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It's a quiz!

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:15 pm
by RobertP
Has anyone played Callahan's crosstime saloon?

It features riddles, composed of a couple of words. The words are synonyms or defenitions of the word you're looking for. These words form the name of a famous actor or band, more or less phonetically.

An example from the game: "irritate, occupied to capacity, and lifeless" becomes "Grate, Full, Dead" - "grateful dead".

I made up a couple of riddles. All names of bands or solo musicians.

1. Dick, leg joint, grasp, deeds
2. Topnotch, crazy, core
3. Article, flutter, soil
4. Vow, (it) be, ruddy, tavern
5. Excavation, paddle, attire
6. Fog, inner-city, dupe
7. Confined, trendy, argument, flatus
8. Silent expression, grieving, raise, genderless pronoun
9. Bloodshed, unwell, girl
10. Woodknot, ascended, sibilant

Re: It's a quiz!

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:21 pm
by Commodore
RobertP wrote:5. Excavation, paddle, attire
digoarsuit!

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:13 pm
by RobertP
:hmmmm: Almost, but not quite.

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:12 pm
by Zenith Nadir
i'm really bad at this sort of word puzzle

no answers from me, sorry Zaphod

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:58 am
by superbowl shuffle
Image

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:50 pm
by Scribbit
for #1 I've got Pen-knee-hold something, is there an actor whose name starts with Penny Hold---? I don't know a lot of Band names, actors, or sports teams (which probably makes me useless for small talk, unless you'd care to hear about the properties of PHI.

Incidentally, that scroll thing uses a symbol that normally represents PHI: Image. Eh, it's a greek letter. Whatcha gonna do.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:07 pm
by Scribbit
Wow, I think I broke the BBcode barrier!

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:02 pm
by RobertP
I tried to come up with bands/musicians that are not too obscure or too new (I find that there is such a numerous amount of bands that all sound like gang of four or some other band from a decade ago).

1. Early British Oi
2. 90's random pop group (and a reference to smoking crack)
3. Drummer only got one arm
4. Passionate soul singer
5. American Hardcore punk
6. Mike Patton
7. Experimental blues rock
8. Something involving a coat
9. Cartoon supergroup
10. Experimental metal

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:51 pm
by Commodore
is 3 really def leppard? I don't see how that works. (i don't know any other one armed drummers.)

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:32 pm
by Zenith Nadir
6 is mr. bungle
9 is gorillaz

i only got these because the clues were sort of obvious.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:34 pm
by RobertP
I went a bit overboard with the hints, eh, but you still get the glamour. :keen:

3. Article, flutter, soil (the - flap - earth)

Sometimes you have to pronounce the words as if you're actually French.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:44 pm
by superbowl shuffle
4. Otis Redding

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:44 pm
by Scribbit
Nupanick wrote:for #1 I've got Pen-knee-hold something, is there an actor whose name starts with Penny Hold---?
No, I think it could also be Cockney Hold---. Again, I still don't know enough bands for that to click with me.