Help! Quiz question

Subject: Help! Quiz question
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 09:40 AM

We've done all but 2 questions on a quiz sheet and one left is supposed to be musical, probably a song title. All questions have a number and initial letters only so 3BM would be Three Blind Mice.
The one we can't get (several brains tired!) is:
CR9ML
Suggestions include Country Road Nine Miles Long, Crane River Ninety miles long but don't seem to exist!
Any ideas.? Can't be too obscure I would have thought.

RtS

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 10:38 AM

Camptown Racetrack Nine Miles Long?

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 10:42 AM

Road to Gundagai, sometimes known as Nine Miles from Gundagai?

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Ross
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 10:42 AM

what about the doo dah? doo dah?

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 10:42 AM

I'd say that nails it.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 11:03 AM

Oops! Sorry I hadn't read your original post correctly. Ignore my suggestion.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 11:56 AM

Doh! Many thanks for your help - we knew it would be something obvious and although all the family were thinking hard over the holidays we didn't get there.

Happy New Year!

Sheila (Mrs RtS)

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:24 PM

Cradle rocks nine months later ...

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 02:47 PM

Of course the racetrack was only five miles long (according to Mr.Foster)!

Mick

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 03:09 PM

Crane River ?? Thimbles, you've been going all Colyer again. Haven't ya ??

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 09:20 AM

Mick, 9 miles in my songbook!
Guess you're right Charlie. S was doing the quiz but half the family & friends seem to have got sucked in. Now all we need is the final answer (non-musical) to "2HOAD".
Best we can come up with so far is "Hands on a dial" but doesn't seem close enough to a well known phrase! "Horns of a dilemma" was another suggestion.

RtS

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: NormanD
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 10:33 AM

Dear Rog Skiff

Do you fancy posting the original set of questions here? I'm now intrigued (and a bit of a quizophile).

Norman

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:32 PM

If it's musical, how about 2 Holes on a Didgeridoo

I was about to add "Two Humps on a Dromedary", but that's backward, it's one on a Dromedary (camel) and two on a Bactrian. Easy to remeber, Look at the initial letter on its back (in upper case)

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Bernard
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:39 PM

And a camel with three humps... Humphrey...

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:53 PM

2 halves of a .... (almost anything starting with 'D')
2 handles/hinges on a door

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Cats
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 01:52 PM

The quiz question we can't get is 'what is the name of the clip that holds a firemans hose on the ladder?'

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Mo the caller
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:21 PM

I suspect I've seen that one before and its horns of a dilemma

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 04:47 AM

Thanks, these were all ones we'd thought of! (And thanks from me to Alan for the Camptown answer)
RtS

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Brakn
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 05:42 AM

Camptown Racetrack five miles long not nine. google it.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 09:10 AM

Two hammers on a dulcimer?

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Bernard
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 02:21 PM

Googled it, and got both five AND nine...

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: KT
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 02:30 PM

cats....would it be a special type of carabiner?

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 03:13 PM

Uk fire fighters would normally use a 'ladder pipe' which is a type of nozzle that attaches to the ladder and lets them fight fire at height.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: KT
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 03:37 PM

Hey, cats......how 'bout hose strap?

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 03:14 AM

NormanD,
I'll post the quiz questions "below the line" as they're mostly non-musical. The original is sold in aid of our local hospice (Thames Valley- Windsor & Ascot) where my wife works as a volunteer.
I don't know if I can get the official answers but i can post our efforts once the closing date is over.
RtS

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Cats
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 10:23 AM

When I find out the answer, I'll post it. Thanks for all the suggestions and from all those who have pm'd me their suggestions.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Brakn
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 01:11 PM

Stephen Foster says it was 5 so that's good enough for me, but I have seen it quoted as 9 and 2. Trivial pursuits has it down as 5. Is it still there - wherever that is.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 01:15 PM

De Camptown Races
Gwine to Run All Night

Melody - Stephen Foster, 1850; Seq. by Werner Tomaschewski

Stephen Foster, 1850

De Camptown ladies sing this song,
Doo-da, Doo-da
De Camptown racetrack's two miles long
Oh, de doo-da day.
Chorus:
G'wine to run all night
G'wine to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray. 2. Oh, de long tailed filly and de big black horse,
Doo-da, Doo-da
Come to a mud hole and dey all cut across,
Oh, de doo-da day.
Chorus:
3. I went down South with my hat caved in,
Doo-da, Doo-da
I came back North with a pocket full of tin.
Oh, de doo-da day.
Chorus:




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Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Brakn
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 02:10 PM

That's just what I did Tom. I looked at the Levy site for the original sheet music (or recently published 1850) - and it said five mile long. See Here.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 07:56 AM

Definitely five miles long.

S

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:39 PM

"Nine" sings better.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:15 AM

Who keeps moving the damn racetrack!

RtS

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:46 AM

I measured it and made it 6.72 miles (10.81 km). But that's poetic licence for you.

Subject: RE: Help! Quiz question
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 03:20 PM

RtS,

If you ever get the chance to see an Oz tv series called The Games, which is a very funny fictional insight into the planning of the Sydney Olympic Games, you definitely need to see the episode about planning and building the athletes track. The main actor is John Clarke, whose humour is very clever, very distinctive. He is an Aussie icon. I think it is very funny that our national government-owned tv station, ABC, showed the series in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics.

In the episode about the athletes track they are discussing whether to cut construction costs by shortening the length of the track, and then they argue the consequences in Olympic Games if the track is not the standard length.

Helen