ANSWERS
What? You really thought there would be ANSWERS?
The evil Web Mistress rolls on the floor cackling with maniacal laughter!
I mean, what part of 'diabolical' do you not get?
Seriously, the answers will be appearing after you've stewed for a bit.
In the meantime, anyone who e-mails me with a correct solution to all or any
part of this little bit of torture fun, will get his or her
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See the bottom of this page.
Question 1:
Venus:
P=Phosporus=the Morning Star
locomotive 92220=Evening Star
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Question 2:
Long John Silver (1 leg); legs 11 (2 legs); Isle of Man triskelion (3 legs). An
alternative answer to the riddle which the Sphinx asked Oedipus. Oedipus means
swollen feet.
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Question 3:
England wicket keepers: Jack Russell, Alan Knot+t, Geraint Jones, Phil Mustard
and Matt Prior.
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Question 4:
The seeress of Knaresborough, Mother Shipton, is a moth. The rest are
butterflies: a grayling, a dingy skipper, an Apollo, a peacock, a painted lady,
and a comma.
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Question 5:
In the tarot deck:
#1 The Magician, #3 The Empress, #4 The Emperor #6 The Lovers, #9 (Peter) The
Hermit, # 13 Death
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Question 6:
Venta Belgarum=Winchester. Supernatural' s Sam and Dean Winchester hunt
demons, the Winchester carbine was "the gun that won the West." The
New Vaudeville Band had a hit with Winchester Cathedral and the author
of Persuasion, Jane Austen, is buried in said cathedral.
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Question 7:
Eight maids a-milking. The twelve days of Christmas meet the Fibonacci series:
0 1 1 2 3 5 8. [ 79 is the atomic number of gold. ]
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Question 8:
In the human body: patella, colon, trapezium, iris, stern-um, coccyx, radius,
innominate bone and Achilles ten-dons
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Question 9:
B; OH; E; M; IA; N;
Rh; A; PS; O: D; Y.
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Question 10:
Chess: black and white checked board, knight, bishop, king, rook, queen and
p(r)awns.
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THE WALL
Juno
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Omaha
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Sword
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Utah
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D-Day Beaches
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Chromium
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Gold
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Nickel
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Silver
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Metals
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Bonney
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Morgan
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Read
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Teach
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Pirates
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Copper
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Fuzz
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Peeler
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Sweeney
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Police
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Q
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Solver
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Q
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Solver
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1
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6
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2
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7
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3
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8
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4
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9
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5
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10
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All
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Wall
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