Another little mid-week brain tickler to work out...
Come up with the answer and you can win some great brass band CDs.
We will keep 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.
All you have to do is come up with the connection between the following... and explain why.
Question:
What's the link between brass band contests in the UK from the 1st January 1991, the 1968 Wimbledon tennis championships, the game of rugby union from 1995 and a 1970s television series about an elite criminal intelligence service that starred actors Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson...?
Answers:
Answers with explanation to be sent to: quiz@4barsrest.com
Closing date for answers: 12.00 (midnight) on Friday 22nd May
D for...winner...
Sarah Inman, a cornet player with Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Band in North Yorkshire was picked out of the hat after working out that the link between a former First Section Champion Band of Great Britain, a 1978 hit song for Debbie Harry and the pop group 'Blondie', an Australian cricketer who took 355 test wickets, and a comic book dog called 'Gnasher' was... Dennis.
St Dennis won the 2016 First Section National title, 'Denis, Denis' was the hit song, the great Dennis Lillee was the Australian bowler and the anarchic Dennis the Menace had a dog called 'Gnasher'...