sallysally
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Old 22-08-2016, 22:05
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2) Square One !
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Old 22-08-2016, 22:09
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Well done! I was racking my brain to remember what it was.
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Old 23-08-2016, 13:52
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1.ISWMLE-guessing game where a person has to guess an object that somebody sees? I Spy With My Little Eye.
2.SO-if you have made no progress, you are said to be back to this? Square One.
3.TTM-he wanted a heart in The Wizard of Oz? The Tin Man.
4.GBCA-only UK airport to be named after a footballer? George Best something.
5.KMK-musical based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew?
6.SM-former President of Yugoslavia who was found dead in his cell during his 2006 war-crimes trial?
7.RAMC-initials of which corps of the British army?
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Old 23-08-2016, 21:53
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Square one is right Barracute and all correct will

1.How many corners does a cube have - 4 or 8?
2.According to the proverb, an apple a day keeps who away?
3.Does a convex mirror curve inwards or outwards?
4.Melton Mowbray is famed for its stilton cheese and what sort of pies?
5.Which former British PM died on 8th April 2013?
6.From which London tourist attraction did thieves attempt to steal a diamond in November 2000?
7.The word science derives from the Latin scientia. What does scientia mean?
8.Which British army officer led the successful 1953 expedition to reach the summit of Everest?
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Old 23-08-2016, 21:56
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1 8
2 The doctor
3 Inwards
4 Pork Pies
5 Margaret Thatcher
6 The Millenium Dome
7 Research
8 Edmund Hillary
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Old 23-08-2016, 21:56
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1.8
2. doctor
3. outwards
4. pork
5. Thatcher
6. Millenium Dome
7. knowledge
8. Edmund Hilary
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Old 23-08-2016, 21:58
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3,7 and 8 are wrong bcdee, and just 8 Sallysally
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Old 23-08-2016, 22:00
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Well done! I was racking my brain to remember what it was.
Thanks - lucky guess lol


1. 8
2. The Doctor
3. inwards
4. Pork Pies
5. Mrs T?
6. Millenium Dome
7. Experiment?
8. Sir Edmund Hilary
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Old 23-08-2016, 22:01
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3,7,8 are wrong Barracute

8
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Old 23-08-2016, 22:02
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8 I realise I thought it was who reached the summit - it was Sir John Hunt who organised the expedition?
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Old 24-08-2016, 03:07
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1. 8
2. Dr
3. In?
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Old 24-08-2016, 11:50
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Sir John Hunt is right Sallysally, and just 3 is wrong Dare Devil

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Old 24-08-2016, 14:20
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1.How many corners does a cube have - 4 or 8? 8.
2.According to the proverb, an apple a day keeps who away? The doctor.
3.Does a convex mirror curve inwards or outwards? Outwards.
4.Melton Mowbray is famed for its stilton cheese and what sort of pies?
5.Which former British PM died on 8th April 2013? Margaret Thatcher.
6.From which London tourist attraction did thieves attempt to steal a diamond in November 2000?
7.The word science derives from the Latin scientia. What does scientia mean?
8.Which British army officer led the successful 1953 expedition to reach the summit of Everest?
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Old 24-08-2016, 21:53
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4/4 will.

1.In motoring, if you were on a slip road, what would you be joining?
2.What type of flooring is parquet - carpet or wood?
3.In the human body, what fluid is pumped by the heart through the arteries and veins?
4.If a machine fills 48 cartons in one hour, how many will it fill in two and a half hours?
5.Which BBC crime drama series is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Sainte Marie?
6."Go, bid the soldiers shoot" is the last line of which Shakespeare play?
7.In 1875, who was the first man to swim the English Channel?
8.An Alpine Symphony, Op 64 is a symphonic poem by which German composer?
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Old 24-08-2016, 21:55
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1 Motorway
2 Wood
3 Blood
4 120
5 Death in Paradise
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Old 24-08-2016, 21:56
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5/5 bcdee
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Old 24-08-2016, 21:58
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1. motorway
2. wood
3 blood
4.120
5. Death in Paradise
6. Hamlet
7. Webb?
8. Richard Strauss
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Old 24-08-2016, 21:58
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1) Motorway
2) Wood
3) Bloody
4) 120
6) Julius Caesar?
7) Captain somebody - cant remember but sure he was a capt?
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