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« on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:15:08 »

1.   Who won most Grammys at this year’s ceremony?   
2.   What food led to a yearlong prison sentence this week? 
3.   What is the name of the Channel 4 documentary set in a maternity ward at a Leeds hospital?             
4.   Name the film.   



5.   The genre of music known as grunge originated in which American city?                                                                       
6.   Venezuela and Ecuador are the two South American members of which multinational organisation? 
7.   What name is given to a plant that lives more than two years? 
8.   Which warm beverage is the only one to have made the UK Top Ten hit parade in the 70s, 80s and 90s?     
9.   What  links these two pictures?     


 
10.   Name the story   



11.   Why don’t lions and tigers mate in the wild? 
12.   Which major river gives its name to a delta that is Europe’s most extensive wetland and the world’s largest reed bed?     
13.   What major food fish is this?   



14.   Which film concerned a mysterious al fresco meal that supposedly took place on Valentine’s Day in the early 20th century on the side of a mountain near Melbourne? 
15.   Whose arms have three legs?   
16.   In the 1980s on Valentine’s Day, why did smart anagrammists hold parties where everyone dressed up as people from the eastern Mediterranean countries? 
17.   Who is this?   



18.   There are a number of pupils in the classroom.  Some have 28 books, some have 30 and others have 31.  Altogether they have 365 books.  How many pupils are there?

 
19.   What connection links these pictures: 

           

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  E E I J L M O O R T U
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:16:31 »

11. Because they live in different parts of the world.
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:17:36 »

18. 12
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:18:38 »

2. Macadamia nuts
20.  Romeo, Juliet
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:19:01 »

1. Sam Smith
4. Boyhood??
5. Seattle
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:19:47 »

7 Perrennial
8 Hot Chocolate
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:23:12 »

13.  Halibut
10. Coppelia?  (edit:  maybe not, after all)
9. Gene Simmons and Jean Simmons
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:23:40 »

3. One Born Every Minute
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:25:54 »

6.   Andean Pact 
14.   Picnic at Hanging Rock
15.   Isle of Man
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:26:48 »

2. Nuts
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:26:59 »

17.  Looks like Wallis Simpson
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:28:43 »

19 are all faces - chalk, clock, type, baby, poker.
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:31:13 »

12. Is the Danube Delta.

10. Brave Tin Soldier......Hans Christian Anderson
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:32:19 »

18. 12 pupils.
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, February 13, 2015, 10:35:58 »

Assuming all the suggestions are right, that only appears to leave 10 and 16. Pretty good work TEF.
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