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Book club quiz!
OK… so here is the last of the entertainment at the book club party… the Christmas Quiz! feel free to have a go and see how you get on! I won’t know if you check your answers or if you know them...
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Christmas quiz – the answers!
Be honest now, how did you do? 1. John Lennon was murdered by an admirer of which American author? J D Salinger 2. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer 3. Which Shakespeare play is known by...
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Pub quiz
There’s a pub quiz in the Dolphin every Tuesday night; I don’t always go but I do always enjoy it when I do. Our team, usually me and Bari, never win… although there is a beer question at the end which...
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I forgot the book club quiz
It was our reading groups’ summer meeting, the last one before the holidays (although since we so enjoy each other’s company we’re meeting for a film night in August) and so we had a little party; it...
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Another quiz
Tuesday night is Dolphin quiz night, Thursday night is Ship quiz night – one village, two pubs, two completely different quizzes! Tonight we went to a different venue, one of Uphill’s two cricket...
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Pudding puzzle
As we get into the festive season, clubs, groups, colleagues, friends, arrange to get together for a celebratory meal or lunch, and this afternoon it was the turn of our French conversation class. One...
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Book club Christmas quiz (1)
It was our book club party, last night and as usual I ran the quiz… Here are the first sixteen questions: Literature: who said “God bless us one and all!” TV: Julian Fellows wrote which Sunday night...
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Book club Christmas quiz – answers and part 2!
Here are the answers to the questions I set yesterday – questions which I had given our book club at our Christmas party: Answers: Literature: who said “God bless us one and all!” Tiny Tim TV: Julian...
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Book club Christmas quiz -part 2 answers!
Here are the final answers to my Book Club Christmas Quiz – anagrams and blockbusters: ANAGRAMS – WOMEN WRITERS: Enroll Japan Too Joanna Trollope Near Bonnet Anne Bronte Vow If Original...
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Tasmanian adventure – quiz night at the Duke!
Even when we are away on holiday, the combination of a great pub, great food, great beer and a quiz is unmissable! We had seen a nice looking pub, the Duke – actually The Duke of Wellington Hotel, on...
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Got it wrong!
Tonight at the pub quiz, the question was about the Shangri-Las what was their hit in the UK… OK,so it’s easy now to remember,now I’m home, but in the pressure of the quiz where it is one of...
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Dr Kildair and pogo sticks
The great thing about crosswords and quizzes is that they trigger all sorts of quests to find unknown answers, and sometimes to find what the answers actually mean. For example I didn’t know that the...
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Quiz night tonight and our regular team was lacking the Ice-creams, our team-mates who have one o the best Ice-cream parlours in the country weren’t with us, my son and his team were elsewhere so it...
View ArticleBook club quiz – the ansers
Yesterday I shared some of the questions from the book club quiz I set my reading group chums… Christmas stories A Child’s Christmas Letters From Father Christmas The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle...
View ArticleA different sort of quiz… (ii) the answers and round 2
Yesterday we did something different and went to the small town of Axbridge, to a pub called the Lamb. As I mentioned, we had very fine beer and wine, and there was a quiz in progress; we were too late...
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When my friend announced that she had organised a quiz to raise money for Alzheimer’s research, loving quizzes and always wanting to support such a good cause we decided to go along. The museum was the...
View ArticleWhere does time go?
This isn’t about science and the reality of time, this is about me and my time, and where it disappears! I no longer work so in theory I should have a huge amount of free time, apart from chores,...
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