Friday 4th January - Quiz the First!

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Posted on behalf of noblesentiments - the first of two quizzes for today! And this time there will even be prizes, one for each quiz - printed, comb-bound copies of the Christmas Special 2007 zine, complete with artwork in all it's glory (as seen here on Christmas Day)!

Comments with answers will be screened, and the answers/winners will be announced on the 7th January - post your answers any time until 7.00am GMT (Lads' Time!) So without further ado...

A la Amy Winehouse style: they tried to make me do a crossword, but I said no, no, no.

OK, this is a result of two things: originally I’d toyed with the idea of compiling a Pros-crossword but could I work out how to do it? NO. And could I work out how the rest of you would be *able* to do it, given my technical shortcomings? NO, NO, NO. Secondly, I was inspired by the alternative and far more interesting answers provided by people such as Paris, Magenta and Helio in the last quotes quiz and so I’m forced to admit that I was heavily influenced by *that* ……… So, please just pretend that you can see rows of columns etc. and that each answer manages to fit with another answer. (And questions are all based on stories found online).

1. In which story do Bodie and Doyle score in more ways than one?

(A tip: it’s not Scoring a Try )

2. In Wonderful Tonight, Doyle has dreams of Bodie as a sheik:

Saying no was off. He was slipping hazily back into fantasy, the echoes of a dream still with him. Bodie a sheik, come to his tent in the middle of the night, to ravish him; yeah, that was a good one. The darkeyed, silent stranger would be merciless, despite his struggles. In the bed, he struggled.

….in which story does this dream become a reality?

3. Doyle is temporarily blinded in at least 2 Pros stories: The Hunting and Rediscovered in a Graveyard, but in which story does Bodie suffer the same fate? (NB: I only know one story but there could be more).

4. Which story involved the author researching The Scarman Report?

5. Which Pros title reminds us of Audrey Hepburn?

6. Where do we read that Doyle doesn’t get to quite finish his polo mint……..

7. ….but here he does get to stroke Bodie’s feet?

8. In which story does Bodie ‘allow’ Doyle to be very ‘kind’ to a young Russian?

9. Which story features Bodie as a ‘writer’ with perhaps too much imagination?

10. Which has Doyle working for Amnesty Outreach?

11. Which story was reputedly inspired by a cult sci-fi film?

12. In which story do we find that Bodie isn’t quite the man we all thought he was?

13. ….but here he teaches Doyle how to waltz?

14. In which story does Doyle fall in love with Sanjay ?

15. Which story has Bodie and Doyle ‘seeing’ but ‘missing’ each other all evening?

16. Which writer reduces Bodie to a number?

17. Which Pros story inspired several sequels including a ‘Musical version?’

18. Which writer was influenced by the work of Richard Adams?

19. Which prolific Pros writer pays homage to The Beatles, Charles Dickens and The Marx Brothers?

20. Which writer has Bodie ‘mapping’ Doyle?

Comments

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Hah, sweet FA - it *could* have been her, I suppose....