Pub Quiz Night
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04/14/24 01:54 PM
04/14/24 01:54 PM
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One answer per person in the first 24 hrs please -1. Which French painter born in 1834 is famous as a painter of ballet scenes? -2. In which game might you employ a zwischenzug? -3. In medical terms, what is the name given to a fracture where the broken bone pierces the skin? -4. Which 19th century composer wrote the opera La Gioconda? -5. Japanese film director Akira Kurosowa's film The Throne of Blood was based on which Shakespeare play? -6. What does it mean to cook something "en papillote"? -7. What sea lies between Egypt and Saudi Arabia? -8. Which French jazz violinist was one of the members of the Hot Club de France? -9. In heraldry, what name is given to a cross in the shape of an X? -10. In which game do players wear a shaped wicker basket on their wrist or forearm to propel the ball? -11. Discovered at the Premier Diamond mine in Transval in 1905, what is the name of the largest diamond ever found? -12. This is the closing shot from which 1971 action thriller?
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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#1319549
04/14/24 02:37 PM
04/14/24 02:37 PM
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oldbroad
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6. in lettuce leaves? or cabbage?
Last edited by oldbroad; 04/14/24 02:38 PM.
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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04/15/24 06:04 AM
04/15/24 06:04 AM
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Three good ones! Would also have accepted pelota, manxman
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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04/16/24 09:45 AM
04/16/24 09:45 AM
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fildil
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9. Sorry, that's all I got
Fil
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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04/16/24 03:00 PM
04/16/24 03:00 PM
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michele, anxman - spot-on! No problem Fil - apparently "officially" known as a saltire
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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