WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Initial Headlines - Press Headlines - Questions & Answers |
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Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
29/10/2018 | Press Headlines | There are 3 separate sets of initials per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes a word that is (or starts with) the key word from the name of a current British national newspaper (Daily or Sunday) | |
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1844: “WHGW” becomes the first MCMS via ET |
“What hath God wrought?”; morse code message sent; electric telegraph |
2. |
1851: POMD including chief MS later to be used as name for a CSC |
Publication of Moby Dick; mate Starbuck; coffee shop chain |
3. |
1854: POCD shortest NHT set in the fictional NTOC |
Publication of Charles Dickens’; novel Hard Times; Northern town of Coketown |
4. |
1919: TOVS in HOM exactly five years after TAOAFF |
Treaty of Versailles signed; Hall of Mirrors; the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
5. |
1946: IAWL debuts with JS, and Henry Travers playing his GA |
It’s A Wonderful Life; James Stewart; guardian angel |
6. |
1969: BCATSK (based on real life RPAH Longabaugh) ends with a SIB |
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid; Robert Parker and Harry; shootout in Bolivia |
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1977: Debut of CS whose TPF had the slogans ‘PTTP’A‘FFT’ |
Citizen Smith; Tooting Popular Front; ‘Power to the People’ and ‘Freedom for Tooting’ |
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1984: WEDOSE featuring RS routines devised by AP |
West End debut of Starlight Express; roller skating; Arlene Phillips |
9. |
1998: ALTI designed by JI who later designed TIIAI |
Apple launch the iMac; Jonathan Ive; the iPod, iPhone and the iPad |
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2000: M a new SAO complex opens on the former site of BMSO |
Mailbox; shopping and office; Birmingham’s main sorting office |