WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Connecting Wall - 30/10/17 - Questions & Answers |
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30/10/2017 | 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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North Salford area; scene of 1885 colliery disaster |
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Stepney, Poplar and Bethnal Green |
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The Seven Year Itch (film poster featuring Marilyn Monroe) |
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Clifton (Clifton Hall Colliery) |
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Tower Hamlets |
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Austin 7 |
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1857 novel satirising Church of England factions |
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Elgar wrote a musical piece called Sospiri; what does ‘Sospiri’ mean? |
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1685 trials following Battle of Sedgemoor |
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Vietnam war film based on book by Ron Kovic |
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Barchester Towers (by Anthony Trollope) |
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Sighs (from Italian sospiri) |
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Bloody Assizes (Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion) |
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Born on the Fourth of July |
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David Copperfield character; runs off with Little Em’ly |
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Chris, Vin, Bernardo, Lee, Chico et al |
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Forsyth novel title based on 1968 Nuclear Treaty |
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Catholic Cathedral of Bristol |
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(James) Steerforth |
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The Magnificent Seven (first names of 5 of the 7 characters) |
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The Fourth Protocol |
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Clifton Cathedral (Cathedral of SS Peter & Paul) |
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Magnox & PWR between Aldeburgh and Southwold |
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1947-1958; Ramadier to de Gaulle |
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Finished 2nd in last 4 series of Strictly |
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Between Chalk Farm & Hampstead on the Northern line |
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Sizewell (Nuclear Power Station on Suffolk coast) |
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The Fourth Republic (French Government & first/last Prime Ministers) |
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Kevin Clifton (with S Reid, F Bridge, K Bright & , L Redknapp) |
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Belsize Park |
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St Helens-born comedian; looks after Oswald |
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From Battle of Jumonville Glen to Treaty of Paris |
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The Tower of Babel (by Pieter Brueghel the Elder) |
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Bernie Clifton (Oswald is the ostrich he rides in his act) |
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The Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763) |
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Alton Towers (logo of amusement park) |
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Severn Bridge (x 2); Clifton Suspension Bridge (Avon, Bristol); Tower Bridge (Thames, London); Bridge of Sighs (Oxford & Cambridge); Forth Bridge (x 3) …. all names of UK Bridges |