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  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    The questions
    1 Which classic film’s title came from the Pease Pudding rhyme?
    2 Who described himself as the “stately homo of heavy metal”?
    3 Playa Girón was the site of which military fiasco?
    4 Which US state produces a quarter of the country’s cheese?
    5 What football first did Rebecca Welch achieve in December?
    6 The Buddhist text Bardo Thödol is popularly known as what?
    7 In 100 million years, what might Amasia be?
    8 What style of comedy is named after a percussion instrument?
    What links:
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    15 metopes; 17 pedimental figures; 75m of frieze?
    10 1724; 1927; 1999; 2090?
    11 Argonauts; Blue Jays; Maple Leafs; Raptors?
    12 Billy; Klippan; Lövbacken; Malm; Poäng?
    13 Francis of Assisi; Joseph of Cupertino; Simon Magus; Teresa of Avila?
    14 Palma; Calvià; Eivissa; Manacor?
    15 Ray Bradbury; Eleanor Catton; Agatha Christie; William Faulkner; Gabrielle Zevin?
     
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  2. tigerscanada

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    9. Willie and Harry.
    11. Tranna. :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  3. tiptoe through the kempton

    tiptoe through the kempton Well-Known Member

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  4. Help!

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    Good one for me today - 9/15.

    Well I think so without looking for the right answers
     
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  5. dennisboothstash

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    Some like it hot
    Rob Halford?

    Wisconsin (maybe. Green Bay fans seem to wear cheese hats?)
    Reffed PL game being a lady
    Book of the dead?

    Slap stick

    links

    Toronto teams
     
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  6. FLG

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    3. Bay of Pigs
    4. Wisconsin
    5. First PL female referee
    7. At a guess the continents will reform into one again
    9. Scenes in the Elgin Marbles?
    10. Solar eclipse years
    11. Canadian sports teams.
    12. Billy is an IKEA bookcase - so maybe all items sold in IKEA.

    That's it.
     
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  7. Stockholm Tiger

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    I got 3 and 7 and guessed 9 based on the 75m of frieze. Better than usual.
     
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  8. Cambstiger

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    11 - Toronto
     
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  9. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

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    Good call on ikea
    Poang is a ikea chair
     
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    Help! Well-Known Member

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    2 is indeed Rob Halford (citing Quentin Crisp)
    6 definitely Tibetan Book of the Dead

    Plus:

    13 All mystics
     
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  12. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    13 wrong!!
     
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    Help! Well-Known Member

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    Dun dun duuuhn!

    I’m scratching my head then, ‘cos I’ve just googled them all to check and Wikipedia certainly says they are! Is it something more specific? Or just summat else?
     
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  14. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    More specific mate
     
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    Is it something pigs can't do?

    Edit - to be fair that covers a fair bit. Is it that they were all alleged to have been able to fly?
     
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    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Yes
     
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    upload_2024-1-27_16-1-2.png

    Joseph of Cupertino, just what we need in the box to get on the end of the crosses. Like a medieval Stuart Elliot
     
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    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Fly or levitate
    Proper goal hanger
     
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  19. The B&S Fanclub

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    11 Argonauts; Blue Jays; Maple Leafs; Raptors? Ans...Toronto based sports teams..
     
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  20. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Yes
     
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