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.

Sandra's Wedding - Humberside Gymnastics

14. Don't get stuck behind these guys.

Caravan - Golf Girl

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

"A flirty swot" was an anagram...

Taylor Swift - The Archer

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.

Prefab Sprout - I Never Play Basketball Now

11. What Billy Ocean wanted to be.

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

Loverboy - Jump

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.

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - The Equestrian Statue

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

That sounds like the Meadowlark Eleven.

Medalark 11 - Diving

8. Buried antler covers.

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

The Velvet Underground - Coney Island Steeplechase

7. Scottish detective guilty of regicide with an Osprey.

Hamish Macbeth & his pet hawk.

Hamish Hawk - The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973

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.

Robbie Fulks & Kelly Willis - Parallel Bars

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

Flu lubricants.

Lulu - The Boat That I Row

4. Unwelcome visitors.

The Intruders - (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game

3. Mary, Queen of Scots goes fishing. 

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

Rod Stewart - Sailing

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

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

Julian Cope - Trampolene

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...

Saturday Snapshots #126 - The Answers

Time for the answers. Yes. Yesss. Yesssss. YESSSSSS!!!


10. We say the Pope is boss. Young actress grows old.

Didn't think anyone would get this unless they used google. (Couldn't even find a proper version on youtube, sorry. But I do like this song.)

"Ultramontanism is a clerical political conception within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the Pope."

The Ultra Montanes - Ageing Starlet

9. Jacob's daughter in capital craziness over backwards yob.

No problems with this one.

"Jacob, Jacob and son..." Turns out he had 12 lads... and only one daughter.

Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy

8. What Billy Ocean and Freddie Mercury had in common: the thought of Saturday Snapshots kept them going Monday - Friday.

Billy & Freddie both sang about loverboys.

Loverboy - Living For The Weekend

7. Remember when we couldn't defeat Michael Caine?

Amazulu is the full name of the largest ethnic group in South Africa... the ones who gave Michael Caine so much trouble in the film Zulu.

Amazulu - Too Good to Be Forgotten

6. Philosophical drinking debate mourns Rod Serling.

Another one you might have been able to google, because a "symposium" came from Greek banquets (it means "to drink together"... so next time you get invited to a symposium at work, remember that) where philosophy was debated.

Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone.

Symposium - Farewell To Twilight

5. Cross the rivers with the Keys to Silverstone and you'll find the evening entertainment is to die for.

Alyson worked out the Alicia bit (Keys & Silverstone)... well done for that.

Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife

4. Return to youth in REM Motel.

REM Motel was an anagram. Well done, Lynchie.

Mel Torme - Comin' Home, Baby

3. Naked copper in Motown.

Bobby Bare - Detroit City

2. Paranoid, but happy, request for information.

Marvin was the paranoid android. Gay used to just mean happy.

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On?

1. Completely unaware, in Cat Maze Race.

I love that photo. And another anagram...


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