Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - Wordle Round - 25/04/11

Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
25/04/2011	Famous texts (2)	Decode the Wordles of the well-known texts and answer the 2 questions against each Wordle. (Beware the text at Q2 might only be well-known to the teams that first tackled this round back in 2011!)	Questions without Answers
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1.		2.
	a) What is this religious text? b) Where was the original version of this text first adopted?		a) What does this text describe? b) In what year might this text have first been relevant?
	a) The Creed b) (Council of) Nicaea		a) The Albert Club (home page of the website) b) 1874 (year of the Club’s formation)
3.		4.
	a) Of which work of literature is this the first page? b) What is the first name of the leading male character?		a) What was the real surname of the person who wrote this? b) For which ‘collection’ was it written?
	a) Pride & Prejudice b) Fitzwilliam (Darcy)		a) Bulsara (Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie Mercury) b) The Night at the Opera album
5.		6.
	a) In which stage show did this first appear? b) What was the name of the ‘less advantaged’ character?		a) Who made this speech and in what year? b) Where was the speech delivered?
	a) Beyond the Fringe (Pete & Dud’s One Leg Too Few) b) Mr Spiggott		a) Margaret Thatcher - 1979 b) Outside 10 Downing Street
7.		8.
	a) Who made this speech? b) Where is his family home?		a) What are the first 2 words of this text? b) Where specifically does this text first appear?
	a) Charles Spencer (at the funeral of his sister, Diana) b) Althorp		a) Pater Noster (Lord’s Prayer in Latin) b) The Sermon on the Mount (in St Matthew’s Gospel)
9.		10.
	a) Who made this statement in February 2002? b) The “unknowns” were the absence of evidence of what?		a) What does this purport to explain? b) …and what did they conclude “died for nothing”?
	a) Donald Rumsfeld b) Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq		a) Origins of the First World War (Blackadder Goes Forth) b) “the poor old ostrich” (Baldrick’s version of ‘Austria’)