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Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday January 26th 2012, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2012.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

The Kirk Theatre

Thursday 20th October 2011

Tickets are £7.50 each and can be obtained from Reed's Newsagents, Television House or Eastgate News

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 24th November 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 27th October 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 29th September 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 26th May 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 28th April 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 31st March 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 24th February 2011, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

Prizes

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday January 27th 2010, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

Prizes

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NOTE: Prize money may be lowered if attendance is poor.

The Evely Brothers show at the Kirk Theatre has been rescheduled for Friday 18th February 2011. Any ticket holders that cannot make the new date please contact the committee personally or via the Pickering 60s Festival Website for a refund.

There are also a few tickets remaining (but not many however so be quick). These can be obtained from Reed's Newsagents, Television House or Eastgate News and are priced at £6 per ticket.

The questions and answers are as follows:

1. Native American make-up (Warpaint)
2. Hi Ms Parton (Hello Dolly)
3. Repeat that (Do it Again)
4. AU digit (Goldfinger)
5. Mistletoe fruit (Little White Berry)
6. Cowardly vessel (Yellow Submarine)
7. The cause of Mexican hangover (Too Much Tequica)
8. sadim gnik (King Midas in Reverse)
9. Handy for pressing sheets (Big Iron)
10. The cause of much teen embarrassment (Wet Dream)
11. Girl's comic (Jackie)
12. Graffiti (Writing on the Wall)
13. Native of America SW (Apache)
14. Two tone Scottish musician (Pied Piper)
15. Instruction from Henry Ford (Paint it Black)
16. What a friendly alien might say (Welcome to my World)
17. Four leafed clover for example (Good Luck Charm)
18. Squash equipment (Rubber Ball)
19. A pleasant goat (Charming Billy)
20. A husband's commonest question (Why Not Tonight)
21. Eg Joan Baez (The Folk Singer)
22. A creationist's viewpoint (Thats the Way God Planned it)
23. Seen in water (Reflections)
24. But never twice (Lightnin Strikes)
25. Party troll (Bill Bailey)
26. What the AA offer (Recovery)
27. Torch a credit card billo (Bernadette)
28. What the youth wants to be part of (The in Crowd)
29. Fairground ride (Ferris Wheel)
30. Fortified wine (Sherry)
31. Noah's thought (It Keeps Rainin)
32. Sign on saloon entrance (This Door Swings Both Ways)
33. Water carrier (Aquarius)
34. A Lottery (Thunderball)
35. 90% (Nine Times Out of Ten)
36. Mr Whippy (The Ice Cream Man)
37. A  stately home perhaps (A House in the Country)
38. A New Yorker's way of mixing the pack (Harlem Shuffle)
39. I love you (Three Little Words)
40. Inflate my ego, yellow flower (Build me up Buttercup)

Well done to everyone that took part, there were 7 people with all the correct answers and they were draw in the following order

1st Prize Mrs V Hutchinson, Cropton

2nd Linda Hobbs Pickering, which very kindly donated her winnings back to the Pickering 60's Festival, Thank you Linda

3rd Pete Yeomans, Chapel-En-Le Frith Derbyshire

There are still a few tickets left for the Everly Brothers night, supported by Josh Doyle and Sadie, at the Kirk Theatre on Friday 3rd Dec. Tickets are £6 per person from Eastgate News, Reeds Newsagents, TV House and the Conservative Club.

A few tickets are still available for the Everly Brothers tribute night at the Kirk Theatre in Pickering, on Friday 3rd December. £6 each from Eastgate News, Television House and Reed's Newsagents.

Visit The Temple Brothers Website

We have now added more photos in to the 2010 gallery. We would like to thank Dave Hutchinson for providing these.

Click the following link to goto the 2010 gallery.

Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday 25th November 2010, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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Our next regular quiz night is on Thursday October 28th 2010, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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Our regular quiz nights start again beginning on Thursday September 30th 2010, starting at 9:00pm, at Bar No 4 (the Wine Bar), Market Place, Pickering. All proceeds go to the the Pickering 60s Festival 2011.

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Regular Quiz Nights

The quiz nights will now run on the last Thursday of every month from September 2010 until May 2011.

