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OK - it's here, the first ever cookie_365 Friday quiz!

Usual rules apply; for newcomers that means:

- Use of Google, wikipedia, Jeeves, smartarse other half, and all similar oracles, strictly verboten until 7 pm
- No more than 3 answers per post, unless the board software mergest them together cos you're on a roll and no one else has posted in between.
- Cookie's decision, as in life, is final.

Eyes down, good luck !!

1 What's the last sentence of Joseph Heller's classic novel 'Catch 22'?
2 From which record did M¦Aà ƒâ€šÃ‚¦Rà ‚¦RÃâà ¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦S take the 'Pump Up The Volume' sample for their single of the same name?
3 What is Amaretto liqueur made from?
4 Who did Elton John marry in 1984?
5 Who was the last Englishman to win the men's 100m Olympic athletics gold medal?
6 Which plastic movie starlet was created by Mel Odom in 1995?
7 What unwelcome extra did Mrs Donoghue of Paisley find in her ginger beer?
8 Who said, on 18th June 1992, 'life has meaning †“ except for viewers in Scotland'?
9 In which former Parisian palace, converted to a prison, did Marie Antoinette spend her last night before execution?
10 Where could you once find gay traitors at FAC51?
11 Which real-life tube station does the fictional Walford East station replace in EastEnders?
12 What does Timothy reckon is the root of all evil?
13 What's ex-PM Margaret Thatcher's maiden name?
14 How many syllables make up a Haiku?
15 What's the common English name for the flower whose Latin name is Narcissus sylvestris?"
16 What did Jerry Ehman write next to 6EQUJ5?
17 Where in the body are the Ulnar nerves?
18 Which former MP (according to his autobiography) once asked a Catholic women's group at Parliament to lobby for the rights of the unborn child if they were 'the prostitutes from Birmingham'?
19 Who flew down to Rio, dug for gold, and ended up sitting pretty in 1933?
20, 21 Who wrote in a poem to Queen Elizabeth †œTo finde the Dayes superfluous,(which Caesar's false Hypothesis, Had bred; to Nature, odious) Wherein, he found eleven amyss.ââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ� and what does the eleven refer to?

22 †œA horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!ââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ� Whose kingdom?
23 Who played Dale Arden in the 1980 ultra-camp remake of Flash Gordon?
24 What is the name of the breakdancer who updated Gene Kelly's 'Singing In The Rain' moves for the recent-ish Golf GTI commercial?
25 What did a hay-trusser auction to a sailor, for 5 guineas, in a furmity tent?

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15) Daffodill?

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3. Almonds
23 FReddy Mercury?

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3) Almonds?

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Angua records the first correct post of the evening :tu:

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9) The Bastille?

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nope to both
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nope - that trap's been opened already ;)
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no

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14> 3

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14) 17 (3 lines in 5,7,5 arrangement)
15) Daffodil
17) hand and forearm

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Damn you cookie. I don't know any of them... :(

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Read the question again ;)

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10) Mi6 :D
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14) 17?

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14: spot on :tu:
15: correct but already gone to angua :erm:
16: yep :tu:

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13 > roberts

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4 Renate Blauel?