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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

90 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - St Elmo's Fire, Jude the Obscure, Frankfurt, Wycliffe. 10 bonus - Ghana, Yew, Snowdon, Mrs Dalloway, Mughals, Turner, 1080s, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Borodin, Strauss

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Catching up on last Monday's #UniversityChallenge 95 for me - 5 starters - Silverstone, Handel, Chariots of Fire, Rastafarianism, Queen Victoria. 9 bonus - Michael J Fox, Monaco, Tam o'Shanter, Paul Revere, Eyes, Sense & Sensibility, Walter Bagehot, Benjamin Britten, Derbyshire

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

125 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - Tito, Oak, Lloyd George, California, Norway. 15 bonus - Rubens, Charles II, Warhol, Aramaic, Fontainebleau, Avignon, Juliet, Jeremy Irons, Bette Davis, Crimp, Pomp and Circumstance, Petrushka, Sphincter, Avon, Westmoreland

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to talk on Richard III tonight by the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral (who was Dean of Leicester when the body was found in the car park). Richard III was a bad man - or was he?! Recollections may vary....... #RichardIII

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

125 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - Epiphany, Rotterdam, Tortoiseshell, Gothic, Australia, Luxembourg. 13 bonus - Ghent, Beethoven, Purcell, Mendelssohn, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, Petula Clark, Lucknow, Kissinger, Vermeer, Degas, 1950s

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

100 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Thomas More, Soft Cell, Astronomer Royal. Stockholm. 12 bonus - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Cochlea, Mary Queen of Scots, Susanna, Kulfi, Nell Gwyn, Lady Macbeth, Ian Banks, Nevermore, Monet, Edward VI, Edward IV

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

135 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - Portugal, Tracey Emin,Heaven 17, fairy queen,Monet, liberty. 15 bonus - Jane Eyre, Far From The Madding Crowd, Great Expectations, Shimla, Marston Moor, Christina,7 Brides For 7 Brothers, Gene Kelly,Denmark,caddy,Shane Warne,Cezanne, Ganymede,TS Eliot,saffron

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Appledore (Kent) Flower Festival over August Bank Holiday weekend - the theme was Fun at the Fair

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

90 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Rothko, Ottoman Empire, Queen Anne. 12 bonus - Romania, Timisoara, Sam Spade, Battle of the Sexes, Universal Postal Union, Beethoven, Blackwall Tunnel, Tunisia, Constable, Wilhelm II, Popes, Catalonia

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

St Martin's Church, Acrise, Kent. Quaint church in a remote and tiny parish (populaton-wise) which has a 17th/18th century West Gallery and the Royal Arms from 1689 (William III and Mary II)

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

95 on #UniversityChallenge - 4 starters - 1861, didgeridoo, Gershwin, pulmonary. 11 bonus - Don't Look Now, Linnaeus, granite, Velazquez, Gauguin, Davy, Romeo and Juliet, Maastricht, Gainsborough, keratin, Pride and Prejudice

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

105 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - pottery, Wright, Maya Angelou, hazelnut. 13 bonus - Auckland, Grant Shapps, Western Australia, Wallonia, Andy Roddick, Carlos Alcaraz, Roger McGough, 13th, 14th, Millet, Van Gogh, 3rd, Chopin

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Queen Elizabeth II Garden in Regent's Park which opened in April 2026

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Also enjoyed the Wartime London in Art exhibition

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Childhood in War exhibition at the Imperial War Museum last weekend, some very powerful exhibits

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

105 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - Jane, Reykjavik, Rhode Island, shorthand, placenta, Russia/USA. 9 bonus - Metternich, Castlereagh, Wellington, Czechia, Witwatersrand, Teddy Roosevelt, Haile Selassie, Stubbs, Le Havre

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

St Augustine's Abbey ruins, Canterbury

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Franciscan Gardens, Canterbury - beautiful peaceful spot. Gardens sadly looking rather parched due to lack of water

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent - it was home of Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry, who died there in 1928.

Bust and portrait of Ellen Terry in the entrance hall of the house

Front elevation of Smallhythe Place showing timbering and roses around the door and wndows

The Barn Theatre showing the stage and some costumes and props

The side elevation of the house and the cottage garden

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

90 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Figaro, Orion, screen. 12 bonus - Cale/Kale, Pieta, Marie Curie, Crane, Strawberry Fields Forever, Chocolat, Ingmar Bergman, Durch, Wordsworth, Byron, Heriot-Watt, Poppy

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Goodnestone Park Gardens near Canterbury. Visited by Jane Austen

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thirsk, North Yorkshire - St Mary's Church and the World of James Herriot Museum

The house where vet Alf Wight aka James Herriot lived and had his veterinary surgery - now a Museum

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Castle Howard, North Yorkshire

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A few photos of York from my trip there a couple of weeks ago

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

St Martin's Church, Canterbury - reputed to be the oldest parish church in England in continuous use

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

St Martin's Priory, Canterbury - house of Tudor origin with later additions, now belongs to Canterbury Christ Church University

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

95 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Hills, Bay, Radetsky March, Arles. 11 bonus - Galileo, Downs, Valley, Victor Emmanuel III, Sousa, Nicaragua, Benedict, Respighi, Lichtenstein, Gully, Third Man

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today 25th July is the Feast Day of St Christopher - here is an image from Southwark Cathedral plus a stained glass window from the Church of SS Peter and Paul, Appledore, Kent

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

95 on tonight's #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - absolute, Nottingham, Napoleon/Pitt, Gilbert and Sullivan. 11 bonus - woad, Stirling, host/ghost, Ruffalo/Gruffalo, Lord Byron, Kaiser Bill and Bismarck, Disraeli, Cardigan, John of Gaunt, Portugal, Henry the Navigator