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Thank you to every one who has supported our quizzes and also to the outlets that have sold them for us. Here are the answers to Tommy's Latest Song title Quiz

1. Numbness (Needles And Pins)
2. Decorate the fire back (Paint It Black)
3. Ideal song for a plasticine advert (Bend Me Shape me)
4. The Boss (Al Capone)
5. Snow white perhaps (Princess in Rags)
6. Lynne Perrie's character (Poison Ivy)
7. Almond in leather (Nut Rocker)
8. Prominent Chiricahua (Geronimo)
9. Paranoid rock band (Deep Purple)
10. Eurovision winner at dusk (Waterloo Sunset)
11. For those with very large feet (Clown Shoes)
12. Sex education (Lessons in love)
13. More sex education (Birds and Bees)
14. What a peeping tom will do (Look through any window)
15. Nickname of past Newecastle striker (Mighty Quinn)
16. Famous tea clipper (Cutty Sark)
17. A green eyed monster (Jealousy)
18. American Holiday (Vacation)
19. A common statement when reminiscing (Those were the days)
20. An excuse for children's behaviour (Because they're young)
21. Shoo (Get away)
22. Flatulence (Wayward wind)
23. Wife swapping on Sirius (Swinging on a star)
24. What you want to here down the pub (Have a drink on me)
25. A prisoner's request (Release me)
26. St Swithun's resting place (Winchester Cathedral)
27. Weapon thrower (Gunslinger)
28. 70's sit com (The Good Life
29. East Coast State (Massachusetts)
30. Not a tame object (Wild Thing)
31. Ashley Cole perhaps (Yesterday Man)
32. What a docker would say to a dog (I'll cut your tail off)
33. Station on the Northern Line (Finchley Central)
34. Boxing day lunch (Cold Turkey) 
35. Ask a small child to return (Baby come back)
36. Odd people after dark (Strangers in the night)
37. Enlist the parties (Call up the groups)
38. I live there (Thats my home)
39. Transport over the river (Ferry across the Mersey)
40. By Calvin Klein (Obsession)

And the winners were

1st prize - Pete Smith, Pickering
2nd         - Colin Gibson, Redcar
3rd          - C. Greaves Northallerton

Thank you to every one who has supported our quizzes and also to the outlets that have sold them for us. Here are the answers to Tommy's 60s Song Title Quiz

1. An ecological percussion instrument (Green Tambourine)
2. His father reads sermons (Son of a Preacher Man)
3. When the bird gets the worm (Early in the morning)
4. A request for directions in Costa Rica (Do you know the way to San Jose)
5. Liberated sweet music (Unchained Melody)
6. Moving Abroad? Watch this programme (A place in the Sun)
7. Tom Thumb (Little Man)
8. A question for Daisy's boyfriend (Donald where's your trousers)
9. Emmenthal,Rolex and Lindt chocolates are all (Swiss made)
10. QE2 for example (Big Ship)
11. What Scottish goalkeepers had allegedly (Careless Hands)
12. Halloween perhaps (Night of fear)
13. Gambler's alamanac (Deck of cards)
14. What Blair promised Brown (I'll step down)
15. The Killers frontman is getting a soaking (Flowers in the rain)
16. Identical to Stobbart (Just like Eddie)
17. Rather stating the obvious (Black is Black)
18. Minute objects (Little things)
19. Not what a father wants for his little girl (Shotgun wedding)
20. What you have to do when you hit the wall (Keep on running)
21. Animal Liberation front for example (Alfie)
22. An orange fruit (Clementine)
23. Serena's sister in denim (Venus in blue jeans)
24. The day before demolition (Eve of destruction)
25. Where Sara Palin headed after the election (North to Alaska)
26. A miner's song at Orgreave (I fought the law)
27. Start Counting David (123 O'leary)
28. A drunken farmhand (The merry ploughboy)
29. But no-one's listening (Everybodys Talking)
30. Describes getting home after a skinfull (Crawling back)
31. Spy Santa in the South (Spotnicks)
32. How you begin a game of hide and seek (I close my eyes and count to ten)
33. A regular call centre complaint (You keep me hanging on)
34. Full English paid for by Disney's bloodhound (Breakfast on Pluto)
35. Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Indigo Violet (Colours)
36. Not the best time to choose a new partner (On the rebound)
37. What an entomologist is looking for (Elusive Butterfly)
38. What astronomers hope for (A starry night)
39. This sounds like an old fashioned boiled sweet (Peppermint Twist)
40. Old King's favourite motorcycle race in England's Capital (Colette)

And the winners were

First prize - Carol Sharples, Sutton on Derwent
2nd Taryn Goulsbra, New Moston Manchester
3rd Mr J Duck, Pickering, Who kindly donated his prize back to support next years event.

