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Friday Quiz - Newspaper Cuttings

Post 1

Icy North

Spoiler alert - this will be solved quickly, so don't scroll down if you want to tackle it yourself.

And if anyone can provide a clue to either of the two I obviously missed, I'll be impressed smiley - smiley

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1. Seduced by a centaur, Io later gave birth to Epaphus.

2. Loyalist paramilitaries torch IRA commander’s farmhouse in West Tyrone.

3. In 1934, having established the Gestapo, Hermann Goering passed its administration to Heinrich Himmler.

4. Forming words from acronyms is a distinctly twentieth- (and now twenty-first-) century phenomenon.

5. Fig. 6.63 Master Transmitter Random Sequence Generator (From IEEE Std. 802.3. Copyright © 2000 IEEE. All rights reserved.)

6. In 1955 Andy Warhol landed a major commission for the shoe company I. Miller.

7. Saxifraga Cotyledon, the pyramidal saxifrage is one of Norway’s two national flowers.

8. Diarmuid Gavin’s audacity of placing a flowering shrub on a parterre won him a few enemies along with his Chelsea Gold Medal.

9. “Won't new lawyers miss the rite of passage represented by graduation day pomp? I doubt it…”

10. Credited with popularising the legend of Noah’s Ark, Ozymandias is said to have related the tale to Babylonian traders at the Egyptian court.

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Post 2

Gnomon - time to move on

10 is Sarkozy


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Post 3

Gnomon - time to move on

It must be French premiers.


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Post 4

Gnomon - time to move on

Presidents and leaders of France. I've figured them all out except for no. 3.


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Post 5

Gnomon - time to move on

World-wide, Gaul led the field in magic potion making in the 1st Century BC.


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Post 6

Icy North

Yes, I was trying to avoid that proper noun smiley - smiley


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Post 7

SashaQ - happysad

Company cultivates bodega: Ulled & Associates have established a wine cellar business alongside their core activities.

smiley - biggrin

I'm not well versed in French premiers, but I do know:

2. Chirac
5. Mitterand
6. Hollande
9. Pompidou


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Post 8

Gnomon - time to move on

1. Auriol
4. Macron
7. Coty
8. Bonaparte ?


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Post 9

Icy North

Correct (I ran out of post war presidents).


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Post 10

Gnomon - time to move on

Unless there was a president called H. A. Vinges, I have no clue about number 3.


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Post 11

Superfrenchie

People having doen the hard work before, all I can say is that Poher rings a bell.


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Post 12

Superfrenchie

President of the Senate, maybe ? Wasn't it him who was the acting President of the Republic when Pompidou died ? If so, also acting president when de Gaulle resigned.


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Post 13

Icy North

Yes, it was Poher. He was twice an acting President (it says here) smiley - bubbly


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Post 14

Icy North

And I still need a clue for Giscard d'Estaing smiley - smiley


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Post 15

Superfrenchie

He's also known colloquially as "VGE". That might be easier ?


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Post 16

Gnomon - time to move on

Isn't he sometimes known as just Giscard?

The thing is, card is better than paper because it's stiffer.


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Post 17

Superfrenchie

smiley - ok Nice! smiley - applause


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