Here’s 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. This is one where you might get the link straight away. If so, please don’t give it away too early!
Here’s the question then:
What connects the second of January last year in America with: a Haydn symphony, an android who became a mermaid, an F1 vehicle, a Cambodian Prime Minister, and, reportedly, a Corsican’s lament?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Is the link [censored]?
Yes it is Steve, well done.
But as it says in the post – please don’t give it away too early!
However, feel free to prove your cleverness by drip-feeding a few of the answers. Subtlety appreciated!
Fag advert? Drag coefficient? Race car, fast car? Oh, I don’t know.
One right one in there, Steve.
Racecar.
And a Mr Nol (or is it Mr Lon?). I never know which way round those names go …
You’re a canny one, JL.
Symphony 47 in G major?
Or is it ‘anal sex at noon taxes Lana’?
Please, Mahlerman, this is a family blog.
But yes, you’re correct.
Not many takers this week: a mega gem of a comp.
Mum‘s the word….
Would the Corsican’s reported lament be connected with an asylum named after a saint?
Ah no I think you’re thinking of the other one, Mark.
Does anyone reckon they’ve got all the answers?
01/02/2010
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Ok they’ve all been got except the android.
I’m witholding the full answer til someone gets that or you all give up…
I am A.I.
Clever, Adelephant, but it’s not AI. Why the mermaid?
I was thinking of the end of the film, where he lives underwater – bit tenuous I admit.
You’re on the right track with cinema…
How about:
From I Robot to Borimorf
Borimorf is, of course, the famous mermaid in the 4th book of The Lord of the Rings.
That’s so good I’m giving you a bonus cream bun.*
(*of the imaginary kind)
Oh hold on… is it Daryl Hannah?
Hannah played an android in Bladerunner, and a mermaid in Splash.
Brilliant!
Well done, that proved the tricky bit, you can never be sure which ones are the stumpers. I thought ‘race car’ would get you all.