Pub Quiz Night
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09/04/22 12:21 PM
09/04/22 12:21 PM
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-1. When bored, what strength cocaine solution did Sherlock Holmes inject? -2. Which Austrian composer wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons? -3. The original line-up of The Supremes consisted of Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and who? -4. What flavouring is the root-like stem of the tropical plant Zingiber officinale? -5. In 1960, the Russians shot down a U2 spy plane piloted by whom? -6. In Greek mythology which Titan stole fire from the heavens and gave it to man? -7. What comes next: threepenny bit, sixpence, shilling, florin..... ? -8. What term describes the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another? -9. The slogan “Would you buy a used car from this man?” was coined by Mort Sahl about whom? -10. What were the two radical policies adopted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after 1985? -11. What word is used to describe the process of making desirable discoveries by accident? -12. Who is this?
Last edited by Urban Worrier; 09/07/22 04:05 PM.
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#1281038
09/04/22 05:35 PM
09/04/22 05:35 PM
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Mad
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3. Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson ??
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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09/04/22 08:13 PM
09/04/22 08:13 PM
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12. That would be Elvis Presley. A couple years ago I went to Graceland in Tennessee. I was disappointed to learn that, while stationed in Germany, Elvis was allowed to live off post and moved his whole family to Germany. Not really the army stint expected of a typical draftee.
The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
[Re: Urban Worrier]
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09/05/22 11:50 AM
09/05/22 11:50 AM
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flotsam - close... Mad, soot, Cheryl - spot-on! Why am I not surprised, Cheryl?
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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09/06/22 01:53 PM
09/06/22 01:53 PM
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Good one, Mad - I just about remember them along with the ten-shilling note Ahhhh. But did you ever go shopping with farthings ??? That's the question 😯 (I am SO old !!! 😱)
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
[Re: Urban Worrier]
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09/06/22 02:56 PM
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Big white fivers is about as far back as I can go. (And anyone who had one of those was a person of substance...)
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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