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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 10 Jun 02 - 02:07 AM One question left: proving un solvable,, eh. Well its a very old song,very old, so old we've no idea if it had a run, perhaps its just a poem. Probably something involving harps I imagine. And its about something bloody. And thename of the place is in the name of the song /poem. Anybody with an English degree would havestudied it I imagine (along with Veowulf). OK theres enough hints. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen Date: 07 Jun 02 - 06:41 PM RB QUIZ PART II (please click here!) |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 07 Jun 02 - 12:32 PM POST IN PART II PLEASE |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Scabby Douglas Date: 07 Jun 02 - 12:03 PM That would be Strontian then... Cheers Steven |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:40 AM 13 Minch correct. 9 is not Manchester. 1 is Streets of London. 12 is not Strontium but you're very very close...might need a map or the strontium entry in an encyclopaedia for the last step. 16 is indeed tarwathie. 4 is not Bristol. NOW I'M STARTING A PART II THREAD..I CANT READ THREADS LONGER THAN 40. Be grateful if a cleverperson could connect them up |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:23 AM 4. (Second attempt) Bristol, for broken crockery ware? |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Les from Hull Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:15 AM 16 - Farewll to Tarwathie (adieu MormonD Hill - very clever) |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Declan Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:11 AM 1 is Streets of London I suppose 12) I'm not sure about. Is there a place called Strontium ? Have I got the theme wrong ? Or is the answer Sellafield ? |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Les from Hull Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:08 AM 9 must refer to Manchester Rambler, so probably Manchester. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 07 Jun 02 - 10:58 AM 13 The Minch as in Mingerlay song? |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 07 Jun 02 - 06:07 AM Nigel, Lindisfarne is correct for 18. 6 was meant to be a trick question, with Aberdovey as the obvious but wrong answer. Unfortunately I relied on memory and made a geographical mistake: I thought Harlech was south of Aberdovey. So you are perfectly right, I accept Aberdovey, though I was aiming for Swansea (as in Bells of Rhymney). |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Nigel Parsons Date: 07 Jun 02 - 05:49 AM 6, Clychau Aberdyfi : Bells of Aberdovey (From the drowned village) 18, Fog on the Tyne: Lindisfarne (Holy Island) |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 07 Jun 02 - 04:52 AM Start Point is a brilliant answer to the clue, Keith, and much better than mine.But I think youshould bear in mind your theory about the general structure of the quiz.There's two reasons why Start Point couldnt be correct. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 07 Jun 02 - 04:28 AM I think you are going clockwise around the island. 4 Would you go to Start Pt. with a breakdown? Can't think of a song though. 5 Plymouth, from a Mermaid version? |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 07 Jun 02 - 02:54 AM 8 and 10 quite right. Keep on going, Noreen |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen Date: 06 Jun 02 - 08:36 PM 10. Glasgow; it's going round and round... Bit by bit I'm getting there! |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen Date: 06 Jun 02 - 08:32 PM 8. Liverpool! (Prince's landing stage: Leaving of Liverpool) |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 05:54 PM Update(IanC always does this with his quizzes, it's helpful). Correct answers so far: (2) Isle of Wight (3)Dodman (7) Harlech (11) Campbelltown Loch (14)Sule Skerry (20) Grimsby (21) Yarmouth |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 05:39 PM Correct Noreen. Sule Skerrie it is. they are meant to be a bit hard,because thats what it said would stop us getting Alzheimers. If you have grasped the overall theme, it should help you solve them all quite quickly (well, mostly !!) |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen Date: 06 Jun 02 - 05:21 PM 14 is the Silkie from Sule Skerrie: think I've got the theme, but your questions are HARD greg! Good though. Noreen |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:42 PM nononono! Actually I sing a version that has been pretty much stripped of all the pilot directions - so only have the chorus with any remaining - but also I went for "last" - I can't even read straight let alone proofread today!!!!
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:37 PM Trouble with folksongs..variations1 The Spanish Ladies I know, the relevant line was "the first land we made it was called the Dodman". If yours says Scillies, Mmario, that's fine by me, because it fits my theme just as well as Dodman does. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:30 PM nope - scilly was the only landmark I coouled remember from that one! I'm definately at a handicap here...but fun quiz. I'm better at this type then "who performed the first cover of so and so's song"; or "what album did humptry dumpty and mother goose perform a duet on?" type quizes |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:27 PM Wrong on 6 and 15 Gareth. You havent got the theme yet, or you'ld know why they are wrong. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Gareth Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:25 PM sorry Mmario posibly different versions. RB Round Britai quiz 6 = The Inchcape Rock ? 15 Highgrove, with appologies to Cammilla Gareth |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:24 PM Correct on 2 and 21 Mmario. No danger of Alzheimers for you. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:19 PM 2 would be Isle of Wight? 21 would be Yarmouth?
