The Saturday Quiz
Saturday 03 March 2012
From the blogs
The Fall ‘Darkness Visible’ – Series 1, episode 2
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‘Vicious’ – Series 1, episode 4
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Dish of the Day: Beer matching menu – Part 3 – The Main
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Lord Tebbit and the ‘lesbian Queen’ – funny, but not original
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8. What job was Rex Hunt doing when he came to prominence in the spring of 1982?
9. For this 1964 film, Alun Owen wrote the screenplay, but who wrote the music?
10. Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in which major US city?
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