WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Initial Headlines - POTUS - Questions & Answers |
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Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
25/02/2019 | POTUS | There are 3 separate sets of initials per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes the surname of an American President who has held office since 1900. (NB: Names are only used once) | |
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1865: JWBAAL at FT during a performance of the POAC |
John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln; Ford’s Theatre; play Our American Cousin |
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1885: Inspired by British pioneer JL the JB launch a MP business |
Joseph Lister; Johnson brothers; medical products |
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1930: Birth of CE who went on to WBDO for his FUAMDB |
Clinton Eastwood; win Best Director Oscars; films Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby |
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1958: Publication of BATBTC – later a FSAH as HG |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote; film starring Audrey Hepburn; Holly Golightly |
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1962: Debut of SAS all about a RABB based in ODLSB |
Steptoe and Son; rag and bone business; Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd’s Bush |
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1963: On the death of HGHW defeats GBAJC to become LOTLP |
Hugh Gaitskell Harold Wilson; George Brown and James Callaghan; leader of the Labour Party |
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1983: Disappointed with his HJJD invents a new VC based on CS |
Hoover Junior James Dyson; vacuum cleaner; cyclonic separation |
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1992: Death of AC best known for HNNATC and TBC |
Angela Carter; her novels Nights at the Circus; The Bloody Chamber |
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1994: Ex-husband attacks TH’s fellow ISNK prior to WOGIL |
Tonya Harding; ice skater Nancy Kerrigan; Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer |
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1999: Following the ROPA the LD choose CKAL |
Resignation of Paddy Ashdown; Liberal Democrats; Charles Kennedy as leader |