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LONDON
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Which area is named after decorated collars made by Robert Barber?
Reputedly which hunting call gave its name to a once seedy area of London?
Where is “Billy William’s Cabbage Patch”?
In which area of London is the Milner-Gibson Estate?
In whose memory was Eros erected?
Where was the first game of Bridge played?
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Who is the only person to have two equestrian statues of him erected in
London?
By what name was Covent Garden’s “Lamb and Flag” Pub also known?
Why?
Reputedly to which gate was St Edmund’s body taken to heal sick and
disabled people?
Who was the first person to be hanged at Tyburn after a permanent gallows
was erected in June 1571?
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Piccadilly
Soho
Twickenham Rugby Football Ground
Islington
The Earl of Shaftesbury
Portland Club, Half Moon Street/
St George’s, Hanover Square.
Duke of Wellington
“Bucket of Blood” associated with prize
fighting.
Cripplegate
John Story “a Romish Canonical
Doctor”
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GENERAL (1)
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What is an overpowering fear of death called?
Why is the Zip Code so named?
What is the Swahili for journey?
Thanatophobia
Zone Improvement Plan
Safari
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Where is there a memorial to Service cyclists who died in World War One?
Who brought Thomas Paine’s bones back to England?
Which word do we get from the Greek for one who does not hold public
office?
Which Norfolk schoolmaster and woodcarver made many of the county’s
village signs?
Where in Suffolk is the Race of the Boggmen held?
Reputedly which is the world’s oldest off-shore lighthouse?
Which shipping area does it serve?
Which moonwalker’s mother had what could be called a prophetic maiden
name?
Meriden, Warwickshire.
William Cobbett
Idiot (Gr.Idiotes)
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Harry Carter
Great Finborough
Bell Rock, 205 years old.
The Forth shipping area.
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name
was Moon
GENERAL (2)
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In Magyar language which dish means herdsman’s stew?
Which is the Silver Bush state?
Name the last battle between sailing ships.
Who or what links Sgt. Bilko and Nancy (“with the laughing face”) Sinatra?
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What is the shortest sentence in The Bible? (Not one word!)
Which was the first T.V. programme to be broadcast live to multiple
countries by satellite?
Released in 1917 what was the first jazz record? (Title and Group)
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From which fossilised tree is Whitby jet formed?
In the 1950’s for which company was the first business computer built?
Which famous pop group’s earlier name meant “Engaged Couples”
Goulash
Nevada
Navarino Bay
Phil Silvers played Sgt Bilko and wrote
the lyrics for the song. (Originally
written for Bessie Burke)
Jesus wept
Our World
“Livery Stable Blues “ by the Original
Dixieland Jass Band
Monkey Puzzle tree - Araucaria
J Lyons and Co.
Abba
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SAINTS
Which Norfolk abbess is shown crowned and with two does at her feet?
Who holds a flaying knife?
Who, at Eye, sheltered her virgin companions under her cloak?
Which two saints are depicted by a stag with a crucifix between its antlers?
Which two things does St Helen carry?
Whose name is linked to tawdry jewellery?
Which saint might hold a saw, and/or a metal bedstead or grid iron as her
emblems?
A Ludlow church has 27 scenes from his life and miracles in stained glass.
Who is he?
Who holds a large comb? Why?
Whose emblem is an augur used to blind him? Which racecourse might his
name bring to mind?
St.Withburga
St. Bartholemew
St. Ursula
St. Hubert and St. Eustace
A crown and a cross
St. Ethelreda a.k.a. St. Audrey of Ely
St. Faith
St Laurence
St.Blaise, patron saint of wool combers
St. Leger. Doncaster.
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BURY ST EDMUNDS (1)
How much money did Edward VI give to complete St James’ Church?
What is another name for Sparke’s Castle?
Who painted the pictures in St Mary’s Church showing people receiving a
dole of bread?
In which house in Whiting Street did Sybil Andrews live?
In which yard did Sam Weller have a halfpenny shower?
Which local Society is responsible for the Spanton Jarman collection of
photographs?
To the nearest 5 feet how long and wide was the abbey church at its largest
points?
In which church is a carved stone mouse at the base of the pulpit?
Who is commemorated by a Pardon tomb?
Where did people used to skip on Good Friday?
