Christmas quiz

[HeyWayne]

Every year, my design agency sends me a Christmas card with a quiz that one of their directors (chap I consider a friend of mine) devises.

It consists of 50 cryptic clues to bands or artists (music) names, For the past three years I've managed - with the help of my father-in-law to get all of them right, and last year we won the draw. Anyway, this years arrived in the post this morning and I wondered if you would like me to post the questions on here just for fun (if the mods don't mind that is...), you could then pm me your answers on a chosen date, and hopefully if I have all the answers myself, I'll pick a "winner" at random.

Example: Little visages - Small Faces. That kinda thing (that's not one of this years questions by the way.)

Let me know the general consensus (with mods permission).

[shirlthegirl43]

Could be fun - always looking for ways to keep my brain working.

[scarey55]

Go on Wayne -I certainly fancy having a go at that one. Love quizzes and misic so, I'll probably be my usual rubbish then?!

[SueA]

I'd give it a go if you're allowed Wayne. I'm not too hot on those cryptic type of things though, someone posted a similar one about flowers & plants on another forum & it took me ages to work them out & there were 2 that I just couldn't get however hard I tried but they were really obvious when I saw the answers, one question was 'ground cover for a band' & the answer was 'bugle'.

[bubblewrap]

Why not it's something to do!

[HeyWayne]

OK, here we go (mods, remove if you deem necessary).

I'll have to give you the first answer because it relates to the image on the front of the card.

1. Name the band on the cover - The Hollies
2. Scandalous chat
3. Fruit spirit
4. Adjudicate the lighter
5. A saint, a rogue and Liz
6. Catch Robbie
7. Terns, terns and more terns
8. Cartilage is pulsating
9. Izzard the narrator
10. Sweet sheets of glass
11. A vicar with the producers
12. Small Australian marsupials
13. Burning covered passageway
14. Not with Jill, then?
15. Leader writers
16. Boasting goat?
17. Battle Sirius
18. Trio from a sweet home
19. Clothiers with nothing in them?
20. Invoice dries up
21. Offspring of T-rex?
22. Unreliable or not strictly legal
23. Current allowance
24. Lad gets radioactive dust
25. Duches with a black eye?
26. This president and ex-president
27. Breadmaker is redhead
28. This man's name is Ratner
29. Large room and a crop
30. Chinook lass
31. Romeo's girl uses her tongue
32. Aviator Johnson has home for the Merlot
33. eg: a screwdriver or hammer
34. Feast saint is good on guitar neck
35. Headless kitchen-maker is not soft
36. Hell's Angels turn dark with Dean
37. A pal's undertaking
38. Lebanese capital
39. Children born in American-Russian post-war "relationship"
40. Over and out for the almanac
41. Vindaloo is on the line!
42. Shelter has itchy pear juice
43. Janis Mayfield
44. The No.1 menace to society
45. Stealin' the toothpaste manufacturer
46. Band from North London prison
47. Sounds like a medical cart
48. Milk jelly
49. Lower foreparts of legs
50. Marilyn is feeling dull

Enjoy!

[Seahorse]

edited for misreading

[shirlthegirl43]

Blimey, one fried brain - are they obscure (or am I just really dense today)?

[Hazel at the Hill]

So am I on the right lines with 'Talk Talk' for number 2?

[HeyWayne]

Nope. Think about the scandalous bit a little more....

[kernowyon]

i love these kind of things, havn't done one in years though, we used to get one at work every year to but person who organised it moved jobs No. 20 had me laughing out loud, the OH thinks i've lost the plot now!

[jacob marley]

The only one i have a slight clue about is no 16 billy brag

[HeyWayne]

The only one i have a slight clue about is no 16 billy brag

[rustylady]

Love the idea, struggling with the questions. Hampered by the fact that I'm of mature years and don't know a lot of the modern bands. Will try, however.

[jacob marley]

Love the idea, struggling with the questions. Hampered by the fact that I'm of mature years and don't know a lot of the modern bands. Will try, however.

Thats why i can only think of one getting old dont have many benefits jacob