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Christmas Quiz 2018 – 2019

 The όber-droolworthy prizes ... CDs, tee-shirts, books, signed items !


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.

The twelve days of Christmas will simply involve thinking about song-titles, mostly by Procol Harum, with a handful from members' or past members' solo projects: the information required is here at 'Beyond the Pale', the only Procol Harum work of reference you'll ever need.

This year's fine freebies are, we trust you'll agree, every bit the equal of anything from 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017: special thanks to Procol Harum, Esoteric Records and Mark Powell, Rockville Records and Manfred Ploetz, Geoff Whitehorn, Keith Reid, and George Lovell. Click here, in due time, to view the schedule of winners


A
 


Esoteric expanded remastered re-release of Grand Hotel with five bonus tracks, DVD of a 1973 TV broadcast, replica booklet and a lavishly-detailed liner note essay illustrated with photographic and other graphic material (thanks, Mark)
 


B
 


Procol Harum 'Still There'll be More' 2018 tour teeshirt in slate gray cotton with white ink, size 2XL with tour dates on the back
(thanks, Procol Harum)
 


C
 


Solo album In My Head (2018) from the KRP, signed with a message by Keith Reid
(thanks, Keith and Manfred)
 


D


Esoteric explanded remastered re-release of Exotic Birds and Fruit with two bonus tracks, two additional discs featuring live radio concerts from March 1974 (London) and 5 July 1974 (Dallas), and a lavishly-detailed liner note essay illustrated with photographic and other graphic material
(thanks, Mark)
 


E


A set of nickel-on-steel guitar strings (RotoSound reds: 11, 14, 18, 28w, 38w, 48w) new in a packet signed by Geoff Whitehorn, and a number of spare strings of similar spec, played twice on the 2018 tour, and likewise in a signed packet!
(thanks, Geoff)
 


G


Procol Harum 'Still There'll be More' 2018 tour teeshirt in slate gray cotton with white ink, size XL with tour dates on the back
(thanks, Procol Harum)
 


I


Esoteric expanded remastered re-release of Procol's Ninth with eight bonus tracks from the album sessions (five of which are previously unreleased), two previously-unreleased 1975 concert recordings from New Jersey and from Leicester University UK, and a lavishly-detailed liner note essay illustrated with photographic and other graphic material
(thanks, Mark)
 


L


Two amusing and poignant George Lovell paperbacks about Procol Harum in live concert ... The Crowd Called out for More and The Waiter Brought a Tray
(thanks, George)
 


M


Procol Harum 'Still There'll be More' 2018 tour teeshirt in slate gray cotton with white ink, size Large with tour dates on the back
(thanks, Procol Harum)
 


N


Esoteric remastered re-release of Live in Edmonton with
five bonus tracks (two previously unreleased) and a lavishly-detailed liner note essay illustrated with photographic and other graphic material (thanks, Mark)
 


R
 


An ultra-rare b/w signed photograph of Gary Brooker performing live – on keytar! – at an early Band du Lac gig
(thanks, Franky)
 


S


Procol Harum 'Still There'll be More' 2018 tour teeshirt in slate gray cotton with white ink, size Medium with tour dates on the back
(thanks, Procol Harum)
 


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

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 a dozen 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. Best to play on your PC or laptop ... could get eyestrain if you try to do it on a phone.


How to play | The solution | Winners | First question


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