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4BR Quiz: Weekly Quiz sponsored by Ev-entz

There’s another great prize to be won with our quiz sponsored by Ev-entz.

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Once again there is a great prize from 4BR and our friends at Ev-entz — as long as you can get your thinking caps on?

Juice, music, CDs & DVD

It’s a bit on an eclectic prize this week – with a box of 9 bottles of fantastic ‘Blue Juice’ valve oil, a cracking youth band arrangement of ‘Waltzing Matilda’, the Black Dyke DVD ‘A History of Brass Bands’ and a trio of CDs from Foden’s, Steven Mead and the Royal Scottish Academy Brass to be won.

Patron Saints

With it being a famous Saint’s Day today – we thought we would test your knowledge to find out which of the following is the Patron Saint of Musicians?

A: Saint Saens
B: Ian St John
C: Saint Cecilia

With it being a famous Saint’s Day today – we thought we would test your knowledge to find out which of the following is the Patron Saint of Musicians?4BR

Clues

Inspired musicians as diverse as Paul Simon, Henry Purcell and an early version of the Blue Oyster Cult, but didn’t play for Liverpool in the 1965 FA Cup Final. By all accounts occasionally played the organ though.

Closing date:

All answers for this one must be in by midnight on Sunday 17th February.

Last Winner

We had a great response to last week’s quiz, with Norman Short in Sheffield knowing that was Ron Greenwood who was the beleaguered England football manager when they famously lost to Norway in a World Cup qualifier in 1981, leading to the commentator Bjorge Lillelien unforgettably exclaiming: "Lord Nelson! Lord Beaverbrook! Sir Winston Churchill! Sir Anthony Eden! Clement Attlee! Henry Cooper! Lady Diana! Maggie Thatcher — can you hear me, Maggie Thatcher! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!"

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

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