Sunday, 28 July 2024

Snapshots #354: A Top Twenty Olympic Sport Songs

Welcome to our special Olympics 2024 edition of Snapshots. I hope you got to see all the events...


20. The perpetrators in a murder mystery.

Everybody likes to know Whodunit.

The Who - Relay

19. Do you want ketchup on your ribs?

Redbone - Cycles

18. Would you buy a Z, never worn, even if it was reupholstered?

"A Z, never worn" was an anagram...

Warren Zevon - Hit Someone! (The Hockey Song)

17. This quiz would be impossible without them.

The Photos - Skateboard

16. Ice, Double, Sour.

Cream - Anyone For Tennis?

15. Bulloch, betrothed.


Sandra Bulloch, at her wedding.


14. Don't get stuck behind these guys.



13. And definitely try not to get mixed up with a flirty swot.


"A flirty swot" was an anagram...


12. Corn-selling sidekick, made in sections to allow for easy assembly.


Sprout was the Green Giant's annoying sidekick. Prefab houses are as described.


11. What Billy Ocean wanted to be.


Billy Ocean wanted to be your love, lover, Loverboy.


10. Stairway drummer's best friend sings little bits of a Police song.


John "Bonzo" Bonham was the drummer on Stairway To Heaven. Man's Best Friend is a dog. The Police sang De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.


9. Sounds like a football team made up of playful birds put out to pasture.


That sounds like the Meadowlark Eleven.


8. Buried antler covers.


Antlers are often covered in velvet. And these are underground.


7. Scottish detective guilty of regicide with an Osprey.


Hamish Macbeth & his pet hawk.


6. Biko rubs elf... he's clearly mixed up. Fortunately, Gene and Bruce can help. 

"Biko rubs elf" was an anagram. Gene Kelly meets Bruce Willis.


5. The doctor gave me some flu lubricants - they contained everything I needed.


Flu lubricants.


4. Unwelcome visitors.



3. Mary, Queen of Scots goes fishing. 


Mary, Queen of Scots was a Stuart. She'll need a Rod to go fishing.


2. Blur kept him under pressure, but he managed.


Blur put Pressure On Julian. But he was able to Cope. 


That's not how I'd spell trampoline.

1. You'll find these guys nested in a baseball. 


"Nested in a baseball" was an anagram...

Belle & Sebastian - The Stars Of Track & Field


More Olympics tunes tomorrow, in a special Snapshots Spillover.

The quiz returns next Saturday...


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