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:13 PM 20 is Grimsby, right Mmario. Gareth is right, 3 is Dodman. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:10 PM Then are you looking for : (3) Scilly (20) Grimsby ?? |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 04:07 PM Great, youre getting there Gareth. But your 12 and 24 cant be totally right because they dont fit the overall theme, which I dont think youve spotted.Your 3 7 11 are totally right. Your 12 15 20 and 22 are all half way there. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Gareth Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:58 PM OK butty, trying to think latterally
3 Spanish Ladies - The Dodman Gareth |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:53 PM Thanks for the spacings MMario.Much appreciated,I wish I could do that. Your answers are fine as far as they go, and totally correct, but when you spot the theme of the quiz you will relise they are not exactly what is required. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:49 PM (3) Spanish Ladies/Farewell and Adieu? (20) Three Score and Ten?
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:47 PM Please post answers here.Who is this strange GUEST. I apologise in the initial post because my line spacings dont appear on Mudcat, and he/she attacks me for not putting in line-spacings. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:46 PM (1) Hackneyed song, where you'ld find the hackneys. (2) Three lasses had a skinful. (3) First landfall after sad goodbye to Iberian beauties. (4) If you have a Breakdown, put in here. (5) Three sailed, plus a cabin boy. (6) the carillon got wet. (7) Scouts singing of the uselessness of things that keep your trousers up, exposing one of the Hammmer of the Scots' piles. (8) Off from Charlie's jetty with Burgess. (9) Once roused by the red glare on Skiddaw, then again 157 years later by a very cacophonous band. (10) Rotatory kind of place, but it's all mine. (11) Stretch of water, hopefully water of life. (12) Crack Isle of Man number, takes you somewhere else isotopically. (13) We didn't mind how wide it was. (14) Didn't know who her son's father was, till he turned up in a natatory fashion and told her. (15) Boscobel tree in Penguin book, but where lies the more modern one? (16) A hill suitable for Brigham Youngd, a land suitable for the 23rd Psalm, the whole suitable for hump-backed Collins. (17) Fiddlers know where this grows. (18) They sang about riparian mists round the corner. (19) "Every grove rings with a merry antine" was one famous folklorists attempt to decipher part of this. (20) 70 counted out, none back. (21) Cruise on round. (22) Two "confirmed bachelors" performed "when I was a bachelor" and got festive. (23) Horrified old H.P. (24) Bloody old song. Very old, very bloody. (25) Till I end my song. GOOD LUCK!! |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: mousethief Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:44 PM Looks like British crossword clues. Which I am incapable of guessing. Birth defect or something. Alex |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:43 PM I think I have answers for 1, 4, 5 8, and 14... we're not to post answers here, right? |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: GUEST Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:41 PM naah, can't be bothered no-one else can either it appears...
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:35 PM read the quiz and you might understand why there arent any linespaces. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: GUEST Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:33 PM put some linespaces in and we might bother to read it... |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 03:32 PM Hey are these too hard? IanC's quizzes get answered in 2 or 3 hours and nobody has done even one question in two hours. Come o, you'll all get Alzheimers if you dont exercise your brains. |
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Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 01:31 PM Sorry, (8) should be "Charlie's jetty" |
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Subject: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Date: 06 Jun 02 - 01:29 PM Read in the Guardian today that mental exerciseis defintely effective in preventing Alzheimers, so thought I would set a quiz. The theme will soon become apparent when youve answered a few. If its a bit old world orientated for people from the late colonies, I have another one prepared for you soon.Answers as you wish, enough info to show you get the allusions. sorrry if its difficult to read, I dont think my linespacings come out. (1) Hackneyed song, where you'ld find the hackneys. (2) Three lasses had a skinful. (3) First landfall after sad goodbye to Iberian beauties. (4) If you have a Breakdown, put in here. (5) Three sailed, plus a cabin boy. (6) the carillon got wet. (7) Scouts singing of the uselessness of things that keep your trousers up, exposing one of the Hammmer of the Scots' piles. (8) Off from Charlie's jetty with Burgess. (9) Once roused by the red glare on Skiddaw, then again 157 years later by a very cacophonous band. (10) Rotatory kind of place, but it's all mine. (11) Stretch of water, hopefully water of life. (12) Crack Isle of Man number, takes you somewhere else isotopically. (13) We didn't mind how wide it was. (14) Didn't know who her son's father was, till he turned up in a natatory fashion and told her. (15) Boscobel tree in Penguin book, but where lies the more modern one? (16) A hill suitable for Brigham Youngd, a land suitable for the 23rd Psalm, the whole suitable for hump-backed Collins. (17) Fiddlers know where this grows. (18) They sang about riparian mists round the corner. (19) "Every grove rings with a merry antine" was one famous folklorists attempt to decipher part of this. (20) 70 counted out, none back. (21) Cruise on round. (22) Two "confirmed bachelors" performed "when I was a bachelor" and got festive. (23) Horrified old H.P. (24) Bloody old song. Very old, very bloody. (25) Till I end my song. GOOD LUCK!! Line Breaks <br> added. |
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