Christmas Quiz

[MWS]

10. A site to see in Carcassonne….

Hill Top ?

Not Springfield, Rubery or Hill Top.

 

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Well we’ve got nearly another Year to ponder.

If to finish it is to end, any connection to Shard, Ward, Buckland, Bacons…

 

[MWS]

Finish it is End but you've missed out the most well known.

 

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derit ?

 

[MWS]

derit ?

Second most well known then.

 

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Oh No, it can’t be World’s End !

 

[MWS]

Nope, not World's End but if you carry on you'll get it.

 

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Farther than World’s end, onward with Virgin Galatic !

Furnace End ?

 

[MWS]

Carry On was my big clue.

 

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5. Keeps Lassie in…. Stockfield ?

 

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If it’s not Thimble End then I’m off on the Number 11 !

 

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Carry On was my big clue.

Dale End
Jim Dale from Carry On films

 

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Thanks Janice I was just looking for my bus pass !

 

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No skip or jump needed at The Maypole ?

 

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5. He had the right type of mettle to succeed…

Joseph Chamberlain had the right metal to succeed with Nettlefold.

 

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4. Did he stick to the rules, statistically I hope so.

Rabone and his steel rulers.

 

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Music 4
Paranoid by Black Sabbath

 

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5. He had the right type of mettle to succeed…

Joseph Chamberlain had the right metal to succeed with Nettlefold.

4. Did he stick to the rules, statistically I hope so.

Rabone and his steel rulers.

I thought of them but they don't fit the required letters do they.
Number 5 almost looks as if it is Smith but, if it is, which one?

 

[MWS]

I thought of them but they don't fit the required letters do they.
Number 5 almost looks as if it is Smith but, if it is, which one?

No. 4 wasn't born in Bham, worked here for a time, I hadn't heard of him. It's an unusual name, 2 syllables 4 and 4 - what do you do if you stick to the rules in a game.

No. 5 is much more well known, mettle being in italics is the main part of the clue.

 

[pjmburns]

No. 4 wasn't born in Bham, worked here for a time, I hadn't heard of him. It's an unusual name, 2 syllables 4 and 4 - what do you do if you stick to the rules in a game.

So "playfair"

After some searching William Playfair - inventor of statistical graphics - including the pie chart.
Draughtsman and assistant to James Watt at the Soho foundry

 

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Music 5
She drives me crazy by Fine Young Cannibals.

 

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For a change:
Picture N
Blakesley Hall Museum which I think is number 11 on the map

 

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Music 6
Mr Bluesky by ELO

Music 7
Storm in a Teacup by the Fortunes

 

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Picture K
Moseley Road Baths which I think is number 14

 

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Picture O
St Mary's Church Moseley and I thnk it is number 18

 

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Thanks Mark - carrying on slowly with the rest.
Am enjoying the challenge but perhaps it was a bit too long

 

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Local geography
Opposites 10
Bearwood

(Bull and bear are opposite movements on the Stock Exchange and wood is a non metal).

 

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Finishing off the music quiz

Number 8 - I want to be free by Toyah
Number 9 - Nights in white satin by The Moody Blues
Number 10 - We'll bring the house down by Slade

 

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Could the missing famous person be George Muntz?
He "invented" muntz metal used to coat ship hulls instead of copper to protect them.

 

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First part of Birmingham timeline:

1741 First edition of Aris's Birmingham Gazette
1757 John Baskerville designed the Baskerville Font
1775 Richard Ketley founded first Building Society
1809 Statue of Horatio Nelson unveiled
1824 John Cadbury opened his shop in Bull Street