For those of you who can think of nothing worse than the Christmas
festivities, the 2022 Christmas Quiz has arrived to expand your
horizons.

Downloadable from:
< http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/quiz.htm>

As usual it is based on a theme - and as usual, I'm not going to tell
you what it is. When you find out, please don't spoil it for others.

It is far more fun if you tackle it as a group or competitively, rather
than just trying to do it on your own. The answers will be posted on
the website after Christmas.

Happy Christmas.


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On 21/12/2022 23:19, NY wrote:

On 21/12/2022 21:04, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

For those of you who can think of nothing worse than the Christmas
festivities, the 2022 Christmas Quiz has arrived to expand your
horizons.

Downloadable from:
< http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/quiz.htm>

As usual it is based on a theme - and as usual, I'm not going to tell
you what it is.  When you find out, please don't spoil it for others.

It is far more fun if you tackle it as a group or competitively, rather
than just trying to do it on your own.  The answers will be posted on
the website after Christmas.

Happy Christmas.

25 is very corny. And 17 is even more so. I love it! I think I've worked
out your theme already.

Just got to work out 2, 9, 13 and 23.

22 was one of those "oh yes, so it did" moments ;-)

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On 21/12/2022 21:04, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

For those of you who can think of nothing worse than the Christmas festivities, the 2022 Christmas Quiz has arrived to expand your
horizons.

Downloadable from:
< http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/quiz.htm>

As usual it is based on a theme - and as usual, I'm not going to tell
you what it is. When you find out, please don't spoil it for others.

It is far more fun if you tackle it as a group or competitively, rather
than just trying to do it on your own. The answers will be posted on
the website after Christmas.

Happy Christmas.

25 is very corny. And 17 is even more so. I love it! I think I've worked
out your theme already.

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NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

On 21/12/2022 23:19, NY wrote:

On 21/12/2022 21:04, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

For those of you who can think of nothing worse than the Christmas
festivities, the 2022 Christmas Quiz has arrived to expand your
horizons.

Downloadable from:
< http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/quiz.htm>

As usual it is based on a theme - and as usual, I'm not going to tell
you what it is.  When you find out, please don't spoil it for others.

It is far more fun if you tackle it as a group or competitively, rather
than just trying to do it on your own.  The answers will be posted on
the website after Christmas.

Happy Christmas.

25 is very corny. And 17 is even more so. I love it! I think I've worked out your theme already.

Just got to work out 2, 9, 13 and 23.

22 was one of those "oh yes, so it did" moments ;-)

Some of us are old enough to remember that.

13 and 23 are old words that seem to have faded into obscurity.


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"Liz Tuddenham" <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:1q3czni.qlzf441dh75ekN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid...

22 was one of those "oh yes, so it did" moments ;-)

Some of us are old enough to remember that.

Yes I can remember it happening, but I'd forgotten until I looked it up and thought "there's one missing from the list I can find - ah, *that's* why".

13 and 23 are old words that seem to have faded into obscurity.

Thanks for the hint. I need to think of as many synonyms as I can. I can't
see anything relevant in the category that has a finite set of members, so
it must relate to the other category of words which are also part of the set
in your clues. (It's damn difficult asking for hints without giving the game away about the common factor(s) in your answers!)

2 ought to be easy. The "first light" and "sounds like a lion" ought to
suggest a word. Well they each suggest a different word but those don't
combine into a 6-letter word that relates to "flickering goddess" and which
is part of the common factor in your answers. Time to Google. Ah! (sound of penny dropping). Didn't know that. But it ticks all the boxes.

Hmm. Number 9. What's the significance of "three is a breeze". Hang on, let
me check a certain list. Yes. Of the gentle variety.

So there's just 13 and 23 left. I'll keep puzzling over those.

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In article <1q3bzq6.1xy26n92g51dsN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>,
Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:

For those of you who can think of nothing worse than the Christmas >festivities, the 2022 Christmas Quiz has arrived to expand your
horizons.

Along similar lines to number 8, here is a question from the GCHQ
Christmas quiz:

If a French ailurophile fancies a chat, what does a Polish cynophile fancy?

-- Richard

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Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

In article <1q3bzq6.1xy26n92g51dsN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>,
Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:

For those of you who can think of nothing worse than the Christmas >festivities, the 2022 Christmas Quiz has arrived to expand your
horizons.

Along similar lines to number 8, here is a question from the GCHQ
Christmas quiz:

If a French ailurophile fancies a chat, what does a Polish cynophile fancy?

I think I can guess the answer (it goes via Number25 to something I was
making a few days ago).

It was the GCHQ Christmas Quiz many years ago that got me started on
writing quizzes. I'm useless at solving them, but enjoy thinking up the questions.


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NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

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2 ought to be easy. The "first light" and "sounds like a lion" ought to suggest a word. Well they each suggest a different word but those don't combine into a 6-letter word that relates to "flickering goddess" and which is part of the common factor in your answers. Time to Google. Ah! (sound of penny dropping). Didn't know that. But it ticks all the boxes.

There's a ballet named after her, based on bits of another ballet that
is often performed at Christmas.

So there's just 13 and 23 left. I'll keep puzzling over those.

That should keep you busy for a while. :-)


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On 22/12/2022 21:25, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

...
2 ought to be easy. The "first light" and "sounds like a lion" ought to
suggest a word. Well they each suggest a different word but those don't
combine into a 6-letter word that relates to "flickering goddess" and which >> is part of the common factor in your answers. Time to Google. Ah! (sound of >> penny dropping). Didn't know that. But it ticks all the boxes.

