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Old 03-12-2007, 02:05 PM
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Every year, my design agency sends me a Christmas card with a quiz that one of their directors (chap I consider a friend of mine) devises.

It consists of 50 cryptic clues to bands or artists (music) names, For the past three years I've managed - with the help of my father-in-law to get all of them right, and last year we won the draw. Anyway, this years arrived in the post this morning and I wondered if you would like me to post the questions on here just for fun (if the mods don't mind that is...), you could then pm me your answers on a chosen date, and hopefully if I have all the answers myself, I'll pick a "winner" at random.

Example: Little visages - Small Faces. That kinda thing (that's not one of this years questions by the way.)

Let me know the general consensus (with mods permission).
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Could be fun - always looking for ways to keep my brain working.
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Old 03-12-2007, 02:21 PM
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Go on Wayne -I certainly fancy having a go at that one. Love quizzes and misic so, I'll probably be my usual rubbish then?!
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Old 03-12-2007, 02:25 PM
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I'd give it a go if you're allowed Wayne. I'm not too hot on those cryptic type of things though, someone posted a similar one about flowers & plants on another forum & it took me ages to work them out & there were 2 that I just couldn't get however hard I tried but they were really obvious when I saw the answers, one question was 'ground cover for a band' & the answer was 'bugle'.
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Old 03-12-2007, 02:35 PM
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Old 03-12-2007, 02:47 PM
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OK, here we go (mods, remove if you deem necessary).

I'll have to give you the first answer because it relates to the image on the front of the card.
  1. Name the band on the cover - The Hollies
  2. Scandalous chat
  3. Fruit spirit
  4. Adjudicate the lighter
  5. A saint, a rogue and Liz
  6. Catch Robbie
  7. Terns, terns and more terns
  8. Cartilage is pulsating
  9. Izzard the narrator
  10. Sweet sheets of glass
  11. A vicar with the producers
  12. Small Australian marsupials
  13. Burning covered passageway
  14. Not with Jill, then?
  15. Leader writers
  16. Boasting goat?
  17. Battle Sirius
  18. Trio from a sweet home
  19. Clothiers with nothing in them?
  20. Invoice dries up
  21. Offspring of T-rex?
  22. Unreliable or not strictly legal
  23. Current allowance
  24. Lad gets radioactive dust
  25. Duches with a black eye?
  26. This president and ex-president
  27. Breadmaker is redhead
  28. This man's name is Ratner
  29. Large room and a crop
  30. Chinook lass
  31. Romeo's girl uses her tongue
  32. Aviator Johnson has home for the Merlot
  33. eg: a screwdriver or hammer
  34. Feast saint is good on guitar neck
  35. Headless kitchen-maker is not soft
  36. Hell's Angels turn dark with Dean
  37. A pal's undertaking
  38. Lebanese capital
  39. Children born in American-Russian post-war "relationship"
  40. Over and out for the almanac
  41. Vindaloo is on the line!
  42. Shelter has itchy pear juice
  43. Janis Mayfield
  44. The No.1 menace to society
  45. Stealin' the toothpaste manufacturer
  46. Band from North London prison
  47. Sounds like a medical cart
  48. Milk jelly
  49. Lower foreparts of legs
  50. Marilyn is feeling dull

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Blimey, one fried brain - are they obscure (or am I just really dense today)?
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So am I on the right lines with 'Talk Talk' for number 2?
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Old 03-12-2007, 04:08 PM
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Nope. Think about the scandalous bit a little more....
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i love these kind of things, havn't done one in years though, we used to get one at work every year to but person who organised it moved jobs No. 20 had me laughing out loud, the OH thinks i've lost the plot now!
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The only one i have a slight clue about is no 16 billy brag
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The only one i have a slight clue about is no 16 billy brag
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Love the idea, struggling with the questions. Hampered by the fact that I'm of mature years and don't know a lot of the modern bands. Will try, however.
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Love the idea, struggling with the questions. Hampered by the fact that I'm of mature years and don't know a lot of the modern bands. Will try, however.
Thats why i can only think of one getting old dont have many benefits jacob
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Thats why i can only think of one getting old dont have many benefits jacob
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42, Lee Scratch Perry ????? http://www.snwmf.com/festivalbios/2K...leescratch.jpg
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9, Eddy Reader ?????
22, Dodgy ??????
44, Public Enemy No 1 ?????
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number 7 The Byrds ??
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aren't we meant to be doing this alone then PM answers to HW?
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