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Each answer contains a set of 3 consecutive letters representing one of the days of the week or one of the Spring months (i.e. Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mar, Apr or May),

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1.

What did Elgar write as a dedication for his best known composition The Enigma Variations?

“To my friends pictured within”

2.

Who scored the winning goal in the 1976 League Cup Final?

Dennis Tueart

3.

Which American writer wrote the book of illustrated stories and essays My World and Welcome to It?
 

James Thurber

4.

From which Phillip Larkin poem do the following lines come:

“I thought of London spread out in the sun
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat”?

The Whitsun Weddings

5.

What type of eastern pottery has a soft, ivory-colored, crackled glaze with elaborate polychrome and gold decorations?

Satsuma ware

6.

Who took over the management of the Parlophone record label in 1955?

George Martin

7.

Which Briton is currently European Women’s champion in the uneven bars?

Beth Tweddle

8.

Geographically what do Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil have in common?

The Tropic of Capricorn passes through all of them

9.

Whereabouts in south west London might you have literally found the main town of a Scottish island, a Balkan country and a South American river?

Wimbledon Common

(Wombles: Tobermory, Great Uncle Bulgaria and Orinoco respectively)

10.

What product was advertised with the slogan: “You’ll be lovelier each day”?

Pink Camay

(soap)