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Christmas Quizzes 2017–2018

Question of the Day : 28 December


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  Acronyms | Southend-on-Sea | Aarhus | Hebrew translation | Procol cat | Florida | Egg marketing
 
Tonight's topic is  
A question of interpretation
 
The answer is  
MIAM
 

Choose the question below that is most applicable to the answer above. Make a note of the Question Number
 
Q04a
 
 


Write down the official acronym for Member of the Institute of Advanced Musicians (in Southend-on-Sea), one of whose former gentleman students took the tally of Procol players up to six for a memorable performance of just one Brooker/Reid tune during the period of the Procol Fiftieth Anniversary Tour
 

Q04b  


What are the initials of the motto of the Danish island of Aarhus, which reads miles inops ad mare
(Latin for ‘a soldier is helpless at sea’)
 

Q04c  


Translate, into Hebrew, ‘I, I am the only one’
 

Q04d  


Tell us the US postal abbreviation for ‘Miami’ (the town in Florida, America), where the nephew of Novum’s producer once considered buying shares in a part-time egg-shop
 

Q04e  


How would you spell the noise made by Siamese cats such as the one Procol Harum is named after?
 

Q04f  


Give the initials of a musician, heard onstage performing just one Brooker and Reid tune during the Procol Fiftieth Anniversary Tour, whose image is revealed at ‘Beyond the Pale’ by following three links (here, here and here) – marvellous, no?
 


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