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Pub Quiz Night #1270459
04/03/22 10:56 AM
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-1. What strait separates the North and South islands of New Zealand?
-2. What type of race got its name from a short dash between two churches?
-3. Uri Geller was born in which country?
-4. What surname is derived from a person who made or sold arrows in medieval times?
-5. What name is given to people who sell shares in the hope of buying them back later at a lower price?
-6. The wife of a murdered Philippine opposition leader forced President Marcos to abdicate in 1986. Who was she?
7. What name is given to a device in which a moving fluid drives a wheel or motor?
-8. What name is given to the ninth month of the Muslim year?
-9. What is the name of the heroine of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's?
-10. If you ordered rognons in a restaurant, what would you get?
-11. Who plays William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
-12. Of which 1963 classic album cover is this a pastiche?


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270460
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10. kidneys

Hi Rog.


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270461
04/03/22 11:25 AM
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Ah - it's French, isn't it!

Good call, Remi! wave


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270464
04/03/22 11:38 AM
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270467
04/03/22 12:23 PM
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Spot-on, michele smile

Another one I've never read or seen...


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270468
04/03/22 12:26 PM
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270469
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270471
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Good ones, ladies! wave


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270472
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270475
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Good one, Bernie (the steeplechase) thumbsup


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270482
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270483
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Yes, manxman - great album! wave


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270496
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: soot] #1270498
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270500
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1. Cook Strait smile


Quantity has a quality all of its own
Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270539
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Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270540
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There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270546
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11 - Jonathan Frakes


Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270553
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Mad, flotsam, OB, Fil - all little gems! bravo

manxman - that's the technique (i think) - what are the people who practice it known as?

soot - in the right sort of area - think dams think


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270578
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: soot] #1270582
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7 fluid coupling wink


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270596
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wave


Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270624
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soot, Cheryl - thinking more of the thumping great machine at the bottom of a dam think

Thanks, Mr K! wave


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270626
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1270635
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It was obviously a rubbish clue - I was looking for "turbine" oops


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