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quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Penny » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:25 pm

1. What is Pyrrhic victory

2' What goaded Parliament into passing the Clean River Act of 1870

3. Prior to Nairobi, what was the capital of Kenya

4. '''There's a divinity that shapes our ends,''' From where does this line come from

5. Who said, ' When the FA get into their stride, they make the Mafia look like kindergarten material

6.Whose catchphrase is ''' shut that door''''

7. Which puzzle was first introduced in 1832

8. Which people first wrote down music


9. What is an abalone?

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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby dita » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:29 pm

9. A shell
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby dita » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:31 pm

6. Larry Grayson
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Penny » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:39 pm

Well up to scratch today Dita. Correct. Cheers Penny
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby widget » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:44 pm

7, think it was the Crossword Puzzle
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Penny » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:55 pm

Very similar widget, with pieces. Cheers Penny
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby widget » Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:32 pm

7, not a jigsaw puzzle??, love them do them all the time,
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Andere Richtingen » Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:33 pm

4. Hamlet, act 5 by William Shakespeare
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Andere Richtingen » Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:37 pm

1. A victory whose cost is more than it is actually worth. E.g.: if Trump carried out his threat to wipe out N. Korea and succeeded but, in the process, most of the world including the US was rendered uninhabitable by nuclear fallout, that would be a Pyrrhic victory
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Penny » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:16 pm

You sorted that out widget. Well done. 1 and 5 correct Andere. Good ones. Cheers Penny
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Monika » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:24 pm

3. Mombassa
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Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

Postby Penny » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:32 pm

Well spotted Monica. Correct. Cheers Penny : :ithanku:
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