The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #11

Posted by Worm in General Feb, 15 2011 25 Comments

Here’s this week’s devilishly 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 of regal proportions if you get them all. If you get the link straight off, please don’t give it away too early!

What links the chilly destination of a fictional submarine on a rescue mission, a laughably strange halal meat permitted by some islamic sects,  an unlucky participant of the mutiny on The Grampus, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue?

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

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25 thoughts on “The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #11”

  1. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    February 15, 2011 at 12:54

    Is the first one Ice Station Zebra? I’ve got a few ideas…

  2. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 12:55

    I have a feeling you’ll conquer this one in no time adelephant!

  3. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:10

    Edgar Allen Poe is linked to at least two of them – I think.

  4. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:12

    Ravens – black?

  5. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 13:13

    no ravens were involved in the making of this question Steve!

  6. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 13:42

    and edgar allen poe is not directly involved in the answer

  7. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:47

    Ice Station Zebra, Zebra is halal, orang utan and sailors – zoo animals, er….

  8. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    February 15, 2011 at 13:48

    The unlucky participant in the Grampus mutiny would be the guy who was killed and eaten?

  9. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:50

    murders – put into things – torpedo tubes, chimmneys, tum tums….

  10. stan@stanmadeley.com'
    Stan Madeley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:50

    Is the answer that popular BBC TV comedy ‘Porridge’?

  11. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:51

    ‘laughably’ halal – that’s a hyena then

  12. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 13:58

    Ernest Borgnine links them all. Somehow.

  13. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 13:59

    correct steve!!!

  14. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 14:00

    what, Ernest Borgnine? REALLY?

  15. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    February 15, 2011 at 14:00

    The dog on the Grampus was called Tiger, so that would fit the zoological theme ??

  16. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 14:01

    Muslims eat Ernie? Is there no end to their inhumanity?

  17. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 14:01

    The submarine was ‘Tigerfish’

  18. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    February 15, 2011 at 14:02

    Ah ha – I think I have the answer! The unfortunate sailor is a dog called Tiger? If so the overall answer is also about some sailors, no?

  19. scbuckley178@btinternet.com'
    Steve Buckley
    February 15, 2011 at 14:04

    I said that hours ago! Sailors! I cried.

  20. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 14:04

    the unfortunate sailor is not a dog called tiger!

  21. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 14:05

    but you are very close in a round about kind of way

  22. russellworks@gmail.com'
    ian russell
    February 15, 2011 at 14:05

    is it something to do with pi?

  23. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    February 15, 2011 at 14:06

    Gosh – I thought I had it then – zebra, tiger, hyena and orangutang – all the animals in the boat in Life of Pi. Ah well, back to the drawing board.

  24. Worm
    February 15, 2011 at 14:08

    ian got it first! but now I need a correct description of all the clues in order to fully qualify!

  25. russellworks@gmail.com'
    ian russell
    February 15, 2011 at 14:18

    I relied a lot on the answers already given.

    Parker was the Grampus mutineer. Richard Parker was the name of Pi’s tiger.

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