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. You’ve all been getting these too easily, so this one is intended to be exceptionally fiendish…
What connects Black (or White) with Dido, Castle, Elephant and Scratch?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
hmmm…well when I see ‘scratch’ I think golf
Dido, born on Christmas day so could be white (Xmas), white elephant, Scratch Perry, black or white. Castle,dunno, gisaclue.
White is right for one of the answers only.
Not golf.
Does the answer involve the Belgian tenor and former Elvis impersonator Helmut Lotti?
dido had a song called white flag, there can be white flags on a castle, there are white elephants – including on the thai national flag and dido was also queen of carthage, the castle of which hannibal lived in with his elephants, with some people getting a few deep scratches in the process….
or something
Priscilla White, born Liverpool 1943, later known as Cilla Black, was renamed by her manager, the contradictory Brian Epstein, known behind his back, and occasionally slightly to one side, as Phillis Stein, who liked to call a spade a shovel, and who decided that black was the new white: recognising in Cilla that her voice was to music what Chamberlain was to character assessment, commissioned Paul McCartney to write a post-purcellian opera ‘Dido – Queen of Carnage’, in light of Cilla’s strangulation of Anyone Who Had A Heart. McCartney, increasingly confused by Epstein’s insistence that he consider the floor to be a ceiling, and the door a five bar gate, ended up not knowing whether to set the opera in a castle or a safari park, to represent the part of Dido as an elephant or a dormouse, to create something Wagnerian or simply for a lorra lorra laughs. After destroying the hundredth draft, he decided to start from scratch.
Not sure about the quiz john but you have Miss ‘ello chuck off to a tee, a right pain in the Aeneas.
brilliant john!!
Magnificent. Phyllis Stein: my kinda gal.
Thanks Malty/Worm/Jonathon
My first thought was chess. A castle’s a rook and I think the Bishop is an elephant in some languages (or used to be?) but I can’t see how Dido or scratch could come into it.
Nobody’s even close – I thought this would stump you.
BIG CLUE TIME.
It’s a song.
You call that a big clue!
Got it! Dido’s Lament, as sung by Cilla Black nee White down at the Elephant and Castle, from scratch. You had to be there…
Black and White are shades?
Big Clue 2
It was a hit in the 1970s and was performed at Glastonbury this year.
Remember you’re a womble?
Please let it not be a wombles question!
Day and Night, Joe Beck (minus Dido)
It’s a song which includes a series of men’s names.
This is a toughie Brit! I have the answer, I think, from the clues but still cannot seem to link Dido, Elephant etc. to it. I can’t think of any connection to Lee Perry, so is the ‘Scratch’ a reference to Peter Gabriel?
Lee Perry is right for Scratch. Specifically the Lee bit.
Black is an actor, White a guitar hero.
Dido sang on a song by a rapper.
Dido’s rap was with Eminem. The song was ‘Stan’, about a deranged fan
Correct!