Quiz time 7 : special Saturnalia edition

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Examples

forbidden percussion : banned drum :: pooh-bah : ?

(answer is panjandrum)

proper : decorous :: Wisconsin : ?

(answer is pecorous)

82 : bear :: 45 : ?

(answer is "farewell"; Haydn symphonies)

Gulliver’s Travels : cypseline :: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire : ?

(answer is hylobatine)

humbug : Bach :: seek : ?

(answer is Haydn)

See previous quizzes on my list o' lists for other examples.

Now, the questions (part 1) -

1. Mrs Hayes : Lemonade Lucy :: Admiral LeFanu : ?

2. rapper : posse :: matador : ?

3. year : annual :: day before yesterday : ?

4. strand : abbey :: bow : ?

5. presto : prestissimo :: fortissimo : ?

6. U.S. : John Henry :: U.S.S.R. :?

7. 5 : pit :: 15 : ?

8. Jean-Claude van Damme : muscles from Brussels :: blood bank robber : ?

9. once : quince :: elf : ?

10. people : slavery :: ants : ?

11. sloth : Astaroth :: tyops : ?

12. Schubert : German :: Haydn : ?

13. Salamanca : Salmantine :: Valladolid : ?

14. sword : xiphoid :: donut : ?

15. : Quiet! :: : ?

16. tune1 : swan :: tune2 : ?

17. tune3 : anitra ::

tune4 : ?

18. (clue 18 pic 1) : Brougham :: (clue 18 pic 2) : ?

19. tune5 : kiev :: tune6 : ?

20. : Anubis :: : ?

21. (clue 21 pic 1 link) : Rossini :: (clue 21 pic 2 link) : ?

22. : eggs :: : ?

23. : Wordsworth :: clue 23 pic link : ?

24. : malachite :: : ?

25. : Johns :: : ?

26. Fay : Gustav :: Fiona : ?

27. aced : 1 :: iced : ?

28. judges : numbers :: kings : ?

29. coins : numismatist :: matchboxes : ?

30. esprit de l'escalier : Treppenwitz :: carry water to the river : ?

31. uncle : avuncular :: grandparents : ?

32. stepmother : novercaphobia :: mother-in-law : ?

33. : Zanzibar :: : ?

34. : Lescaux :: clue 34 pic link : ?

35. : Virgil :: : ?

36. theme from "Diva" : Diva :: theme from : ? (If your browser has difficulty with the mp3 file, it may be easier to download it - it's about 5Mg, I think)

37. Erlkonig : Goethe :: not Schubert : ? (same comment about the mp3 file)

38. liszt : hungary :: not liszt : ? (note: the second file is a 1-minute excerpt from a longer work)

39. piano1 : Polonaise :: piano2 : ?

40: (final question)

What kind of rings are these? And whose triangle? And what are the names of these cats?

December 24, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

2. rapper : posse :: matador : paseo

5. presto: prestissimo :: fortissimo : fortississimo

10. people : slavery :: ants : dulosis

14. sword : xiphoid :: donut : toroid

December 25, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

mollusque: I don't understand a $%#$%#$%#$ about this game... but it should be fortissimissimo.

December 25, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Here are a few guesses. Mostly, I'm baffled.

3. antehesternal

6. Aleksey Stakhanov

9. fünfzehn

13. Vallisoletano

18. barouche

22. quiche

24. lapis lazuli

27. ♢

28. judges

Edit: #9, #18, #28 added; #22 changed (was "buns").

December 25, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Prolagus: maybe in Italian, but not in English. There's also fortissississimo.

December 26, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

16. kangaroo

27. not 3?

Could we see the pictures any bigger or is their size part of the challenge?

December 26, 2008

Telofy commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

@ 27: Or 9?

December 26, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

9 was my first thought, too! Thanks to that terrible "You can't say 'I is'" — "Miss, but what about 'I is the ninth letter of the alphabet'?"

December 26, 2008

Telofy commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Yep, I once memorized that letter-number relation; very useful.

December 26, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Right now I can't see the pictures at all. But I will try to go back and edit to replace hardcoding them into this page with links instead - that should probably allow you to see them better. (on edit - adding the links doesn't seem to help make them any bigger - sorry!)

The picture and musical clues have stretched my html skills to their limit, but I did want to include a few that would be harder to solve by search engine alone.

So far, mollusque is correct for numbers 5, 10, and 14. ('Paseo' may be OK, but is not what I had in mind for #2 - I think the term I'm thinking of is more specific).

