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It's Not Irrelevant, it's a Hippopotamus!
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Let's don our pith helmets, hitch up our khaki shorts, roll our puttees, and set off on a Grand Safari, in search of the elusive Hippo. Warning: Some questions may cause rolling of eyes and groaning, and they are all utterly irrelevant!
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Thematic 10Q Average
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Average
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jul 18 09
516 plays
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Rush, Rush
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This quiz is about the first five pairs of teammates (and their teams) to rush over 1000 yards each during the same regular season. There's one 'near miss' team also.
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NFL Records
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Average
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Feb 07 09
741 plays
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Something Fishy Going On?
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11 sportsmen playing 10 different sports, and each of them has got something fishy going on with their name or nickname. How many of them do you know?
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Wide World of Sport
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Aug 27 09
420 plays
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Ludo And The Star Horse
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How well do you remember Ludo's journey in this charming story by Mary Stewart?
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Stewart, Mary
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Mar 01 07
102 plays
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The Books of O. Douglas
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O. Douglas wrote around 15 books, published between 1916 and 1950. How much do you know about her works?
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D
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Mar 03 07
105 plays
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"Tripoint" by CJ Cherryh
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How well do you remember the story of Thomas Bowe-Hawkins in this book by CJ Cherryh?
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Cherryh, C J
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Very Difficult
15 Q
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rowena8482
Mar 11 07
90 plays
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Texas Campfire Tapes - Michelle Shocked
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Texas folk singer Michelle Shocked's first release was a bootleg entitled "The Texas Campfire Tapes". Do you remember her lyrics from the album?
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S
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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rowena8482
Apr 03 07
69 plays
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"Thunder and Consolation" Lyrics - New Model Army
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How well do you know the lyrics to UK band New Model Army's "Thunder And Consolation" album?
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N
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Average
10 Q
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rowena8482
Jul 01 07
96 plays
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"One Rainy Day" by Joan Jonker
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How well do you know the story of Poppy and her family and friends in this story by Joan Jonker?
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Jonker, Joan
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Sep 09 07
96 plays
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"Rimrunners" by C J Cherryh
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How well do you know the story of Bet Yeager from "Rimrunners" by CJ Cherryh?
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Cherryh, C J
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Aug 27 07
69 plays
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"Terzah's Sons" by Victoria Copus
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"Terzah's Sons" is part of the "Wraeththu Mythos" series of 'fanfic' novels set in the world created by Storm Constantine, and integrated by Storm into her second Wraeththu Trilogy.
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C
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Impossible
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Sep 26 07
96 plays
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"Down To A Sunless Sea" by David Graham
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The story of the last aeroplane out of New York, and the 600 souls aboard, caught halfway to London when a devastating nuclear war breaks out below.
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G
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Dec 13 07
96 plays
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Sector General Species Classifications
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Sector 12 General Hospital was created by James White. To help the medical staff treat the many and varied patients, a classification system describes a being's physiology in just four letters. How well would you know each species?
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W
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jan 04 08
90 plays
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"The Shadow Isle" by Katharine Kerr
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22 years after the first book was published, the end is nigh - this quiz is on the penultimate, long awaited installment, of Kerr's epic 'Deverry' sequence of novels.
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Kerr, Katherine
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 29 08
87 plays
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Walking My Baby Back Home
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How much do you remember from Joan Jonker's story about Dot, Katie, and Colin?
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Jonker, Joan
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Oct 26 08
72 plays
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The Widow Ginger
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"The Widow Ginger" is the second of Pip Grainger's "Rosie" books, set in Soho in the 1950s.
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Grainger, Pip
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Mar 11 09
45 plays
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Neverwhere - the Author's Preferred Text
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How well do you know Neil Gaiman's "modern fable" about London Below and its weird and wonderful inhabitants?
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Gaiman, Neil
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Nov 15 08
117 plays
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"Mystery Case Files" PC - "Return to Ravenhearst"
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Have you cracked this installment in the "Mystery Case Files" series of PC adventure/hidden object games? (This quiz containers spoilers if you haven't completed the game.)
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Mystery Case Files
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Feb 14 09
147 plays
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Old Man's War
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John Scalzi's novel tells the story of what happens when a group of 75 year old men and women join the army - in space!
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S
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Apr 08 09
66 plays
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The Rockingdown Mystery
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This is the first book in Enid Blyton's "Barney" series, also sometimes called "The 'R' Mysteries"
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Apr 10 09
99 plays
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Circus Days Again
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"Circus Days Again" is the third and final book by Enid Blyton all about Jimmy Brown and his life in Mr. Galliano's circus.
