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Help needed with quiz at work

DarenDaren
edited December 2008 in Chit chat
"A Quiz of many Colours"

Basically, each answer has a colour in it, eg:

Prime Minister: (6,5) (Gordon Brown)

Here are some I'm stuck on, any help would be appreciated:

[strike]Joesph's warning of proposed headgear "Which doesn't go" (3,3)[/strike]

[strike]Inhabitant of Belarus (5,7) Black Russian?[/strike]

[strike]Mixed up health remedy (4)[/strike]

[strike]Received by Number 11 in January 1917 (4,3)
Question 11 was: Manfred Von Richthofen (3,5) (Red Baron)[/strike]

[strike]Firework (6)[/strike]

[strike]Austrian defeat in 1859 (7)[/strike]

[strike]Computer Hacker (5,3)[/strike]

[strike]Fort Augustus hotel (5,4)[/strike]

[strike]Just so, the colour of a "Great" African river (4-5)[/strike]

[strike]Featured Dalgleish in Dorset (3,5,5)[/strike]

[strike]He got plenty o' nuthin' in the 1993 TV production (7,5)[/strike]

[strike]Previously Dover Street (5,4)[/strike]

[strike]Nicknamed the Mudlarks (5,6)[/strike]

[strike]Edward Teach's five o'clock shadow (10)[/strike]

[strike]Guy's gal wore them [noparse](3,8)[/noparse][/strike]

Sid's revolution hero in disguise (5,10)

Large bra worn backwards!? (4)

Did Perkin really change the world with this? (5)

Patrollers in spongy shoes (3,4,4,9,2,3)

Big double echo-confused (5)

Coloured doctor from Lucerne (6,5)

Dancing politicians provide an alternative accompaniment (6,4)

[strike]Had Ferrer on his knees (6,5)[/strike]

[strike]Belgrade has meaning [noparse](5,8)[/noparse][/strike]

[strike]Velma and Franklyn's Offspring (5,3,6)[/strike]

[strike]Splash landing site in Linz (4,6,7)[/strike]

[strike]Seek out Matthew 19.34 and Mark 10.25 (5)[/strike]

[strike]Given to Captain Flint by the Amazon pirates (5,4)[/strike]

Troutbridge was the location for some fun (3,4,5) - looks like The Navy Lark

[strike]Found in court in 1969 with epitaph included (4,7)[/strike]

[strike]First state alternative (4,3)[/strike]

[strike]An opening for Holmes (1,5,2,7)[/strike]

Spirit in the monastery (5,4,2,6)

Runner-up five times in a row, 1990-94 (5,5)

[strike]Early residence of the band (3,4)[/strike]

[strike]Told about ill fated 1203 (5,4)[/strike]

First one was to be found at the place of Macaulay's death (4,6)

Married "Bungie" in 1915 (6,6,6)

The amorous adventures of Miss St. Clare (7,5)

[strike]Home of the yellow dwarf (6,4)[/strike]


That's it! Enough typing, need a rest...
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  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited December 2008
    Inhabitant of Belarus (5,7) Black Russian?

    White Russian
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited December 2008
    Belarus is "White Russian".
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited December 2008
    These are guesses:

    Runner-up five times in a row, 1990-94 (5,5)
    Roger Black (400m runner)


    Mixed up health remedy
    blue (lube)
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • KilbyKilby
    edited December 2008
    Computer Hacker = Black Hat

    Edward Teach was Blackbeard

    Austrian Defeat = Magenta

    Sid's revolution hero in disguise = The Black Fingernail (Sid James)
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited December 2008
    Runner-up five times in a row, 1990-94 (5,5) = Jimmy White
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited December 2008
    Edward Teach's five o'clock shadow = Blackbeard
  • DarenDaren
    edited December 2008
    Thanks guys, much appreciated. Keep 'em coming.
  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited December 2008
    Austrian defeat in 1859

    MAGENTA

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Magenta
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited December 2008
    Did Perkin really change the world with this? ... Mauve.
  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited December 2008
    Daren wrote: »
    Here are some I'm stuck on, any help would be appreciated:

    I'll try ;)
    Inhabitant of Belarus (5,7) Black Russian?

