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!
Here’s this week’s question:
What links a superhero dog to the following: A strangely-pronounced General. A bi-polar author. A private beetle. A dubious butler. And an Oxford detective?
And for a bonus bun, why have “The Town of Baldwin” and a country singer called Larry been omitted from the above list?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Would this be Superman’s dog we’re talking about?
Nope.
Beetle Bailey?
I only know of three Oxford detectives. Is it one of those?
Beetle Bailey is correct!
Oh good – a quiz! The most obvious Oxford detective would be Morse..? Could the beetle be Alexander?
Morse is close!
A long shot, but could the bi-polar author be Michael Palin?
Not Palin, but I like the guess.
This one is literally a bi-polar sufferer.
I think both Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf were supposed to be sufferers.
Not them. The author had a book that featured heavily in an earlier RB Quiz.
Oh – Graham Greene.
Rex the Wonder Dog?
If not Morse but close, Lewis?
Lewis is correct!
Not Rex. A much more recent superdog. If you get the dog you should get it all.
Bolt? Is this athletics related?
Got it ! The dog is Bolt in the recent Disney pic: Usain Bolt was a 100 metre record holder, as were Maurice Greene, Donovan Bailey and Carl Lewis.
Well done JL.
But can you get the cream buns with a full and specific answer?
Stephen Fry like Graham Green is a bipolar author. He played the part of the butler Jeeves. Not sure how or why that’s dubious though.
superhero dogs: Snowy from Tintin or Lassie ?
Ben Johnson (Larry) was stripped of his title.
The butler would be Burrell.