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Apr 08 09
105 plays
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The Rilloby Fair Mystery
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"The Rilloby Fair Mystery" is the second of Enid Blyton's six books featuring Barney and his friends Roger, Diana, and Snubby.
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 01 09
99 plays
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Walking Into Mirrors
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How well do you know the lyrics from Johnny Warman's 1981 offering "Walking into Mirrors"? This quiz covers the original ten track album, not the "extras" from the CD.
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W
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Impossible
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 09 09
63 plays
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The Ring O' Bells Mystery
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"The Ring O'Bells Mystery" is the third of Enid Blyton's series all about Barney and his friends Roger, Diana, and Snubby.
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 06 09
99 plays
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The Rubadub Mystery
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How well do you remember the fourth in Enid Blyton's series of "Barney" books?
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 13 09
96 plays
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The Rat a Tat Mystery
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"The Rat a Tat Mystery" is the fifth book in Enid Blyton's series about Barney, his monkey Miranda, and their friends Roger, Diana, and Snubby.
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 24 09
69 plays
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The Ragamuffin Mystery
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"The Ragamuffin Mystery" is the sixth and final book in Enid Blyton's series all about Roger, Diana, Snubby and their friend Barney.
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Other Enid Blyton Books
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jun 23 09
75 plays
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The Brothers Leandros
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How much do you know about the brothers, and their friends, allies, and enemies, from the series of "Cal and Niko Leandros" books by Rob Thurman?
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T
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jul 02 09
36 plays
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The Marshall Islands
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands, in Micronesia, is one of the world's 47 island nations. Let's take a brief tour of this fascinating place...
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Micronesia
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Aug 19 09
99 plays
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Gallu and Dimme and Charonte, Oh My!
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Come and meet some of the many Demons who inhabit the darker side of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter world...These questions cover the books up to and including "Bad Moon Rising".
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Kenyon, Sherrilyn
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Aug 23 09
63 plays
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The Hibernating Fish
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Singer Fish, with the band Marillion, was world famous in the 1980s, but then he "went into hibernation" and vanished from the public view - or did he?
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F
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Sep 03 09
60 plays
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The Silver Mage
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The waiting is over, we finally know 'how it all turned out' with this, the final novel of Katharine Kerr's epic 17 book "Deverry Sequence". This quiz contains spoilers if you haven't read "The Silver Mage" yet.
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Kerr, Katherine
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Not Rated
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Nov 05 09
27 plays
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"Invitation to the Game" by Monica Hughes
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How much do you remember about this story of a bleak future for the masses of "unemployeds" written by Monica Hughes...
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H
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 04 08
114 plays
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The Men They Couldn't Hang Lyrics
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How well do you know the lyrics of the Bristol folk band The Men They Couldn't Hang?
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M
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Difficult
10 Q
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rowena8482
Mar 06 07
132 plays
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Joan Jonker's "Molly and Nellie" books
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Joan Jonker's books are all set in Liverpool and two of her best loved characters are "Molly and Nellie" - how much can you remember about the antics of the best friends and their families and neighbours?
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Jonker, Joan
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Feb 14 07
123 plays
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Jam And Jerusalem
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Since 1897 the Women's Institute (W.I) has gone from strength to strength, bringing women and communities together to gain new skills, publicise issues and campaign on things that matter to them.
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Organizations
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Difficult
10 Q
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rowena8482
Mar 19 07
222 plays
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"Many A Tear Has To Fall" - Joan Jonker
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How well do you know the story of the Richardson family in this book by Joan Jonker?
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Jonker, Joan
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Very Difficult
15 Q
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Rowena8482
Jul 06 07
117 plays
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"Try A Little Tenderness" by Joan Jonker
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How well do you know the story of the Nightingale family in Joan Jonker's story set in Liverpool?
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Jonker, Joan
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Dec 03 07
102 plays
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'Sadie Was A Lady' - Joan Jonker
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How well do you remember Joan Jonker's Liverpool story about Sadie Wilson?
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Jonker, Joan
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Difficult
15 Q
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Rowena8482
May 27 07
117 plays
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"The Last Legionary" books by Douglas Hill
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"The Last Legionary" books by Douglas Hill tell the story of Keill Randor, sole survivor of the radiation bomb which wiped out the finest fighting force the Galaxy had ever known, and his quest for revenge.
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H
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jan 12 08
93 plays
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Joan Baez Lyrics
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How familiar are you with the lyrics from the "Joan" and "5" CDs by Joan Baez?
