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1.   Which Oscar winner was seen in a hamster wheel this week? 
2.   Which animal appears on the flag of California?
3.   England and Iceland were ‘at war’ in 1973 over which commodity ?           
4.   Name the cat.   

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5.   What fruit is a cross between grapefruit, tangerine and orange?                                                                     
6.   What is the closest Commonwealth country to the UK?
7.   What right wing pressure group takes its name from a day of the week?   
8.   Which Danes sang about a holiday romance with a medic? 
9.   What links these pictures?

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10.   Name the actor and the film.   

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11.   What were used for the first time at a Suffolk racecourse in 1965? 
12.   Which antipodean band took their name from their cramped rented accommodation?   
13.   Where is this?   

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14.   What does a founder traditionally make? 
15.   In the Star Wars films, which creatures mistakenly believe C3PO to be a god? 
16.   What is another name for a traditional beer mug made out of stoneware?
17.   Which band were selected to represent England at the concert to mark the start of the 2012 Olympics?   
18.   The age of three vintage means of transport added together make 310 years.  The sum of twice the age of the omnibus 5 years ago and the age of the car 10 years ago is 240 years.  The difference between three times the omnibus’s age in 3 years and 2 times the penny-farthing’s age 4 years ago is 0.  How old is each?
 
19.   What links these pictures:

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20.   Unscramble the two words:  A B C E E E I J L L N R T U 

3. Fish

1. Halle Berry

6. Does Republic of Ireland count?
If not, Gibraltar?

15. Ewoks.

16. Stein.

12. Has to be Crowded House.

3. Cod.

5. Ugli fruit

6. Maybe Malta....don't think Gibraltar counts as a country

7. Monday Club

13. Hadrain's Wall

14. Founders....make iron stuff, hence foundry. Don't know if there's a specific thing.

11. Starting gates

2. [Grizzly] Bear
3. Cod
10. Biggins (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
11. Starting Stalls
13. Hadrian's Wall
17.  Duran Duran

8. Is Aqua and Doctor Jones

(Yes, I am ashamed for knowing that one).

16. Tankard

20. Jubilee, Central

14. Horseshoes?

16. Stein?

Here a first go at the pics

Is it something to do with smooth

Smoothie
Dance called the American Smooth
There is a smooth spring

Can't think of anything to do with the ice pick though

I was trying to make something out of:

[milk] shake
bill
dance
pick [axe]
coil (or spring)

Ah, pick axe not ice pick.

Is there a smooth pick axe?

Good work...20 is usually last.

19. Is a problem.  I've got strawberry milkshake, bill, jive, ice axe/pick, spring.  Nothing leaping off the page.

Got it  :) Hand.

Handshake, hand bill, hand jive, hand pick, hand spring.

19 is always a problem (but the most fun)!

Yes, I had just come around to 'jive' for the 3rd picture - but maybe 'coil' for the 5th picture.  Still not sure about 'bill' for the 2nd one - because it's more of a 'receipt'.

See above.

Brilliant!  :clap:

Really? Clearly handshake is obvious, but I've never heard of the other ones (hand pick maybe)

Yep - Reg is spot on.  A handbill is a paper notice (usually advertising something) that is handed out; the 'hand jive' is that dance-thing that girls used to do with their hands in the 1950s/1960s (seen in the movie "Grease" etc), 'hand spring' is what gymnasts do; and 'hand pick' is to pick someone/something by hand.

100% sure.

Hand bill, is a sort of leaflet for distributing.  hand jive was a sort of dance done in cinemas etc, when you had to sit down. Hand spring, a gymnastic move.

Still looks like we need 2,4, 9,16.

Would (6) be the Isle of Man ??

2. Is a bear

Think 16. is a flagon

But in two minds. Might be tankard, although that is usually glass, pewter or silver and not stoneware?

Thanks to you and Reg for clarifying that!! :)

I already suggested stein.

Would have made 19 a bit easier if one of the pics depicted a job

4. Rotten Ralph.

I think stein is correct.

or a shandy.

Heh, heh!

Go on then,  I'll do 18  :)

Omnibus is 83
Car is 94
Penny farthing is 133

I gave 2 on Page 1 Reg.   :)

16 is defo tankard

It's defo not.

Oh missed that...is it just the 2 bright young things in 9 now?

I'm sticking with this, too.

Stein is stone. Stoneware

Yeah, I think so.  Although there still seems to be some debate about No 6, but I'm sticking with Malta for that one.

For 9, I think the chap is the actor Zac Effron (?) but I don't know who the girl is.

I reverse image searched the girl to find out who she is.

I've found the link, but technically cheated so I won't spoil it.

Although, anyone would probably be hard pushed to get it.

The commonwealth one is interesting, looking at the teams competing in the commonwealth games, the home nations compete seperately, meaning you have the Isle of Man, Channel islands etc but they arent really countries I suppose.

Having said that, floating around in the back of my head is the fact that the only European countries in the commonwealth are UK, Malta & Cyprus, so I would go for Malta

9. The bird is Cara Delevinge, no idea how they are linked though.

1.   Which Oscar winner was seen in a hamster wheel this week?  Halle Berry 
2.   Which animal appears on the flag of California?  Bear
3.   England and Iceland were ‘at war’ in 1973 over which commodity?  Cod           
4.   Name the cat.      Rotten Ralph

5.   What fruit is a cross between grapefruit, tangerine and orange?  Ugli                                                                     
6.   What is the closest Commonwealth country to the UK?  Malta
7.   What right wing pressure group takes its name from a day of the week?  The Monday Club   
8.   Which Danes sang about a holiday romance with a medic?  Aqua (Dr Jones) 
9.   What links these pictures?       Michelle Rodriguez (former girlfriend of Cara Delevigne and current girlfriend of Zac Efron)
 
10.   Name the actor and the film.     Christopher Biggins in The Rocky Horro Picture Show

11.   What were used for the first time at a Suffolk racecourse in 1965?  Starting stalls 
12.   Which antipodean band took their name from their cramped rented accommodation?  Crowded House   
13.   Where is this?       Hadrian’s Wall
14.   What does a founder traditionally make?  Bells 
15.   In the Star Wars films, which creatures mistakenly believe C3PO to be a god?  Ewoks 
16.   What is another name for a traditional beer mug made out of stoneware?  Stein
17.   Which band were selected to represent England at the concert to mark the start of the 2012 Olympics?  Duran Duran   
18.   The age of three vintage means of transport added together make 310 years.  The sum of twice the age of the omnibus 5 years ago and the age of the car 10 years ago is 240 years.  The difference between three times the omnibus’s age in 3 years and 2 times the penny-farthing’s age 4 years ago is 0.  How old is each?  Omnibus is 83 years old; car is 94 years old; penny-farthing is 133 years old
 
19.   What links these pictures:  HAND (shake; bill; jive; pick; spring)

         

20.   Unscramble the two words:  A B C E E E I J L L N R T U  JUBILEE & CENTRAL 

I wouldn't mind watching her linking with Michelle Rodriguez.

So a founder makes bells....interesting.

Well, Jed is the founder of the Bellend Club.

We should have guessed from that