WEEK 3 — FEBRUARY 3 2012
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morning (6) 4 Long after principal’s inconvenience (8) 10 Bitterness in veteran courage (7) 11 Found short hair on a Teddy boy (7) 12 Spokesmen starting wish list with deeds (12) 14 24 7 drunk chocolate blend (6-3-5) 17 Imposing impossibly long sentence (6,4,4) 20 Ordered right out, mostly, as three quarters of noblemen (7,5) 24 Spymaster in failed policy to do with games (7) 25 Almost make a claim or come back briskly (7) 26 Trapped in basement, it led to being given the right (8) 27 24 7 in 48 (6)
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1. What is Bob Dylan’s real name?
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2. What animal famously killed suffragette Emily Davison?
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of wooden shoe (7) Another latched on to 24 event (9) Urban area at half capacity (4) Current boy (4) Doctor wrote back: “Major problem with timber” (3,3) 13 Played in friendly game with CD rims shuffled (10) 15 Club together at first in approaching notice (9) 16 Sweeteners measured out with this number: snake loves being inside (8) 18 Crosshairs, for example, let rice be cooked (7) 19 University actor that’s poor yet everyone is captivated (6) 21 Good day to back out of Bard’s work (5) 22 24 7 in 60 (4) 23 Complaint in street by outskirts of 7 (4) 6 7 8 9
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The Fab Varsity Quiz
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2 In auction site, go after French
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3. How long is the longest ever hunger strike? 4. Which ice-hockey team have rioted twice after losing in a cup final? 5. What is the only American city to have brought the US Army twice during the 20th century to suppress a major riot? 6. Which singer recently told fans to steal his record rather than pay the over-the-odds for the boxset? 7. Which literary prize is awarded every year for ‘making political writing into art’? 8. Richard Ayoade’s big break came in the successful Channel 4 comedy, The IT Crowd. What was the name of his character? 9. A 2008 Entertainment Weekly poll placed which film as ‘The most controversial of all time’?
ANSWERS: 1.Robert Allen Zimmerman 2.King’s horse 3.Over 500 weeks, carried out by Irom Chanu Sharmila 4.Vancouver Canucks 5.Detriot 6.Elvis Costello 7.The Orwell prize; which featured writer Nick Cohen won in 2008 8.Moss9. 9.The Passion of the Christ
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