Monday, January 02, 2006

Across the seven seas

Heyya,

It's answer season once again, after ages. I usually include the names of the people who got the right answers, as well as some of the more entertaining guesses, but for now you'll have to settle for the bare facts. I'll hopefully get round to updating it later.

Try your luck at Set Nine - the long overdue set 8 answers will be up shortly. Also, don't forget to write in and rate the questions and answers. the rating scheme is described in the first posting Ground Zero.

So here are the answers!

7.1
They are raising money for the First Amendment Project


7.2
Katrina (oldie by now)


7.3
a) Stranger in a Strange Land
b) Number of the Beast
c) Fear of the Dark

a. Alexander the Great
b. Brave New World
c. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d. The Prisoner
e. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
f. Where Eagles Dare
g. Seventh Son (of a Seventh Son)
h. Genghis Khan
i. The Wicker Man
j. Lord of the Flies
k. Phantom of the Opera

They are all Iron Maiden Songs.


7.4
Pele


7.5
The snakes slit their tongues on the sharp blades of grass, resulting in forked tongues for snakes.


7.6
Jack the Ripper (Incidentally, From Hell is a Johnny Depp movie about Jack the Ripper)

7.7
Freud on cocaine


7.8
James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron.


7.9
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, God of the Rastafarians (Ras Tafari - check his name again).


7.10
Grateful. It's the Cherry Garcia, named after Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead (Thus, Deadheads.). The black cherries were after he died. The recipe belongs to Ben and Jerry's, an ice cream company.



Adios, amigos!