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Who or what is this?
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Which “Dutch” was a lifeguard?
Demar
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Who painted this?
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What is this?
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Who could complete this list, and why?
Neil Sedaka
Frank Abelson
Pete Wingfield
????
George Benson
Neil
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What is this?
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Mostly in two chunks, to the north, you will find three monarchs, to
the south some traps. Where?
3iff
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Starting with any single letter create a six letter word by adding one
letter at a time, to the end of the word, creating a new English word
at each stage (two letter, three letter, four letter, five letter, six
letter) without creating any plurals.
Dan
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Who are these girls?
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Two great writers are recorded as having died on the same date in the
same year, more than a week apart. Who were they?
Alan
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An old school dictionary falls open. Across a two page spread I can
find a Malay word for rice, a kind of Buddhist temple, a Portuguese word
for useless talk, an elementary Greek goddess and an Italian clown. I
didn't find the feathery pattern I was looking for, where might I find
it?
(Apart from in a bigger dictionary!)
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Who is this?
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Which of the following is (linguistically) not an exceptional country:
Argentina
Botswana
Denmark
Finland
France
Iceland
Ireland
Poland
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States of America
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What was the contribution to English literature of the visitor from
Porlock?
Venky
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Jim had a dream. A voice told him that the next lottery would yield
six balls, all of which would be prime numbers higher than one. The lottery
uses the numbers 1 to 49, how many tickets would Jim need to buy to cover
all combinations of six such numbers?
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Who is this man, and why was he so popular with the ladies?
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Which sport was created to outflank a puritan inspired law?
Mike
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Where might you find this?
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Bill was playing Scrabble with me. He told me he had three tiles left
and they were all the same vowel, no blanks. Then his eyes lit up, triumphantly
he places all three letters down on the board surrounding one letter that
was already in place. No special squares were covered, only one four letter
word was created.
What was Bill's score?
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I have been reported to have drunk half a pint of shandy on the odd
occasion. I was educated without ever going to school or university, which
put me twenty five years ahead of my contemporaries. I earned my living
in the service of a great empire. My most influential work was the second
best book of the year, and perhaps of the millennium.
Who am I?
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