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Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.

08 Feb 07 - 05:33 PM (#1961676)
Subject: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

Here쳌fs some scrambled British festivals, see if you can solve them:

1.         Clearest

2.         Barmy Rod

3.         Cry Pedro   

4.         Thou dims   

5.         No tingle

6.         Big rough song

7.         Sawtooth Anne   


8.         We dim child


9.         Hot necklace

10.         Hold Steward   

11.         Rio bastards   

12.        Donut brow   

13.         Wee story

14.         Wry brushes   

15.         Own tentacles

16.         True chum Cathy

17.         Rwanda poet

18.         Hostel creep   

19.         Beat us Nero

20.         Metaphors go far


08 Feb 07 - 06:38 PM (#1961738)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Snuffy

I claim 20/20 - answers Pm'd to Mr H


08 Feb 07 - 06:56 PM (#1961752)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: SussexCarole

How about one of our favourites:

Hire The Sow


08 Feb 07 - 07:05 PM (#1961758)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Snuffy

Or some of the smaller festivals?

Skim in
Not up
Or veg
Why bit
Lye
Dale


08 Feb 07 - 07:09 PM (#1961762)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: SussexCarole

Dip dry


08 Feb 07 - 07:15 PM (#1961769)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Crane Driver

Well, I went to 'Last Crane' a couple of years ago - but it's become 'Do Slack Song' now . . .

Raw End


08 Feb 07 - 07:23 PM (#1961771)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: SussexCarole

Great thread Mr Happy - thank you

Ales Cures Sox


08 Feb 07 - 09:25 PM (#1961846)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Bernard

Or...

De fly

Word food (which was formerly Not pony)


09 Feb 07 - 04:05 PM (#1962570)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Bernard

One Droop

Wail Thy Era

Snail Roams


09 Feb 07 - 07:57 PM (#1962740)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

Earthy goncrats ot lal toncributors!

Fy Sun is de mapm!


09 Feb 07 - 08:03 PM (#1962744)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

hoho! na rorre, yorrs.

bovea loudsh yas:

Fy Sun is de mchap!


10 Feb 07 - 06:41 AM (#1963070)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mo the caller

Do you go to HECTERS while I'm enjoying HEP CHIP MAN?


11 Feb 07 - 04:15 AM (#1963781)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

I do ground crew every year at the Retches Kibbutz each Whit Holiday in All Elks!!


11 Feb 07 - 11:08 AM (#1963986)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

A great response from all contributors - well done!

Here쳌fs the answers to scrambled British festivals.

1.        Alcester: clearest

2.        Bromyard: Barmy Rod

3.        Cropredy: Cry Pedro   

4.        Sidmouth: thou dims   

5.        Ingleton: no tingle

6.        Gainsborough: big rough song

7.        Wheaton Aston: Sawtooth Anne   


8.        Middlewich: we dim child


9.        Cleckheaton: hot necklace

10.        Saddleworth: hold steward   

11.        Broadstairs: Rio bastards   

12.        Burntwood: donut brow   

13.        Towersey: wee story

14.        Shrewsbury: wry brushes   

15.        Newcastleton: own tentacles/ cleanest town      

16.        Auchtermuchty: true chum Cathy

17.        Pontardawe: Rwanda   poet

18.        Cleethorpes: hostel creep   

19.        Eastbourne: Beat us Nero

20.        Gosport Fareham: metaphors go far


Here쳌fs some more slightly harder ones:

1.         Doctrine.

2.         The romp.

3.         Vintage fools law.

4.         Foreskin mallet blooper.      

5.         Adroit Latin Hard rum fuels activism.

6.         Effluvia frosts folk loo.

7.         Filthy mis-creative bumblers.

8.         Tactful semi soft villages.

9.         Evil elf behind ear tactics.

10.         Adult tribal man쳌fs travel feather.      

11.         Statistician Hannah joggled tinkerer

12.         Lands fascinate Vivian

13.         Cowled wildfowler sketched sheepskin.


14.         Meg swivels ultrafashionable crusts.

15.         Fakir쳌fs vittles overflow.

16.         Fake Welsh virtuoso.

17.         Me everlasting fan

18.         Infant Elvis vets folktales.

19.         Loftiness unbelievably natural.

20.         Kept heaviest offal.      


Best of luck folks!!


11 Feb 07 - 11:47 AM (#1964013)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Georgiansilver

I would have used the DIM SOUTH for....Thou dims


11 Feb 07 - 01:18 PM (#1964090)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Cats

Anyone coming to 'Fax unshod Don' in May?


11 Feb 07 - 06:30 PM (#1964369)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: SussexCarole

Ales cures sox will be there Cats with River Dancer


11 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM (#1964380)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Georgiansilver

Your anagram of Gainsborough doesn't work..sad to say....could be A ROUGH BI SONG   or..NORAS BIG HUG.....or any more for any more.


11 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM (#1964382)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

you spotted the deliberate mistake - well done!!


11 Feb 07 - 06:47 PM (#1964394)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Mr Happy

btw the alternative was 'hobos arguing'


11 Feb 07 - 07:02 PM (#1964410)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Georgiansilver

Nice one MrH


13 Feb 07 - 05:59 PM (#1966581)
Subject: RE: Quiz: Folk Festival Anagrams.
From: Bernard

Worrabout...

Canal tries Marmite