Pub Quiz Night
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Yesterday at 11:57 AM
Yesterday at 11:57 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 23,644 Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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True Blue Boomer
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 23,644
Bucks, England
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-1. Two divorced men to have served as President of the United States. One was Donald Trump, who was the other? -2. After nitrogen and oxygen, which gas is the third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere? -3. In the Faber-Castell system used to grade the hardness of pencils, which letter other than 'H' and 'B' is used? -4. Which American singer was affectionately known as 'Lady Day'? -5. In ancient Rome, what was a quadriga? -6. Which American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1919 -1926 was known as the 'Manassa Mauler'? -7. Which 1889 Mark Twain novel deals with time travel? -8. Which backing band for Joe Strummer was also a North American Indian tribe? -9. The largest banking network in 15th century Europe was named after which infamous Italian family dynasty? -10. Which dance craze supposedly takes its name from the famed aviator Charles Lindbergh? 11. What was the sixth country to officially acquire the 'atom bomb' in 1974? -12. This is the intro to which 1980 hit?
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]
#1370618
Yesterday at 12:22 PM
Yesterday at 12:22 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 23,644 Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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Bucks, England
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Another on my list of "classics I must read" ... but somehow Jack Reacher gets in the way 
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]
#1370627
Yesterday at 03:00 PM
Yesterday at 03:00 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 54,610 Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Upstate NY
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Uh oh. I have the album but who knows where. Late in the evening?
If you spell the words "absolutely nothing" backwards, you get "Gnihton yletulosba", which ironically means absolutely nothing.
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
[Re: Urban Worrier]
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Yesterday at 09:43 PM
Yesterday at 09:43 PM
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Joined: May 2006
Posts: 3,737 Indiana
ScarletDragon
Addicted Boomer
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Indiana
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Quadriga: Think of Ben Hur. It's a chariot with four horses side by side.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons ... for thou art crunchy and good with ketchup.
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