Pub Quiz Night
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05/04/25 12:35 PM
05/04/25 12:35 PM
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Posts: 22,825 Bucks, England
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-1. In 1976, Israeli troops stormed a hijacked plane at which Ugandan airport? -2. Who is the patron saint of tax collectors? -3. Which astronomical event is shown on the Bayeux Tapestry? -4. What name is given to the strap which runs between the reins and the girth of a horse and prevents it from carrying its head too high? -5. Who was the Greek goddess of war and wisdom? -6. What is a howdah? -7. Where in Europe are the only wild apes to be found? -8. Which Russian leader was first associated with the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika? -9. What name is given to the tiles used in a mosaic? -10. Who failed a drugs test after winning the 100 metres at the 1998 Olympics? -11. The plants ilex aquifolium and hedera helix are better known as what? -12. Who is this?
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]
#1345253
05/04/25 03:50 PM
05/04/25 03:50 PM
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Indeed, Lady K - you have an equestrian background?
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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05/04/25 10:38 PM
05/04/25 10:38 PM
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LadyKestrel
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Indeed, Lady K - you have an equestrian background? I don't ride horses, but my sister-in-law has a Missouri fox trotter, and I have given her different pieces of tack for Christmas and her birthday.
We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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05/05/25 10:45 AM
05/05/25 10:45 AM
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fildil
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2. St. Matthew? - he was a tax collector
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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05/06/25 01:50 PM
05/06/25 01:50 PM
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9. Tesserae
12. A very loose guess at Dustin Hoffman 😉
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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05/07/25 12:25 PM
05/07/25 12:25 PM
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Lex
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12 is either Eric Clapton or another member of the Bluesbreakers from an early album cover (probably EC)  ...and here it is (definitely EC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm7Tza6q2hA
Last edited by Lex; 05/07/25 12:38 PM.
Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
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