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Music
1. Did those feet in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green?
2. Was the holy lamb of God, on England's pleasant pastures seen?
3. Did the countenance divine, shine forth upon our clouded hills?
4. Was Jerusalem builded here, among those dark Satanic mills?
5. Who are you?
6. Who, who, who, who?
7. What do I wish I was?
8. Whose jingle have I often heard?
9. What was I concentrating on, as I walked down the street?
10. Where was Churchill's hiccup?

Literature
11. Who introduced us to French Country Cooking?
12. What comes between Foundation and Second Foundation?
13. Who was a Citizen of the Galaxy
14. Where may be found the Fountains of Paradise?
15. What sort of berries do pearls look like?
16. Did Watson learn the trick?
17. Where was the Battle of the Eastern Fields fought?
18. Which way round does the Earth rotate while Louis Wu is enjoying his birthday?
19. Who Observed a Grief?
20. Who has got no nose?

Date: 2010-08-10 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
1. According to legend, yes, in company with Joseph of Arimathea on a trading trip.
4. No, not in Blake's opinion.
7. In Dixie.
11. Elizabeth David.
12. Foundation and Empire.
15. Mistletoe.
19. Nat Whilk - aka C S Lewis.
20. The fallen sons of Eve.

Date: 2010-08-11 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
Correction to 19 - Nat Whilk Clerk

Date: 2010-08-10 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] didiusjulianus.livejournal.com
5 & 6: yes. and your point is?

Date: 2010-08-13 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
General points of the quiz are to amuse, to entertain and to inform. 5 and 6 refer to a particular song, from (if memory serves) the 60s ...

Date: 2010-08-10 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com
12: Foundation and Empire
13: Can't remember his name, but the book is by Robert Anson Heinlein
14. In Sri Lanka
15. Which colour pearls?
18: In the first - pulped - edition, the wrong way. The terminator in that book travels East.

Edit: I have refrained from the first set of questions, because the answers would get repetitive (No, No, No, No. Don't know and I doubt even Grissom ever found out, Don't Know - and repeat...)
Edited Date: 2010-08-10 07:51 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-08-13 10:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
9 points, I think.

Date: 2010-08-10 07:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] el-staplador.livejournal.com
1,2,3 - not yet.
5. What's it to you, sir?
9. A host of golden daffodils.
13. The Milky Bar Kid.
15. Mistletoe.
16. I don't know, but Housman didn't.
19. The adoring fans of C. S. Lewis.
20. The Pobble. No, wait, that's toes.

Date: 2010-08-13 10:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
15 points!

Date: 2010-08-10 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muuranker.livejournal.com
Music
1. Did those feet in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green? Yes.
2. Was the holy lamb of God, on England's pleasant pastures seen? Probably not.
3. Did the countenance divine, shine forth upon our clouded hills? Yes.
4. Was Jerusalem builded here, among those dark Satanic mills? No.
5. Who are you? Muuranker.
6. Who, who, who, who? Me, myself and I. And muuranker.
7. What do I wish I was? You wish you was a country pub.
8. Whose jingle have I often heard? Anchor butter. It has oft times annoyed you.
9. What was I concentrating on, as I walked down the street? Your feet.
10. Where was Churchill's hiccup? In the cabinet war office.

Literature
11. Who introduced us to French Country Cooking? Elizabeth whoozit. Bother.
12. What comes between Foundation and Second Foundation? Bother, I know this ...
13. Who was a Citizen of the Galaxy? Ditto.
14. Where may be found the Fountains of Paradise? O, heck, I do know this!
15. What sort of berries do pearls look like? Miseltoe (I can do LPW questions!)
16. Did Watson learn the trick? Nope, doesn't ring a bell.
17. Where was the Battle of the Eastern Fields fought? Birmingham.
18. Which way round does the Earth rotate while Louis Wu is enjoying his birthday? Eh?
19. Who Observed a Grief? Lewis.
20. Who has got no nose? Your dog. How does it smell?

Date: 2010-08-13 10:53 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-08-10 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] krakenwakes.livejournal.com
1. Yes, obviously.
2. Only in the mating season.
3. Now you're just getting smutty.
4. No, they couldn't get planning permission.
5. Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
6. An owl impersonator
7. A shooting star.
8. Probably Santa's sleigh bells.
9. Singing oh-blah-didi-dum-didi-do.
10. In his diaphram.

11. No one has, as yet.
12. Galaxy's End
13. Zaphod Beeblebrox
14. Trafalger Sq.
15. Mistletoe
16. No, but he could do remarkable things with his toes.
17. On the Eastern Fields.
18. Counter-clockwise.
19. Trotsky.
20 The Dong.

Date: 2010-08-13 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
13 points!

Date: 2010-08-11 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
9. Not walking on the cracks, in case the bears get you.

Date: 2010-08-17 09:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Possibly, but is that really "music"?

Date: 2010-08-17 09:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
Well, I know a setting of that poem, so yes!

Date: 2010-08-17 09:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Fair enough!

Date: 2010-08-11 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
6. Well, you ought to guess who - no-one but you!

Date: 2010-08-13 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I think that makes a total of 16 points.

Date: 2010-08-13 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
Do I get another one for saying why Lewis chose that pseudonym?

Date: 2010-08-13 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
The name on the first edition was N W Clerk - N W standing for Nat Whilk, meaning "I know not whom" and "clerk" in the sense of an educated person.

Date: 2010-08-13 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Ooh, very good! Well worth an extra point, bringing you up to 17 in total.

Date: 2010-08-13 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
And I wonder if the answer to 10 might be, "In his hissaucer?"

Date: 2010-08-13 05:13 pm (UTC)

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