Stupidly hard quiz

[ApocalypseNowt]

Quizzers assemble!

@rosegoldwatcher
@SoupDragon
@minou123
@GoldenCupidon

It's back. My stupidly hard Xmas work quiz is live. As per usual I've done round one and now I'm stuck on the answer for round 2.

I've actually identified all the pictures, found the clue but the answer isn't working 😭

Sorry for crappy pictures but if you use the first letter of each of the album names it spells out "album ones singers" so I thought it must be the singers on the Arctic Monkeys album 'AM'....but whichever way I put the names in it doesn't work.

Then I thought as the clue at the top is "Artistless" maybe I had to remove Alex Turner (as Turner is a famous artist) but I'm still striking out!

As always, any help appreciated & if I've missed any of the amazing quizzers who usually play along (I know I have) please feel free to tag them

Woohoo!!

Ha! the things you learn in this process ;-)

No idea how you managed to get that! But bloody well done

Yeah, and street fighter 2 seems the best bet because only the characters with the letters we need feature. But the Thai ones are Sagat, and then possibly M Bison, but none of those letters work..

Yay!! Well done everyone.

What do we win? 😁

@PianPianPiano I have to know how you ever landed on that in the first place.

Genuinely lots of googling - figured EH had to be the initials for something, so was trawling lists of places and people with those initials, and e. Honda jumped out on a page, figured I'd check a few other countries just to see if it fitted...

respect.

It's not finished yet btw....this just gets us in to puzzle 4

How many puzzles are there?

Seems to be lots of popular culture - Arctic Monkeys, Harry Potter, Streetfighter, Strictly, Right Said Fred so far?

And one round of chemistry!

Yes there is. in the past they've done olympics, series of books, geography/famous buildings. All very general knowledgy....though half the battle if finding out what you're meant to be looking for!

I followed the 1994 film with Jean Claude Van Damme and the only 2 Thai characters are M Bison and Sagat.

I swear to god I was just about to post "try BMS", but @Mooserp got in there first.

<shakes fist @Mooserp for being quicker than me>

I have a piece of paper here with all the characters, actors and nationalities from the Street Fighter film.

If nothing else, it's brought me fond memories about Jean Claude Van Damne. 😁

You know, @ApocalypseNowt , you can never leave this job now. You have to keep giving us this every year!

Millions of them.

ApocalypseNowt threads are legendary.

Every year I promise I'm getting involved again, and every year I can't help myself.

And every year, I'm sodding useless.

Or I get the answer 10 mins after everyone else.

I want another one WITH NO JEFFING FLAGS but she seems to have gone 😢

Yeah I'm not leaving. Unless the quizmasters leave in which case I will follow them like a creepy stalker.

I'm going to make tea now and remind my DC I exist. Then I will post puzzle 4.

So glad I found this thread!

For years we'd do a hard quiz over the Christmas holidays. First it was one from school, set my the deputy head, then the Scouting Magazine's JAD's Christmas Quiz (both mainly in the pre-internet era). I miss having something to get my teeth stuck into so this is always a good substitute.

I'll take that. I get previousl little of it from my children! 🤣

Do you do the King William’s School Quiz? You can find it online or in the Guardian right before Christmas. It’s fiendish and there’s usually a thread on here. Also many previous years are available.

It’s a Christmas highlight in our house.

Pfft, puzzle 4 is more important than feeding children

😁

Love this type of quiz.

Haven't heard of it before but will keep an eye out nearer the time. Thanks!