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30/07/2018 |
TV cops |
15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter. Each answer contains the surname of a well-known TV cop. Make your choice. |
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Former gaols |
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The famous medieval prison, Newgate Gaol, is now the site of which building? |
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Old Bailey
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Northern Ireland |
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The city of Derry/Londonderry lies a few miles south of the head of which sea lough? |
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Lough Foyle
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1990s pop music |
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Janet Jackson & Luther Vandross (singing The Best Things in Life are Free)
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The Beatles |
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Which track from The Beatles’ White Album includes a contribution from George Harrison’s friend Eric Clapton on lead guitar? |
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Upstairs, Downstairs |
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The LWT series, Upstairs, Downstairs, included an episode entitled The Nine Days Wonder. To what was the episode title referring? |
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The 1926 General Strike
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New Zealand |
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Hawkes Bay on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island has two cities known as ‘The Bay Cities’. One is Napier – what is the other? |
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Hastings
(Captain Hastings of ACP & Ted Hastings of LOD) |
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Saturday evening TV |
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Born in 1944 who is this erstwhile Saturday evening TV icon?
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Len Goodman (of Strictly Come Dancing fame)
(Humphrey Goodman of DIP) |
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8. |
2012 pop music |
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Gary Barlow (Candy sung by Robbie Williams)
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UK politics |
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Which UK politician, who died in 2006, when ennobled, took the title Baron Stratford? |
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Tony Banks (former Labour MP and Sports Minister)
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North West train lines |
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The train line spur that went from Romiley to Macclesfield via Bollington shut in 1970 apart from which station which is now the terminus of this spur line? |
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Rose Hill Marple
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Mystery group |
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The latest 4 have been entitled Monty the Penguin, The Man on the Moon, Buster the Boxer and Moz the Monster. What are they? |
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John Lewis Christmas TV adverts
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1960s TV personalities |
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Which TV personality who rose to fame in the 1960s died in 2013 and has a memorial stone dedicated to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey? |
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David Frost
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13. |
Organs |
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Reginald Dixon (I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside)
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Muhammad Ali |
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Only 5 boxers ever defeated Muhammad Ali: Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks, Trevor Berbick and which other boxer? |
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Larry Holmes
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Dickens |
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Charles Dickens wrote two historical novels: A Tale of Two Cities and which other one? |
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Barnaby Rudge (which is set in the 1780 Gordon Riots)
(Chief Inspector Barnaby of MM) |
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