Nige poses this week’s 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 if you get them all.
Here’s the question then:
What links a playwright who broke the sprint record at Hackney Downs Boys’ School to a pal of Bertie’s with a Murdoch-style nickname; a butterfly syndrome; and miscellaneous one-hit wonders from the Sixties?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Is it white horses?
Alas no.
Well… Pinter was the sprinter…
Harold Pinter
Rupert
Peeling skin
Dave Clark Five
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One out of four, Steve. You’re both right about Pinter.
All Bertie’s pals had silly nick-names. Stinker? Tuppy?
mmmmm . ‘In a Gadda Da Vida?’
Did they all have it away with that woman with the big lips who writes the boring books?
Oh, hang on, I think I’m getting it. Jagger? Longford?
Keep going Steve, it’s fascinating watching your synapses in action. Miles off so far…
Butterfly syndrome – like when you have a . . . . er . . . . . what am I doing here?
erm . . . . short attention span?
Is the answer ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’?
Is the answer ‘bingo’, as in the game?
ah…Murdoch…this is something to do with stinks, aint it?
Right, I have to go and teach. I’ll set them some work and will be back soon.
CRICKET! THE ANSWER’S CRICKET!
Are you back from teaching already or was that another parting shot (in the dark)?
Not even close I’m afraid, though Pinter was a keen cricketer.
Genius work, Steve! No actual answers, but the Murdoch lead is worth following…
Hang on – is this something to do with declining honours? Pinter did, Woodehouse did, Bowie did. Er…..
They all got laid by Arthur Askey?
Bob Lind?
Bob Lind and David Bowie got laid by Arthur Askey? Libellous!
You and Adelephant have both been in the right area re: Bertie’s pal….
Pure guess, but could the Murdochian nickname be Sunny or Sonny? Either that or Foxy …
Fraid not, JL. Adelephant actually mentioned the correct nickname up at the top.
butterfly syndrome – epidermolysis bullosa?
Ahh. Harold ‘Stinker’ Pinker, penniless curate of Somewhere-on-the-Wold
And with the 60s one hit wonders, note that ‘miscellaneous’…
Jonathan – you have it! Curate of Market Snodsbury. So that’s Pinter, Pinker…
Naylor, Pie?
Steve – as ever your answers are so much better than the real ones…
No, Steve, but with “Pinter, Pinker, Naylor, Pie” you’re thinking along the right lines in terms of the general answer, only you’ve been too clever. It’s less complex than that.
the Lemon Pipers!
No but funny you should mention a colour, Steve.
Two clues:
The butterfly syndrome is nothing to do with insect illness
The one-hit wonders had some reflected glory in 1965.
Is the answer Frank Cooper’s Oxford Preserves?
Yes, Cooper’s Ginger Preserve. Pinter used to get Antonia to smear him with it from head to foot whilst he read Wodehouse in the bath and she sang Bob Lind’s ‘Elusive Butterfly of Love.’ Sorted. Prize.
Steve, this is getting better and better – hats off to you for your unrivalled knowledge of the home life of the Pinters!
Meanwhile, here’s another Butterfly clue – think operatically…
Pinter, Pinker, Pucini . . . . . . Puce?
PINTER, PINKER, PUCINI, PURPLE
“I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You can’t beat the greatest because I am Muhammad Ali”
The syndrome is clay related, Bee’s, wasn’t ‘Taste of Honey’ a one hit wonder person’s song,
Anyone know where I can get a dentists appointment inside of 3 months?
Carshalton any good to you Malty?
Oh and Steve’s Puccini is right – come on, you’re nearly there…
Puccini is spot on but who is P
ucini?
Pinkerton and Pin Ups?
Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly. Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours had a hit with ‘Mirror, Mirror’.
But please, please feel free to continue, Steve.
Very close Mark – Pinkerton is right – so Pinter, Pinker, Pinkerton (but why?)… So who are the one-hit wonders?
Jonathan, you have it – congratulations! But what about the syndrome element?
Scaffold