Well done to Jonathan Law – a clear cream bun and a brilliant bit of anagram-solving.
Had to give you a lot of clues mind…. For all who are befuddled and bewildered, click Continue for the full answer…
Earlier we asked the 17th RB Quiz Question, namely:
What connects Liz Taylor to a broken bridge, a fighter pilot’s fruit, a sailor’s saxophone record and confused inboard banging?
And the answer is… Giants!
The late Elizabeth Taylor starred in the 1956 movie Giant alongside James Dean and Rock Hudson.
The ‘broken bridge’ refers to Giant’s Causeway in County Atrim, N Ireland. Local legend has it that the extraordinary land formation – some 40,000 interlocking basalt columns – was built as a bridge to walk to Scotland by Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) so he could fight the massive Jock bruiser Benandonner. Fionn fell asleep before he got to Scotland, so Benandonner crossed the bridge looking for him. In a crafty move, Fionn’s wife Oonagh laid a blanket over him so he could pretend that he was actually their baby son. When Benandonner saw the size of the ‘baby’, the thought of how big the father must be sent him running back to Scotland in terror, ripping up the Causeway as he went to prevent Fionn following.
The fighter pilot here is Roald Dahl, who was an RAF Wing Commander in WWII, and his fruit is the Giant Peach, as in James and the.
The sax-playing sailor, meanwhile, is John Coltrane, whose earliest recordings were made in the US navy’s jazz band. In 1960 he released the album Giant Steps.
Finally, ‘inboard banging’ is an anagram (hence ‘confused’) for Brobdingnagian – the inhabitants of Brogdingnag being the giants in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
