Cryptic Pop Quiz

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Ace
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Cryptic Pop Quiz

Post by Ace »

Name the follwing bands............but a few to get you familiar with what I am after
Year Quarters = Four Seasons
Dark Sunday = Black Sabbath
Part Time Police = Specials
Skinny Betty = Thin Lizzy
London Postcode = East 17

You get the picture, right? I want these please................

Cry At The Bang?
Poor Memory After A Good Night Out?
Monatic Males?
Holy Island?
Back Garden Ornithologists?
Sobs In Panic?

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Bob Singleton
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Post by Bob Singleton »

Teardrop Explodes for the first one?

Presuming you meant monastic males, in which case The Monks for the third?

Lindisfarne for the fourth?



I'll have to sit down and think a bit more about the others.

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Ace
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Post by Ace »

Bit more difficult than the football ones, eh Bob?

I need the answers as its a quiz my wifes nick is doing......and being a typically bent force, a little cheating is OK in MY book..........hence, you lot!!

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Post by Jacques »

Sobs In Panic = Tears for Fears
quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Bob Singleton
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Post by Bob Singleton »

A little harder, yes.... and "The State Within" is about to start on BBC 1 so shan't be thinking of bands for an hour or so now !wink!

"But how to make Liverpool economically prosperous? If only there was some way for Liverpudlians to profit from going on and on about the past in a whiny voice."

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colin
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yardbirds for number5?

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Letch
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Holy Island? = Lindisfarne for number 4

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Seymour Clearly
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Post by Seymour Clearly »

3 = Monkees ? (was that monastic)
Bob Singleton
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Post by Bob Singleton »

colin wrote:

> yardbirds for number5?
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Not sure that's right... an ornithologist isn't a bird but someone who has an interest in birds... of course the person setting the questions might have a low intelect so might not realise the difference.

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Post by Ace »

Nice one lads, I still need the hazy memory one

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