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emperor | 16:08 Fri 02nd Jun 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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I'm still completetly stuck for a solution to the following local quiz question (exactly as written):-


Evidently 494 were once treated as though worth, as it were, only sixpence or next to nothing. By whom?


Any thoughts anybody???

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Where's local?


Apart from that, first thought is that VI is 6, D is 500 and 500 less 6 is 494


VI d could also be sixpence in predecimal money


Interested to se any other ideas

how mant questions in this Quiz?


and as asked for above by Famous5 where is local?

some thoughts -


tanner


lucky sixpence - given to a bride / put into the xmas pudding / from the tooth fairy


reference to literature / song ---- wasn't there something in Oliver the musical or Oliver Twist about a sixpence

VID next to nothing (o).


OVID?


Don't see why we've got vid twice though


Or even 3 times, does vid. mean evidently?

post the answer when you get it plz
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toFamous5, local is cornwall.


Thanks for the thoughts, I'll work on them and let you know if I get anywhere


To pandabear, there are 32 questions, all sorted apart from this and the one listed on the site as 'colours again'

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thanks for all the help

The answer is Ovid althogh the quiz organiser doesn't know why!

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