    Your close. White Russians. Belarussians are the inhabitants. The prefix Bela means White and this people were called White Russians outside the Soviet Union.
    Firework (6)

    Maroon. The name also given to a firework used as a warning signal.
    Austrian defeat in 1859 (7)

    One of many defeats in fact. Terrible year for Austria :)
    It was the Battle of Magenta. I love 19th century European history.
    Computer Hacker (5,3)

    What do the numbers stand for? This one is trick because it probably refers to one of the three type of hat hackers. White hat, gray hat and black hat hackers.
    Just so, the colour of a "Great" African river (4-5)

    Well that's the Nile for sure. There's the White Nile and the Blue Nile tributaries.
    Edward Teach's five o'clock shadow (10)

    The true name of Blackbeard, the pirate.

    ...

    A little tired. Will continue later if no one else does.
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Austrian defeat in 1859 (7)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Magenta
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited December 2008
    Mixed up health remedy (4)
    Ecru - Anagram of cure. (Is lube a remedy?)

    Austrian defeat in 1859 (7)
    Magenta - Battle in the Franco-Austrian war

    Seek out Matthew 19.34 and Mark 10.25 (5)
    Camel - Through the eye of a needle, etc.

    An opening for Holmes (1,5,2,7)
    A Study in Scarlet - The first Sherlock Holmes novel.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited December 2008
    Matt_B wrote: »
    Mixed up health remedy (4)
    Ecru - Anagram of cure. (Is lube a remedy?)

    :-) Probably not, I just came up with four letter colours and fitted an anagram into it. I suppose gay men could consider it valuable for their health ;-)
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited December 2008
    Given to Captain Flint by the Amazon pirates Black Spot

    (Swallows and Amazons)
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Received by Number 11 in January 1917 (4,3)

    Are they numbered on the original, and if so, whats no. 11 ?
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • DarenDaren
    edited December 2008
    Zoffy wrote: »
    Received by Number 11 in January 1917 (4,3)

    Are they numbered on the original, and if so, whats no. 11 ?

    Ah...question 11: Manfred Von Richthofen (Red Baron)

    I assumed it meant No. 11 Downing Street, the Chancellor's residence :-/
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Fort Augustus hotel (5,4)

    http://www.lovatarms-hotel.com/
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lovat
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Daren wrote: »
    Ah...question 11: Manfred Von Richthofen (Red Baron)

    I assumed it meant No. 11 Downing Street, the Chancellor's residence :-/

    Blue Max - german medal
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited December 2008
    Splash landing site in Linz (4,6,7)

    Blue Danube Airport
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Featured Dalgleish in Dorset (3,5,5)

    The Black Tower - a PD James novel
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    He got plenty o' nuthin' in the 1993 TV production (7,5)

    Willard White in Porgy & Bess
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107854/
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited December 2008
    I'm quite impressed at how many people simultaneously got the battle of Magenta; do we have a lot of budding military historians on here or is this some quirk of the Spectrum's colour palette?
  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited December 2008
    Matt_B wrote: »
    I'm quite impressed at how many people simultaneously got the battle of Magenta; do we have a lot of budding military historians on here or is this some quirk of the Spectrum's colour palette?

    GOOGLE!!!!!!
  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    while your busy at the quiz, someone is probably already nobbing the hot female temp in the stationery room. get in there quick before she sobers up.
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Belgrade has meaning (5,8 )

    from wikipedia:
    Beograd, Београд Slavic name first mentioned in 878 as Beligrad in the letter of Pope John VIII to Boris of Bulgaria which means "White city / white fortress ".[76]
    General Malthadius Zoff
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  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Velma and Franklyn's Offspring (5,3,6)

    The film Hairspray:

    Despite being overweight, Tracy becomes a regular on the show, infuriating the show's reigning queen, Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick), a privileged, beautiful high school classmate whose pushy stage parents, Velma (Debbie Harry) and Franklin Von Tussle (Sonny Bono), own Tilted Acres amusement park
    General Malthadius Zoff
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  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Splash landing site in Linz (4,6,7)

    Theres a Blue Danube Airport in linz, but for a splash landing... seaport? harbour?

    edit: I think it is 'Blue Danube Airport'
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited December 2008
    Guy's gal wore them

    Could be "red flappers" (old 30s style dress).
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Troutbridge was the location for some fun (3,4,5)

    Could be HMS Troutbridge - The Navy Lark (but thats 3-4-4)
    General Malthadius Zoff
    Magenta icon
  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited December 2008
    "Told about ill fated 1203 (5,4)"

    Ebony Eyes, an early '60s hit for the Everly Brothers, about a soldier whose girlfriend is flying to him on flight 1203 so they can be married; she never arrives.
    I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.
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