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4BR Bank Holiday Weekend Quiz: Think of the link...

There is a link to find if you are to get your hands on a great Bank Holiday quiz prize.

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  There is a link to find to win the prizes...

Find the connection between these elements and an Alliance tenor horn mouthpiece and a trio of great CDs will be one their way to you.

Thanks to our friends at Denis Wick Ltd we have a fantastic Alliance WAGR42-2 gold rimmed tenor horn mouthpiece plus a trio of CDs to win if you get this particular connection right…

Question:

What is the connection between Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute', the famous English actor who played a German general in the 1951 film 'The Desert Fox', and the iconic obligato trumpet part in the Beatles hit 'Penny Lane'?

What is the connection between Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute', the famous English actor who played a German general in the 1951 film 'The Desert Fox', and the iconic obligato trumpet part in the Beatles hit 'Penny Lane'?4BR

Think of a Number Weekend quiz winner:

The correct answer in multiplying the 'figures' in a famous Herbert Howells test piece (3) with the Musketeers of George Hespe's 1953 British Open set-work (3) then adding the 'Blooms' (5) of Gareth Wood's 1992 European Championship set-work before subtracting from Robert Redhead's 'Isaiah' (40) was of course — 26!

Well done if you got it right.

Answers

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Closing date for answers: 12.00 (midnight) on Monday 30th August.

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