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Friday Quiz - Words on a Theme
Posted Apr 13, 2018
It's Friday Quiz time again 
Below you will find 15 clues to words or phrases, and 15 part-solutions which are listed in a random order. You need to do the following:
1. Solve each clue and match it to one of the part-solutions.
2. Rearrange the letters of the solution indicated by an asterisk to get a themed word.
Clues:
1. someone who shops around
2. tenement garden
3. superficial injury
4. catering trolley
5. miner's lunch
6. in the manner of a benevolent spirit
7. platitudes
8. fumble
9. dogs of a particular breed
10. tactless qualities
11. gift distributor
12. WWI affliction
13. soothing
14. careless
15. incomplete
Part-solutions:
AN * LLY
B * ES
B * TER
BAC * N
COR * TY
D * N
F * OUND
I * ES
M * LE
PO * S
RE * G
S * D
S * US
T * OOT
U * ED
* * *
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Friday Quiz: Eager Seat-Recliners
Posted Apr 6, 2018
Once you've cracked the theme, see how many you can identify without looking them up. 
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1. Pulverize Clearer Jade
2. Nurse Negotiator
3. Hat Nut
4. Oak Inn Fan
5. Tiger Levy
6. Nab Kimono
7. Lurk With Dame
8. Rough Suborbital Soot
9. Glad Shark Jam Mod
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Friday Quiz - No Clues 5
Posted Mar 30, 2018
The theme is not music-related. All answers are two words, with the exception of Q4 (three words) and Q8 (one word).
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1. $52.6 billion in 2017
2. Saw Van Dyke
3. Unamused ocean-dweller
4. Crucial Harry ratio
5. Cocoa - a short guide?
6. Ocean travel
7. School canteen
8. Gloss over
9. Trouser fame
10. Cook spring hooker
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Friday Song Quiz 7
Posted Mar 23, 2018
Another song title quiz this week
Below you'll find a number of words taken from song titles - all were top 10 singles in the UK. But I've removed a word from each song (the removed words are all different, and do not appear elsewhere in the list).
You need to rearrange this list into six song titles, adding a new word to make each.
Then take the words you've added, and rearrange them to make another song title.
Good luck! 
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A
Anything
Ceiling
Clown
Dancing
Death
Do
Don't
Eyes
For
I'd
Living
Me
My
Now
On
Sign
Tears
With
Your
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Friday Quiz - Name That Tune
Posted Mar 16, 2018
I have a book 'A Directory Of Tunes' by Denys Parsons. He invented a simple code which enables you to look up the names of any common tunes you hear that you can't identify. I'll explain the code, then test you with ten codes to see if you can identify them from that sequence.
In his code, Parsons takes the first 13 notes of each tune, then assigns them a letter as follows:
* is the first note of the tune
U means the next note goes Up from the previous one
D means the next note goes Down from the previous one
R means the note is Repeated (i.e. it goes neither up nor down)
As an example, *RUDUD DRUDU DDR is the code for the first 13 notes of the song 'Happy Birthday To You'. It goes like this:
* (Hap)
R (py)
U (birth)
D (day)
U (to)
D (you)
D (Hap)
R (py)
U (birth)
D (day)
U (to)
D (you)
D (Hap)
R (py)
etc
So here are ten for you to find:
1. *UUUDD DUUDD RUU (clue: Carpenters)
2. *RUDDD UUDDR UUD (clue: Beatles)
3. *URRDD URUDU UDD (clue: Early cartoon theme)
4. *DURDU UDDUR RDU (clue: Mary Poppins)
5. *UUUDD DUDDD UDD (clue: Beatles)
6. *URRRD RRRUR RRD (clue: Film series theme)
7. *UUUDD DRDUU DDU (clue: Rolling Stones)
8. *UUUDU UDDDD DUU (clue: Irish traditional)
9. *UUUDU DUUDR UUU (clue: Cliff Richard)
10. *URDUU UUUDU URU (clue: A national anthem)
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