lavender trust christmas quiz

[fordward]

realy strugling with the last 12
here are 6of them
30 Will the organist take a beating 9
34 This King is married to David Lloyd Georges great granddaughter 5.4
40 Can Hungary McCoy spit nylons fit around to find an old TV series anag 5.7.6.6
48 Who first brought Lennon & McCartney music to the proms 3.5.7
50 Was this ever consumed by this 'Diamond' geezer 3.3.4
52 One of 15 from 1242 for the Senior service maybe 7

[keyboardix]

My thought process has packed up !!! However, your thoughts for 30 are along the lines of "assault and battery" or battering, but I do not see the relevance, with respect. I still favour "roasting" as an anagram of organist, which fits with the "loose" Christmas-themed answers) and wonder if this is another letter count error by the Quiz-setter.
Thanks for confirming the Neil Diamond connection with number 50.
Have you any hints for 42, 48, 55, 61, 68, 72, 73, 79, 84 & 86, please. (Did not realise I still needed so many, but am now off to my bed)

[brokenbank]

Glad you all got No. 52..........I was relieved to see it did refer to Christmas especially as I didn't realise HMS ships went back that far.

[megellan]

Hi Keyboardix
Can you explain why No. 71 is "speech impediments"
What's this got to do with Christmas ?
Am i mssing the plot somewhere ?

[smouse]

Brokenbank I was astounded I got it. I use wiki all the time and had found a list of HMS but couldnt get past this

I like roasting too but as the seller of this quiz is an ABer I think you'd have thought they'd have popped up to say there was an error in the number of letters for that and the Mr Benn one

Clues of keyboardix - ask of you want answers
42 - is just a fact so I just searched a lot - its a man name as the clue implies
48 again I just googled this
55 anagram
61 rhyming slang
68 what award is it describing?
72 look up the definition of the first two words
73 google the date and the big one
79 I didnt get this myself Joey was in Bread
84 Its fact again - try putting in the whole phrase its a common trivia question
86 You'll be glad when you finish this quiz!!!!

[fordward]

thankyou keyboardix and smouse you are brill that just leaves me 48, 68, 86

[smouse]

read out loud my clue to 86!

[fordward]

been googling like mad for 48 & 68 but getting no place! this 62 year old chap will have to eat, i shall have lunch

[smouse]

http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/a rticle2763698.ece

[smouse]

Hope YOU'LL agree I deserve and OSCAR for that

[fordward]

you certainly do ,very god indeed so thats just No 68 left
, you must think me thick??

[fordward]

missed an o

[smouse]

my clue to 68 was also in the sentence!

[fordward]

no doubt a good clue but im not seeing it

[smouse]

I dont know whether to laugh or cry
look at the capital letters
one is a clue to 86 and the other to 68
Now I am determined you'll get this - lol

[fordward]

now what have we got
oscar
another name is
award of merit, but we want 4.2.4
so where is tis chp going wrong

[fordward]

would reel to reel be getting close

[smouse]

reel of something is
search for a picture of what it stands on

[fordward]

Film

[keyboardix]

Message for megellan, above, and any other interested parties.
I agree that my suggestion for 71 is not "Christmassy", but googling the names led me to Wikipedia and the following address -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disorder

I regret that I am not as "computer literate" as Smouse, so the address is not highlighted in red for your mouse ( er, no rhyme nor pun intended !).

[tpw536w]

But the word speech is christmassy, "Queens speech"
or am I on the wrong track