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Arm wrestling ?
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harry2 wrote:Arm wrestling ?
Nope, they have different divisions for lefties to compete against each other.
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fencing?
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Not fencing either.

Perhaps I should clarify that this sport (it is a common sport) uses equipment which is normally held in both hands, but in a right handed stance.
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hockey is a good game
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(field) Hockey gets the win, over to you.
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cheers.

which person's mummified head was used as an after-dinner speakers' prop from 1814 until it was finally buried in cambridge in 1960?
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Bergen Hummelheimer, a well known German explorer, street fighter and ironically, a racounteur.
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erm, afraid not George.
this fella died in the 1650s.
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Oliver Cromwell ?
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yep, Harry wins.
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That was a complete guess.

Theres a tenuous link in the next question.


Which group had a minor hit with "No Rest" ?
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Based purely on my own tenuous link, Elvis Costello?
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no idea, the dead presidents?
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Maybe the world's first professional troup ?
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