Sarra is correct on #16 (I was sure that frindley would be the one to get that!).

Rolig is steaming along nicely - if he(?) hadn't gotten number 9, I'd have been disappointed. Well done on numbers 6 and 18! 'quiche' and 'lapis lazuli' are also correct. 'antehesternal' and 'vallisoletano' sound like plausibly correct alternatives to what I had in mind. I'll have to check to see if 'judges' might be correct; right now I'm not seeing it.

For #27, the answer is neither 3 nor 9, nor what rolig suggests (a fleur-de-lis maybe?).

Thanks for participating, folks!

December 26, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Thanks, sionnach, it's a fun quiz, very clever and testing different kinds of knowledge!

For #27, I suggested a diamond (the card suit symbol), not a fleur-de-lys, thinking that if ace = 1, then ice = diamond. But it's a stretch, I admit.

*puts thinking cap back on*

December 26, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

OK: I finally figured out how to do this, I think - I just need to hardcode in the thumbnails and put links to the larger versions of the pictures.

I will go ahead and do that (I have about four more picture clues, and two or three musical ones), but not right away. When I add the new clues, I will add links to the pictures for which I haven't already done so.

But, right now, it's dinner time!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

By the way, the hardest clue among those so far is - I think - #4. I might even have to give a prize (you all have Amazon wish lists, I assume?) to the first person who can figure it out without cheating. (Cheating in this case would constitute an overly targeted use of search engines to the point of nosing out the solution to that exact clue, which has got to be somewhere on my personal website)

December 26, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Does looking up Turner's paintings count as cheating? I had to have a listen to the Carnavale too. 21 is Mendelssohn, I can say from my own general knowledge after that.

December 26, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

26. Fay : Gustav :: Fiona : Gaston

29. coins : numismatist :: matchboxes : cumyxaphily

31. uncle : avuncular :: grandparents : aval

December 26, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

This seems a long shot, but in Edinburgh . . .

4. strand : abbey :: bow : upper

December 26, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

30: Wasser in den Rhein* tragen.

(Or Donau... or in den Fluss)

December 26, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

32: novercaphobia (yes, again), or pentheraphobia.

December 26, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

pentheraphobia is correct, Pro.

Although your answer to 30 might be literally correct, it misses the spirit of the question; the answer I have in mind requires the German equivalent of "carrying coals to Newcastle" (they specify a different destination, and a different 'commodity').

Sarra: most of the questions are hard enough that I expect some internet searching will be needed to answer them. However, finding the question somewhere else on the internet (which would likely be my personal website) and just tracking down the answer there, would seem a little too facile (and not much fun). Figuring out that an answer comes from the Carnival of the Animals, then checking to see which one is totally legitimate, I think.

But really, there is no right or wrong approach. I just put the questions up as a challenge for people to have fun with as they see fit. It's not as if you are competing for lucrative prizes. Though, as mentioned earlier, if someone figures out #4, I will be impressed.

mollusque: you continue to amaze me, this time with cumyxaphily, a word I had never heard of until now, but which is, of course, entirely collect. The word I had in mind, (phillumeny) actually means the collecting of matchbox labels and matchbook covers. 'Gaston' and 'aval' are also correct, but #4 still remains unsolved.

December 26, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

33 is Earth (isn't it?)

40: Borromean rings, Penrose's triangles, Boris and Natasha.

December 26, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

but which is, of course, entirely collect

Hee! Was this on purpose?

December 27, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Ah, you've added more! 39 is mazurka, which was my first thought in any case, but for extra authenticity I went to have a look at the Chopin book for all of the B♭ ones. Thank goodness for contents pages with the first few bars of melody!

December 27, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

38. Only beginning my investigations into this one — is it (the composer, not the answer) Lauridsen?! I adore his O Magnum Mysterium, to little pieces. That which you linked was wonderful to hear.

edit: It is — wonderful. following confusion edited out… I got very mixed up, see above

December 27, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Abbey Strand and Upper Bow are both streets connecting into the Royal Mile of Edinburgh. Does that at least get an honorable mention?

December 27, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

I'd like 4 to be church or priory, though I'm sure it's neither. I should also mention that for 8 I'm stuck on wrestles from vessels or possibly embezzles from vessels ;)

December 27, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

The choral piece in #37 is beautiful but unknown to me. I can't wait to find out the answer!

Can the answer to #25 really be as simple as "Duchamp"? Marcel Duchamp is the author of the painting Nude Descending a Staircase just as Jasper Johns is the author of the flag painting. Or am I missing something?

