The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #7

Nige poses this week’s fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question  (see the previous ones and their solutions here). As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun if you get them all.

Here’s the question then:

What links a playwright who broke the sprint record at Hackney Downs Boys’ School to a pal of Bertie’s with a Murdoch-style nickname; a butterfly syndrome; and miscellaneous one-hit wonders from the Sixties?

Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.

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Cravat-Wearer of the Year Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, is a founder blogger of The Dabbler and has been a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on Nigeness, and (for now) a wholly owned subsidiary of NigeCorp. His principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures.

49 thoughts on “The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #7

  1. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:35

    Is it white horses?

    • Brit
      January 18, 2011 at 12:39

      Alas no.

  2. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    January 18, 2011 at 12:37

    Well… Pinter was the sprinter…

  3. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:39

    Harold Pinter
    Rupert
    Peeling skin
    Dave Clark Five

    uh?

    • Brit
      January 18, 2011 at 12:40

      One out of four, Steve. You’re both right about Pinter.

  4. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    January 18, 2011 at 12:43

    All Bertie’s pals had silly nick-names. Stinker? Tuppy?

  5. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:43

    mmmmm . ‘In a Gadda Da Vida?’

  6. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:46

    Did they all have it away with that woman with the big lips who writes the boring books?

  7. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:47

    Oh, hang on, I think I’m getting it. Jagger? Longford?

  8. Brit
    January 18, 2011 at 12:48

    Keep going Steve, it’s fascinating watching your synapses in action. Miles off so far…

  9. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:54

    Butterfly syndrome – like when you have a . . . . er . . . . . what am I doing here?

  10. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:54

    erm . . . . short attention span?

  11. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 12:58

    Is the answer ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’?

  12. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:00

    Is the answer ‘bingo’, as in the game?

  13. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:01

    ah…Murdoch…this is something to do with stinks, aint it?

  14. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:02

    Right, I have to go and teach. I’ll set them some work and will be back soon.

  15. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:03

    CRICKET! THE ANSWER’S CRICKET!

    • Brit
      January 18, 2011 at 13:10

      Are you back from teaching already or was that another parting shot (in the dark)?

      Not even close I’m afraid, though Pinter was a keen cricketer.

  16. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 13:09

    Genius work, Steve! No actual answers, but the Murdoch lead is worth following…

  17. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:11

    Hang on – is this something to do with declining honours? Pinter did, Woodehouse did, Bowie did. Er…..

  18. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:13

    They all got laid by Arthur Askey?

  19. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 13:36

    Bob Lind?

  20. andrewnixon@blueyonder.co.uk'
    January 18, 2011 at 13:44

    Bob Lind and David Bowie got laid by Arthur Askey? Libellous!

    You and Adelephant have both been in the right area re: Bertie’s pal….

  21. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    January 18, 2011 at 14:07

    Pure guess, but could the Murdochian nickname be Sunny or Sonny? Either that or Foxy …

    • andrewnixon@blueyonder.co.uk'
      January 18, 2011 at 14:22

      Fraid not, JL. Adelephant actually mentioned the correct nickname up at the top.

  22. Worm
    January 18, 2011 at 14:30

    butterfly syndrome – epidermolysis bullosa?

  23. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    January 18, 2011 at 14:49

    Ahh. Harold ‘Stinker’ Pinker, penniless curate of Somewhere-on-the-Wold

  24. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 14:50

    And with the 60s one hit wonders, note that ‘miscellaneous’…

  25. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 14:51

    Jonathan – you have it! Curate of Market Snodsbury. So that’s Pinter, Pinker…

  26. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 15:00

    Naylor, Pie?

  27. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 15:20

    Steve – as ever your answers are so much better than the real ones…

  28. Brit
    January 18, 2011 at 15:21

    No, Steve, but with “Pinter, Pinker, Naylor, Pie” you’re thinking along the right lines in terms of the general answer, only you’ve been too clever. It’s less complex than that.

  29. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 16:25

    the Lemon Pipers!

  30. andrewnixon@blueyonder.co.uk'
    January 18, 2011 at 16:39

    No but funny you should mention a colour, Steve.

    Two clues:

    The butterfly syndrome is nothing to do with insect illness

    The one-hit wonders had some reflected glory in 1965.

  31. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 16:46

    Is the answer Frank Cooper’s Oxford Preserves?

  32. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 16:48

    Yes, Cooper’s Ginger Preserve. Pinter used to get Antonia to smear him with it from head to foot whilst he read Wodehouse in the bath and she sang Bob Lind’s ‘Elusive Butterfly of Love.’ Sorted. Prize.

  33. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 16:51

    Steve, this is getting better and better – hats off to you for your unrivalled knowledge of the home life of the Pinters!
    Meanwhile, here’s another Butterfly clue – think operatically…

  34. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 16:51

    Pinter, Pinker, Pucini . . . . . . Puce?

  35. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    steve buckley
    January 18, 2011 at 16:54

    PINTER, PINKER, PUCINI, PURPLE

  36. johngjobling@googlemail.com'
    malty
    January 18, 2011 at 17:01

    “I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You can’t beat the greatest because I am Muhammad Ali”
    The syndrome is clay related, Bee’s, wasn’t ‘Taste of Honey’ a one hit wonder person’s song,

    Anyone know where I can get a dentists appointment inside of 3 months?

  37. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 17:07

    Carshalton any good to you Malty?

  38. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 17:08

    Oh and Steve’s Puccini is right – come on, you’re nearly there…

  39. johngjobling@googlemail.com'
    malty
    January 18, 2011 at 17:11

    Puccini is spot on but who is P

  40. johngjobling@googlemail.com'
    malty
    January 18, 2011 at 17:11

    ucini?

  41. mcrean@snowpetrel.net'
    Mark
    January 18, 2011 at 17:24

    Pinkerton and Pin Ups?

  42. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    January 18, 2011 at 17:27

    Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly. Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours had a hit with ‘Mirror, Mirror’.

    But please, please feel free to continue, Steve.

  43. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 17:28

    Very close Mark – Pinkerton is right – so Pinter, Pinker, Pinkerton (but why?)… So who are the one-hit wonders?

  44. nigeandrew@gmail.com'
    January 18, 2011 at 17:30

    Jonathan, you have it – congratulations! But what about the syndrome element?

  45. johngjobling@googlemail.com'
    malty
    January 18, 2011 at 17:32

    Scaffold

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