Don't worry if you Drew a blank yesterday, here are the answers to our special 200th Anniversary edition of Saturday Snapshots. All the song titles were taken (or adapted) as band names by other artists...
20. Best not to drink.
Why would you drink muddy water?
And here they are together...
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Mannish Boy
19. Icky tumble.
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Starsailor - Poor Misguided Fool
18. Joyful quack.
17. Dunce caps all round.
The Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers
16. Westlife chose not to use them.
Westlife went Flying Without Wings.
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
15. Cinema soundtrack.
14. He's only semi-sorry.
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The Ordinary Boys - Week In Week Out
13. Tie + ie.
Bow (tie) + ie.
The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
12. Peculiarities.
Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Round a Memory
11. Rodeo Channel.
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Leonard Cohen - Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
10. Robert, Patti, Elliott.
The Smiths - Shakespeare's Sister
Shakespear's Sister - You're History
Or...
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
Or even...
Panic! At The Disco: I Write Sins Not Tragedies
9. Hull jotter.
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Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine
8. Purple bloodvessel.
Prince liked purple.
Buster Bloodvessel had Bad Manners.
7. Made Idlewild laugh while they argued.
In When I Argue, I See Shapes, Idlewild sing that Syd Barrett laughs.
The Gigolo Aunts - Where I Find My Heaven
6. Hidden in the bedside table.
The Vibrators - Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
5. Copying answers from the rescue dog.
Copying answers is cribbing. The rescue dog is a St. Bernard.
Bernard Cribbins - Right Said Fred
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
4. Reagan's chimp turns God around, zippity.
God turned around is Dog.
Zippity Doo Dah!
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
3. Are you ready for your close-up?
A close-up on TV is the equivalent of a Talking Head.
Or... and I didn't know this until this week...
Talking Heads - The Big Country
Big Country - In A Big Country
2. Three cards, bust at 25.
Two Jacks on a five might make 25...
1. Cold determination... or desperation?
Cold determination = steely.
Desperate Dan.
Brilliant stuff Rol
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your hard work
Rol - I hereby dub you the Master of Quizzery. Don't know how you manage to come up with these clues every week, but the 200th was a beauty.
ReplyDeleteHear hear to both comments above. Thank you Rol!
ReplyDeleteYes, an excellent start to our Saturdays so thanks so much for keeping up the momentum all this time.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to edition number 200 of your excellent quiz I follow during the last years and makes my Saturday (even if I am not able to get the solutions). Keep on your great work.
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys.
ReplyDeleteYou sure went all out for the 200th. Great fun. Congratulations on this momentous occasion.
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