December 27, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Augh! rolig, I got questions 37 and 38 mixed up. The answer to 37 is Rilke. The piece is Dirait-on by Morten Lauridsen, from Les Chansons des Roses.

December 27, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Sarra, thanks! It sounds Rilkean!

December 27, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

I will guess that #20 is Orpheus, but I'm not very confident.

December 27, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Btw, I applaud Mollusque for figuring out cumyxaphily, but without taking anything at all away from that triumph, I should point out the closer parallel to numismatist would be cumyxaphile.

December 27, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Well spotted, rolig.

But #20 is not Orpheus.

Neither are the triangles Penrose triangles, as Prolagus suggested they might be.

Also, the answer to #33 is emphatically not 'earth'.

And I must reluctantly reject 'antehesternal', logical though it might be, since I can find only one other occurrence on the internet, outside of Wordie, and it is not in any of the standard dictionaries.

The RAE tells me that 'vallisoletano' is indeed a denizen of Valladolid; I had been thinking of the more colloquial (and, I believe, more commonly used) 'pucelano'.

Also 'paseo' is not correct for #2; there is a tauromachy-related word 'paseíllo', but it means something else.

December 27, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Point taken, rolig. The best parallel to numismatist would be cumyxaphilist. When I finally flushed out cumyxaphily with iterated Google searches, I was so pleased to have solved sionnach's puzzle that I didn't check what other forms exist.

Searches for "collecting matchboxes" and "collector of matchboxes" didn't find anything, so I searched for numismatics, philately and deltiology occurring on one page, hoping to find a list of collecting terms. This revealed a book called 'Isms; a Dictionary of Words ending in -ism, -ology, and -phobia. I tried searching within that on Google Books, using "Isms" as the title, and found

instead -Ologies & -isms: A Thematic Dictionary‎ by Howard G. Zettler and Laurence Urdang (1978), which contained the target word.

December 27, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

On cumyxaphile v. cumyxaphilist, my assumption was based on the fact that one who enjoys bibliophily is a bibliophile. With matchbox collecting, it seems, for quick and primitive Google checks, that both -phile and -philist are used, but "cumyxaphile" gets 212 hits, as opposed to 5 for "cumyxaphilist".

December 27, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Alternative for #3: nudiustertian. I found this using the One Look Reverse Dictionary, a very useful tool. (Antehesternal, which I still prefer, I worked out more or less on my own.)

December 27, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Mollusque - pssst - trying to sneak a change of the 'a' to an 'o' won't make it any more panvocalic.

December 27, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Thanks, sionnach. I must have been infected with myxomatosis. Fixed.

December 27, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

And now, a hortatory message from Boris and Natasha:

"There is still some low-hanging fruit among the remaining unsolved clues".

Still unsolved - 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 19, 20, 23, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38.

December 28, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

20. Kokopelli

30. Eulen nach Athen tragen

33. cinnabar

December 28, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

2. rapper : posse :: matador : peones

December 28, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Clarification required around question 19: The clip is Baba Yaga (the Hut on Hen's Legs). It does eventually segue into the Great Gate of Kiev about half way in. Question is – should this be considered significant, or should we just listen to the second part of the audio clip the clue and ignore old Baba Yaga?

Oh, what the heck. I don't think Baba Yaga has anything to do with it at all. It's the Warsaw Concerto, isn't it?

December 29, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

You may safely ignore the Baba-Yaga for the purposes of this quiz, though not in real life.

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Now regarding 12, you could be getting into tricky ground there. First, you know there's a thesis arguing that Haydn was Croatian? Part of the problem is the changing borders in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But for the most part he's regarded nowadays as Austrian (Rohrau is considered lower Austria, I think).

But what I can't work out is the "Schubert : German" clue. Because Schubert was most definitely Austrian. In fact he was one of the few composers who became famous in Vienna (Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn et al) who was actually born in that city.

So if it's Schubert and a country where he wasn't born and didn't visit, perhaps we need a country where Haydn wasn't born and didn't visit (which rules out England as well as Austria). But perhaps I'm being too clever for my own good. (I'm also implying that you've made a mistake, which is hasty.)

So pondering further… Schubert spoke German, but so did Haydn. Schubert wrote sets of German Dances for piano, but so did Haydn (fewer of them though); Haydn did write "London" and "Paris" Symphonies and many "British folksongs" but the parallel there isn't neat enough for my liking.

