On 12/11/17 12:40, charles wrote:
In article ,
GB wrote:
On 12/11/2017 09:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Anyway the point was that there are often ambiguities in quiz questions.

I.e what is the common factor between:

Horsely
Blenheim
Lancaster
Halifax

?

There are two correct answers at least.

I'd never heard of the Hawker Horsley, but google found it.

Since the owner of the Hawker Aircraft company (Tommy Sopwith) lived in
East Horsley, it not a surprising choice of name. There's a model of the
plane in the hallway of Horsley Towers (now a hotel)

Is there by gum.


And what's the other?

There are or were all bombers

Indeed.

And all from different manufacturers:

Hawker, Bristol, Avro, Handley Page.



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