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Christmas Quizzes 2020–2021

Solution of the Day : 28 December


The emphasis on Brooker solo albums in this year's questions, of course, reflected the juiciest prizes on offer.

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‘Merely a blind man leading the blind’: which Procol collaborator composed the music for those Keith Reid words?
 

Matt Noble. The question and the answer start with the same letter, so competitors were able to discount it. The song words are here
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Look carefully at the letters of ‘Beg me, bite me, horny me, suit me groovy’, then rearrange them to make the title of a Gary Brooker solo number; having solved the anagram, make a note of the proper title’s second word; then, find all the other songs on his three studio solo albums that feature that same brief syllable as the second word in their titles … and finally, your answer is the shortest of those titles.
 

Let Me In. The song in the anagram is Give me Something to Remember You By. The question and the answer start with the same letter, so competitors were able to discount it.
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Using just one word, give the real forename of the Scotsman Procol dubbed ‘Milord Carlsberg’?
 

Jock! The liner-note containing the info is here

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The (scarcely) hidden name in the title
of this very unpleasant newspaper-clipping is
Matt Noble.
The number of letters separating forename and surname is 7, and the seventh letter in the qualifying question is R

GEOFFR

 

 


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