SEASONAL QUIZ

Always difficult making up folk quizzes these days. No point in asking people who wrote "Dirty Old Town" when Google is available. Still, here goes. Add your answers to the thread as you get them. To give an edge to the proceedings, I'll post this simultaneously on fRoots and Mudcat, see where it gets answered most quickly. Some quizzer aficionados(yes I'm thinking of you, Vic, among others) frequent both forums, so you'll have to choose where your allegiances lie.

1 So, who sung of the little ones going out to play in the yard, and when did they do it?

2 Where Basil Spenser and John Piper might sing of Herod the King?

3 What went at a speedy two forty?

4 Link some unenclosed land ½ mile NE of Sissinghurst Green, with some high land above the next town up the Wharfe from Otley.

5 Link these four:
a)"And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain"
b)"The minstrels played their Christmas tune
Tonight beneath my cottage eaves"
c)"Outside snowier yet and cold
Piercing searching biting cold"
d)"While shepherds watched their flocks by night
All seated on the ground"
So, what was the volume of the sack?
(a full explanation of the answer needed for this one I think)

6 Seasonally link a badly spelled multi-coloured horse to a badly spelled insect.

7 An endless Housey Housey cry at a Holiday Inn, and what have you got?

8 The dream of a ploughboy, some brooks and a VW: they add up to what?

9 What do they sing at Tony Rose's and my Alma Mater? (bit of a cheat that, demanding specialist personal knowledge. A regal Philippa might help).

10 And the final really tricky one, a pint or the equivalent to the first correct answer: in 5(b), what tune were they playing?

(NB I might have mixed up my capitals and lower cases to be confusing, occasionally)