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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Your Choice - 30/07/18 - Questions |
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30/07/2018 |
TV cops |
15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter. Each answer contains the surname of a well-known TV cop. Make your choice. |
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Choose your general knowledge question from the 15 subjects listed below by clicking the question number. Each answer contains the surname of a well-known TV cop. The names of all 18 are used in the answers - none is used more than once. |
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Former gaols |
Northern Ireland |
1990s pop music |
The Beatles |
Upstairs, Downstairs |
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New Zealand |
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Saturday evening TV |
2012 pop music |
UK politics |
North West train lines |
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Mystery group |
1960s TV personalities |
Organs |
Muhammad Ali |
Dickens |
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Former gaols |
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The famous medieval prison, Newgate Gaol, is now the site of which building? |
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Northern Ireland |
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The city of Derry/Londonderry lies a few miles south of the head of which sea lough? |
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1990s pop music |
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The Beatles |
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Which track from The Beatles’ White Album includes a contribution from George Harrison’s friend Eric Clapton on lead guitar? |
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Upstairs, Downstairs |
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The LWT series, Upstairs, Downstairs, included an episode entitled The Nine Days Wonder. To what was the episode title referring? |
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New Zealand |
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Hawkes Bay on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island has two cities known as ‘The Bay Cities’. One is Napier – what is the other? |
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Saturday evening TV |
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Born in 1944 who is this erstwhile Saturday evening TV icon?
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2012 pop music |
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UK politics |
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Which UK politician, who died in 2006, when ennobled, took the title Baron Stratford? |
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North West train lines |
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The train line spur that went from Romiley to Macclesfield via Bollington shut in 1970 apart from which station which is now the terminus of this spur line? |
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Mystery group |
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The latest 4 have been entitled Monty the Penguin, The Man on the Moon, Buster the Boxer and Moz the Monster. What are they? |
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1960s TV personalities |
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Which TV personality who rose to fame in the 1960s died in 2013 and has a memorial stone dedicated to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey? |
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Muhammad Ali |
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Only 5 boxers ever defeated Muhammad Ali: Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks, Trevor Berbick and which other boxer? |
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Dickens |
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Charles Dickens wrote two historical novels: A Tale of Two Cities and which other one? |
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