Old 01-10-2008, 17:23
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1. How many faces has the clock on big Ben’s tower? - Four - Bernie

2. In Britain, how often is the National Census held? - Every 10 years - Shillelagh

3. In bullfighting, what name is given to the men who ride on horses and carry large lances? - Picadors - poppy

4. If your hobby were scrimshaw, what would you be making? - Making things with Seashells, Ivory or Bone - jaysay

5. Plexiglas is a trademark in the USA. What is it’s British equivalent? - Perspex - Churchill

6. Which Staffordshire potter is credited with inventing Willow Pattern Wear? - Thomas Minton - jaysay

7.Release is a helping organisation. What type of problem is it concerned? - Drug Rehab - Bruv

8. The Watusi or Batutsi tribe comes from Burundi in Central Africa. What is this tribe remarkable for? - Tallest people in the world - jaysay

9. Which is the Parisian university is the oldest in Europe? - The Sorbonne - Kels97

10. Name any 3 of the 6 regulation Boy Scout knots? - Sheep bend, Sheep Shank, Clove Hitch, Round turn, 2 and 1/2 hitches and a bowline - Bruv (2/4)

11. Who sang the theme tune to TV’s Minder? - Dennis Waterman - S.J

12. Which range of hills does the M62 cross? - Pennines - terrywit

13. Which town was the scene of the Gunfight at the OK Corral? - Tombstone - jaysay

14. Who came first in the Tour De France for the fourth consecutive year in 1994? - Miguel Indurain - jaysay

15. Who had a horse called Black Bess? - Dick Turpin - jaysay

16. Who met the Little People in Lilliput? - Gulliver - Bruv

17. Who scored for Nottingham Forest in the 1991 FA Cup Final? - Stuart Pearse - jaysay

18. Who was the first American President to resign from office? - Richard Nixon - Churchill

19. Who wrote a Tale of Two Cities? - Charles Dickens - Churchill

20. Which Derbyshire market town is associated with an almond flavoured tart or pudding? - Bakewell - Bruv
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Old 05-10-2008, 14:30
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7....... OK then......Assisting prisoners on release from jail
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Old 05-10-2008, 14:37
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Sorry Bruv, no.
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Old 06-10-2008, 10:42
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4 Making things out of Whale teeth and bones
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Old 06-10-2008, 16:03
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18. Richard Millhouse Nixon, resigned before he could be impeached.
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Old 06-10-2008, 21:26
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7 Drug rehab
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Old 07-10-2008, 10:34
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8 they are te tallest people in the world have been known to grow to 8 fet tall, and their women stretch their necks with bangles from birth
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9 Sorbonne
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9 The Sorbonne
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Bloody Hell Kels we were both posting the answer at the same time, you got me by a minute
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14. The Spanish rider Miguel Indurain
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