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Christmas Quizzes 2018–2019

Solution of the Day : 27 December



3 Q


Moving Procol ballad originating in the 1990s, which re-uses a line from the band’s début hit, and quotes the title of a substantial ABBA chart single from 1980.

'I wandered through my playing-cards' and 'the winner takes it all'

Thekingofhearts
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3 x m
 


3 U


Name the freshly-released track (by Keith Reid and Matt Noble) whose title-phrase is heard fifteen times and which features the words ‘With so many lawyers the truth’s hard to find; was he excluded, or simply deluded, or merely a blind man leading the blind?’.

Thetrialofthecentury
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11 x n
 


3 I


Rocking seven-inch Sixties’ B-side performed in Rome by PH at their first concert featuring drummer Geoff Dunn.

The 'b' side of A Salty Dog

Longgonegeek
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10 x r
 

The letter-pairs started in positions 3, 10 and 11 in each song-title, and were therefore ek, he, ea, et, ft, th, ng, ee, ek

The one letter-pair that appears twice is 'ek'
 


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