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Thread #62172   Message #1003582
Posted By: The Walrus
17-Aug-03 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: A Watery Quiz
Subject: BS: A Watery Quiz
Ladies and Gentlemen,

For your diversion and entertainment I submit my own humble attempt at a quiz.
The some of the clues are laughably easy while some are slightly more involved, I don't think there are any real 'stinkers'there.

The answers all relate to rivers or bodies of water

As usual, please do not post answers here, I'll follow Nigels lead and post them in a few days.

I trust you will enjoy it

Good Luck.

Walrus


1) Old Father flowing softly?
2) A mutilated warrior, is she running a bookstore?
3) Kipling's Great, grey-green greasy river
4) Forget the waltz, from what I've seen, it's brown
5) As the old riddle has it, four "eyes" but can't see
6) A river that runs between two "seas" (another childhood riddle)
7) "Up the River our troops shall Advance,
    To the Grenadiers' March, we will teach them to Dance"
    Cape Breton, we've taken...."
8) The Germans wanted to set a watch here, Loraine & Thorne wanted to wind it up
9) Where the Flying Cloud turned pirate, sounds like where Madrid or Barcelona get their tap water
10) This river gave its name to the battle which gave the British Army its worst day Ever
11) Until then unbridged, at night, this river is said to be gloomy (or drumlie)
12) Lament of the last man to be executed for the '15 Jacobite rising
13) (Jeff) Christie's only No.1 (1970)
14) According to McGuire, on the eve of destruction there are bodies floating here
15) Site of a battle. Korea November - December 1950
    "...across frozen rivers and in temperatures down to 35 degrees below zero..."
16) Sail this in a gumtree canoe
17) For the eccentric driver, a Massachusetts town is named (indirectly) for a bridge over this river
18) An Egyptian goddess names this stretch of an English river
19) On 1st June off Boston, an Irish river captured an American Bay (one point for each)
20) Rodgers And Hammerstein's cockeyed optimist appears here.