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  1. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    Answers next week, no cheating. If you Google the answers don't post.

    1) At which English football ground did Pele lose his only World Cup match?
    2) Who is the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League?
    3) Which foreign football club paid £110,000 to sign Denis Law in 1961
    4) In which Scottish city is St Johnstone FC based?
    5) In Dickens' Great Expectations, Miss Havisham stopped her clock at 8.40. Why?
    6) Name MGM's lion
    7) Kosciusko is the highest mountain in which country?
    8) Which general addressed his troops in the natural hollow of Cheesefoot Head, near Winchester?
    9) Which common word begins and ends in 'und'?
    10) Why do planes fly at high altitudes?
    11) How many aircraft carriers did Germany have in World War 2?
    12) What is the only capital city in the world divided by two countries?
    13) In Romeo and Juliet, what was Romeo's cause of death?
    14) What happened to US President William Henry Harrison at his inauguration?
    15) What was the sign for gladiators' lives to be spared?
    16) What is the chemical symbol for ice?
    17) What is the largest French speaking city in the world?
    18) What does a nucivorous animal eat?
    19) Who sings the line "I Want My MTV" on the 1985 Dire Straits' hit "Money For Nothing"?
    20) In which two countries was the 1970 movie Ryan's Daughter filmed?
     
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  2. bradymk2

    bradymk2 Well-Known Member

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    4. perth

    10. less drag?

    13. poison?

    15. thumbs up?
     
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  3. Diego Gomezjurado

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    9. Underfund
    14. He didn’t wear a coat in the cold weather and died of pneumonia.
    19. Sting
     
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  4. balkan tiger

    balkan tiger Well-Known Member

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    A reasonably confident 5 this week.
     
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  5. Cambstiger

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    9. Underground
    10. Earth's curvature?
    17. Montreal?
     
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  6. DJBlackandamberarmy(No4)

    DJBlackandamberarmy(No4) Well-Known Member

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    well, i've got at least two right.

    1 st james park
    2 wayne rooney
    3 torino (hurray, one i know!)
    4 stirling
    5 it was the time she found out her beloved was dead
    6 gideon
    7 japan
    8 custer
    9 underfund
    10 to go faster
    11 none
    12 jerusalem
    13 he drank poison (i seem to recall one of them stabbing themselves and the other drinking poison but i can't remember which did what)
    14 he got inaugurated
    15 thumbs up?
    16 h20
    17 marakesh
    18 toadstools and mushrooms
    19 sting
    20 scotland and peru, i have no idea. probably haven't seen the film.
     
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  8. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    At least you had a go.To narrow it down - I'll be surprised if anyone gets Q17 right. No Googling.
     
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  9. Anal Frank Fingers

    Anal Frank Fingers Well-Known Member

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    Based on that I guess not in Canada so probably something in Africa like Guyana/guinea or Ivory coast or something
     
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  10. bradymk2

    bradymk2 Well-Known Member

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    Dakar?
     
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    balkan tiger Well-Known Member

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    That's one of my 5
     
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  12. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    A lot of you will know the name because of one particular event.
     
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  13. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    You've done well there then. I'd never have got it.
     
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  14. Anal Frank Fingers

    Anal Frank Fingers Well-Known Member

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    That's not helpful. I've now got places like KappaQuiddich (sp?) and Hiroshima stuck in my head
     
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  15. bradymk2

    bradymk2 Well-Known Member

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    Not sure they speak french in hiroshima
     
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  16. Anal Frank Fingers

    Anal Frank Fingers Well-Known Member

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    Which is why its annoying that it's stuck in my head. I have no idea where they other one is either.
     
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  17. TwoWrights

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    Neither does Teddy. :emoticon-0138-think


    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine. ​
     
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    I think I know 8 and have 2 other decent guesses. So to add one that hasn’t been answered yet

    8 - Eisenhower (in advance of D-Day)
     
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    Paris too obvious? It must have a population of over 10 million...
     
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  20. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    They didn't speak anything after August 6th, 1945
     
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