Pub Quiz thread
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Not there yet. His appearance was very much against him and so he often moved around at night. The clue about Thomas Hardy leads more towards rural professions.
The reddleman...an itinerant worker in Hardy (Return of the Native I think) whose whole appearance got covered by the red dye used for marking sheep.
That's the one Theo. Reddleman was an old rural profession which died out when trains started connecting rural areas. The red dye impregnated clothing and the skin and Hardy's character Diggory Venn, in 'The Return of the native', is one of the only literary references to this profession. Over to you.
Whose obituary said she had been "intoxicated with the flattery and imagination which attended her in a rank of life so different from the obscure condition in her early days"?
Her wish to be buried in England was ultimately denied her.
Her wish to be buried in England was ultimately denied her.
Thanks Theo.
Car, Scratch, Melt and Security are the first four what and what is the title of the next in the sequence?
Crikey Frenchie, that was quick. I'll give to you. They are Peter Gabriel's first four albums. All were actually called Peter Gabriel so they are distinguished by the cover artwork. Birdy was the soundtrack album he released before he went stratospheric with the album So.
Over to you.
Keeping to the musical theme, who said,
"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."