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B
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Average
10 Q
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rowena8482
Feb 25 07
273 plays
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Rowena's Literary "Acrogram" Quiz
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An "Acrogram" question is where the initial letters of the answers to the given clues spell out the answer. The answers in this quiz are all literary. An example is given before Q1.
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Thematic 10Q Average
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Average
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Aug 01 09
171 plays
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A Blyton Guide to Mystery Solving and Survival
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Could you be the star of one of Enid Blyton's Adventure books? Could you follow the clues and save the day without freezing/starving/breaking your neck? Let's take a lighthearted look at Solving and Survival the Enid way...
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Children's Literature
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Apr 16 09
342 plays
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The Wakhan Corridor
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Tucked away in the far northeast of Afghanistan, the Wakhan Corridor is a fascinating and beautiful part of the "Roof of the World".
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Afghanistan
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Apr 12 09
120 plays
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Arcadians and Katagaria
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As well as Dark Hunters, Sherrilyn Kenyon's world is peopled with Arcadians and Katagaria. How much do you know about the "animal folk" from her best selling series?
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Kenyon, Sherrilyn
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Average
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jan 02 09
216 plays
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Science Fiction First Lines
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Can you spot which famous science fiction novel the following first lines are from? (I have used the first "proper" line, not any chapter heading quotes or forewords.)
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Science Fiction
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jul 17 07
678 plays
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Here Be Dragons
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Sharon Penman's novel tells the story of Joanna, illegitimate daughter of King John, married at fourteen to the rebel Prince Llewellyn of Wales.
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10 Q
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Rowena8482
May 18 08
144 plays
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Who's Who in the Commedia dell'Arte
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Are you familiar with the origins and appearance of the various characters from the famous Commedia dell'Arte?
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Theatre History
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Tough
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Apr 02 09
192 plays
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Anne McCaffrey's "Tower and Hive" books
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How well do you know the books about the FT&T Primes and their ongoing battle against the marauding 'Hivers'? This quiz covers the full story through all five books in the series.
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McCaffrey, Anne
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Average
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Nov 04 07
231 plays
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Orphans of the Sky
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How much do you remember from Robert Heinlein's story of the fate of the lost Proxima Centauri Expedition?
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Heinlein, Robert A.
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Oct 14 07
207 plays
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"Farmer in the Sky" by Robert A Heinlein
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How much can you remember about Bill and his father's adventures on Ganymede?
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Heinlein, Robert A.
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Sep 14 07
204 plays
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Rowena's Geographical "Acrogram" Quiz
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An "Acrogram" question is where the initial letters of the answers to the given clues spell out the answer. The answers in this quiz are all geographical. An example is given before Q1.
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Thematic 10Q Average
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Average
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Sep 29 07
564 plays
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Amnesty International
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With over 2.2 million members, supporters, and subscribers from over 150 countries, Amnesty International is a truly worldwide organisation, campaigning tirelessly for human rights equality for all.
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Organizations
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Sep 03 07
270 plays
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Children of the Dust
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"Children of the Dust" is Louise Lawrence's powerful novel of hope and rebirth in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
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10 Q
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Rowena8482
Oct 04 07
123 plays
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Name That Tune In 3 - Levellers
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So - you think you know your Levellers lyrics, but can you name the song given just three words from it? Why not have a go?
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Levellers
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Difficult
10 Q
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rowena8482
Apr 01 07
255 plays
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The 'Deverry' Sequence by Katharine Kerr
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How much do you know about the tangled 'Celtic Knot' of wyrd that forms the 'Deverry' sequence of books by Katharine Kerr? (Includes questions up to and including "The Spirit Stone")
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Kerr, Katherine
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Difficult
15 Q
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Rowena8482
Jul 02 07
153 plays
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Music My Goth Son Inflicts On The Family
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My 16 year old son is a Goth, and insists on listening to various Rock & Goth music, usually loudly. Can you identify the song or band from 'Mam's' description of the video and/or lyrics?
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Alternative Rock
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Average
10 Q
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rowena8482
Apr 26 07
1329 plays
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Funeral Rites And Rituals
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Throughout history, different cultures have evolved many different ways to honour their departed - take a look at some of the various rituals with me.
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Global Trivia
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Oct 24 07
894 plays
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The Suffrage Movement
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Over the years, women have campaigned, fought, and even died, for the right to be allowed a vote and a voice in the government of their home countries. How much do you know about their struggles?
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Political Science & History
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Nov 19 07
357 plays
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They Disappeared Into Thin Air
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Gone forever? Dead or Alive? Who knows the secrets of the people who have vanished without trace over the years...even if one of them later came back!
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Mixed People
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Difficult
10 Q
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Rowena8482
Jul 11 09
579 plays
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