Thank you to every one who has supported our quizzes throughout the year and also to the outlets that have sold them for us. Here are the answers to Tommy's Music Quiz

1. One minute to midnight (Its Almost Tomorrow)
2. What the good Samaritan didn't do (Walk on by)
3. Scottish feline (Wild Cat)
4. A thin Welsh assassin (Slim Whitman)
5. No. 12 in the Sixties (Substitute)
6. The names Bond (007)
7. Shere Khan's song (Im a Tiger) 
8.  Small Dick (Little Richard) 
9. 57 (Heinz)
10. What Erika Roe was doing (Running Bear)
11. Ace of spade (Leader of The Pack)
12. This will bring tears to your eyes (Onion Song)
13. A landed policeman (Bobbie Gentry)
14. A right turn in May makes you livid (Marty Wilde)
15. RSTVWX (Miss You)
16. 3 feet penguins (Yardbirds)
17. Not the Tory PM (Ted Heath)
18. What Chang said to Eng (You'll Never Walk Alone)
19. Mandelson and Brown (Peter and Gordon)
20. Not disposable (Terry)
21. Generally found on little heads (Small faces)
22. Helen Mirren or Julie Walters (Calendar Girl)
23. ? (Why)
24. A Question for the fishmonger (You got soul)
25. Stain the coldest 25% (Mark Wynter)
26. Was this about James Dean (He's a rebel)
27. Strip, pile, raft (The foundations)
28. Root veg for livestock (The Wurzels)
29. Beep, beep (Road Runner)
30. Painted by Lowrie (Pictures of matchstick men)
31. America's First Lady (Michelle)
32. Mr Capone hit Johnathon (Albatross)
33. C3PO (Robot Man)
34. Donna's in London (Summer in the city)
35. A doorstep note (No milk today)
36. Les Dawson's favourite (Mother in law)
37. Happiness, sadness (Emotions)
38. What Pinnochio had (Wooden Heart)
39. Plaything (Toys)
40. May be found in a flower album (Pictures of lilly)
41. Take That's aplogy (Sorry Robbie)
42. Teacher's corridor instruction (Walk don't run)
43. I don't know (I can't explain)
44. I am righteous (I believe)
45. Makes a sort of jam (Traffic)
46. An optimistic viewpoint (Even the bad times are good)
47. A sportsman from Harlem (Globetrotter)
48. Orange County metalworker  (O.C Smith)
49. Lord Elgin's sculptures  (The Marbles)
50. William and Benjamin (The flowerpot men)

And the answers to the word search songs

(A Picture of you)
(Are you sure)
(Bend it)
(Downtown)
(Edelweiss)
(Everybody knows)
(I'm telling you now)
(I'm the one)
(Jealousy)
(Lazy river)
(Lets twist again)
(Lola)
(Midnight in Moscow)
(Penny Lane)
(Pepe)
(Rag Doll)
(Sloop John B)
(Speedy Gonzales)
(Things)
(Game of Love)

And the winners were:

1. First prize - Colin Gibson (Redcar) with 1 wrong
2. 2nd Peter Leonard (Pickering) with 2 wrong
3. 3rd Mrs B Hornby (Pickering) with 3 wrong

For all those people who tried to solve Tommy's Classic 60s Themed Quiz, well here are all the answers:

1. A mental derangement caused by creepy crawlies. (Beetlemania)
2. The 1st if you believe. (Adam Faith)
3. Sounds like a small leftwing marsupial being told how to use a teaspoon. (Little Red Rooster)
4. A sweet Pirate. (Radio Caroline)
5. Throw Che's hat. (Chuck Berry)
6. A Mother and two books within a book (Peter Paul & Mary)
7. Unchanging situation. (Status Quo)
8. Pollinating insect GG. (Bee Gees)
9. Gold,Silver, Red/Silver and Blue. (The Four Tops)
10. Our next headliners, sound like a dress code for someplayground equipment. (Swinging Blue Jeans)
11. A Morose flier on Coniston. (Bluebird)
12. Ice caps are, singular. (Polaris)
13. A highway that sounds less complicated. (Rhodesia)
14. A Sly lark song found in Dallas Texas. (Grassy Knoll)
15. Sounds like the Flying Scotsman went missing. (The Great Train Robbery)
16. Don't blame the butler it was the gamekeeper that did it. (Lady Chatterleys Lover)
17. A Harbour full of porkers. (Bay of Pigs)
18. Mac's breezy pennies. (Winds of Change)
19. Small changes and grandpa chairs. (Mods and Rockers)
20. 'The Loon' coming down to earth. (Moon Landing)
21. A herb and a Southern infant. (Rosemarys Baby)
22. Keep going Lord Sutch. (Carry on Screaming)
23. How to describe your work in Rome. (The Italian Job)
24. 60 minutes for juveniles. (Childrens Hour)
25. Did this film it Mira's sales. (Psycho)
26. TW3. (That was the week that was)
27. Found on mink, otters and water voles. (Tales of the Riverbank)
28. Father's limb why. (Dads Army)
29. Sounds like a loud frosty explosion. (The Frost Report)
30. A stong masculine member of the Partidge family with a child who stopped the rain. (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
31. This contrary campaigner could have homed a president. (Mary Whitehouse)
32. Wilma's husband sounds honest. (Fred Trueman)
33. A Record keeper at a gymnasium. (Jim Clark)
34. Sounds like a stick insect. (Twiggy)
35. Raise a precious stone. (Jack Ruby)
36. Useful hostilities followed by a short holiday. (Andy Warhol)
37. No one calls this guy a casual cissy. (Cassius Clay)
38. A Cricket position leads to this traitor. ( Kim Philby)
39. A Religious farm building doesn't make it easy to name this 60's pioneer. (Christian Barnard)
40. This athlete's style was an unlikely sounding success at the 1968 olympics. (Dick Fosbury)
41. Wild Horse. (Mustang)
42. A friend of Saint. (Greaves)
43. Purdey. (Avenger)
    
