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Lighthouse Bar Pub Quiz - The Champagne Link
Lighthousegirl - back on board Started conversation Oct 5, 2001
An annoyingly catchy and memorable theme tune plays and the lights are dimmed in the Pub Quiz Corner of the Lighthouse Bar.
A spot light fades up and we see Light standing behind a champagne glass shaped lectern. She is dressed in a stunning midnight blue leather bustier, trousers and long coat. Her hair is tied back and a pair of half moon glasses are perched on the end of her nose. She wears a stern expression.
Hello and welcome to the Champagne Link. 
The rules are simple. I ask the questions, make the rules and my decision is final. Team, your task is to answer a chain of 5 questions in a row. The first answer posted is the only one that can be accepted. No conferring is allowed. If a question is answered incorrectly the chain is broken and a new chain of five questions must be completed. The contestant who correctly answers the 5th question gets a glass of
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Oct 5, 2001
So straight down to business
Q1: Which country does the wine Bull's Blood come from?
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shagbark Posted Oct 6, 2001
OK light, you got me hooked. I never could pass up a trivia contest
even when I don't know the answers. for question one I will say that Bulls Blood is from Hungary
all this scurrying about is making me wish i had my 
. anyway there you have it A.= Hungary
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shagbark Posted Oct 6, 2001
OK light, you got me hooked. I never could pass up a trivia contest
even when I don't know the answers. for question one I will say that Bulls Blood is from Hungaryall this scurrying about is making me wish i had my . anyway there you have it A.= Hungary
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Oct 6, 2001
...can i have a go ?
Bulls Blood. or Sangre de Toro is from ESPANA and usually has a little plastic bull tied around the neck of the bottle...
alec 
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Scott Bennett-AKA Scoop Posted Oct 6, 2001
You should start serving it at the bar, sounds V. 
y.
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Researcher 179388 Posted Oct 6, 2001
Can I have the little plastic bull?
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Oct 6, 2001
* surpresses giggles and manages to maintain a suitably sneering stearn look *
May I remind you the first answer is the only one I can accept and luckily for you Shagbark was correct. The answer is Hungary.
So Q2 : Who won the Monaco Grand Prix five times in the 1960's?
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Researcher 179388 Posted Oct 6, 2001
I should know this......
*screws up face in concentration*
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Mr. Christopher, enjoying the Magicians Guild game where he is called Polonius Franc, Elder Healer and local merchant Posted Oct 6, 2001
Was it Silverstone?
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Oct 6, 2001
* stares over glasses and does her best Anne Robinson Impression *
Silverstone Mr C! As in the greatest racing circuit in the UK? How many racing circuits go on and win races!
Luckily team your second answer was also incorrect. The answer is Graham Hill.
Back to the start of a chain
Q1: Who taught English in Berlin between the wars and later wrote three plays with WH Auden?
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Tonto BA (Hons) Posted Oct 6, 2001
Christopher Isherwood
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Oct 6, 2001
Correct.
Q2: Which Rolling Stone was once an RAF serviceman?
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Pandora...Born Again Tart Posted Oct 6, 2001
John Lennon? 
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Pandora...Born Again Tart Posted Oct 6, 2001
hahahahaha just kidding Anne, er, Light...
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Oct 6, 2001
* looks over her glasses at Pandora and pretends that she has not heard her say anything *
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Mr. Christopher, enjoying the Magicians Guild game where he is called Polonius Franc, Elder Healer and local merchant Posted Oct 6, 2001
Que esque les Rolling Stones?
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Oct 6, 2001
...Charles Watts...
alec
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shagbark Posted Oct 6, 2001
Since light is only taking one answer I hope that's right
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- 1: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Oct 5, 2001)
- 2: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Oct 5, 2001)
- 3: shagbark (Oct 6, 2001)
- 4: shagbark (Oct 6, 2001)
- 5: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Oct 6, 2001)
- 6: Scott Bennett-AKA Scoop (Oct 6, 2001)
- 7: Researcher 179388 (Oct 6, 2001)
- 8: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Oct 6, 2001)
- 9: Researcher 179388 (Oct 6, 2001)
- 10: Mr. Christopher, enjoying the Magicians Guild game where he is called Polonius Franc, Elder Healer and local merchant (Oct 6, 2001)
- 11: Researcher 179388 (Oct 6, 2001)
- 12: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Oct 6, 2001)
- 13: Tonto BA (Hons) (Oct 6, 2001)
- 14: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Oct 6, 2001)
- 15: Pandora...Born Again Tart (Oct 6, 2001)
- 16: Pandora...Born Again Tart (Oct 6, 2001)
- 17: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Oct 6, 2001)
- 18: Mr. Christopher, enjoying the Magicians Guild game where he is called Polonius Franc, Elder Healer and local merchant (Oct 6, 2001)
- 19: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Oct 6, 2001)
- 20: shagbark (Oct 6, 2001)
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