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4BR Quiz: Six Nations brain tickler

Link up your knowledge of brass bands and rugby union to get your hands on six cracking CDs.

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  Get all the answers correct and the CDs could be on the way to you...

With the Six Nations Rugby Championship starting this weekend, we have a little multiple choice brain teaser to work out to get your hands on six fantastic CDs.

Get all six parts right and the CDs from Eikanger Bjorsvik, Grimethorpe Colliery, Chris Davies, Fabian Bloch, Peter Steiner and the ensemble group Epic Euphoniums will be shooting out of the back of the 4BR line-out and on the way to you as quick as a pass from a scrum-half...

As the defending champions are the Welsh, the first one is about the men in red...

Wales:


Which Prince of Wales was the subject of a test-piece written by Maldwyn Price and used at the British Open Championships?

1. Barry John
2. Owain Glyndwr
3. John O'Gaunt

Scotland:


Which epic poem by Robert Burns about the perils of a drunken horse ride in the middle of the Scottish night was also the inspiration for a British Open test-piece?

1. Auld Lang Syne
2. Sunshine on Leith
3. Tam O' Shanter's Ride

Italy:


Which Italian virtuoso violinist was the inspiration behind one of Philip Wilby's most famous test-pieces?

1. Vittorio Monti
2. Niccolo Paganini
3. Yehudi Menuhin

France:


The motto of the French Republic contains the name of which European Championship test-piece?

1. Liberty
2. Equality
3. Fraternity

Ireland:


Peter Graham's 2019 British Open test-piece, 'Dynasty' contained an excerpt from which famous World War 1 song?

1. Carrickfergus
2. Long Way to Tipperary
3. When Irish Eyes are Smiling

England:


Foden's Band has a principal cornet player who has the same surname as which English outside half who dropped the goal to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup?

1. Owen Farrell
2. William Webb Ellis
3. Jonny Wilkinson

Get all six parts right and the CDs will be shooting out of the back of the 4BR line-out and on the way to you as quick as a pass from a scrum-half...

Answers:


Answers to be sent to: quiz@4barsrest.com

Closing date for answers: 12.00 (midnight) on Sunday 2th February.

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