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Old 21-01-2014, 12:09
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All correct Dare Devil
6,8,11,12 are wrong velixa
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:53
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1.Which three-letter word can mean a scrap of cloth, a poor quality newspaper or a student charity fund-raising event?
2.What is the main ingredient of a so-called liquid lunch: soup or alcohol?
3.What S is body fluid which is absorbed through the skin to keep us cool?
4.In slang, prefixed by the word big, which dairy product refers to someone considered to beinfluential or powerful?
5.Which rodent is also the name of a device used to control a computor cursor?
6.What is the name of the BBC drama, written by Kay Mellor, about a group of supermarket workers who win the lottery?

7.The Watchtower is a periodical published by which religious organization?
8."How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" is a line from which Shakespeare play?
9.One of the deepest lakes in the world, Lake Matano is in which Asian country?
10.Which Bristol-born medical pioneer was the second woman on the UK Medical Register?
11.In nature, what is the name of the species of spider which captures its prey by swinging a lasso of sticky silk?
12.Which Italian fashion designer, famous for his flamboyant, sculptural creations and dubbed by Women's Wear Daily as "The Frank Lloyd Wright of Italian fashion", died in June 2007?
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:56
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1 Rag
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3 Sweat
4 Cheese
5 Mouse
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:56
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1. Rag

2. Alcohol

3. Sweat

4. Cheese

5. Mouse

6. I forgot and watched some of it

7. Jehovas
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:56
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:57
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5.Mouse
6.The Syndicate

7.Jehovah Witnesses
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9.Japan
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:57
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:57
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Just 9 is wrong AxG
8-12
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:58
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6.The Syndicate

7.Jehovah Witnesses
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9.Japan
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That was driving me mad then
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:58
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1. Rag
2. Alcohol
3. Sweat
4. Cheese
5. Mouse
6. The Syndicate
7. Jehovah's Witnesses
8. King Lear
9. Japan
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11. Bolas spider
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:58
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2. Soup?
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:58
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1. Rag
2. Alcohol
3. Sweat
5. Mouse
6. The Syndicate

8. Hamlet
9. Bangladesh
11. Black widow
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Old 21-01-2014, 21:59
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That was driving me mad then
Try living in the BBC Yorkshire region, were they kept going on and on about it last year.
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:00
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Just 9 is wrong ChipPaper
2 is wrong Dare Devil
8,9,11 are wrong P_P
9,10,12
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:01
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9. Thailand?
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:01
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9. South Korea

If not, my next guess is North Korea If not, my next guess is China Then I give up
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:02
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:03
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Sorry, none of them
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:03
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:04
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Yes

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Old 21-01-2014, 22:05
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12) Saatchi
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Old 21-01-2014, 22:08
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Sorry, not him neil
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Old 22-01-2014, 12:35
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The only early woman doctor I know is Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, but I think she was the first. So sorry, don't know the answer!
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Old 22-01-2014, 21:54
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It's actually another Elizabeth, Sallysally

10-Elizabeth Blackwell
12-Gianfranco Fierre

1.What part of a cooker is an anagram of votes?
2.According to the proverb, what speak louder than words?
3.Somebody who is angry with you might threaten to have your guts for... what?
4.Which word means to run away secretly, usually to take part in a marriage ceremony?
5.Which card game rhymes with wrist?
6.Which imperial measure is equivalent to 0.57 litres?

7.Current affairs: the actor Roger Lloyd Pack who died last week aged 69, played which character in the classic TV series Only Fools and Horses?
8.The Host was the first adult novel by which bestselling author for older children?
9.Quotations: who, at the 2008 MTV Awards, described George W. Bush, then US President, as "retarded" and said if he were in England, Bush "wouldn't be trusted with the scissors"?
10.What was the name of the commission established in 1963 to investigate the death of John F. Kennedy?
11.Picture: which molecule is represented here? http://www.postimage.org/image/k4ivbmelf/
12.The architect Otto Wagner designed many Art Nouveau-style stations for a rail system of which city?
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Old 22-01-2014, 21:56
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1) stove
2) actions
3) garters
7) Trigger
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