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Christmas Quizzes 2020–2021

Solution of the Day : 26 December


Sometimes the puzzle questions shone a beam of inquiry into the more cobwebby corners of the 'Beyond the Pale'; otherwhen, they illuminated patterns that had always been in clear view.

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Improbable but true: this late, lamented Procol drummer first rehearsed with the band in a smoke-filled tortilla factory.
 

Ian Wallace: the relevant liner-note is here. The question and the answer start with the same letter, so competitors were able to discount it.
5
 

Find a six-letter word that occurs in the titles of two songs on consecutive Gary Brooker solo studio albums.
 

Flying (No More Fear of Flying, Low Flying Birds). The question and the answer start with the same letter, so competitors were able to discount it.
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Identify the song, heard live on an Esoteric Procol reissue, which is described in the liner-note essay as a ‘speeded-up cartoon of feline misrule in a turbulent penitentiary’.
 

Long Gone Geek: the relevant liner-note is here

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The (scarcely) hidden name in the title
of this very morbid newspaper-clipping is
Keith Reid
The number of letters separating forename and surname is 6, and the sixth letters in the qualifying questions is O

GEO

 


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