Same initials Quiz 3

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Part 1

1. What was the 1849 invention of the American Walter hunt?

2. Which large draught horse is associated with east Anglia?

3. On Which course is the eclipse stakes run annually?

4. What nickname is often given to Shakespeare?s macbeth?

5. Where were Norman Stanley Fletcher and his fellow inmates incarcerated?

6. Who was shot and killed by john Bellingham in 1812?

7. What proverbially will not fit into a round hole?

8. Who invented the art of "one upmanship"?

9. Where was the churchyard of Grays elegy written in a country churchyard?

10. Who sang with the American band journey on their only two British chart entries? 

Part 2

11. Who was assassinated on 30th January 1948?

12. What do the French call shrove Tuesday?

13. What is an alternative name for methane?

14. Which was the last number 1 hit for T Rex?

15. Who played the singing detective on television?

16. Which German Olympic champion was nicknamed 'the albatross'?

17. For which film did Katharine Hepburn win her first Oscar in 1933?

18. Who was shot and killed by his own father in 1984?

19. Where do Oxford United play their home football league matches?

20. What did sir Hiram Stevens maxim invent in 1884?

ANSWERS

1. Safety Pin

2. Suffolk Punch

3. Sandown Park

4. Scottish Play

5. Slade Prison

6. Spencer Percival

7. Square Peg

8. Stephen Potter

9. Stoke Poges

10. Steve Perry

11. Mahatma Gandhi

12. Mardi Gras

13. Marsh Gas

14. Metal Guru

15. Michael Gambon

16. Michael Gross

17. Morning Glory

18. Marvin Gaye

19. Manor Ground

20. Machine Gun

   

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