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Christmas Quizzes 2018–2019

Solution of the Day : 30 December



6
N


Which slow track, with words and music by an erstwhile Procol Harum organist, laments that ‘when you know that something's wrong it's all too easy to play along’?

Takingtheeasywayout
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8 x w
 


6 E


On 26 May 2016 Procol’s recital at Zoetermeer featured offerings from nine PH albums; later that night, at the BtP Convention, The Commander returned to the album most visited in the foregoing concert, and gave his world première with the Palers’ Band – of which song?

The album was The Prodigal Stranger, the song was ...

Thepursuitofhappiness
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17 x o
 


6 S


Which song (credited, on 2009’s All This and More compilation, to writers Brooker / Fisher / Reid) contains the words ‘humming harder’, ‘looking-glass’, ‘mermaid’, ‘overcoat’ and ‘ceiling flew away’?

All the quoted words are present in A Whiter Shade of Pale except for 'overcoat'

LasttraintoNiagara
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5 x o
 

The letter-pairs started in positions 5, 8 and 17 in each song-title, and were therefore ng, he, ou, ur, ui, in, tr, in, ar

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


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