The Challenge

[spursfan]

Help please with the following questions
Q67 What,musically,do Jimi Hendrix,Edward VIII,Paul McCartney and Bruce Forsyth have in common?
Q75 Originally it was Fire,which became Trinity in the 16th century and Beautiful in the 17th.How is it best known to us today?
Q88 Which same term can be applied to Christ Church college at Oxford University,the Commons at Westminster and the Stock Exchange in London?
Thanks
spursfan

[dundurn]

Q88 The House

[dundurn]

Q67 they all play(ed) the ukulele

[dundurn]

Q75 Red Square in Moscow - originally the site of a fire, it was called Trinity after the Trinity Cathedral; then the Krasnaya Square which word originally meant beautiful as well as red - currently, just red

[spursfan]

Hi dundurn
Many thanks for your help
spursfan

[dundurn]

No problem - the last one I sort of knew but took a while to relate the answer to the question - the others I just like a challenge - gave me a whole new perspective on Edward VIII, I must say

[spursfan]

Hi dundurn
If you like a challenge,maybe you might like to get your teeth into these beauties from this month's Challenge.
Q111 Which Oscar nominated film of the 1940's might have been titled "Cocking a Snook"-it's actual title having the same meaning?
Q112 A cipher included the following: and=2,for=3,not=x,when=++,m=//,q=m,r=f,u=c,x=7,y=8 and z=9
Who was using the code whilst in prison to communicate with the outside world?
Q113 3,12,15,19,23,43,48,63 and 87 together make what?(and please don't try 313-you've had your clue a long time ago)
There are a couple more in a similar vein and they are all driving me mad
spursfan

[dundurn]

What a set of stinkers! Not much of a clue about the last two and not much idea of where to start looking........

Q111 - The Shanghai Gesture nominated 1942 for Music and Art Direction (B&W) - never heard of it!

[dundurn]

Q112 Mary Queen of Scots - phew - as a Scot I'd never have lived down not knowing that one!!

[dundurn]

By the way - what is this Challenge, who compiles it? How often does it get published?

[spursfan]

Hi dundurn
Many thanks again for your help-I had already found Q111, but had no idea about Q112
I did mention that there were a few more in this vein,but since then I have found some of them,so the only one left,apart from Q113,which you have already seen, is the following
Q115 John,Andrew,James,Joseph,George,Thomas,Philip,Peter,Michael-there are two missing-who is the missing "bearded" lady?
The Challenge is a monthly torture session of 120 questions,set by a guy from Canterbury down here in Kent and provides hours of fun
The fiendish examples you have seen are from the last ten questions and are used as tie-breakers in the event of a tie over the other 110 questions
spursfan

[Peabrain]

115 will pop out of google if you put the right words in

[spursfan]

Hi Peabrain
Thanks for your suggestion-any chance of a liitle bit more help as I've obviously tried Googling the actual names in the question, but to no avail
Many Thanks
spursfan