WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Connecting Wall - 27/11/17 - Questions & Answers |
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Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
27/11/2017 | 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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Area containing Batley, Cleckheaton and Dewsbury |
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Northern terminus of the Pennine Way |
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The Scapegoat (by William Holman Hunt) |
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Kirklees |
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Kirk Yetholm |
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Bo Diddley (legendary American R & B musician) |
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Either barred or blocked with lights |
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Baroque Italian composer; wrote 555 piano sonatas |
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Record goal scorer for Bermuda national team |
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Fictional pub near Bristol – home to story’s narrator |
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Crossword puzzles |
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Domenico Scarlatti |
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Shaun Goater (32 goals) |
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Admiral Benbow (home of Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island) |
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79 year old leader of the Socialist Labour Party |
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Played Frank Baker in Fabulous Baker Boys |
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Fairy tale characters – tried to cross troll’s bridge |
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TV & film character - middle name Tiberius |
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Arthur Scargill |
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Beau Bridges |
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Norwegian fairy tale) |
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Captain James Kirk (from Star Trek) |
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Shakespeare’s description of Romeo and Juliet |
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Took the ‘naughty bits’ out of Shakespeare |
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10-a-side game - originated by Iroquois people |
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Common to Disraeli, Ho Chi Minh & the god Pan |
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“A pair of star-cross’d lovers” (from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet) |
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Thomas Bowdler (The Family Shakespeare – bowdlerisation) |
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Lacrosse |
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Goatee beard |
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Patricia Cornwell’s fictional forensic scientist |
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2017 Christopher Nolan film with Hans Zimmer music |
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Gerald Scarfe (title cartoons for Yes Minister) |
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Dr Kay Scarpetta (detective novels) |
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Dunkirk |
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George Cross (featured on the flag of Malta) |
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Goatfell (Isle of Arran), Kirkfell (Lake District), Bowfell (Lake District), Crossfell (Pennines), Scafell (Lake District) ….all names of UK mountains ending in ‘fell’ |