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Christmas Quizzes 2020–2021

Solution of the Day : 25 December


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1
 

This musician is heard on each of the three Gary Brooker studio albums, but not singing, nor playing the piano.
 

Tim Renwick, guitar, features on all three albums. The question and the answer start with the same letter, so competitors were able to discount it.
2
 

Identify the ‘Japanese chap’ who grafted string parts on to Nothing But the Truth on Procol’s 1974 album.
 

Chris Thomas: information available in this liner note
3
 

Three Procol Harum albums, interestingly enough, were released in years that are prime numbers; name the title-track of one of them.
 

Grand Hotel (1973) is the answer … the other possibilities – The Well’s on Fire (2003) and Novum (2017) – two don’t have title-tracks.

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The (scarcely) hidden name in the title
of this very silly newspaper-clipping is
Don Snow
The number of letters separating forename and surname is 6, and the sixth letters in the qualifying questions are G and E

GE

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