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Sunday Quiz: I'm Spartacus...

We have a little Sunday brain tickler for a quick workout to win a brace of great CDs.

Spartacus
  Hand's up who knows the answer?

We will be posting regular quiz questions to win prizes over the coming weeks — some harder than others — but all a bit of fun to keep you in a good musical mood at home.

We have a trio of great brass band CDs up for grabs today from our selection box.

All you have to do is come up with the link between the following... and explain why.

Question:

What's the link between the actor Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the Marathon chocolate bar and the brass band test pieces 'A Comedy of Errors' and 'A Matter of Seconds'?

Answers:

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

Closing date for answers: 12.00 (midnight) on Sunday 19th April.

What's the link between the actor Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the Marathon chocolate bar and the famous brass band test pieces 'A Comedy of Errors' and 'A Matter of Seconds'?4BR

Easter winner:

David Rawlings from Esher in Surrey knew that the between Elton John, songsters Flanagan and Allen, the darkly surreal film Donnie Darko and a children's cartoon figure that was to found in the city of Utrecht when the European Championships were there in 2018, was or course Rabbits!

Elton sang about Jack Rabbit, Flanagan & Allen also sang 'Run Rabbit, Run', Frank is a giant dream-like rabbit in the film Donnie Darko and Miffy was the cartoon rabbit drawn by artist Dick Bruna that you saw around the city of Utrecht.

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