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Sunday Quiz: Morse code...

Work out a little brain tickler and you can get your hands on a trio of great brass band CDs...

Morse
  Work out the coded link and win a trio of band CDs...

A little bit of a brain tickler to enjoy working out this Sunday to see if you can win a trio of cracking brass band CDs.

Question:

What links a famous fictional Oxford detective to a seafaring captain who inspired Gilbert Vinter to write his last major test-piece and the capsule of the recent Space X Crew Dragon 2 launch?

What links a famous fictional Oxford detective to a seafaring captain who inspired Gilbert Vinter to write his last major test-piece and the capsule of the recent Space X Crew Dragon 2 launch?4BR

Answers:

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

Closing date for answers: 12.00 (midnight) on Sunday 9th August 2020.

Previous winner:

James Asquith from Bristol was the winner of our last Sunday quiz.

He managed to work out that the link between a 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film based on a book by Daphne du Maurier, the great jazz saxophone player Charlie Parker, a former European Championships set-work and fish fingers was….birds.

Alfred Hitchcock's scary film, the nickname of the great jazz player, the European test-piece 'Aubade — Dawnsong of the Fabulous Birds' and the 'Birdseye' fish fingers...

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