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Catching up with last week's #UniversityChallenge - I scored 100. 3 starters - Whistler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Flodden. 14 bonus - Albatross, Alcatraz, The Leopard, Death in Venice, Buckingham, Henrietta Maria, Dvorak, Polonaise, Potiphar, Smuts, Taekwondo, Rondo, 2007, 2015

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Managed to get 45 on #UniversityChallenge final thanks to a set of bonuses on Zimbabwe. 2 starters - Wagner and Dom. 5 bonuses - mistletoe, Ian Smith, ZANU-PF, Ndebele and Charlie Parker

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

60 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Beethoven and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 8 bonuses - Graham Hill, Lester Piggott, Volga, Bernini, Bologna, Quo Vadis, Ecce Homo, De Profundis

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

95 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Denmark, Barcelona, Version, Torque. 11 bonus - Norway, Cromwell, Kaliningrad, New York, Couperin, Blondie, Grapefruit, Seville, Holbein, Eifel/Eiffel, Pole/Poole

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

100 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - percolation, Smiley, Balkan/Levant, DH Lawrence, Buenos Aires. 10 bonus - Navajo, Ash, World Series Cricket, Tony Greig, West Indies, Nicaragua, San Marino, Mary Magdalene, Amiens, Rebecca West. Plus my birthplace Ashford, Kent got a mention!

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

95 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Black, Psalms, Col. 13 bonuses - Gorgons, Far From The Madding Crowd, Pride and Prejudice, Festival of Britain, Clerk, R.L. Stevenson, Rotterdam, St Francis of Assisi, Liszt, Mary I, Act of Settlement, Male primogeniture, Charlton Athletic

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

65 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Mendelssohn and British National Grid, 9 bonuses - Monteverdi, Aphra Behn, Bute, Mull, Crucifixion, Devonian, Orkney, Elgar and Malawi

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

85 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - York Minster, Colonel, Vulgar, Hogarth, King John. 7 bonus - Gaucho, waltz, Ravi Shankar, Burne Jones, Titian, Ken Russell, speedway

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

75 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - 800m and Roger Bannister. 11 bonus - Jesuits, Preston, Ballarat, Toronto, Pastels, Constantinople, Kind Hearts and Coronets, It Always Rains on Sunday, Ealing, Jack Draper, Tom Daley

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

95 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - A Suitable Boy, White Heat, 4th, Camera Obscura, Vienna, Greenwich. 7 bonus - John Clare, Autumn, Petra, Trappist, Leicestershire, Damien Hirst, Canaletto

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The Nailbourne chalk stream in East Kent has re-emerged in the last few days. Also known as the "Waters of Woe"

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

65 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Rubens, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1840s. 7 bonuses - New Zealand, Verdi, The Rachel Papers, Henry James, Millais, Constable, Pontius Pilate

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

85 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Gustave, celluloid, veld. 11 bonus - Elizabeth Barret Browning, Idi Amin, Kinsey, Alice Springs, Lady Day, Candlemas, Lammas, Cherbourg, Norman, Age of Innocence, Carmen

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

100 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Desmond, Richard III, Odense, Portugal. 12 bonus - Arsenic and Old Lace, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Rochester, Brecon, Bury St Edmunds, Tennyson, Josephine Baker, Boar, Doncaster, Henry IV

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

60 on #UniversityChallenge - only 2 starters Turin and Apricot. 8 bonus - Nightingale, Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Sydney, Duke Ellington, Carmen Jones, Passchendaele, Edward IV

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

110 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - BRIX, Pius, Bosnia War, Erskine, Holbein, Chas I, Alexander. 8 bonus - Goethe, Crystal Palace, Arrabbiata, Clipper, Van Gogh, Garrick, Rosalind, All About Eve

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

100 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bristol/Bath, Margaret Mitchell, Beamish. 14 bonus - Britten, Robert Redford, Alan Ladd, Leo DiCaprio, Salome, Neon, Hoover, Chrysler, Baikal, herbal, Hemingway, Thurso, Sunderland, Yttrium

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - Schubert (Unfinished), Belgium, E-U, Thomas, Warfarin, John Ruskin, R. L Stevenson, Snapdragon. 17 bonus - Waterloo, Latvia, Slovakia, Murmansk, Lithuania, Millennium Stadium, Dvorak, pomegranate, partridge, Audobon, Burne Jones, Durer, Jimmy Connors

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

205 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 31/12/25 13 starters - Cubism, Vilnius, vector, Sound of Music/Silence, nick, Charles I, Steffi Graf, starling, lungs, Istanbul, Stockton/Darlington, Houdini, 2. 15 bonus - Jaws, John Williams,Waterford,Genoa, St Helena, Scott Mctominay, Barbizon,Angelus,Van Gogh

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 30/12/25 Starter- Penguin,Baltimore,Finland,Josephine,Stomach,Cumbria,Crete, Phantom,Herod. Bonus-Penny Mordaunt,Pat Barker,Elaine Paige,beauty,bamboo,Thailand,Carly Simon,calamine,calorie, Orgreave,Somme,Winchester,Reading,Gloucester,Moonst/one Day in life of ID

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Chris Hall @chrishall62.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

165 #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 29/12/25 Starter - Lune, road narrows,Bizet,Ceausescu, royal, Rossetti, Help!, pins and needles, Beau Brummell. Bonus - school, hospital, level crossing,Garnier,Tchaikovsky, Gentiles,angel,AE Housman, Box Hill,Watership Down,El Greco,trisect, hops, trumpet, Gershwin

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