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[hobbitomm]

What links…..?

1) Christopher Reeve, Stalin, David McCallum

Steel: 'Man of...', 'Man of...', and 'Sapphire and....'

2) Clark Savage Jr MD, Roger Bacon, Homer’s sky

Bronze: 'Doc Savage, the Man of...', Roger Bacon had a Bronze prophetic head, Homer describes the sky as 'Bronze'

3) The US’ first manned space project, The third movement of the Planets

Mercury, for obvious reasons

4) The Paradoxes of Defence, an Orienteering tool

Silver: Sir George Silver wrote the Paradoxes of Defence. Silva Compass

5) Cyprus and a Policeman?

Copper: Cuprum=Cyprus and Copper. Copper=Policeman.

6) A Navigation aid, a form of display and a Heavy (?metal?) balloon?

Lead: Sounding Lead, LED, Led Zepplin

7) 5c and the base of a policeman?

Nickel: Nickel, and 'Nick'

8) A treatment for Rheumatism with the ultimate Olympian accolade?

Gold: Injectable gold and Gold Medal

9) An unelected leader of a minor state and a can of food.

Tin: Tinpot dictator and tin can

10) Oberon’s Queen, and the giant enemies of Zeus?

Titanium: Titania and the Titans

And what connects them all?: Duh ;)





1) B818 Fintry to Denny Road, going via the Banks?

Crow Road: Street name and novel by Ian Banks

2) M25 or possibly a misspelled A63? Paved with good intentions?

The Road to Hell: Source of Chris Rea album, and of course Gaiman and Pratchett's infernal prayer wheel. The A63 is the Road to Hull.

3) Fictionally in Salford in 1837 or 1901?

Coronation Street

4) Where the flying fishes play

The Road to Mandalay: Poem by Kipling

5) The (Orwellian?) A577 and A49 from the M6

The Road to Wigan Pier. I used to drive past the signposts regularly when I was a medstudent in Wigan. Book by Orwell.

6) A U2’s eye view of New York?

Where the streets have no name.

7) Constantinople to Cambaluc, by way of Bokhara and Samarkand

The Silk Road

8) Brought to you by the number 3, and the letters T, O and M.

Sesame street. Okay, I was struggling

9) Where you could find Frank ‘Pizza Man’ Furillo, and Detective ‘Sit Hairball!’ Belker

Hill Street Blues: Struggling a lot.

10)The tale of Blanche Dubois.

A Streetcar named Desire: Absolutely stuck ;)






1) Does Nik support?

Liverpool: I believe it has an FC. ;) And Lord Liverpool, of course

2) Got the boots?

Wellington: Duke of, and Boots.

3) Hamnet?

Wilson: Hamnet Shakespeare was 'Will's Son' ;)

4) Blasted?

Heath: MacBeth reference, but I suspect probably used at the time for political comment ;)

5) Original coal mine?

Pit(t) the Elder

6) And a later coal mine?

Pit(t) the Younger

7) Highly elevated temple?

Churc(h)ill ;) And not, I'm afraid 'Pitt the Gleam in the Milkman's eye' :)

8) Knew my father?

Lloyd George. Title of Song. I thought refering to the Old Age pension, or indeed, GP's paper notes would have been a bit mean.

9) Possibly from Tel Aviv?

Disraeli, originally called d'Israeli, of course.

10) Not italian cheese, and not Ollie.

Palmeston. So, not Parmesan, and not Stan either. (as in Laurel and Hardy :)

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy these - even if sometimes they make me feel very frustrated or very stupid. :)

Are you planning a sideline as a cryptic crossword designer, perhaps?

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Actually, I worry that they're too easy! The majority of them get picked off by you guys inside an hour :) Compare with the _real_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/christmas2003/story/0,14075,1112591,00.html) KWQ!

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the KWQ really is a complete bastard of a quiz. I pride myself on generally being able to get a decent way into double figures without having to google or otherwise research them. :)

Keep up the nothing to do at work and keep the problems coming! :)

[ggreig]

GP's paper notes

Surely everyone knows about these? :-0

OK, my first job as a software developer was in the Primary Care team for South Western Regional Health Authority... We supported the National Breast Screening System, and GPs. :-)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

But have they sorted out the mess with the computers yet? ;)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's interesting. You can tell a fair amount about the current setter.

He knows his Shakespeare
He knows (in detail) his Sherlock Holmes
He's acquainted with other adventure stories ('The Riddle of the Sands' springs easily to mind).
He's read 'The Lives of the Great Poisoners'

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

Well if I can put your mind at rest on the level of those quizzes, I usually look at them and think "wtf????"

'mafraid I wasn't taught much Shakespeare.

[ggreig]

Any mess was none of my doing. Don't start me on MUMPS...

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, mumps can be very severe in the mature male.... ;)

And yeah, I know, you got an impossible situation to work with, IIRC.

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

Just to be really pedantic ;-) but an LED is a diode that emits light, and isn't really a display (just as a light bulb isn't really a display :-). Wereyou confusing it with an LCD (liquid crystal display) which obviously doesn't quitefit the clue? :-)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Ah, you forget, I am old, and remember LED driven displays on calculators :)