WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Connecting Wall - 28/09/09 - Questions & Answers |
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28/09/2009 | Connecting Wall | The answers can be arranged into 5 groups of 4 whereby each answer in a group contains a word or part of a word (sometimes in sound, rather than spelling) that has something in common with the other answers in that group. The 5 shared words/part-words belong to an overall theme and you must identify this theme. | |
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Manchester City Goalkeeper who died in the Munich aircrash |
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Italian-born British medical pioneer |
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Frank Swift |
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Hawkeye (played by Alan Alda in M.A.S.H.) |
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Florence Nightingale |
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Hawkeye (the TV replay device) |
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1950s radio sitcom starring Jon Pertwee and Leslie Phillips |
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Vaughan Williams piece inspired by George Meredith poem |
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1991 Kevin Costner film |
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Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about emperor and a mechanical toy |
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The Navy Lark |
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The Lark Ascending |
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Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves |
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The Nightingale |
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Comic - junior companion to The Eagle |
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C R Milne |
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Longest serving Radio 1 presenter |
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Flora Thompson trilogy of novels |
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The Swift |
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Christopher Robin (son of author A A Milne) |
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Annie Nightingale |
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Lark Rise to Candleford |
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Interviewer abandoned by John Nott |
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Tournament system in which everyone plays one another |
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Defunct Coventry-based car maker |
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1904 - 69 American Jazz saxophonist |
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Robin Day (Nott stormed out of TV interview) |
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Round-robin |
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Swift Motors |
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Coleman ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins |
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1940 Vera Lynn hit song written by Eric Maschwitz |
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Name for a plasterer’s slab |
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Meaning of the French word ‘alouette’ |
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Clive Swift (actor in Keeping Up Appearances) |
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A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square |
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A hawk |
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Skylark |
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Swift - A I O Q |
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Lark - E F L T |
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Robin - G J M N |
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Nightingale - C H K R |
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Hawk - B D P S |
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...are all names of ... Britsh birds |