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Quiz Six 2005/6 Season Answers

Palace Admits Prince Charles is Gay

What The Bible Says About Abortion

Meatheads, Slobs and Pencil Necked Geeks

Food Spirits and Calorie Demons

Where in the world is this?

Paris, France.

Definitely Paris. I recognised the Opera House at first glance. Any Gran Turismo 4 players will know that very well even if they've never been to Paris.

Owl

It sounds like a rather desperate begging letter. Lyrically it was recorded partially in a response to a challenge from the sinister bassist's Aunt Lillian. The bass part of the recording used a loudspeaker as a microphone to allow unprecedented power. Why can't this make a clean film?

It won't make a clean film because it's "the dirty story of a dirty man". Paperback Writer by the Beatles was apparently written after Paul McCartney's aunt challenged him to write a song about something other than relationships. It takes the form of a begging letter from an author to a publisher about his new book, which took him years to write. Paul (who plays bass left-handed, hence 'sinister') used the speaker-as-microphone trick to produce a very heavy bass sound for the song.

Owl

What is this?

Consolidated B-24 J Liberator.

Someone like Elvis, someone like Elton John, a homosexual or someone who favours Elton John, a bird and someone who'd probably like to be one. (A red one rather than a black one).

What is the link?

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*Someone like Elvis - a KING

*someone like Elton John - a KNIGHT

*a homosexual or someone who favours Elton John - a QUEEN (synonym for a homosexual or the Queen of England who made Elton John a KNIGHT)

*a bird - a ROOK

*someone who'd probably like to be one. (A red one rather than a black one) - a BISHOP would probably aspire to be a Cardinal - a type of bird.

The link is that these are all CHESS PIECES.

I could be a black Canadian and my mother liked to tell stories. Who am I? The hint for this question is in the answer, but I wouldn't want to double you.

Owl

A goose. Canada is a species of Black Goose, Mother Goose told stories and Anser is the scientific name for Grey Geese.

What connects the following cities to a popular breakfast treat?

New Orleans, Louisiana
Cincinnati, Ohio
Portsmouth, England
Bath, England
Singapore

Dadge

The link between the five places is the crescent shape. It appears on the flag of Singapore and the coat of arms of Portsmouth. Bath is famous for its crescent terraces, such as Royal Crescent, and New Orleans is known as the Crescent City. The town of Crescent Springs is actually in Kentucky, but forms part of the metropolitan area of Cincinnati, Ohio.

A popular breakfast treat is the croissant, a crescent-shaped puff pastry and also the French word for crescent.

Owl

The Cincinatti Crescents was also a Negro League/barnstorming baseball team in the forties.

He spoke for his country to an evil empire, and was a big cheese in Daddy's firm. What was circular about his daring innovation?

awaldock

Thomas J Watson Jr. was the US ambassador to the Soviet Union (Oct '79 - Jan '81). He also ran IBM, founded by his father, from 1956-71, risking the future of the company by introducing the non-backward-compatible System /360. There are 360 degrees in a circle.

In my trusty old dictionary between a stoned fruit and to walk up and down I find a partially fossilized fuel; a trifling misdeed; an American mammal of the order Artiodactyla; a couple of gallons you can't drink; complaining; in disorder; a form of preserved meat; a tool designed for cutting feathers; a particular number of old books and a once precious seed.

Can you find at least five birds here?

Between peach and perambulate you find: peat; peccadillo; peck; peccary; peevish; pell-mell; pemmican; penknife; Pentateuch; pepper.
Birdwise: peacock, peahen, pecker, peeper, peetweet, peewit, peggy, pekan, pelican, pen, and penguin.

awaldock

Two former ladies of a lippy guy, a sweet transsexual and three other girls, one only desiring a pleasant time, one oblivious to her possessions until later & 1, by comparison had no value, all gathered, with many others, where and when?

Publius

By the way, where did he put his Mars bar?

The concert "Roger Waters' The Wall : Live In Berlin" attracted an audience 0f 250,000+ and included:

Marianne Faithfull (former girlfriend of Mick Jagger)
Jerry Hall (former wife of Mick Jagger)
Tim Curry (Dr. Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Cyndi Lauper ("Girls Just Want To Have Fun")
Joni Mitchell

Sinéad O'Connor ("Nothing Compares 2 U")

The precise placement of the Mars bar is a Faithfully guarded secret.

awaldock

The one oblivious to her possessions until later is Joni Mitchell, for her classic song Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away the D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard my screen door slam
and a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

I said don't it always seem to go
that you dont know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Saturday 21st July 1990, Berlin.

*By the way, where did he put his Mars bar? - Referring to a scandalous raid on Keith Richards' Redlands estate in which newspapers claimed police "had interrupted an orgy of cunnilingus in which Jagger had been licking a Mars bar pushed into Marianne's [Faithfull] vagina..."

The answer here is actually unclear. She denies it (claiming the whole story was made up), Jagger has never commented, and police records are ambiguous. Although a clever anagram found on the net (and modified by me) purports that:

"Marianne Faithfull, British singer -> I ate Mars Bar. Finish. Full, then I grin"

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When he wasn't nodding off he buggered about baking, boozing, making scurrilous allegations about the fruit of the Castanea sativa tree and outrageous claims about punctuation. What was his grandson's name?

The answer is SCOTT EVIL.

Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies describes his own father:

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... very well, where do i begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie (BAKING) owner from Belgium with a low grade narcolepsy (NODDING OFF) and a penchant for buggery (BUGGERED). My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink (BOOZING). He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark (PUNCTUATION). Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts (CASTANEA SATIVA) of being lazy ..."

And Scott Evil is Dr. Evil's son.

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