Pub Quiz thread

Some battle over Australia?

 

No, much closer to home.

 

They were both Lord Wardens of the Cinq Ports.

 

Quite correct Theo. All yours.

 

Cheers Frenchie.

What seemingly unlikely meeting of two famous people finally took place in London in 1964 after the pair had exchanged letters for several years?

 

is it t s Eliot and Groucho Marx?

 

Well done, Yorkie...that's it. Sounds an unlikely meeting really. I believe they talked more about the films than about 'The Waste Land'!

 

What cliff record was achieved about this time and no one has since gone higher

 

Summer Holiday or The Young Ones

 

No.. the wrong cliff!

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Must be Cliff Holton's WFC goal-scoring record...more than 40 in a season?

 

Yes over to you

 

What didn't begin with all the world in a hopeless jumble?

 

The version of "Somewhere over the rainbow" used in the Wizard of Oz. As is the case with a lot of musical films, they didn't use the whole versions of all of the songs and they cut the first verse - the first line of which is "When all the world is a hopeless jumble".

 

That's the one...over to you JSB.

 

Who links Rodrigo's "Concierto d'Aranjuez" with Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area?

 

mmm a hitch-hikers guide?

 

You've worked out the Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area part. Rodrigo's "Concierto d'Aranjuez" has a famous mistranslation.

 

Is orange juice a link.... ? it is in the great cocktail

 

I forgot that orange juice is part of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, but you are on the right lines. My initial question asked who is the link.