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Pauls Quiz 147 (Questions only)

1. According to folklore, who could shed no more than three tears ?  
    a. a warlock  
    b. Bonnie Prince Charlie  
    c. a witch  
    d. Oliver Cromwell

2. A musical instrument and an old dance. Eight letters, the sixth letter is an "i".

3. What is the largest inland lake in South America ?

4. What was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army ?  (19,240 dead, 57,470 casualties)

5. Circles, dots, arcs and other non-representational designs engraved into rock and cave walls are called what ?  Eleven letters and the second letter is an "e".

6. Greek port from which most currants were imported. Seven letters

7. What is the name of the musical instrument which is a combination of two small drums, one bahina (left) and the other dahina (right) ?

8. The following are the first words to which books ? 
    a. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen......  
    b. It was five o'clock on a winters morning in Syria......  
    c. It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when father wolf woke up.....  
    d. The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning......

9. Plus or minus 50 years, when was the last legal execution of a witch in Scotland ?

10. The surrealist poet Leon-Paul Fargue honoured which popular French product with the title 'les pieds de Dieu' (the feet of God)?

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