This is the demon child of Round Britain Quiz and
Only Connect,
being the result of a very sleepless night...
(For those of you with a level of masochism greater than, or equal to, my
level of sadism.)
Question 1:
What connects the letter, 'P' with the number 92220?
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Question 2:
How might an argentine mariner, the number eleven at Bingo and the symbol of
one of the British Isles have helped the man with the swollen feet?
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Question 3:
What connects a snappy little canine, a small wading bird (with tea), a Welsh
wizard of Oz, a condiment associated with Norwich, and a clerical gentleman?
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Question 4:
Which is the odd one out and why? A fish, a dirty looking sea captain, the
seeress of Knaresborough, the god of the Muses, a bird with an unlovely song,
the Mona Lisa, and a punctuation mark.
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Question 5:
Where, in a two dimensional context, might you find, among others, Merlin,
Matilda or Maud, Augustus, Romeo and Juliet, the crusading monk of Amiens and
the Grim Reaper.
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Question 6:
In what way does Venta Belgarum connect two fraternal demon hunters, a weapon
that was the occidental winner, the New Vaudeville Band and a persuasive
author?
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Question 7:
What is next in this sequence: nothing, perdix in pirus communis, followed by
another of the same, then a brace of Streptopelia turtur turur, trois poules, V
anuli of 79?
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Question 8:
Where might you find together, Ella and her friend Patricia, a punctuation
mark, a quadrilateral, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, a strict hesitation, a
cuckoo, half a diameter, one that's anonymous and a Greek hero with a number of
college tutors?
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Question 9:
What is the musical connection here: boron, Ohio, ?=mc2, one
thousand, Iowa, nitrogen,
rhodium, ,
, zero, deuterium
and yttrium?
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Question 10:
How does the Sillitoe tartan connect the first Canterbury pilgrim, the owner of
an eye in Lincoln Cathedral, a Governor of the Bank of England, Corvus
frugilegus frugilegus, Bloody Mary and some not-quite-crustaceans?
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THE WALL
Arrange the words below - currently in alphabetical order - into
four groups of four connected items, then state the connections.
N.B. Some of these may fit into more than one group, but there's only one
correct solution.
Bonney
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Chromium
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Copper
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Fuzz
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Gold
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Juno
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Morgan
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Nickel
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Omaha
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Peeler
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Read
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Silver
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Sweeney
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Sword
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Teach
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Utah
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