These are the answers, but what are the questions?

1. Six.
2. Two.
3. Brian Wilson.
4. He killed him.
5. Nine.
6. For love.
7. Tallulah Gosh.
8. His false teeth.
9. Noam Chomsky.
10. Picts.

Is The MES Taxi affair too obvious for number 8 ??

Which particularly cruel april fool's joke did Marvin Gaye's father pull in 1984?

Bingo! Point to Hawkwind. Now for the easy ones...

Correcto. I need to know what Marvin Gaye "Sr" was wearing when he shot his son, though.

A gun?

Sorry? How exactly would one wear a gun?

The number of different food stuffs on the plate for the Jewish passover feast?

In a holster say, or perhaps tucked into a waistband?

*EDIT* - Replying to EC's post, obviously.


Anyhow, must dash.....

Successful moon shots??

You're not even close. :(

Clue: Spanish shoes.

How many pairs of shoes does the average Spaniard own? :P

I had lots of great / intelligent / funny answers before the clue.
Now i'm lost :(

The number of shoes a Spaniard wears at any one time?

Good call. Point to HP. :applaud:

Not. Even. Close.

:( - so its not actually a Spanish themed quiz?
I'm lost, really lost :( :(

The Spanish questions have now been answered.
Clue to 5. Nine. Three!

Oh, oh - its a division thing, shirly?
Like nine divided by three. No! Its a multiplacation thing... the answer to nine is three.

I think :wacko:

This quiz is hopeless. I will set a proper one later today.

Is 7 "what is the most common mis-spelling of twee-pop gods and goddesses Talulah Gosh?"

You wouldn't be saying that if you'd got the shoes one.

Sour grapes <_<

Edit: The answer to five is three. <_<

Correct. Many other sad C-86 bores would have failed to see that. Brava!

About Prog? Can't wait...

Alright!

Best quiz ever!

Isn't it!

2. Two. - one number which, according to De La Soul, is NOT the magic number
3. Brian Wilson. - who had a paino put in a sandpit

:lol: :lol:

That is really funny. Last night I was making a C86 mix-cd and, having put in Talulah into the search engine on iTunes, was wondering where my Talulah Gosh album had gone (the one I had downloaded from eMusic). Low and behold they had called it Tallulah Gosh. :lol:

Now, I had 20 tracks listed under Tallulah and one under Talulah from that Bob Stanley comp. It will be much easier to change the spelling on one....

I'm giving you 3. It was indeed a "paino", but Brian was famously too bonkers on mind boiling drugs to notice.

So, just these left?

2. Two.
5. Nine.
6. For love.
9. Noam Chomsky.
10. Picts.

Is 9: Which internationally famous linguist was spotted recently at Glastonbury screaming inconsolably at Bruce Springsteen?

9. Which linguist lies within a shaky common?

As everyone on the Forum knows, the Army ID tag # of Elvis Presley was 53310769.
Noam Chomsky, along with his Caballah expert brother Norm, have put togther and "Noam Chomsky Reader" which contains 53310769 paragraphs.
Although major publishing houses have declared this to be THE key for the average person to understand Noam's theories on linguistics, they have demanded editorial and stylistic changes that would change the number of paragraphs.
Since the exercise was as much a tribute to Elvis as it was an aid to the lay person, Mssrs Chomsky have refused.
This, I believe, answered # 9.

Question # 2: How many "ems" are there in Judy Garland's real last name.
The continual adding of "-bo" by her schoolmates made little Judy swear a solumn oath that when she grew up, she would change her name.

Question # 5 - Many consider Ted Willaims to be the greatest batsman ever in the USA national sport of baseball. He played from 1939 to 1960 for the Boston Red Sox with 5 years out to be a fighter pilot in WW2 and the Korean conflict.
What number did he wear on his uniform?

Question # 6: In mid 1949, Noam Chomsky and his brother Norm, established a plumbing and electrical supply business in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA, and by early 1951 it was extremely successful and the brothers could, one at a time, take their first vacations(holidays). Norm took two weeks off to study the Cabballah and then Noam used his two weeks to write, Morphophonetics Of Modern Hebrew.
Why did Norm write that book?

Answer: Hurricane Katrina
Question: What rock group called it quits when their equipment and rehearsal room was ruined by hurricane Katrina?

1. according to noted cartoonist and singer/songwriter rolf harris, which number requires three of its kind to famously make up the scary "number of the beast"

2. also in occult numerology, how many people does it take to perform the famous dance called the tango

3. which popstar, famously walked into a theater in 1966, to see masked surgeons address a bandaged invalid with the words "how do you feel mister wilson", causing said popstar to go into mental convolutions, as stated by noted astrologist belle zebubba?

4. how did mark chapman, not to be confused with the late comedian and monty python member, graham chapman, famously solve the problem of john lennon?

5. in its title, the satirical comedy show "not the nine o clock news" famously referenced a bbc news broadcast. at which time was the news broadcast that is being referenced in the title of "not the nine o clock news"?

6. "i love chicken" magazine gave which reason to the age old riddle "why the chicken crossed the road"?

7. according to the rural population of new south wales, which now defunct girl group famously based its name on hollywood actress tallulah bankhead's first name and her most famous catchphrase?

8. police reports state which blunt instrument did buena vista geriatric club singer olvay secumpay famously use to compensate for the absense of castagnet player manuel barbapapa, who had died on-stage of a coronary during a show in prestwich two weeks earlier?

9. based upon testimony given by sir jimmy saville, which noted left wing author is famously assumed to be the uncle of fall online forum poster elvischomsky?

10. in layman's terms, what is the name of the tribe of original inhabitants of scotland which famously resembles the expression used for a group of photos in internet slang?

6 and 10 are still up for grabs.