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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Initial Headlines - Flights of Fancy - Questions & Answers |
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| Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
| 28/08/2017 | Flights of Fancy | There are 3 separate sets of initials per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes the name of a bird | |
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1723: CWB in SPC beneath the words “RIYSHMLAY” |
Christopher Wren buried; St Paul’s Cathedral; “Reader if you seek his monument look around you” |
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1842: Considered by ACD to be HBN the first part of MC is published |
author Charles Dickens; his best novel; Martin Chuzzlewit |
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1894: B of H make their first batch of WC |
Bulmers; Herefordshire; Woodpecker cider |
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1920: Première of TLA written for SVAO by VW |
The Lark Ascending; solo violin and orchestra; Vaughan Williams |
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1935: PB(FBAL) publish their FP including AFTABEH |
Penguin Books (founded by Allen Lane); first paperbacks; A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
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1936: FSF using a ME built at R-RID |
First Spitfire flies; Merlin engine; Rolls-Royce in Derby |
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1972: FT plays CP in new SAYBS? |
Frank Thornton; Captain Peacock; sitcom Are You Being Served? |
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1972: MOD by CGLP reaches NOITC |
Mouldy Old Dough; Coventry group Lieutenant Pigeon; number one in the charts |
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1988: E‘TE’E finishes LISJC at WOIC |
Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards; last in ski jumping competition; Winter Olympics in Calgary |
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1996: Death of CM, the inspiration for CR in the WTPB |
Christopher Milne; Christopher Robin; Winnie the Pooh books |