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4BR Quiz: Monday Quiz sponsored by Ev-entz

There’s another great prize on offer with our Monday morning quiz, sponsored by Ev-entz.

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There is a great little selection box prize from 4BR and our friends at Ev-entz — as long as you can get your thinking caps on?

CDs & Music

We have a great selection box this week with three great pieces by Paul Lovatt-Cooper, plus another trio of CDs.

Get the answer right and you could be getting your hands on the score and parts for the Eb tuba solo ‘Song for the Skies’, the xylophone feature, ‘Rondo Alla Turca’ and the concert work, ‘Island Whirl’ – plus CDs from Iain Culross, Brett Baker and Oslo Brass Band.

Mining history

With the Butlins Mineworkers Championship coming up this weekend we thought we had better delve into the history books to see just what you know about the old coal mining industry.

Quiz Question:

In which year did the Miner’s Strike take place that led to the Prime Minister pose the infamous question, ‘Who Governs Britain?’ at the General Election?

A: 1974
B: 1984
C: 1994

In which year did the Miner’s Strike take place that led to the Prime Minister pose the infamous question, ‘Who Governs Britain?’ at the General Election?4BR

Clues

It was the year that Scotland didn’t lose a game in the football World Cup Finals and still went out, there was an unprecedented tie for first place between Cory and Grimethorpe at the Mineworkers Championship at Blackpool and a certain ‘Tricky Dicky’ (not Richard Evans) was forced to resign from his job.

By the way – the Prime Minister in question once conducted a brass band on a LP recording.

Closing date:

All answers for this one must be in by midnight on Sunday 20th January.

Monday Winner

We had a great response to last week’s quiz, with Steve Coad who plays euphonium with Lanner & District Band in Cornwall knowing that the old 1831 London Bridge now spans the Bridgewater Canal in the US state of Arizona.

He gets his hands on three cracking releases—including Jewels’ by Eminence Brass, Brett Baker’s ‘World of the Trombone Volume — 3’ and a bit of the best London’s pride with Aveley & Newham.

E-mail:

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

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