WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Connecting Wall - 28/10/19 - Questions & Answers |
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28/10/2019 | 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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Arrested at Heathrow 8/6/68 & extradited
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Volleyball venue for 2012 Olympics
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Mishal Husain |
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James Earl Ray (murderer of Martin Luther King) |
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Earl’s Court |
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Rudolph Walker |
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Royal Artillery Captain in WWI & Chief Bank Clerk |
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In the Midnight Hour was his greatest hit |
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In 2003 the Ace of Spade |
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Newcastle area; means ‘marsh by the Wall’
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Sergeant (Arthur) Wilson (from Dad’s Army) |
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Wilson Pickett |
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Saddam Hussein (US army’s cards of ‘wanted’ Iraqi men) |
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Walker (‘wal carr’; the ‘Wall’ is Hadrian’s Wall) |
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Salford-based; mother of Billy & Joan, wife of Jack |
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Robert L May’s most famous animal creation
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Count Basie called him World’s greatest pianist
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Nobel Peace Prize winner 1919 |
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Annie Walker (landlady in Coronation Street) |
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Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer |
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Earl Hines |
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(President) Woodrow Wilson (for setting up League of Nations) |
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4th wife was Lisa Najeeb Halaby
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Made Deputy leader of the NSDAP in 1933 |
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2018 World XI Captain in Soccer Aid match |
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Replaced Bill Turnbull in 2016
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King Hussein of Jordan |
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Rudolf Hess (NSDAP = German Nazi party) |
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Usain Bolt (match held at Old Trafford) |
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Dan Walker (as host of BBC’s Breakfast show) |
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Married poet Mary Baldwin in 1940
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Jackson’s of Piccadilly’s bergamot product
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The Walker Art Gallery (in Liverpool) |
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Harold Wilson |
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Earl Grey tea (originally devised and sold by Jackson’s) |
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Rudolph Valentino |
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Barack Hussein Obama, Jimmy Earl Carter, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Ronald Wilson Reagan, George & George Herbert Walker Bush are all middle names of US Presidents (since WWII) |