There's a ballet named after her, based on bits of another ballet that
is often performed at Christmas.

I suppose your clue could also have alluded to a certain chemical symbol...

I'm not very well up on ballets. I've not heard of that one, though
having googled I see which other better-known ballet it is based on.

So there's just 13 and 23 left. I'll keep puzzling over those.

That should keep you busy for a while. :-)

I wonder if I'll get them before you give the answers.


Ah, 23 has connections with an very old seaman who annoys a proportion
of passers-by. I didn't know the word related specifically to supercooling.

Just 13 now.

Duh! How did it take me so long to get 13? It's also a town in North
Yorkshire with Midland Railway connections and a cafe where you might
expect to find a man in his birthday suit.


So I've got them all - assuming I haven't made any mistakes - and before Christmas alcohol has numbed any braincells.

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On 22/12/2022 21:25, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

If a French ailurophile fancies a chat, what does a Polish cynophile fancy?

I think I can guess the answer (it goes via Number25 to something I was making a few days ago).

Most people learn French at school, but I bet the number of people who
know Polish is much smaller. I worked out what a cynophile was from the
first part of the question, but I then had to use Google Translate to
get the Polish word for it. And as you say, appropriate for the time of
year.

It was the GCHQ Christmas Quiz many years ago that got me started on
writing quizzes. I'm useless at solving them, but enjoy thinking up the questions.

I like this one that I saw many years ago in a gardening crossword
"Sounds as if they keep a bony mother in reserve".

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In article <4hycnWeLYfYNeDn-nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

I worked out what a cynophile was

Compare "cynic", one who takes a dog's view of life.

-- Richard

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NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

On 22/12/2022 21:25, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

...
2 ought to be easy. The "first light" and "sounds like a lion" ought to
suggest a word. Well they each suggest a different word but those don't
combine into a 6-letter word that relates to "flickering goddess" and which
is part of the common factor in your answers. Time to Google. Ah! (sound of
penny dropping). Didn't know that. But it ticks all the boxes.

The technique I have learned is, whenever posible, put several 'boxes'
in each clue and make sure the correct answer is the only one that ticks
all of them (and has the right number of letters and is 'on theme').

There's a ballet named after her, based on bits of another ballet that
is often performed at Christmas.

I suppose your clue could also have alluded to a certain chemical symbol...

I nearly used that symbol in the clue to number 14, but decided there
was already enough chemistry and physics and I didn't want to discourage
any non-scientists.

I'm not very well up on ballets. I've not heard of that one, though
having googled I see which other better-known ballet it is based on.

So there's just 13 and 23 left. I'll keep puzzling over those.

That should keep you busy for a while. :-)

I wonder if I'll get them before you give the answers.

Ah, 23 has connections with an very old seaman who annoys a proportion
of passers-by. I didn't know the word related specifically to supercooling.

Just 13 now.

Duh! How did it take me so long to get 13? It's also a town in North Yorkshire with Midland Railway connections and a cafe where you might
expect to find a man in his birthday suit.

So I've got them all - assuming I haven't made any mistakes - and before Christmas alcohol has numbed any braincells.

It sounds as though you have got them all, but check after Christmas
just in case any of those you haven't yet mentioned went astray. You
can also find quizzes from previous years listed on the website.

I think you are the first person to let me know you have completed it.
That's very helpful to me, too, because it tells me none of the
questions was impossible.


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On 23/12/2022 09:44, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

It sounds as though you have got them all, but check after Christmas
just in case any of those you haven't yet mentioned went astray. You
can also find quizzes from previous years listed on the website.

Yes I had a look at several of them. I might go back to them and see how
I get on trying to solve all the ones for each year in turn, as opposed
to dipping in and seeing which were the easier ones. Do the later ones
which are not initials have a common theme for each year, as the 2022
one does?

I got a lot of the earlier "initials" ones, though there were a few that
had me baffled because I'd never heard of the full phrase so I'd never
have been able to work it out from the initials. There was one quiz
where several questions were of the form "X is a QD". I looked at the
answer for one of those, saw what QD was and was then able to do all the
other QDs.

I think you are the first person to let me know you have completed it.
That's very helpful to me, too, because it tells me none of the
questions was impossible.

I solved them all (eventually) with a mixture of knowledge and googling
- I left googling very much to a last resort. Working out one of the two categories into which the answers fall was a great help because I knew
those answers would come from a finite set which I could *mostly*
remember from hearing them intoned.


I wonder how I will do with the previous years' quizzes tomorrow after
I'm sozzled from alcohol and stuffed with food? (Ah, "tomorrow" is now
"today" - so Merry Christmas.)

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NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

... Do the later ones
which are not initials have a common theme for each year, as the 2022
one does?

Yes. I decided on that when I ran out of puns for letters and numbers.

I solved them all (eventually) with a mixture of knowledge and googling
- I left googling very much to a last resort. Working out one of the two categories into which the answers fall was a great help because I knew
those answers would come from a finite set which I could *mostly*
remember from hearing them intoned.

A friend has just confessed to using some sort of automated online chat
AI. It didn't help him because it only knew the more common modern
spelling of the word (Number 23) and gave him answers with the wrong
number of letters.

I wonder how I will do with the previous years' quizzes tomorrow after
I'm sozzled from alcohol and stuffed with food? (Ah, "tomorrow" is now "today" - so Merry Christmas.)

Merry Christmas to you.

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