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Branch Quiz  March 25th 2021 -  ANSWERS


ANSWERS

1 Bolton, in Churchgate
From Wikipedia: It is not known exactly when it was originally built, but a charter of 1251 permitting the market mentions it by name. It has been rebuilt at least once (1636 according to the datestone inside), and only the vaulted cellar remains of the original structure, though some internal beams remain from 1636. The frontage of the building is an early 20th-century remodelling. It is a Grade II listed building

2 Calf

3 Catherine Parr (1512-48), who became the sixth wife of Henry VIII, her third husband, in 1543
She was married to Edward Borough (d.c. 1533), John Neville, Lord Latimer (d.1542), Henry VIII (d. 1547) and Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudley who outlived her

4 Charlotte, Anne and Emily
 
5 Costa
 
6 Stop imagining
 
7 Double cream
 
8 Dr Ian Paisley (Rev Ian Paisley)
 
9 Eric Morecambe
Took the name of his birthplace. He died in 1984

10 George VI
King Emperor. Following Indian Independence in 1947, the British monarch was no longer Emperor(ess) of India.

11 Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr
 
12 In the mouth Formed by tooth decay on the top surface of a tooth

13 Jim Henson (1936-1990)
 
14 Levi
 
15 My Fair Lady
 
16 Noel Coward
In 1933 when Coward was at the height of his powers, he received a constant stream of letters from women begging him to find parts for their daughters in whatever he happened to be staging next. He wrote the song as a general refusal to all these ambitious mothers. The sheet music was published by Chappell of London in 1935 at two shillings

17 Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh

18 Plasters
A hawk consists of a board about 13 inches square with a perpendicular handle fixed centrally on the reverse and is used to hold plaster or a similar material

19 The 1940s on 29 January 1942

20 The act of opening a champagne bottle with a sabre
 
21 The Childe of Hale
The village of Hale lies just north of the River Mersey, about 4 miles west of Widnes. Now part of Cheshire, it was in Lancashire until the 1974 local government reorganisation

22 The Shard
 
23 Tracey Emin
It was a Turner Prize shortlisted work

24 Washington DC
 
25 A bird
Native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its habitat is coastal areas.

 

 

 

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