The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #8

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.

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22 thoughts on “The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #8

  1. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    January 26, 2011 at 13:05

    Is the link [censored]?

    • Brit
      January 26, 2011 at 13:09

      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!

  2. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    January 26, 2011 at 13:15

    Fag advert? Drag coefficient? Race car, fast car? Oh, I don’t know.

  3. Brit
    January 26, 2011 at 13:45

    One right one in there, Steve.

  4. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    January 26, 2011 at 14:07

    Racecar.

    And a Mr Nol (or is it Mr Lon?). I never know which way round those names go …

    • Brit
      January 26, 2011 at 14:23

      You’re a canny one, JL.

  5. finalcurtain@gmail.com'
    mahlerman
    January 26, 2011 at 14:46

    Symphony 47 in G major?
    Or is it ‘anal sex at noon taxes Lana’?

    • Brit
      January 26, 2011 at 15:07

      Please, Mahlerman, this is a family blog.

      But yes, you’re correct.

  6. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    January 26, 2011 at 15:14

    Not many takers this week: a mega gem of a comp.

  7. Brit
    January 26, 2011 at 15:17

    Mum‘s the word….

  8. mcrean@snowpetrel.net'
    Mark
    January 26, 2011 at 15:22

    Would the Corsican’s reported lament be connected with an asylum named after a saint?

    • Brit
      January 26, 2011 at 15:25

      Ah no I think you’re thinking of the other one, Mark.

      Does anyone reckon they’ve got all the answers?

  9. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    January 26, 2011 at 15:41

    01/02/2010

    Able was I ere I saw Elba.

  10. Brit
    January 26, 2011 at 15:42

    Ok they’ve all been got except the android.

    I’m witholding the full answer til someone gets that or you all give up…

  11. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    January 26, 2011 at 15:53

    I am A.I.

  12. Brit
    January 26, 2011 at 15:59

    Clever, Adelephant, but it’s not AI. Why the mermaid?

  13. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    January 26, 2011 at 16:00

    I was thinking of the end of the film, where he lives underwater – bit tenuous I admit.

  14. Brit
    January 26, 2011 at 16:04

    You’re on the right track with cinema…

  15. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    January 26, 2011 at 16:41

    How about:
    From I Robot to Borimorf

    Borimorf is, of course, the famous mermaid in the 4th book of The Lord of the Rings.

  16. Brit
    January 26, 2011 at 16:43

    That’s so good I’m giving you a bonus cream bun.*

    (*of the imaginary kind)

  17. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    January 26, 2011 at 16:58

    Oh hold on… is it Daryl Hannah?
    Hannah played an android in Bladerunner, and a mermaid in Splash.

    • Brit
      January 26, 2011 at 17:00

      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.

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