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Aarhus |
Hebrew translation |
Procol cat |
Florida |
Egg marketing
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Tonight's topic is |
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A question of
interpretation
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The answer is |
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MIAM
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Choose the question below that is most applicable to the
answer above. Make a note of the Question Number
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Q04a |
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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
| The memorable
performance was the six-man 'Grand Hotel' on
8 June ... but
there's no such institute |
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Q04b |
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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’)
| The Latin is
correct, but the geography is not: Aarhus is not an
island, entire unto itself; and that is not its
motto |
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Q04c |
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Translate, into Hebrew, ‘I, I am the only one’
| Piffle. Wrong
alphabet, for a start |
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Q04d |
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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
| Sense takes a dive
at the end of this sentence ... |
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Q04e |
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How would you spell the noise made by Siamese cats such as
the one Procol Harum is named after?
| Procol Harum are
named after a Burmese cat, not a Siamese |
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Q04f |
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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?
| Matilde Isabella
Arenholt Mosekjaer sang with PH twice, but only on
one song. The name probably has lots of interesting
anagrams but we haven't looked into that. Anyway,
this is the correct question for the answer
specified |
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