Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

Christmas Quiz 2015 – 2016

The handsome prizes!

Each year at Christmas, following the Scandinavian custom, BtP sets twelve days of Procol puzzles which great numbers of the band's adherents follow with much interest and merriment ... at the end of the trail is typically a tiny answer, which you send in by e-mail to the webmasters, to win one (or more?) of the prizes below. The puzzles start on Christmas Day.

We've come up with something this year (all will be revealed soon) which ... all the information is at 'Beyond the Pale', the only Procol Harum work of reference you'll need.

This year's fine freebies are, we trust you'll agree, quite as covetable as those from 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 or 2015: special thanks to Procol Harum and all the other kind donors. Click here, in due time, to view the schedule of winners

A	Esoteric 2CD 'Procol Harum' : remastered with fifteen bonus-tracks and Esoteric 3CD Shine on Brightly : remastered with twenty bonus-tracks (thanks, Vicky)
B	A very interesting item for the Procol/Beatles fan especially, being a spiral-bound A4 140-page compendium of photocopied press-cuttings prepared by Burrelle's for members of Ringo's fifth All-Starr Band (feat. Gary Brooker) following their tour of the USA in 1999 (thanks, Gary)
C	'Giants of Rock' tee-shirt from January 2016, size XL, black cotton printed in red, yellow and purple inks on front and back, whereon 'Procol Harum' is writ large (thanks, Roma Gallow)
D	Excellent 2016 Lemon Twigs début CD album, Do Hollywood, signed by the band ... huge Procol Harum fans as you undoubtedly know (thanks, Papa Twig)
E	Unique 2016 International Procol Convention tee-shirt, red cotton printed in white, size L, signed in black by five members of Procol Harum. The only tee-shirt in this size/colour that was ever made (thanks, Gary, Geoff, Geoff, Josh and Matt)
F	Esoteric 2CD A Salty Dog : remastered with twelve bonus-tracks and Esoteric 2CD Home : remastered with eleven bonus-tracks (thanks, Vicky)
G	A large (13 x 19 inches) colour promo photo of The Well's on Fire line-up, taken in the Brooker barn, and signed in black ink by Brooker, Brzezicki, Fisher, Pegg and Whitehorn (thanks, Franky)
H	Unique 2016 International Procol Convention tee-shirt, red cotton printed in white, size XL, signed in black by five members of Procol Harum. The only tee-shirt in this size/colour that was ever made (thanks, Gary, Geoff, Geoff, Josh and Matt)

Competitors should rank the above prizes in the order they favour them, and send in their preference – all eight letters, please! – with the solution to the puzzles. Your message will look something like: "The five-word answer is [x x x x x] and my prize preferences are GAEBFCDH".

We shall allot the first three prizes on a beat-the-clock basis, where the earliest correct response earns its first choice of prize and so on; after that all subsequent correct entries received in the next 48 hours will be placed in the BtP Homburg and the remaining prize-winners will be drawn by a suitably Glamorous Assistant, all being well.

In the somewhat unlikely event of there being fewer than eight winners, the first people to submit correct answers will get more than their fair share of the prizes!

The quiz starts on Christmas Day and runs through to Twelfth Night. You can join in at any time, if you have a pencil and an internet connection.

How to Play | The solution | Winners | Competitors' comments, good and bad