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17 Aug 03 - 11:07 AM (#1003582) Subject: BS: A Watery Quiz From: The Walrus 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 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. |
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17 Aug 03 - 01:50 PM (#1003625) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: Manitas_at_home Whoopsthatshouldbe(ohnoyoudon't!) Damn!myspacebarseemstohavedisappeared
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 |
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18 Aug 03 - 06:45 AM (#1003915) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: Hrothgar Well said, Joe Clone - though I could have used some help. Only 14 answers, and I'm sure one of them is wrong. Urrk! |
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18 Aug 03 - 08:57 AM (#1003976) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: Jeri 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. |
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18 Aug 03 - 09:21 AM (#1003995) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: Snuffy Well I've sent in an answer to all except No. 6, but there's a lot I'm not sure of. WassaiL! V |
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18 Aug 03 - 08:46 PM (#1004324) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: SINSULL No "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"? |
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18 Aug 03 - 08:56 PM (#1004329) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: LadyJean Where's Monongahela Sal? |
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19 Aug 03 - 05:31 AM (#1004504) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: The Walrus 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 |
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20 Aug 03 - 04:03 AM (#1005081) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: The Walrus Am I to take it there is no interest in this? Walrus |
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20 Aug 03 - 07:49 AM (#1005124) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: greg stephens 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? |
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20 Aug 03 - 08:47 AM (#1005151) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: Jeri Maybe, Greg, but I might have ffound the answer. |
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21 Aug 03 - 03:57 PM (#1006052) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: The Walrus 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 |
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25 Aug 03 - 08:24 AM (#1007720) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: The Walrus If anyone is interested, the answers are in the SQ2 thread. Walrus |
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25 Aug 03 - 02:36 PM (#1007881) Subject: RE: BS: A Watery Quiz From: Nigel Parsons Answers @ SQ2 Nigel |