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...and if anyone gets questions 4 and 13, they are better folk than I...

1. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is the subtitle of which novel?
2. Which sport takes place in a dohyo?
3. Who was the proverbially wealthy king of Lydia?
4. Which group is named after unexplained lights seen by world war two fighter pilots?
5. Which reference book was first published in 1768?
6. Bedford Park is regarded as London's first what?
7. Scoop, Muck, Roley and Lofty are whose vehicles?
8. Which anarchist claimed that "property is theft"?

What links:

9. Born in Newgate Prison; At The Drop of a Hat; Evergreen Terrace neighbour?
10. Into the Wild; Insomnia; Grizzly Man; 30 Days of Night?
11. Stabbed 23 times, according to Plutarch; 33, said Shakespeare?
12. Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour?
13. Knox; Kidd; McClaren; Queiroz; Phelan?
14. Ernest Shackleton; PG Wodehouse; CS Forester; Raymond Chandler?
15. Oyster; button; portobello; enoki; beech?

ETA: Now with answers in comments

Date: 2009-12-13 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nicnac.livejournal.com
4 will be the Foo Fighters! Heard it on the radio once.

Date: 2009-12-13 03:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
We got both 4 and 13, but we didn't get 5, 6 or 8.

Date: 2009-12-13 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
8 is Proudhomme

Date: 2009-12-13 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I knew 13 was a Man U connection. Now guess which of the five my grandfather used to play golf with.

Date: 2009-12-13 03:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
I know that now, we checked the answers after doing the quiz yesterday!

Date: 2009-12-13 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
It would be a guess, like the answer to number one.

Date: 2009-12-13 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
It's one of the file cards which just pops up in my head: facts known re Proudhon = 1.

Date: 2009-12-13 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
Answers as I groped for them...

1. Tess of the you know where's
2. Sumo wrestling
3. Cressus, crouesious, Cressida, oh, you know the one
4. Had no idea at all - but The Foo Fighters
5. Brittanica
6. Garden Suburb
7. Bob the Builder
8. Proudhon
9. Flanders - Nell, F and Swann Revue; Ned
10. Films set in Alaska
11. Julius Caesar
12. Current space shuttle orbiters
13. Assistant managers to Alex Ferguson at Man. U.
14. Attended Dulwich college
15. Types of Mushroom.

Date: 2009-12-18 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] widgetfox.livejournal.com
13/15 - we didn't get 10 or 13. Thank you for doing this.

Date: 2009-12-19 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
No problem at all :)

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