Tough 1 (9 Sept)

Post by **merry** » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:50 am

1 The King’s Guide to the Sands assists with crossing what?

2 What does the horned lizard squirt from its eye?

3 Rishi Sunak is the first UK prime minister to have which degree?

4 Synonymicon is another name for what type of book?

5 Which British explorer disappeared in the Amazon in 1925?

6 Where do the presidential guard wear a fustanella?

7 Which sailing trophy is known as the Auld Mug?

8 Whose 10th symphony was assembled by Barry Cooper?

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:24 am

1 The King’s Guide to the Sands assists with crossing what?
Sahara Desert

8 Whose 10th symphony was assembled by Barry Cooper?
Dvorak had several symphonies that were found after his death and were redesignated (the fifth became the ninth) so it is possible that there was a partially completed 10th.
Beethoven was writing up to his death having also produced nine symphonies. I'm guessing Beethoven for this one. He was such a musical giant that to assemble another from partially completed manuscripts would be tempting for many.

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:40 am

4 Synonymicon is another name for what type of book?
From the roots, I'm going to guess a Thesaurus (which is the Latin word for treasure)

7 Which sailing trophy is known as the Auld Mug?
The America's Cup (yes, I know, I finally know a sports question ;-) )

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:26 pm

5 Which British explorer disappeared in the Amazon in 1925? Colonel Fawcett. There's a film about it called 'The Lost City of Z', which I have never watched.

Furby · Post by **Furby** » Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:41 pm

3 politics and economics neither of which appear to be helping him much in the job so just shows how useless education is.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sat Sep 09, 2023 6:38 pm

6 Where do the presidential guard wear a fustanella? I've just remembered this one - it is the kilt the Greek guards wear. They also wear shoes that look like black slippers with a big pom-pom on each slipper. When Michael Palin was doing one of his travel programmes they showed the guards doing a very slow motion goose-step which reminded me of a Monty Python sketch.

Wildrover · Post by **Wildrover** » Sun Sep 10, 2023 1:31 pm

1. Morecambe Bay - it achieved some notoriety whn those Chinese cockle pickers were killed there some years ago.
2. Blood

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:58 am

Here are the answers. Everybody chipped in so 7/8 is a real team effort. Rishi Sunak got a first class honours with his PPE at Lincoln College Oxford, and went on to get his MBA as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in California.

1 Morecambe Bay.
2 Blood.
3 MBA.
4 Thesaurus.
5 Percy Fawcett.
6 Greece (kilt-like garment).
7 America’s Cup.
8 Beethoven.

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:21 pm

This is a clip from the Monty Python sketch that OC referred to: