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Questions What is the currency of Kenya?    A. Pound     B. Shilling    C. Dollar What were the targets of the Wallis bouncing bombs?   A. Factories    B.  Harbours   C. Dams Who wrote The Old Curiosity Shop?   A. Orwell    B. Keats   C. Dickens Which OZ Group had a hit with Down Under in 1983?   A. Men at Work  

Hello quizzers and my theme this week is a tied in to somewhere you would wish to be at the current time…..a luscious green  island with clear water lagoons/coconuts and bags of sun….YES a desert island OR ( if you like Artic roll/Rhubarb and custard) could it be a dessert island?   When I was working

Questions The UK’s most southerly city?    A.Truro          B. Exeter    C. Southampton Boy George starred as himself in the USA classic?     A, Will and Grace    B. Frasier   C. The A team Which cat was an international star before the emergence of Mickey Mouse?    A. Tom    B. Felix    C. Bagpuss Who is the chef male judge in

This week, I was thinking back to school days and when the teacher used to bring out a large radio which was linked in to a UK national educational station piped to many classrooms throughout the UK.  If memory serves me correctly, the programmes came on in the morning and subjects ranged from history to

Questions Which is the tallest?    A. Victoria Falls     B. Niagara falls   C. Angel falls What is the oldest island in the World?   A. Madagascar      B. Australia       C. Cook Islands How many farthings were in an old pound?   A. 260    B. 480    C.960 What was the name of the Goldfish in Pinocchio?    A.  Cleo    B. Betsy  

Hello Quizzers. Being fully retired, I am hooked on an early morning ITV3 programme Heartbeat…..you will be glad to know I am not going to harp on about this soap but my link is associated with one of their guests Gabriella Drake.   Gabriella was one of the fighter pilots in UFO and my theme this

Questions When was the original film Ghostbusters released?    A. 1979   B. 1984   C. 1990 Who had a hit in 1981 with Ghost Town?    A. The stranglers   B. The Jam    C. The specials What was the name of Herman Munsters wife?    A. Lily    B. Elvira    C.  Letia In which century did the Salem witch-craft trials take

As we celebrated All Hallows day last week, the Halloween festival had its origins in the ancient pre Christian Celtic festival of Samhian which first appeared on October 31st.  The celebration is of the Samhian event which means Summers end and this dovetails in to the harvest season.  This year due to the horrible Covid19,