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4BR Quiz: British Open Quiz — Wednesday

The second of our British Open puzzlers as we head towards Birmingham…

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It seems we were not devious enough with our first British Open puzzler – with a huge response to our question of what connects a Philip Wilby test piece to a famous Bolton Wanderers centre forward and Leonard Rossiter’s cat in a comedy sitcom?

Tuesday answer

The answer of course was ‘Vienna’ – as in ‘Vienna Nights’ by Philip Wilby, ‘The Lion of Vienna’ Nat Lofthouse, who earned the nickname after scoring in a win against Austria in 1952 in the city, and ‘Goodnight Vienna’, which was Rigsby’s famous quip each time he kicked his cat of the same name, out for the night.

The lucky winner was Dan Knott.

Wednesday quiz connection

Today we have tried a bit harder to catch you out.

what is the British Open connection between a test piece with a watery ending, a pugilist’s auditorium, a four time Open winning conductor and Barry John – the greatest rugby union fly half ever…4BR

The question:

So put your thinking caps on and tell us what is the British Open connection between a test piece with a watery ending, a pugilist’s auditorium, a four time Open winning conductor and Barry John – the greatest rugby union fly half ever…

The first person pulled out of the hat on this one gets the DVD ‘Brass Bands for Britain’ – a great 2 set DVD of legendary brass bands in performance from the 1960’s onwards.

Just check out the hairstyles…

It’s a cracking prize – but you will have to put on your thinking caps to win it.

There is a link we promise…

E-mail:

e-mail us the answer at: quiz@4barsrest.com

Closing date:

The closing date for entries on this one is 12.00pm tonight!

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