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Christmas Quizzes 2017–2018

Question of the Day (solved): 4 January


Useful resources
 
  Ports of Europe | International Ornamental Breads and Pastries Index | Capital cities of the world  | 2017 tour statistics
 
Tonight's topic is  
Places
 
The answer is  


Manchester Pordenone Copenhagen Edinburgh Helsinki Katowice Bristol Veruno Mainz Paris Essen Odense
 


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

Q11a
 
 


Write the names of a dozen places where Procol Harum audiences heard the words 'where ships come home to die' sung during a set of XXI songs, during their Fiftieth Anniversary tour
Sadly there were no concerts of that length

 

Q11b  


Set down a list of all the ports (eg Liverpool, Hamburg) Procol Harum played in MMXVII, in any order you like
Are Liverpool and Hamburg on the list?

 

Q11c  


Prepare a list of all the capital cities (eg Paris, London) where Procol played in MMXVII, in any order you like
Is London on the list?

 

Q11d  


List all the places Procol Harum played in MMXVII, arranging the names from longest word to shortest word
Essen is shorter than Odense ... just an example

 

Q11e  

List all the places Procol Harum played in MMXVII that have a kind of ornamental bread named after them (eg Bristol bun, Berliner doughnut, Odense mouse-loaf, Parisian andouillette, and so on)
Mouse-loaf? Andouillette is a kind of sausage. This is a time-waster, innit?

 

Q11f  

Find the names of a dozen places where Procol Harum played in MMXVII which, when joined by a pencil line on the map of Europe, result in a perfect, or very nearly perfect, dodecahedron
A dodecahedron is a 3D shape. A map is 2D. So this isn't the right question

 

Q11g  

Draw up a list that shows the names of a dozen places where Procol Harum played during their Fiftieth Anniversary tour, such that each placename has at least one immediately adjacent neighbour in the list that shares its PNV (PNV means ‘placename value’ and you work it out by converting each letter in the placename to a number, using the handy conversion table here, then adding up the numbers) ... keep a clear head and a steady eye
It will take just a few moments to prove this is the question that relates to the list of places. And it also introduces the 'PNV' idea which, if you apply it later on in relation to the reference to Milan and Rome, will immediately give you the answer to the whole puzzle


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