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

17: Solveig

19: Warsaw

December 29, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

* Nods encouragingly as frindley enters carefully prepared trap on Clue #12 *

Do I look like someone who believes that Schubert was German? harumph! :-)

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Coming to this very late and finding 21 already solved, I was caught out by my own expectations when I eventually scrolled down to the question. Say Mendelssohn and Fingal's Cave to me and the artwork I think of isn't Turner's painting but a wood engraving from 1850. I can't find it online, but in composition and manner it's somewhat like this only a lot stormier and more turbulent looking.

The engraving captures something that Turner's outward-looking painting fails to show, but which is tremendously important, and here I quote Mendelssohn himself:

"A greener roar of waves surely never surged into a stranger cavern, whose many pillars made it look like the inside of an immense organ, black and resonant, utterly without purpose, completely isolated."

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

38: Sweden (I haven't heard the Midsummer Vigil in sooo long – Alfvén is sadly out of fashion nowadays)

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

37: is anyone else finding it difficult to make out the words in the second clip (which are presumably important here)? I realise it's been solved, I was just trying to work it out for myself.

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

36: Babe!

December 29, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Hooray! I knew frindley wouldn't let me down.

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

12: Ok, here's some convoluted rationalisation for you.

One possible answer could be Hoboken. It goes like this: Schubert's catalogue numbers are Deutsch numbers (as in Otto Erich Deutsch, but the name does mean German) and Haydn's catalogue numbers are Hoboken numbers.

Another possible answer would hinge on the fact that Schubert wrote a German Mass (or Deutsche Messe). Unfortunately there isn't really a Haydn mass that makes a truly neat correspondence to that (with either a place/language as its nickname or written in some vernacular), with the possible exception of the Mariazeller Messe.

Neither of these possibilities seem really convincing (to me), but with enough gymnastics they kind of work. But no doubt I will wake up at three in the morning with the simple, elegant solution staring me in the face…

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

35: The picture's very, very small, but it looks like a peat-bog woman, so I'm going to say Seamus Heaney.

December 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

34: My guess is Tassili. If not that then some other cave location in Africa, corresponding the Lascaux Caves in France.

December 29, 2008

sarra commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

frindley! I didn't want to give you the actual words, so here's a clue (I'm assuming easy - I did consider making it harder by using tonic sol-fa but that could have been cruel and inscrutable!) as to which part of the lyric first stood out to my ear. Link so as not to spoil if you'd rather not know.

A friend's mother identified 20 as cocopele but it doesn't seem quite right, so I think I get to do some extra research.

December 30, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Boris and Natasha would like to point out that eleven and a third clues remain unsolved:

1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 15, 23, 27, 28, 34, and part of 40.

sarra: mollusque has already correctly identified kokopelli, the trickster god.

Hints: the answer to # 4 is indeed a street name; you will feel sheepish when you see the answer to another clue; sometimes it helps to read a clue from a different perspective; does nobody read the bible any more?

December 30, 2008

mollusque commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

1. Mrs Hayes : Lemonade Lucy :: Admiral LeFanu : Dry Ginger

40. The interlocking triangles form a valknut.

December 30, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

The interlocking triangles form a valknut:

Yes, they do. And to whom is ownership of this kind of knot usually attributed? (not hard, since we have ascertained that we are in the territory of Norse mythology)

December 30, 2008

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

For #28, I had guessed "Judges" because I was assuming you meant the books of the Bible, which in my Protestant tradition are ordered as follows: ... Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, I & II Samuel, I & II Kings ... Thus, Judges is the third book after Numbers, and Kings is the third book after Judges. In the Catholic Vulgate Bible, however, the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings are grouped together as I, II, III & IV Kings, so if this is what you have in your Irish mind, then perhaps the answer you are looking for is Joshua, since then this mega-Kings would be the third book after Joshua. This would also hold true for the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible), in which, though Samuel is preserved as a separate entity in the section called Nevi'im (Prophets), Ruth is relegated to another section, the Ketuvim (Writings). So let's go with Joshua (Y'hoshua).

December 30, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Rolig: I think the reason for the discrepancy is simpler than that - I was counting I Samuel and II Samuel as two distinct books, which would lead you either to Ruth if you started from I Kings, or I Samuel if you started from II Kings.

As I typed the last paragraph, however, I realize that my reasoning lacks a fundamental consistency, in that the clue would suggest I am treating 'Kings' as a single book, yet my counting backwards treats I and II Samuel as two distinct books.

