A solo (and therefore all the more prized) cream bun for Worm this week. At last I’ve stumped JL and Adelephant! Click continue below if you give up…
Earlier we asked the 14th Round Blogworld questions, namely:
What links a ‘Mountain Angel’ with an expensive farming implement, The Cure, Captain Jack Aubrey and a slap-up meal?
And the answer is….
…Asterix! The answers are the first five books, in sequence, of Goscinny and Uderzo’s popular comic book series:
1) Asterix the Gaul (1959) – Charly Gaul was a Luxembourgian cyclist whose victory in the 1958 Tour de France earned him the nickname “The Angel of the Mountains”. Wikipedia describes him as “a fragile-looking man with a sad face and disproportionately short legs. He had ‘a sad, timid look on his face, marked with an unfathomable melancholy [as though] an evil deity has forced him into a cursed profession amidst powerful, implacable riders’ as one writer put it.”
2) Asterix and the Golden Sickle (1960) – thus an expensive farming implement.
3) Asterix and the Goths (1961) – The Cure being a gothic rock band….
4) Asterix the Gladiator (1962) – Captain Jack Aubrey was portrayed by Russell Crowe in Master and Commander. Crowe’s most famous role is as General Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator.
5) Asterix and the Banquet (1963)
sweet sweet victory! Although I have to say that I never really liked Asterix and the Goths, which is the one where Asterix and Obelix self harm and hang about in black trench coats
Well done, worm old chum; I got about as near to the answer as Cacofonix ever did to a tune.
I was a big fan of Asterix but they did make too many. I reckon it was all downhill after 1994’s waterskiing-based instalment Asterix Jumps the Shark.
Well done Worm! I think that was the toughest one so far.
Abominable!
I thought it was easier than the typewriter one you all seemed to get within minutes.
The key to it was getting the word ‘Gaul’ and thinking of Asterix, then wikipedia would have given the rest of the answers easily – so I had to make the Gaul bit tricky.
Please, though, do send me your own questions (it ain’t easy coming up with these bloody things)