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Thread #54374   Message #841209
Posted By: IanC
05-Dec-02 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: Quiz: Dances & Tunes
Subject: Quiz: Dances & Tunes

Dances & Tunes Quiz!


Here's a set of dances (and tunes of the same name) to cheer you up! They're all in one or another edition of Playford, so you'll find them on this page.    Answers, as usual, on the forum.

1 - Ship of the fens, she's an ecclesiastical treasure.
2 - Military agent who sends his clients over the hills and far away.
3 - Small fowl are entrapped, flying a yard above the ground in numbers.
4 - Watchmen, turned musicians, are employed by city corporations.
5 - Collecting legumes, by tradition a summertime activity.
6 - Published in 1701, it suggests that the curly-headed Rev. was famous long before Burns.
7 - Doubtless both Shakespeare and the Mellstock choir would love to lie with me.
8 - Women might find this useful, though it sounds more like a public toilet.
9 - Henry VIII's Hertfordshire mansion where Mary taught Elizabeth to gamble.
10 - An ale house where each has his own, with a handle, "to drink sing and spout".
11 - The tune, reputedly by Henry Purcell, that "rhymed James out of three kingdoms".
12 - The original Irish washerwoman, found early with a May bush.
13 - Fantastic for literacy, perhaps, but what would we do for drink?
14 - Ancient woodland, a few miles from St Paul's via Liverpool Street.
15 - English game, perhaps the precursor of Croquet, gave its name to a London street.
16 - Did Cromwell really dance six to the eight?
17 - You could say it's a bit of a pansy, really.
18 - Richard's whim sounds faintly obscene, though it could just be unpleasant.
19 - Diabolical sterilisation - the baker's knife was handy, but his wife saved his bacon.
20 - Purcell's "hornpipe" could be a window, or a door ...


It's hard to measure this one, but perhaps it should be quicker than the last Alphabetic Quiz (5 hours) as you've got a limited number of titles to choose from. As usual, collaboration is strongly encouraged and comments about answers (or anything else) are very welcome.

Good luck.
Ian