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4BR Quiz: Scorchio!!!

Find the meteorological quiz link and four great CDs will be on their way to you to enjoy...

Sunshine
  There is a link between all four elements...

Given the meteorological conditions we are experiencing at the present time, we have a little quiz to test your knowledge to win four great CDs.

Question:

All you must do is link a classic 1977 summer song by the Electric Light Orchestra, with a brilliant Billy Wilder film starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis, the comedy duo Morecambe & Wise and the 1958 British Open Championship won by Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band?

Answers:

Answers with your reasons to be sent to: quiz@4barsrest.com
Closing date for answers: 12.00pm (midnight) on Thursday 21st July

Connect 4:

Guido van Haalen from Nijmegen in The Netherlands won our last quiz.

He spotted that the link between overtures by Antonin Dvorak and Hector Berlioz, a children's suite written by Camille Saint-Saens and a British Open test piece by Helen Perkins, was 'Carnival'.

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