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Music Quiz 3

Except for the honor, you can win nothing here – I could just paint a little image like the Prinzzess’s rehbus (bottom right corner), if desired –, but I’ll ask you anyway:

Which album title do these pictures represent?

music quiz 3

You can also solve it without recognizing this as an album title, of course – hence the question for the band(s)/person(s) is kinda a bonus.

It it easy or hard? I’m not sure – we shall see… :mrgreen:

Hint after, well, should’ve been 4½h: For the second sub-image, the solution in German is more helpful, the rest is completely English. And don’t hesitate to guess just parts of it…

Hint 2: The first two words of the solution are monosyllabic and rhyme; they also correspond directly to the first two images, whereas the other four words have no 1:1 relation to the images.
And in my first comment here and one at #*%&$1#$ &§$%=! are two more little hints (albeit in German). :)

The solution, guessed by Dee :clap:

“Mad, bad and dangerous to know”

That’s the title of the second album of The Cross (the former solo project of Queen drummer Roger Taylor), of the third album of the British New Wave band Dead Or Alive, as well as a description of Lord Byron.

Composed in the pictures like this:

  1. Mad;
  2. Bad, cf. hint 1: German for bath(room);
  3. and: the little hook is the logic symbol for “and”;
  4. a Dane (well, someone from the Corel photo CD on whose cardboard I’ve painted a Danish flag);
  5. Chair;
  6. Oz, a half of Ozzy;
  7. two who know each other.

Thanks for participating! :thumbsup:

Picture riddle 1

I admit, sometimes I steal copy seize ideas from other bloggers… :mrgreen: (‘cos they’re good!)

This time a little picture quiz: What is this?

Bilderräddsel 1

Yes, alright, it’s an image file showing a slightly blurred clipping from a photo of something. But of what, that is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer… But I digress. :P Suggestions (for the riddle, not for my digression)? :)

The solution, guessed by juliaL49: a parking garage. :clap:

Specifically, the parking garage of the Neue Messe Stuttgart above the autobahn. Here’s the full photo (from the corridor between the two parts) – the clipping is from the upper right corner:

picture quiz 1 solution

Music Quiz 2

Update: I hope that the low number of participants in this music quiz so far was only caused by it being buried under an above-average amount of other posts – which is why I’m fetching it to the top again… :)

The next edition of my little music quiz series – without further ado:

Why did Queen (or their record company) have to buy 65 bicycle seats in the year 1978?

This question was also given two years ago at Genial daneben, a TV show where comedians try to answer funny/strange/curious questions – and in that sense, I’m asking those of you who already know the answer (*) to wait a little and let the others post their (hopefully numerous and funny) guesses. :)

Let the quiz begin – without search engines and encyclopedias, they don’t have them at Genial daneben either…


The answer: Congratulations to JuliaL49 (cf. comments)! :clap:

The “Bicycle Race” video (from the “Jazz” album) featured 65 naked women riding around a race track on bikes hired from British cycle shop chain Halfords. When returned, Queen was ordered to pay for all the seats as Halfords wouldn’t accept them knowing what they had been used for. The album also included a poster of these women.

See also the Wikipedia article, including a small scan of the poster.


(*) You can send the correct answer to me by mail if you want, so that it’s clear who knew it first – if that’s important to you.