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The Annual Quiz - win £ 1,000!

Questions 1-18 require single word answers. Answers 19-21 require a little more - see the instructions on the left.
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 9: How many people could live off a day's oxygen from one acre of fir trees?</td> <td><input name="q9" size="25" maxsize="25" type="text"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 10: Where would you find a labyrinth, an oval window and a round window?</td> <td>ear</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 11: What is Mr A.G.Dorsey's preferred first name?</td> <td>Engelbert</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 12: What is the next letter in the sequence: A, Б, B, Г, Д...?</td> <td><input name="q12" size="25" maxsize="25" type="text"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 13: Who does the eye pictured on the left belong to?</td> <td><input name="q13" size="25" maxsize="25" type="text"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 14: What was the 28th most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2006?</td> <td>Erin</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 15: Which country flies the flag pictured on the left?</td> <td>Eritrea</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 16: What did we eat 173 times in 2006?</td> <td><input name="q16" size="25" maxsize="25" type="text"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 17: Where would you see beaks going up Judy's passage?</td> <td>Eton</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Question 18: What is a 'korvalappu'?</td> <td><input name="q18" size="25" maxsize="25" type="text"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="right"> <input name="check" value="Check answers" type="submit">
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <hr> Question 19: Tell us something Quite Interesting about Easington, County Durham.
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• I can see us giving google a good working over. :rotfl:

mintymoneysaver

qUESTION 8 IS eDAM

mustafa_say_ving

I'm sure a "Beak" is an Etonian teacher

Judy's passage ...I'll have to google that ....I think it's something to do with how many years you've been at Eton.... but like I say I'll have to google to check

Snidely

I just got it Yup Eton [SIZE=-1]Judy's Passage. An Etonian Magazine No. 1 Friday, July 12 1935[/SIZE]

mustafa_say_ving

I know that eye .

Though it was Hitchcock

Then Quentin Crisp.


Gonna think about some of these

mctintin

After lots of searching here is the 1-18 list

Hope this helps


The Annual Quiz - win £ 1,000!

Questions 1-18 require single word answers. Answers 19-21 require a little more - see the instructions on the left.
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anniebooklover

korvalappu is "earflap".

See mctintin beat me to that - and the rest of the answers!

A xx

chris08

Would question one be echinus. All answers begin with e?

chris08

I should have loooked first lol well done
thanks
chris

dipsy

something interesting about Easington

two men were hung on the village green for alleged involvement in the plot to replace Tudor monarch Queen Elizabeth with Mary Queen of Scots.

oh the wonders of the interweb :-)

JJ7

two men were hung on the village green for alleged involvement in the plot to replace Tudor monarch Queen Elizabeth with Mary Queen of Scots.

Wow! I've been searching but didn't find that. Billy Elliot was filmed there too.