44. 300 Hybrids. (Triton)
45. Look at suggestively. (Ogle)
46. A disobedient scooter model. (Defiant)
47. Spot this between Loughborough and Doncaster. (A60)
48. Tornados' Cotton. (Telstar)
49. See you text in a merry car. (Mercury)
50. If the door is open a bird enters for tea. (Dominator)    

And the winners were

• 1st Nobby from Sinnington
• 2nd Linda Hobs from Pickering
• 3rd Colin Bowes

Thanks to every One Who Bought The Quiz Sheet and Supported us. If You Weren't Lucky enough to Win This Time Then, Yes,

There Is Another Quiz Being Released and is in The local Shops Around Pickering Now.

For all those people out there that lost sleep trying to solve Tommy's 60s Classic Vehicle Quiz, well here are all the answers:

1. Mind that Bull (Dodge Charger)
2. Biblical Giant (Goliath)
3. A Drug of Sorts (E Type)
4. A Crazy Newspaper (NSU)
5. Studebaker's Songbird (Lark)
6. A Beautiful Hamlet (Fairthorpe)
7. The Ideal Car For Venice (Amphicar)
8. Handy For Hunting A Bedford (Beagle)
9. Stinging Insect From Italy (Vespa)
10. Royal Enfields Smallest Model, Informally (Flying Flea)
11. Vic or Bobs Favourite BSA (Shooting Star)
12. Skirt or Car (Mini)
13. Vast Suit Ahead (Daihatsu Vesta)
14. 12 Signs Lead To This Vehicle (Zodiac)
15. North Wales Expressway (A55)
16. Look Left Suzanne (Facel Veca)
17. Playful Minicar (Frisky)
18. Electric Dog With A Zephyr Engine (AC Greyhound)
19. Auction Item From America (Lotus)
20. Small Northern Industrial Town (Rochdale)
21. Catherine Jones (Zeta)
22. Ordinary Badge Of Office (Standard Ensign)
23. Cut up Your Visa Card (Siva)
24. Choose Regional Assembly Monarch (Electra King)
25. Spoil A Lettuce (Marcos)
26. Ancient Bedroom Toy (Oldsmobile)
27. Was This Car Dangerous At Any Speed (Chevrolet Corvair)
28. Violent Wind Again (Tornado Tempest) or Typhoon
29. A Car For A Secret Agent (Bond)
30. Nasty Nick's Favourite Cheese (Cotton Double Gloucester)
31. Cook, Sailor (James Captain)
32. Shirley Bassey Perhaps (Diva)
33. Formerly Know As (Prince)
34. A Ford From The East (Anglia)
35. Did Neptune Spear A Fast Moving Ship (Trident Clipper)
36. Insulting Ale (Stanguellini)
37. From WW2 Fighter To A Bubble Car (Messerschmitt)
38. Insurance Company From Turin (Cisitalia)
39. Villiers Engine Seabird (Fulmar/Plover)
40. Ariels Final Effort Was No Leader (Three)
41. Russian Black Cat (Red Panther)
42. African Vocalist (Singer Gazelle)
43. City Of Rovers (Bristol)
44. The Favourite Make Of U.S.A 16th President (Lincoln)
45. Depend On Someone Who Resists Authority (Reliant Rebal)
46. An Easy And Pleasant Life for a Mischievous Little Creature (Riley Elf)
47. This Car Had No Equal in a Previous Incarnation (Warwick)
48. Gold Fingers Newport Pagnell Tractor, Before Chelsea Tractors were Thought Of (Aston Martin DB5)

And The Tie Breaker Questions And Answers Were:

1. (Safety) Fast (MG)
2. Buy (Wisely) Buy Wolsey
3. Made Like A (Gun) Royal Enfield

And The Winners Were:

• 1st: S Moon from Sinnington - With Only 4 Wrong
• 2nd: M Newby from Carlton Miniott - With Only 5 Wrong
• 3rd: I C Farndale from Snainton - With Only 6 Wrong

Thanks to every One Who Bought The Quiz Sheet and Supported us. If You Weren't Lucky enough to Win This Time Then, Yes, There Is Another Quiz Being Released and is in The local Shops Around Pickering Now.