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4BR Bank Holiday Monday Quiz:

You have to find the connection between a famous brass band test-piece, a bad tempered American golfer and an exit route from a Jules Verne novel to win a great Bank Holiday prize.

Prizes
  Can you use your little grey brain cells to work out the answer to win these two cracking prizes from our friends at Event-z

There is a link to find this Bank Holiday if you are to get your hands on a clever Korg Tuner and a great Hercules cornet stand from our friends at Event-z.

Question:

What links a major brass band work by composer Robert Simpson with the bad tempered American golfer Steve Pate and the point of exit for the protagonists in a Jules Verne novel that also inspired a Peter Graham test-piece?

Please give us the reason to go with your answer so that we know you haven't just guessed!

What links a major brass band work by composer Robert Simpson with the bad tempered American golfer Steve Pate and the point of exit for the protagonists in a Jules Verne novel that also inspired a Peter Graham test-piece?4BR

Answers:

E-mail us the answer before 12.00pm tonight (Monday 29th August) with your contact telephone details at: quiz@4barsrest.com

Last Winner

We had another great response to our last quiz, with our winner of a trio of CDs being Philip Anderson from Gloucestershire — a euph player with City of Bristol Band.

He knew that the music was the 'Goldberg Variations' written by Svein Henrik Giske, the novel was 'Jamaica Inn' and the man behind the archer's crossbow on 'The Golden Shot' was Bernie the Bolt.

A gold medal winning Jamaican athlete as quick as lightening?

None other than Usain Bolt of course…

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