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homealone 28-10-2005 19:08
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12. What is the usual name for a gun with multiple rotating barrels

Gatling

13. Which bridge did Billy Joe McAllister jump off, in the song by Bobbie Gentry?

Tallahassee Bridge

17. Which Dutch artist was famous for his woodcuts of mathematically inspired tessellations?

MC Escher.
#12 & #17 correct, #13 not quite right on the spelling ;)
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19 Horace
Correct :tu: (miss spent youth ;) )

Angua 28-10-2005 19:08
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7 isaac Asimov?

homealone 28-10-2005 19:08
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nearly ;)
jpr williams ??
correct - phew :)

pedantic 28-10-2005 19:09
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6) dr strangelove ?

homealone 28-10-2005 19:09
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15 cranberries
Correct :tu:

Graham 28-10-2005 19:09
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13. Which bridge did Billy Joe McAllister jump off, in the song by Bobbie Gentry?
Tallahassee Bridge
#13 not quite right on the spelling ;)
So remove l's s's or e's to taste :)

homealone 28-10-2005 19:10
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18. Which 1973, low budget Sci-Fi film involved four bored astronauts & a talking bomb?

Dark Star

20. Whoââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s †˜razorâà ¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€Š¾Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¢ can be stated as †˜given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler.ââ‚à ƒâ€šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢?

William of Okham or Occam
18. Correct - #20. just beaten by Cookie ..

pedantic 28-10-2005 19:10
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6) dr strangelove ?

Scrub that......I'm an idiot

homealone 28-10-2005 19:13
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9 tea
Correct :tu:
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16. The Cranberries
correct - see clue in previous question :D
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phew, i think I've caught up

7, 13, 14 to go ;)

cookie_365 28-10-2005 19:13
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Well, that's all of my inspiration used up for the day ....

pedantic 28-10-2005 19:15
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can I have a bonus point if I don't know any ?

Graham 28-10-2005 19:16
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13. Talahassee?

14. Carnuba gum?

homealone 28-10-2005 19:17
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can I have a bonus point if I don't know any ?
good try, but no :D

Angua 28-10-2005 19:18
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7 CS Lewis
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14 Canneloni

pedantic 28-10-2005 19:18
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good try, but no :D
:bigcry:


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