WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Connecting Wall - 31/07/17 - Questions & Answers |
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Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
31/07/2017 | Connecting Wall | The answers can be arranged into 5 groups of 4 whereby each answer in a group has a word or part of a word (sometimes in sound, rather than spelling) in common with the other answers in that group. The 5 shared words/part-words belong to an overall theme. | |
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B |
Michael Caine’s real name |
C |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year - 2008 |
D |
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Man Ray (surrealist artist – here with Salvador Dali) |
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Maurice Micklewhite |
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Chris Hoy |
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Kandinsky (Composition 8) |
E |
Rory McIlroy won 2014 Open here |
F |
Fractional part of logarithm |
G |
Spurs player; first to be sent off for England |
H |
Capital of Bahrain |
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Hoylake |
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Mantissa |
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Alan Mullery |
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Manama |
I |
Managed by Dave Brailsford |
J |
Bond film with theme song by Adele |
K |
The proper name for the lower jawbone |
L |
Starred as Alfie Wickers in Bad Education |
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Team Sky (cycling) |
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Skyfall |
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Mandible |
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Jack Whitehall |
M |
The Tamil for ‘pepper-water’ |
N |
Took over Amstrad in 2007 |
O |
Greek for ‘the many’ or ‘the majority’ |
P |
1977 number 1 hit on flip side of Girl's School |
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Mulligatawny |
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BSkyB |
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Hoi polloi |
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Mull of Kintyre |
Q |
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R |
Astronomer; rejected Big Bang theory |
S |
1942 Oscar for Best Original Song |
T |
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White Hart Lane |
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Fred Hoyle |
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White Christmas |
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Mullion |
Man: A – Man Ray, F – Mantissa, H – Manama, K – Mandible |
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Wight (White): B – Maurice Micklewhite, L – Jack Whitehall, Q – White Hart Lane, S – White Christmas |
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Hoy (Hoi): C – Chris Hoy, E – Hoylake, O – Hoi polloi, R – Fred Hoyle |
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Skye (Sky): D – Kandinsky, I – Team Sky, J – Skyfall, N – BSkyB |
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Mull: G – Alan Mullery, M – Mulligatawny, P – Mull of Kintyre, T – Mullion |
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Man, Wight, Hoy, Skye and Mull are all the names of islands off the mainland coast of the British Isles |