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OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Rollercoaster Ranger, Jun 15, 2013.

  1. Rollercoaster Ranger

    Rollercoaster Ranger Well-Known Member

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    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
     
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  2. Shawswood

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    What can I say? Take it away
     
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  3. Rollercoaster Ranger

    Rollercoaster Ranger Well-Known Member

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    I only stumbled across this today, what is the collective noun for a group of bears?

    I love some of these collective nouns....
     
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  4. Sooperhoop

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    A sloth...
     
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  5. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    A sloth or a sleuth, either will do. Who gets to pick these words?

    Now for a nigh-on impossible question on an obscure part of London .....
     
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  6. Sooperhoop

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    Now now Roller, well, why not?...:grin:

    Which area in London carries the suffixes 'Within' and 'Without'?...
     
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  7. QPR999

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    It relates to The City and specifically 'London Wall.' As in within London Wall or not, and without pertaining to the latter.
     
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  8. Sooperhoop

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    You're partially right Nines, but it's a specific ward of the city that carries the suffixes...
     
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    I had to look it up to check as I couldn't remember which "gate" it was, but read about this some years ago ...Cripplegate I think
     
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  10. Sooperhoop

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    Cripplegate was previously divided into 'Within' and 'Without' but is no longer. The area in the question is two separate wards and still officially carries the suffixes...
     
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    Newgate?

    Is it a "gate"
     
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  12. Sooperhoop

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    It's not a 'gate' but you might catch a train there...
     
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    Is it St Botolph's, or that may be just two different churches. My family, fathers line, lived in Little Britain/ Clerkenwell since the early 1700s (at least, thats as far as I have got back) and lots were christened, married and buried in St Botolph's without Aldgate. Come to think of it Aldgate may be the answer. Or Aldersgate. Anyway, Postmans Park, right next to the church, is a brilliant place.

    Having read the above post I'm wrong.
     
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    and with the train clue, I'll go for Farringdon.

    A piteousness of doves is a personal favourite collective noun.
     
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  15. Sooperhoop

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    Farringdon it is. All yours Stan...
     
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    Another complete this sequence one....

    George Hardwick
    Billy Wright
    Ronnie Clayton
    Johnny Haynes
    ...............?
     
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  17. Sooperhoop

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    Jimmy Armfield?...
     
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    Quick turnover tonight, correct, post war England captains.
     
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  19. Sooperhoop

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    Who are the only top flight team to have both scored and conceded a century of goals in the same league season?...
     
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  20. The other R in Houston

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    Was it the Sunderland team that tried to buy the league and got relegated... I think in the 1930's?
     
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