Christmas Quizzes 2017–2018

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

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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

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