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06 Jun 02 - 01:29 PM (#724456) Subject: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 01:31 PM (#724458) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Sorry, (8) should be "Charlie's jetty" |
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06 Jun 02 - 03:32 PM (#724590) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 03:33 PM (#724594) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: GUEST put some linespaces in and we might bother to read it... |
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06 Jun 02 - 03:35 PM (#724597) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens read the quiz and you might understand why there arent any linespaces. |
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06 Jun 02 - 03:41 PM (#724603) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: GUEST naah, can't be bothered no-one else can either it appears...
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06 Jun 02 - 03:43 PM (#724605) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Mrrzy I think I have answers for 1, 4, 5 8, and 14... we're not to post answers here, right? |
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06 Jun 02 - 03:44 PM (#724606) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: mousethief Looks like British crossword clues. Which I am incapable of guessing. Birth defect or something. Alex |
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06 Jun 02 - 03:46 PM (#724607) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario (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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06 Jun 02 - 03:47 PM (#724612) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 03:49 PM (#724614) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario (3) Spanish Ladies/Farewell and Adieu? (20) Three Score and Ten?
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06 Jun 02 - 03:53 PM (#724616) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 03:58 PM (#724624) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Gareth OK butty, trying to think latterally
3 Spanish Ladies - The Dodman Gareth |
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06 Jun 02 - 04:07 PM (#724634) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 04:10 PM (#724637) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario Then are you looking for : (3) Scilly (20) Grimsby ?? |
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06 Jun 02 - 04:13 PM (#724645) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 20 is Grimsby, right Mmario. Gareth is right, 3 is Dodman. |
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06 Jun 02 - 04:19 PM (#724655) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario 2 would be Isle of Wight? 21 would be Yarmouth?
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06 Jun 02 - 04:24 PM (#724666) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Correct on 2 and 21 Mmario. No danger of Alzheimers for you. |
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06 Jun 02 - 04:25 PM (#724669) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Gareth sorry Mmario posibly different versions. RB Round Britai quiz 6 = The Inchcape Rock ? 15 Highgrove, with appologies to Cammilla Gareth |
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06 Jun 02 - 04:27 PM (#724671) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens Wrong on 6 and 15 Gareth. You havent got the theme yet, or you'ld know why they are wrong. |
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06 Jun 02 - 04:30 PM (#724676) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario 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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06 Jun 02 - 04:37 PM (#724685) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 04:42 PM (#724688) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: MMario 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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06 Jun 02 - 05:21 PM (#724720) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen 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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06 Jun 02 - 05:39 PM (#724728) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 05:54 PM (#724746) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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06 Jun 02 - 08:32 PM (#724841) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen 8. Liverpool! (Prince's landing stage: Leaving of Liverpool) |
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06 Jun 02 - 08:36 PM (#724846) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen 10. Glasgow; it's going round and round... Bit by bit I'm getting there! |
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07 Jun 02 - 02:54 AM (#725019) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 8 and 10 quite right. Keep on going, Noreen |
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07 Jun 02 - 04:28 AM (#725046) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Keith A of Hertford 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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07 Jun 02 - 04:52 AM (#725051) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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07 Jun 02 - 05:49 AM (#725070) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Nigel Parsons 6, Clychau Aberdyfi : Bells of Aberdovey (From the drowned village) 18, Fog on the Tyne: Lindisfarne (Holy Island) |
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07 Jun 02 - 06:07 AM (#725075) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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07 Jun 02 - 10:58 AM (#725256) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Keith A of Hertford 13 The Minch as in Mingerlay song? |
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07 Jun 02 - 11:08 AM (#725263) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Les from Hull 9 must refer to Manchester Rambler, so probably Manchester. |
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07 Jun 02 - 11:11 AM (#725266) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Declan 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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07 Jun 02 - 11:15 AM (#725269) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Les from Hull 16 - Farewll to Tarwathie (adieu MormonD Hill - very clever) |
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07 Jun 02 - 11:23 AM (#725274) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Keith A of Hertford 4. (Second attempt) Bristol, for broken crockery ware? |
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07 Jun 02 - 11:40 AM (#725290) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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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07 Jun 02 - 12:03 PM (#725304) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Scabby Douglas That would be Strontian then... Cheers Steven |
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07 Jun 02 - 12:32 PM (#725324) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens POST IN PART II PLEASE |
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07 Jun 02 - 06:41 PM (#725601) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: Noreen RB QUIZ PART II (please click here!) |
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10 Jun 02 - 02:07 AM (#726895) Subject: RE: RB Quiz From: greg stephens 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. |