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Postby Penny » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:12 am

1. For what occupation would you train at Norlands

2. For what public spectacle did crowds come to Tyburn

3. Which part of London is termed ' Square Mile'

4. Who married Miriam Larkin

5. Who won the first of her Wimbledon titles in 1978

6. Who played the Chinese detective Mr.Wong, in five films

7. Age 60. Leonardo da Vinci began painting with his left hand. Why

8. What, in the song, is the ' itsy, bitsy, teeny-weeny

9. How is it that mongooses which attack cobras are unaffectedby the snakes

10. In Greek mythology, which child of Cronus and Rhea was worshiped as the goddess of earth.

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Postby Tiddles » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:16 am

1. Nanny

3. The City of London

8. yellow-polka dot bikini
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Postby Rowan » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:36 am

2. Executions - hanging
4. Was it not Mariette Lark10. I always thought Gaia was the goddess of earth and she was the mother of chronos and rhea
5. Martina Navratilova
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Postby Penny » Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:47 pm

1,2,3,5, and 8 correct. Well done. Not Mariette Rowan. No.10 Typing error, should have read goddess of hearth.

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Postby Tiddles » Fri Dec 24, 2010 3:26 pm

6. Boris Karloff
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Postby Penny » Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:24 pm

Correct tiddles. cheers Penny
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Postby Tiddles » Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:39 pm

10 Hestia
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Postby Penny » Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:23 pm

Correct tiddles, well done. 4 and 7 left.
4. Mr.Polly. (H.G,Wells)
7. Because his right arm became paralysed.

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Postby Rowan » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:12 pm

Nobody has answered No. 9 - I'm curious! :dunno:
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Postby Penny » Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:42 am

Sorry Rowan. No.9. They move so fast they are rarely bitten. cheers Penny. :grouphug:
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