I now understand the reason you gave 'Judges' as your initial answer - under the circumstances, it probably is the best one, since my original thinking was pretty fuzzy.

Sorry: I should have given you the courtesy of checking it before now - I hope you didn't waste a whole lot of time on this.

(By the way, I was just taking the ordering given in my King James version, which is the only one I've got. I really don't spend a lot of time pondering the old testament these days - too much anger, guilt and violence for my liking.)

December 30, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

By the way, the bog-person in the picture in clue 35 is Tollund Man.

Some hints:

I added links to larger-sized versions of the pictures in the two remaining unsolved picture clues.

Sarra was on the right track with 'embezzles vessels'; think of what those vessels contain.

Would it help if I changed 'tyops' to 'typos' in clue 11?

The answer to clue 12 was indeed "Hoboken", for the reason frindley mentioned. Using this answer might help with one of the remaining clues.

#27: there is more than one way to look at a clue.

#7: Baa!

December 30, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Hoboken would have been a more satisfying solution if this Dutch name had meant something in English, as O.E. Deutsch's name does.

The fact that it doesn't is what diminished my confidence in the answer, since you gave Schubert : German as the clue, rather than Schubert : Deutsch. But then, if you'd given the latter I would have gotten it in the twinkling of an eye and perhaps that would have been less fun for the spectators…

December 31, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

8: I know this is totally wrong. (How do I know? not only because the sequence in the logic is off but because of internet caching and this question having been asked in 2006.) But here, regardless, is my proposal, just for the hell of it: Béla Lugosi.

December 31, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

So, frindley, what you appear to be suggesting is that I shouldn't give you credit for "Hoboken", because a better answer is "tobacco pipe".

meaning of Hoboken

Is that right? :-)

I take your point, but feel that some degree of licence is surely permissible.

December 31, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

23: Yeats

"Cast a cold Eye On life, on Death. Horseman, pass by!"

December 31, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Yes! Excellent. The mountain is Ben Bulben.

No points for Bela Lugosi, because there's nothing in the question to make it that well-defined. After all, you could just as soon substitute the name of any actor who had ever played a vampire on film. Tom Cruise, for instance. Or whoever plays the vampire in that latest one that had teenagers swarming to see it. Twilight.

Besides which, if I go to the trouble of concocting truly hideous punning rhymes, then I want others to share the joy.

December 31, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Well, I must confess that I consulted my exceedingly fat Dutch-English dictionary and finding no joy there, gave up. Now if only I'd thought to delve into the back issues of the New York Times…

December 31, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

I settled on Béla Lugosi not only because he is, in my mind, the most famous and quintessential of the vampire actors but also because he, like van Damme, was not born in an English-speaking country.

December 31, 2008

frindley commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

8: some variations I know they're wrong and they don't rhyme right, just having fun…

ruddy baron

gore-store raider

sanguine purloiner

transfusion peculation

December 31, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Ooh! "Sanguine purloiner" has a nice ring to it. As does "ruddy baron".

It's true. Bela is the quintessential vampire.

December 31, 2008

dontcry commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Ouch! This page hurts my brain! *rocks furiously, twirls hair...*

December 31, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

But dontcry, look at the cute pussycats all the way at the bottom. Aren't they adorable?

December 31, 2008

dontcry commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

*feeling calmer*

December 31, 2008

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Answers will be posted ere the old year is out here in California; actually ere I depart for the New Year's Eve shindig, so if anyone would like to step up and dazzle on the remaining clues, you have about four more hours.

Clues 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 15, 27, & 34 are the only ones that remain unsolved.

January 1, 2009

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

2. rapper : posse :: matador : cuadrilla

4. strand : abbey :: bow : Pearse

7. 5 : pit :: 15 : bumfit

8. rustles corpuscles

11. sloth : Astaroth :: tyops : Titivillus

15. Beware of thieves!

27. aced : 1 :: iced : -1

34. Brandberg

40. Odin's triangle

#4: corresponding street names for properties on the English and Irish versions of Monopoly

#5: counting sheep in Lancashire

#11. Titivillus, the typo demon.

#15: hobo signs

#27: prefixes in S.I. units - "deca" is 10 to the power of 1; "deci" is 10 to the power of -1

#34: cave paintings

January 1, 2009

sionnach commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Thanks to everyone who participated.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

January 1, 2009

rolig commented on the list quiz-time-7-special-saturnalia-edition

Thanks again, Sionnach, for a fun and clever game! Happy New Year!

January 1, 2009