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Quizmail No 76

What is the four-word title of the novel by a U.S. female author, first published early in the 20th century, which was later turned into a very succesful 1940's stage farce and cinema film, about two...

mother25

Dingbats

Anyone offer any help with these please? E lephant Contro Thanks

mother25

number sequence

What comes next in this series of numbers..... 1; 111; 10; 121; 11; 12;

chinatown

last 2 quiz questions

In which book? Is there a policeman called fatface. Someone called Hazel and Flivver. Thanks for any ideas.

mother25

Aeroplane designer

Does anyone know the name of the designer of the 'TIGER' and the 'CAMEL' aeroplanes please? My first thought was Tommy Sopwith, but although I can find all kinds of info. about his Camel design, there...

keith6

Whisky and threp?

On Coronation Street, Fred Elliot often orders a ' whisky and threp '. Does anyone know what this means? I said....does anyone know what this means?

KittyGlitter

Christmas Round Robins

What are people's views on these? You know, those CV type letters that are included with Christmas cards. They come from people you never see, telling us that they went to Cuba for a month and that...

ianess

Regional dialects/accents/ local languages

Have you heard about the Londoner, Cornishman, Geordie, and the Aberdonian trying to hold a conversation with a Yorkshireman with a Glaswegian standing by? Is there such a thing as a `Standard`...

thepheebster

Halls Of Residence

A room in the halls of residence at Liverpool costs ?51 a week, and average in London is ?89 a week. Big difference for a student! Is ?89 a week expensive? Because would a student be able to earn ?90...

curiousljl

names

what are named Mumps, Citadel and Marine?

mog

financial times

which colour paper was the financial times printed in in its centenary edition 1993

deepankars

Answerless Puzzle

"How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing is wrong with it at all, and, in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual....

mother25

pub game

Thomas Morrison Clayton of earlsfield, Greater London, at the greyhound, Battersea High Street, on the 18th June 1974, scored 11,700 in 10 minutes. In which game? This is a two-word answer, and is a...

ravenscroft

Cycling term

Anyone know a french word meaning house keepers applied to riders whose task it is to protect, serve and cater to the needs of the teams leading cyclist?

allen

Is there another Answerbank?

Not that it's lifeboat time yet, but nearly.... has anyone found another answerbank-type site anywhere, one not yet infested by kids and idiots?

Anna Rack

I Just Wanna Be Close To You

This song was probably a hit in the 90's sometime, but I don't think that is the title. It's a soul song sung in a slow-ish tempo. Does anyone please know artist/title. Thanks.

molbot

Olympics 2004 Closing Songs

Toward the end of the closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympics, "Never on a Sunday" was sung. What were the two songs that followed directly after? On Mon 30/08/04 Morpheme answered a similar...