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!
What links the chilly destination of a fictional submarine on a rescue mission, a laughably strange halal meat permitted by some islamic sects, an unlucky participant of the mutiny on The Grampus, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Is the first one Ice Station Zebra? I’ve got a few ideas…
I have a feeling you’ll conquer this one in no time adelephant!
Edgar Allen Poe is linked to at least two of them – I think.
Ravens – black?
no ravens were involved in the making of this question Steve!
and edgar allen poe is not directly involved in the answer
Ice Station Zebra, Zebra is halal, orang utan and sailors – zoo animals, er….
The unlucky participant in the Grampus mutiny would be the guy who was killed and eaten?
murders – put into things – torpedo tubes, chimmneys, tum tums….
Is the answer that popular BBC TV comedy ‘Porridge’?
‘laughably’ halal – that’s a hyena then
Ernest Borgnine links them all. Somehow.
correct steve!!!
what, Ernest Borgnine? REALLY?
The dog on the Grampus was called Tiger, so that would fit the zoological theme ??
Muslims eat Ernie? Is there no end to their inhumanity?
The submarine was ‘Tigerfish’
Ah ha – I think I have the answer! The unfortunate sailor is a dog called Tiger? If so the overall answer is also about some sailors, no?
I said that hours ago! Sailors! I cried.
the unfortunate sailor is not a dog called tiger!
but you are very close in a round about kind of way
is it something to do with pi?
Gosh – I thought I had it then – zebra, tiger, hyena and orangutang – all the animals in the boat in Life of Pi. Ah well, back to the drawing board.
ian got it first! but now I need a correct description of all the clues in order to fully qualify!
I relied a lot on the answers already given.
Parker was the Grampus mutineer. Richard Parker was the name of Pi’s tiger.