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Quiz Monkey |
General |
Unclassifiable |
Some questions just defy classification. Or I suppose, to be fair, it could just be down to the limitations of my system.
A full census has been taken every 10 years (except 1941) in England and Wales, and normally in the
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1801 |
70–metre (235 feet) artefact, to be exhibited Britain in 2022 for the first time in its 950–year history |
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Bayeux tapestry |
Displayed at a beach that's deemed to be clean and pollution–free; originating in France, but now awarded by an international organisation based in Denmark |
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Blue flag |
Annual fund–raising event: reintroduced in 2012, twenty years after it was scrapped by the Scout Association for health & safety reasons |
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Bob–a–Job Week |
Brand of cigarettes, launched in the UK by W. D. & H. O. Wills in 1894: the Full Strength version has been officially recognised as the strongest available (in terms of nicotine content); named after part of a ship |
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Capstan |
Distress signal used by Marconi operators in the early years of the 20th century, but replaced from 1906 by the
internationally recognised 'SOS'![]() |
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CQD |
Dukes, Kookaburra and Sanspareils Greenlands (SG) are the three internationally–approved brands of
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Cricket balls |
Word that links a Major League baseball team, a song written in November 1944 and sung to the tune of Lily
Marlene, and a type of biscuit![]() |
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Dodgers |
Foodstuff featured in an annual festival on the Isle of Wight (since 1983), to fund the island's booming industry of growing it |
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Garlic |
International sports competition created by media mogul Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s (US boycott 1980, Soviet Bloc boycott 1984); held five times, 1986–2001 |
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Goodwill Games |
Replaced the gestatorial chair (sedia gestatoria) in the 1970s |
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Popemobile |
Has used registration numbers in the range SCV 1 to SCV 9, and (since 2013) SCV 00919 | ||
Inaugurated in 1965, first recipient was actor Rupert Davies; discontinued in 2003, last recipient was Stephen Fry; other recipients include Harold Wilson (1964 and 1976), Eric Morecambe (1970), Fred Trueman (1974), Ian Botham (1988), Tony Benn (1992) |
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Pipe Smoker of the Year |
First awarded to Barbara Windsor in 1976; awarded annually since 1981, when Felicity Kendal won; first male recipient was Michael Barrymore (1986, shared with Anneka Rice); since 1997 there has been a male and a female recipient each year |
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Rear of the Year |
Name used for a match, from about 1830 at least until the First World War – after the Roman goddess of the hearth |
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Vesta |
© Haydn Thompson 2017–24