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« on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:35:37 »

1.   New ‘business-class’ only flights are to return in April.  Between which two airports?   
2.   Which commuter town has been the most popular destination for Londoners moving out of the city over the last year? 
3.   Bought by Apple in 2014, which US manufacturer of audio products such as headphones was co-founded by rapper Dr Dre?             
4.   Which country is this? 



5.   Guinness describes its beer as a dark shade of which red colour?                                                                       
6.   In Bolivia, the women of the Quecha people have worn which style of hat ever since the 1920s, when British railway workers introduced them there? 
7.   Which place in Ireland has become a leading centre of pilgrimage since the 1870s, when an apparition of the Virgin Mary was sighted at the parish church? 
8.   What is, the first of the two animals used by super-efficient typists to ensure that all the letters of the alphabet are functioning correctly on a typewriter?     
9.   What  links these two pictures?

   
 
10.   Name the film.   



11.   Which alien life form took its name from a single volume of a run of encyclopaedias? 
12.   Which international hockey goalkeeper later became England’s cricket captain?     
13.   What make of car is this? 



14.   What name (in English) has been given to the vicious battle between oligarchs for control of natural resources in 20th- and early-21st-century Russia? 
15.   In chemistry, which scientific unit is used to measure large quantities of very small entities such as atoms and molecules?   
16.   In business jargon, what kind of manager is said to fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone, and then fly out? 
17.   Who is this?   



18.   Joe was weighing five pigs, each of a different weight.  He wighed the pigs in pairs,  in every combination.  He wrote down the total weights:  80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90 and 91 pounds.  How much did each pig weigh?

 
19.   What connection links these pictures: 

         

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  A A B I M N O P T U
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:38:52 »

4 Guess Mexico
6 Bowler
7 Knock
15 Mole
17 William of Just William
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:40:06 »

3. Beats
10. 28 Days later?
13. Dacia?
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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit...
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:40:09 »

19. Dad's Army (FRASER Hines, Harold WILSON, Huh??, Steve JONES, Murray WALKER)
20.  Obama, Putin
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:44:39 »

4. Peru
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:45:31 »

8. Fox
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:49:58 »

19. Dad's Army (FRASER Hines, Harold WILSON, Huh??, Steve JONES, Murray WALKER)

Renee Zellwegger is the missing person
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Sir Pissalot

« Reply #7 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:50:12 »

13. Proton ?
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:50:36 »

9. Woman is Libby Lane - first female bishop
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:51:25 »

Renee Zellwegger is the missing person

Don't think so.  Are you confusing Dad's Army with Allo Allo?

She's Rosamund PIKE
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 10:55:44 »

9. Woman is Libby Lane - first female bishop

Bishop of Stockport....presumably no blokes want it.   Who's the fella though?
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 11:02:47 »

Bishop of Stockport....presumably no blokes want it.   Who's the fella though?

Mike Skinner AKA The Streets.

Streets/Lane the connection?
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 11:02:50 »

Bishop of Stockport....presumably no blokes want it.   Who's the fella though?

I know this one. Its Mike Skinner of the Streets.
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 11:03:12 »

Mike Skinner AKA The Streets.

Streets/Lane the connection?

I think that is probably correct.
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, February 6, 2015, 11:08:02 »

18. 39,41,43,44,47
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