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4BR Sunday Quiz:

We have another little prize package on offer if you can answer this weekend’s Sunday quiz...

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Another little brain teaser from 4BR to work out to see if you can get your hands on a trio of great brass band CDs and a couple of bottles of Blue Juice valve oil.

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All you have to do is tell us the name of a famous fictional detective by identifying the following links.

All you have to do is tell us the name of a famous fictional detective by identifying the following links4BR

A former British Open winning conductor, the 2001 winner of the Stanley Wainwright ‘Best Soloist’ trophy at the same contest, a former principal cornet of Black Dyke and the captain of the Welsh rugby team that came third in the World Cup in New Zealand in 1987.

Closing Date:

As it’s a one day only quiz, please get your answers (with a contact telephone number) into us by 12.00pm tonight (1st September) before the 4BR Editor turns into a poker playing pumpkin on the stroke of midnight...

Clue:
Once you get the one right the rest are pretty elementary.

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

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