BS: A Watery Quiz

Subject: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 11:07 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 01:50 PM

Whoopsthatshouldbe(ohnoyoudon't!)
Damn!myspacebarseemstohavedisappeared

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Hey Manitas - the Quiz Police have intervened and zapped your previous message. And I quote:
"As usual, please do not post answers here, I'll follow Nigels lead and post them in a few days." --JoeClone

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: Hrothgar
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 06:45 AM

Well said, Joe Clone - though I could have used some help. Only 14 answers, and I'm sure one of them is wrong.

Urrk!

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:57 AM

Hrothgar, a search engine is your friend, and Mudcat keyword search works as many are songs. I haven't had time to work on this, but I'm sure (haha!..right) I got half of #19 and a few others.

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 09:21 AM

Well I've sent in an answer to all except No. 6, but there's a lot I'm not sure of.

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:46 PM

No "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"?

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: LadyJean
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:56 PM

Where's Monongahela Sal?

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 05:31 AM

Ladies and Gentlemen,

My apologies,

I've just noticed that the system seems to have drooped out part of one of the questions - probably my fault for using triangular brackets.

7) "Up the River our troops shall Advance,
    To the Grenadiers' March, we will teach them to Dance"
    Cape Breton, we've taken...."

should read

7) "Up the River [insert name here] our troops shall Advance,
   "To the Grenadiers' March, we will teach them to Dance
   "Cape Breton, we've taken...."

Not that it matters, those that have answered it have got it right anyway.

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 04:03 AM

Am I to take it there is no interest in this?

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 07:49 AM

Well I've done ten out of my head that I'm fairly confident of, and sent off to Walrus.
    Q6, the two seas riddle is intriguing. I've been thinking hard. Given it's a riddle, I presume we can ignore the possibility of two actual seas. So I guess it comes down to two things pronounced, but not spelt "sea", or alternatively a river beginning and ending with the letter c. And I cant think of one of them either. I'm not computer literate: can you type in something like "river c......c" and get a search to find anything that matches?

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 08:47 AM

Maybe, Greg, but I might have ffound the answer.

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 03:57 PM

There appears to be only minimal interest here, I've only had a few responses (top marks so far go to Snuffy with 19/21).

I'll post the answers sometime Monday.

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 08:24 AM

If anyone is interested, the answers are in the SQ2 thread.

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 02:36 PM

Answers @ SQ2

Nigel