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4BR Midweek Quiz:

It's all about numbers today if you are to get your hands on a great trio of CDs from our friends at World of Brass

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  See if you can work out the answer to our 4BR midweek quiz?

All you have to do is find a connection between three very different numerical sources to win a selection of CDs from our friends at World of Brass ahead of the British Open.

There is a slightly surreal link to find today if you are to get your hands on a trio of CDs from World of Brass — who will also be launching their fantastic new website at the British Open this weekend in Birmingham.

Question:

What is the numerical link between the iconic England football captain Bobby Moore, the actor Patrick McGoohan stuck in a surreal prison in North Wales in the 1960s, and Cory's winning performance at the 2009 British Open Championship?

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

Answers:

E-mail us the answer before 12.00pm on Thursday night (8th September) with your contact telephone details at: quiz@4barsrest.com

What is the link between England football captain Bobby Moore, the actor Patrick McGoohan stuck in a surreal prison in North Wales in the 1960s, and Cory's winning performance at the 2009 British Open?4BR

Last Winner:

We had another great response to our last quiz, with our winner Andy Chapman, who has just started playing with Croft Silver Band, getting his lucky hands on a great little Korg tuner and fantastic Hercules cornet mute stand from our friends at Event-Z.

He knew that the link between 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 was of course... 'Volcano'.

Robert Simpson wrote 'Volcano' for the National Finals test-piece of 1979, Steve Pate was gloriously nick-named 'Volcano' by rivals, and the protagonists in a Jules Verne novel that also inspired a Peter Graham test piece exited the Stromboli volcano at the end of their 'Journey to the Centre of the Erath' adventure.

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