Northampton Saints
The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 3
By Old Pete
June 20 2014
Here's the latest set of teasers from COYSDC's very own Bamber Gascoigne, Old Pete...
Summer Quiz – Round 3
1. What connects ? - a Liberal Democrat; an intergalactic villain; early oriental porcelain
2. Where am I? My railway station was once described as “A palace with trains“ - a schism in sport occurred here - a statue of a man in a mackintosh stands in my main square.
3 In what way are VW now the top dogs while Peugeot fades and Cap Gemini drop out.
4 Who am I? I trained to become a priest - I joined a revolutionary group and organised bank robberies to finance the cause - I rose through the ranks to become secretary of the organisation. On the death of our Leader I took over. I had a fear of flying and insisted that all my meetings with foreign leaders must be attainable by train.
5. One of these statements is true - which one is it? Bismark once considered inviting Karl Marx to be finance minister of Prussia ; Joseph Stalin was a teetotaller; All American Presidents have been married men in office.
6. Which is the odd one out – Albany; Springfield; Carson City; Portland; Nashville; Cheyenne; Dover
7. What is the link between the following - a King captured through treachery; a refusal to take an oath; the imposition of a poll tax.
8. Which town or City - real or fictional would you associate with the following fictional characters - Sally Bowles; Pinkie Brown; Harry Hole; Mrs Hudson; Portia; John Tregorran ; Patrick Bateman; Jeanie Deans
9. Where does a one eyed man look down on a carbuncle?
10. What connects A bright star; 4pm to 8pm and a street food snack
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9: Trafalgar Square, Nelson looking down on the Sainsbury Wing
1. Ming!!!! Ming Campbell, Ming the Merciless and Ming Dynasty china
I could go off you Clegthorpe!!!
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10. Dog - Dog Star dog watch and hot dog
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Correction, I had the right reasoning but the wrong answer, it is Portland; neither the one in Oregon mor the one in Maine are State capitals.
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Portia Venice Merchant of Venice
Mrs Hudson London Holmes housekeeper
Instead, we got the Sainsbury Wing which is more of a granny flat extension.
However you describe the National Gallery extension, the one-eyed man would have trouble looking down on it - it is at his rear (rear admiral, phnarr, phnarr). He looks down on Whitehall - pretty much as he did through his lifetime
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Patrick Bateman is a New Yorker
Jeanie Deans is most celebrated in Edinburgh
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2: Huddersfield - birthplace of the Northern Rugby Football Union and Harold Wilson, the man in the mac.
Bonus points for Kagan and Gannex?
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New York; Illinois; Nevada; Tennessee; Wyoming and Delaware
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everyone getting most things rights so far - characters and places all correct between several of you. But OSB can you name the book ? for Jeanie Deans .
St Jerome - Q7.it concerns actual events and people not a legend
Or, Jambo
Or, Jam Tarts
Or, as Sir Walter Scott put it...
Heart of Midlothian
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Queen Isabella, wife to Edward II, refused an oath of allegiance to her despised husband and took a lover instead.
The link, therefore, is Edward III, son of Isabella, Sovereign to John O' Gaunt, captor of Jean II.
I really don't care if this is right or wrong - I enjoyed doing the research and finding such links even if OP has something else in mind completely
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and Aye yon lassie was in the was the Heart of Midlothian.
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OSB - yer research ( googling etc ) can lead one astray The linkage is much more parochial than that.
and Aye yon lassie was in the was the Heart of Midlothian.
My first thought when I started this was Charles Bradlaugh and so looked for the link to be Northampton.
I can get to Henry VI having his collar felt by Warwick after Edmund Grey had given way to him at the 1460 Battle of Northampton.
However, Northampton's special relationship with a poll tax eludes me - unless it is the one mentioned in my first answer when the Black Prince passed his helmet around at Delapré to fund his participation in the 100 Years War
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so what is the third element - a clue - Maggie Thatcher was not the first.
PS no one is absolutely certain as to where the battle took place - we know it was somewhere north of the river Nene in the vicinity of Dellapre Abbey - I favour Tescos Mereway - after all there is now an established link between Supermarkets and Wars of the Roses outcomes.
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