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ANAGRAMS OF EAST ANGLIAN (mostly Suffolk) WRITERS AND PAINTERS
DRAIN LABEL (6,4)
COBRA EGG BEER (6,6)
AIM BALL (7)
HI! KNIFE BLASTER (9,5)
ADRIAN BELL
GEORGE CRABBE
MABILLA
ELISABETH FRINK
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DE BALLY NORTH (6,6)
RONALD BLYTHE
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AGREE STRONG WEAVE (6,5,5)
HARD GIRL GAIL IS A RED (6,5,7)
MADE SORE (4,4)
NAB BRENDA TORR (7,6)
BRANDS WISELY (5,7)
GEORGE EWART EVANS
LILIAS RIDER HAGGARD
ROSE MEAD
BERNARD BARTON
SYBIL ANDREWS
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PEOPLE
Which 19th century M.P. was born without feet or hands?
Who played the last post at Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral?
In 2015, which blind tenor released an album featuring songs from films?
From whom did Hansard buy the Parliamentary reporting rights?
Name the only British Prime Minister to have played first class cricket
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Which moonwalker hit hard times and worked in a car dealership?
Which Frenchman wrote about the year he spent in Suffolk?
Arthur Kavanagh
Peter Wilson
“Cinema” by Andrea Bocelli
William Cobbett
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (once for
Middlesex, 1924-45)
Buzz Aldrin
François de la Rochefoucauld
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Which U.S. President had two lions?
What were their names?
Enya was originally part of which family act?
Who is the only person to have been awarded an Oscar and a Nobel prize?
Calvin Coolidge
Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau
Clannad
G. B. Shaw
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St. Andrew’s Castle
Rose Mead
Greyfriars, 60 Whiting Street.
The Angel Hotel
Bury Past and Present Society
505 feet/154 metres long
& 246 feet/75 metres wide
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
John Baret
Hardwick Heath
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BURY ST EDMUNDS (2)
In which town centre street is there a house called “Madasa”? Why is it so
named? (Please do not bother the occupants)
For which newspaper did Charles Dickens come to Bury to cover the
election?
Which needlewoman is embroidered on Sybil Andrews’ banner in the
Cathedral?
From which species of tree was the totem pole in Nowton Park carved?
What colour bull was kept on the Haberdon in medieval times?
Which abbots laid out the grid plan of the town?
In which religious sounding “street” can be found The Coach House, The
Stables and even the Crystal Palace?
What is the current name of Madame White’s Lane?
Where can the graves of Dandie, Poor Blind Peter, Ching and Fanny be
found?
Hatter Street. (Mad as a Hatter)
Morning Chronicle
Mabilla
Red Cedar
White
(a) Abbot Baldwin (b) Abbot Anselm
Friars Lane
St Botolph’s Lane
Site of Hardwick Hall in the
grounds of W.S. Hospital. Dogs’
graves.
Wilkie Collins
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To whom did Dickens write to tell he had read “Copperfield” at B.S.E?
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SUFFOLK
Where can you find a seat made of part of a Flying Fortress?
The Rose Garden, Abbey Gardens.
“A frog he would a wooing go, with a Roley, Poley ................and ................”
Gammon and Spinach
Complete.
Which families are referred to in the above answer?
The Bacon’s and the Greene’s
In which village can be found an Elizabethan octagonal pump house?
Rushbrooke
Whose initials and what date are above the entrance to Languard Fort?
V.R. 1875
What did John Timpson call Ickworth House?
The Horringer Horror/An octopus with two legs
Which West Suffolk church’s south porch was destroyed in an early World
St Edmund’s, Hargrave.
War II raid?
Near which West Suffolk village can be found the “Bench Oak”?
Horringer
Which female artist was born in Barrow?
Mary Beale
On whose grave are there always flowers – the colours of which might
The Gipsy boy
forecast the Derby winner?
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SUFFOLK CHURCHES
In which church who, with the same name as the village, are remembered
with a cadaver tomb?
Where can be found a wall painting of St Francis of Assisi preaching to the
birds?
In which church near Bury can a wife and her second husband be seen on a
tomb chest, while her first husband is in an alcove underneath?
Part of which St Andrew’s church was built in a style described as “Art
Nouveau Gothic”?
Who was the architect?
How many round towered churches are there on the Lothingland peninsula?
Which is the narrowest round tower in Suffolk?
A stained-glass window in which church shows St. Francis of Assisi and
Breckland birds?
At Long Melford church what do the hare’s heads joined by the ears
symbolise?
Who is featured with a crown and a scythe in Cavenham church?
John and Katherine Denston
St Mary’s, Wissington
St John’s Lateran, Hengrave
Elveden
William Caroe
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Blundeston. Just over 10 feet
diameter
St Marys, Santon Downham.
The Trinity
St. Walstan of Bawburgh