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Pub Quiz thread

Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. oldfrenchhorn

    oldfrenchhorn Well-Known Member
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    David Herbert Lawrence, Edward Morgan Forster,James Graham Ballard, John Boynton Priestley, Cecil Scott Forester. All writers.

    Forester is the odd one out because that was a pen name.
     
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    Wow, that was quick. Correct, all English novelists known by their first initials (D.H.Lawrence, E.M.Forster, etc.) Over to you Frenchie
     
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  3. oldfrenchhorn

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    A Watford related question.

    What was the last game to be abandoned at the Vic. and who was deprived because of it of his first goal for the club?
     
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  4. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    v Wigan and Tamas Priskin
     
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  5. oldfrenchhorn

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    Correct Theo. Dec 30th 2006. Over to you.
     
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  6. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    Who felt "as much at home as a pickled onion in an ice cream sundae"?
     
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    Steve Bruce when managing Sunderland
     
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  8. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    Not Steve Bruce...more fictional
     
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    Mike Bassett
     
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    A fictional manager? Ian Holloway.... :)
     
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    A fictional manager? Ian Holloway.... :)
     
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    That Hush Puppy wearing kerb crawler Pleat at The Spuds - pure fiction.
     
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  13. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    Seems a clue is due:

    American fiction...he also said "Women will lie about anything, just to keep in practice..."
     
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    Bill Clinton
     
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  15. Bolton's Boots

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    Isn't that from one of the Philip Marlowe novels? In which case, Philip Marlowe - or Raymond Chandler.
     
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  16. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    Phillip Marlowe it is...

    Over to you, BB
     
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  17. Bolton's Boots

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    Which football team shares it's name with a scale for measuring risk? And what kind of risk....
     
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  18. NZHorn

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    I know the Bristol Scale is used in hospitals to describe the consistency of solid human waste from 1-7. I think 1 is the runny end of the scale and 7 the solid end, but that probably wasn't what you had in mind, BB.
     
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    There is a Barcelona Field Studies Centre that studies the risk of physical and psychological injuries, but their website just calls it a severity scale.
     
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    Could this be something Scottish ? The Hamilton rating scale for depression risk - the conclusion being that if you watch Hamilton Accies for long enough you must be at high risk !
     
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