17-03-2020, 15:33
(This post was last modified: 17-03-2020, 16:46 by SaltergateBorn.)
As some of us seem to have been placed under house arrest for the foreseeable future (I`m starting to go stir-crazy already) I`m posting this in the hope that it might provide a bit of light entertainment for a few of you. I used to organise quizzes many years ago and I once used this as a a bit of fun for the interval. I know I thought up a few of them myself (sorry!) but others I picked up from somewhere or other; long time ago now.
I`ll post the answers in a week or so - or whenever I remember, whichever comes sooner.
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The clues represent the name of an English or Scottish football team. Sometimes, the clues suggest the entire name, sometimes just the first word. In other words, the answer could be either ‘Plymouth’ or ‘Plymouth Argyle’, for example.
For example; ‘Dogs ancestors` – Wolves
1. Carrying an old guitar
2. Stuck on the top of the map
3. Clear Buckingham
4. Leaver
5. Pensioners` bun
6. Heads
7. Brilliant when worn
8. They blow houses down
9. Riding boots have them
10. Firstly, he rode plenty of winners
11. Feed a steam engine
12. Inter
13. The P in Peter
14. Found dead on the express
15. Reynolds, perhaps, on Olde Englande
16. President Green
17. The complete bacon joint
18. Murky waters
19. Londonderry on a g-string
20. Uncover part of a candle
21. A parent no longer ill
22. A classy car in front of a Roman house
23. An untouched plate
24. Weight for a long time
25. Wandering ghosts
26. This is the place for a river crossing
27. Left a cover over the face
28. Marbles metropolis
29. Ship`s company
30. Sitting down with a good book
31. The new stadium rebuilt
32. Spinning cricketer`s water
33. Add to
34. Lewis, say, surrounded by water
35. HM`s greenkeepers
36. Don`t let `em go!
37. That`s novel, Sir Walter!
38. Destroys things
39. Bovine model T
40. Anyone for tennis
I`ll post the answers in a week or so - or whenever I remember, whichever comes sooner.
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The clues represent the name of an English or Scottish football team. Sometimes, the clues suggest the entire name, sometimes just the first word. In other words, the answer could be either ‘Plymouth’ or ‘Plymouth Argyle’, for example.
For example; ‘Dogs ancestors` – Wolves
1. Carrying an old guitar
2. Stuck on the top of the map
3. Clear Buckingham
4. Leaver
5. Pensioners` bun
6. Heads
7. Brilliant when worn
8. They blow houses down
9. Riding boots have them
10. Firstly, he rode plenty of winners
11. Feed a steam engine
12. Inter
13. The P in Peter
14. Found dead on the express
15. Reynolds, perhaps, on Olde Englande
16. President Green
17. The complete bacon joint
18. Murky waters
19. Londonderry on a g-string
20. Uncover part of a candle
21. A parent no longer ill
22. A classy car in front of a Roman house
23. An untouched plate
24. Weight for a long time
25. Wandering ghosts
26. This is the place for a river crossing
27. Left a cover over the face
28. Marbles metropolis
29. Ship`s company
30. Sitting down with a good book
31. The new stadium rebuilt
32. Spinning cricketer`s water
33. Add to
34. Lewis, say, surrounded by water
35. HM`s greenkeepers
36. Don`t let `em go!
37. That`s novel, Sir Walter!
38. Destroys things
39. Bovine model T
40. Anyone for tennis