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Christmas Quizzes 2020–2021

Solution of the Day : 27 December


There was nothing too problematic here, unless you jumped to a quick conclusion!

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Disarmingly frank, this organist told BtP that he left Procol after ‘a small tussle’ with Gary Brooker over a piece of Bach-like writing.
 

Don Snow. The question and the answer start with the same letter, so competitors were able to discount it. The anecdote in question is here
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In the songs Cerdes (Outside the Gates of), Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone), Fires (Which Burnt Brightly) and Whaling Stories Keith Reid mentions various members of the same musical instrument ‘family’: are they blown, plucked or strummed?
 

Blown ... the instruments are flugelhorn, bugle and trumpet
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All these songs – The Emperor’s New Clothes, Sister Mary, Fools Gold, Fresh Fruit and Too Much Between Us – mention one particular human body-part; find a song from the Grand Hotel album that could be added to the list.
 

Toujours l’Amour: the organ in question is 'heart'

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The (scarcely) hidden name in the title
of this very annoying newspaper-clipping is
Tim Renwick
The number of letters separating forename and surname is 13, and the thirteenth letters in the qualifying questions are F and F

GEOFF

 


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