This week’s devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) has been set by Nige. This is a ‘links in the chain’ question, rather than one with a single overall connection…
How would you get from a lemon city to a red city by way of a Duchess, two weavers, an expensive binding and two popular trios?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Is the Duchess her of Cambridge, formerly Ms Middleton?
Well currently sitting in hospital so cant google but I’ll kick things off by guessing- a place famous for lemons is amalfi (is it a city or just a region, not sure?) and of course there’s a famous dutchess of amalfi….in the same area is Sienna, a place famous for a red paint colour. After that I’m stuck.
Lemon City is part of Miami, Miami is famous for rum, Petra (“a rose red city half as old as time”) is near Wadi Rum in Jordan, the D and D of Cambridge went to Petra for their honeymoon, the two weavers are the ones from The Emperors New Clothes, Kate M’s women’s rowing team having once I think posed for a nude calendar, bringing them to the attention of the Police and … well OK none of this correct is it?
Fraid not Jonathan.
Worm is correct on Amalfi and the Duchess of Malfi.
But the red city is not Sienna (and is the last link in the chain)
Hm, you’re probably on to something Worm: Webster, the author of The Duchess of Malfi would then be one of the “weavers”?
btw I take it you’re in hospital for purely happy reasons??
Is the other weaver/webster Noah, of the famous dictionary?
The title song (I think) of the Bob Hope/ Bing Crosby vehicle The Road to Morocco contains the line “Like Webster’s Dictionary, we’re Morocco bound”.
Morocco is an expensive binding.
Marrakesh, in Morocco, is known as the Red City because of the colour of most of the buildings.
Now that must be at least part right.
Damn you’re good JL. Missing a trio though…
Johann Hari, once described by the copycat Joe Biden as “the man who gives good honest plagiarism a bad name”, recounts, with a wide-eyed sense of utter certainty, his journey from Casablanca to Marrakesh: “I met Crosby Stills and Nash in Seville, the City of Lemons; they recognised me immediately, and Crossers, or maybe it was Nashy, told me the group was prepared to accept my assertion that Seville was far more of a lemon than an orange if I would write them a song about a journey to Marrakesh, the Red City. I explained I was currently touching-up a Duchess and two Weavers, my first commission from the Tate, based on the 1770 meeting of Malfi with Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves, the latter desperately keen to impress the Duchess with his muscular spinning johnny. Anyway, I told the lads I needed inspiration from experience to write the song, so we set off across the Strait of Gib – they got a boat, I swam it in the record time of 8 minutes. We met up at Casablanca, then caught the 8.40 to Marrakesh. Throughout the journey I felt the vibe, at first I thought it was sand in my underpants, then suddenly got the urge to dash off the first line : ‘Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes’ and I was away. I finished the song in four minutes 24 seconds. That may sound a little pedantic, but accuracy is my middle name. So was born ‘Marrakesh Express’, the greatest song of all time, and the manuscript, written on the back of a Moroccan fag packet and bound in an expensive Katy Price bra, sits in the British Museum, between Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ and Fielding’s ‘Big and Horny – the History of the Buffalo’. As an aside I should mention I was responsible for C S and Nash becoming a trio + 1: C S N and Young, but that’s another likely story”
Brilliant and, for once, right! Anyone able to spell out the whole answer?
CSN, but who or what is the second trio?
From now on I shall say ‘ah Seville, the city of lemons’
Er….second trio…..J Hendrix Experience?