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Sir Pissalot

« Reply #15 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:10:41 »

What's the thinking on No 19?  So far, I've got:

- Cowardly Lion
- Windy Miller
- Sam Spade
- Sandy Shaw
- Jesus or David???
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« Reply #16 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:13:18 »

My boss has suggested Delaware for the US state one?
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« Reply #17 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:13:45 »

19 then.

 Lion from Wizard of Oz
 Don't know the animation character
 Philip Marlowe played by Humphrey Bogart
 Sandie Shaw
 Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd

 Hmmm
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:15:15 »

What's the thinking on No 19?  So far, I've got:

- Cowardly Lion
- Windy Miller
- Sam Spade
- Sandy Shaw
- Jesus or David???

It's Marlowe not Spade....Windy Miller sounds good...def JC rather than david.
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« Reply #19 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:16:54 »

My boss has suggested Delaware for the US state one?

Humour him and then tell him it's Maine.
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« Reply #20 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:18:41 »

19 then.

 Lion from Wizard of Oz
 Don't know the animation character
 Philip Marlowe played by Humphrey Bogart
 Sandie Shaw
 Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd

 Hmmm

OK Reg, so it's Philip Marlow and not Sam Spade.  The animation character is defo Windy Miller.
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« Reply #21 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:21:57 »

OK Reg, so it's Philip Marlow and not Sam Spade.  The animation character is defo Windy Miller.

I'm inclined to think it might be playwrights.

Noel Coward
Arthur Miller
Christopher Marlowe
GB Shaw
Sam Shepard
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Sir Pissalot

« Reply #22 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:24:04 »

I'm inclined to think it might be playwrights.

Noel Coward
Arthur Miller
Christopher Marlowe
GB Shaw
Sam Shepard

Wow!  Sounds good to me.
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« Reply #23 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:37:15 »

Thinking some more about 16 and I'm pretty sure it was early Family Fortunes.
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« Reply #24 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:43:03 »

Thinking some more about 16 and I'm pretty sure it was early Family Fortunes.

Think it's just 13 18 and 20 then...that we haven't a decent answer for.

4D can do 18  Smiley
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« Reply #25 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 11:15:21 »

I'm inclined to think it might be playwrights.

Noel Coward
Arthur Miller
Christopher Marlowe
GB Shaw
Sam Shepard

High Five Reginald
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« Reply #26 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 13:51:24 »

13, Mandela's first wife? Can't remember her name
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« Reply #27 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 14:00:03 »

You could be right. But it may be his last wife not the first.

She's got a weird name - something to do with Barcelona.

Or, more likely, I'm spouting shite
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 14:32:17 »

His last wife was Graca Machel so could be her
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« Reply #29 on: Friday, July 25, 2014, 14:40:19 »

1.   What has recently become the UK’s best selling car of all time?  Ford Fiesta – overtaking the Ford Escort 
2.   Which team at the Commonwealth Games represents the smallest population?  Niue – population of just over 1,000.
3.   Which major African city’s name derives from the Spanish for white house?  Casablanca           
4.   Name the film.        Amadeus

5.   What is the only American state that borders only one other state?  Maine                                                                     
6.   Which Greek hors d’oeuvre consists of smoked fish roe mixed with olive oil, lemon and soaked breadcrumbs?  Taramasalata
7.   I am a place where all deliveries are returned to the sender, those who perform better need to do less work, and a lot of things get knocked over, but in general, nothing gets broken.  What am I?  A tenpin bowling alley   
8.   What word of Greek origin is used for overconfidence that invites disaster or ruin and is often cited as the flaw in the characters of tragic heroes  Hubris? 
9.   What links these pictures?       Miley  (Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Hannah Miley and Miley Cyrus)
 
10.   Name the material.     Seersucker

11.   In physics, what name is given to the phenomenon in which waves appear to bend or spreadout as they pass through a small aperture or round the edge of a barrier?  Diffraction 
12.   Which Irish province shares its name with a town in Germany?  Munster   
13.   Who is this?       Graca Machel  - wife of Nelson Mandela
14.   Who was the only artist to have a top 40 hit in the US and the UK every year from 1971 to 1999? Elton John
15.   What sort of victory involves such terrible losses for the winner that it’s almost as bad as a defeat?  Pyrrhic 
16.   In what game show did members of the losing team receive a photo of themselves and their opponents?  Family Fortunes
17.   If Easter Sunday falls on 6th April, what is celebrated on 15 May?  Ascension Day
   
18.   Use any maths symbols and eleven 8s to make a total of 10,000.  Different answers from nearly every team, but no-one found the most elegant answers of 88888/8 – 8888/8
 
19.   What links these pictures:   Playwrights  (Noel COWARD; Arthur MILLER; Christopher MARLOWE; George Bernard SHAW; Sam SHEPHARD)

         

20.   Unscramble the two works:  A A C C E M N O R S T    CARMEN & TOSCA
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