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Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: JCFC
Date: November 26, 2021, 10:05 am
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A European jaunt - a mish-mash of puns and general knowledge.
1. A guided holiday, perhaps by coach.
2. A byre?
3. The littlest Teletubby.
4. Her grandmother.
5. French tin.
6. German tin?
7. George Brown's home of gnomes.
8. A schism
9. Deferential courtesy when the waiter presents the tab.
10.Capital greens.
11.Big-mouthed Meg in Edinburgh.
12.Number 11's alternative name - in Norway.
13.Where the Officers dine.
14.....Sea or the Solent.
15.Military conflict adage.
16.You can bank on this place.
17.Home of Hildegard
18.A sibling's daughter.
19.Doubly convenient.
20.Produced unbearable lightness.
21.Dreamt of a snowy Yule.
22.Goldwater?
23.Known for its hemispheres.
24.Artistically burnt.
25.A celebration of tools.
26.Rating system of Taylor's of Loughborough.
27.An operatic drinking song.
28.Dutch serpent.
29.Shakespeare had no time off here.
30.Its station is the centre of the Universe, according to Dali.
31.1980s FLOTUS.
32.Please leave, Mr Stallone.
33.Sir Christopher.
34.Essential after a visit to the loo.
35.Feminist cry prior to burning.
36.Stream with waterside pubs.
37.Fail to interest a female deer.
38.Sounds as if it has a famous odour.
39.Westphalian eggs go well with it.
40.What we have just done around Europe.
Good luck - and forgive any errors. One could have two answers,
allowing for typical English mispronunciation - choose the one
outside the UK.
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: OwdReds
Date: November 27, 2021, 2:33 am
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Just to get started
1. Tours
3. Po
17. Bingen
18 Nice
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: JCFC
Date: November 27, 2021, 4:07 am
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Thanks for a good start- credit to Accy Grammar! Three of the
four correct. The other, number 3, is defensible, but I was
thinking of a town, rather than a river.
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: RCG
Date: November 29, 2021, 9:31 am
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Pau?
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: bmb
Date: November 29, 2021, 11:50 am
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No answers to contribute but I have to admit, much to my shame,
that I remembered every word from the teletubbies theme song, oh
& have the blimmin thing stuck n my head now! 15 years to forget
the trauma of bmb jr laughing as the TV blared out Tinky Winky,
Dipsy, La-la, po... Thanks JCFC [emoji31]
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: JCFC
Date: November 29, 2021, 11:57 am
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Sorry for the earworm, bmb.
Sorry, too, that I could not find a suitable Hungarian
candidate.
Good to see that someone is looking at it anyway.
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: bmb
Date: November 29, 2021, 3:17 pm
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2. Bethlehem
5. Étain
7. Zürich
11. Elibank
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: JCFC
Date: November 29, 2021, 3:32 pm
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Thanks for your answers, bmb.
Number 7 is definitely correct - I had thoughr the phrase was
Harold Wilson's, but apparently he copied it from George Brown,
presumably at a time when the latter was not "tired and
emotional" (as a newt.)
Number 5 is undeniably correct - Etain is indeed the fFrench for
the metal and there is a very small town of that name near ther
border with Belgium and Luxemburg, but I had in mind somewhere
much more familiar to English people.
Number 2 is one of the harder ones, I think, and the friends who
were the original recipients needed a further hint.
Number 11 was clearly visible in Brighouse's Commercial Street
and in most other towns of any significance in England.
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: mauricelapin
Date: November 30, 2021, 3:16 am
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May be able to add a few more when time permits extensive use of
thinking cap, but for now:-
14 Lyon
29 Athens
37 Bordeaux
Some of the others look rather tricky!
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Re: Another quizzle for those at a loose end
DIR By: OwdReds
Date: November 30, 2021, 3:46 am
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8. Split
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