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4BR Butlins Quiz: Pick the Winner

All you have to do to win a great prize package is guess who will walk away with the £10,000 first prize at Skegness this weekend.

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With everyone packed up warm for their trip to Butlins we have come up with our usual ‘Pick the Winner’ selection if you are to get your hands on a trio of great CDs, a brilliant duo of a Denis Wick Clip-on Tuner and Wireless Pickup & Tuner, a 4BR diary and a couple of bottles of Blue Juice valve oil!

All correct entries will go in to a hat and one lucky winner will be picked out.

Question:

Which band will win the Championship Section Butlins Mineworkers title this weekend?

a) Aveley & Newham
b) Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
c) Desford Colliery
e) East London Brass
f) East Yorkshire Motor Services
g) Flowers
h) Redbridge Brass
i) Thoresby Colliery
j) Unite the Union (City of Sheffield)
k) Virtuosi GUS
l) Wantage A
m) Wingates
n) Woodfalls
o) Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel

Weekly quiz answer:

Thanks to everyone who knew that the number that linked Swanbrook Transport Band’s Pontins Championship victory of 1977 with Edson Arantes do Nascimento playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama at the Maracana Stadium in November 1969, and the total mileage a pair of bespectacled Scottish brothers would walk in a pop song to fall down by a door....

The answer was of course 1000.

Swanbrook won the first ever £1,000 first prize in contesting history, Pele scored his 1000th goal against Vasco de Gama and the Proclaimers walked a total of 1000 to fall down exhausted outside a door...

The winner:

Congratulations to Dave Shaw of Bristol who was one of many to get the answer right!

He will be getting three CDs and a 4BR diary, as well as couple of bottles of Blue Juice valve oil as soon as he gets in touch — we have been phoning!

Answers:

E-mail us the answer before the announcement of the top section results on Sunday evening with your contact telephone details at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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