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Stupidly hard quiz

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ApocalypseNowt · 04/12/2023 20:35

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

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ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:02

League of nations probably just refers to the fact that it's a mix of different countries. I have been googling league of nations and nothing obvious pops out on that front.

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 05/12/2023 11:07

Is one of the games Badminton?

NotSoDusty · 05/12/2023 11:08

'Dance Winner' for the Strictly one?

minou123 · 05/12/2023 11:13

ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:01

It's an odd mix of countries too so maybe nothing to do with actual country but the flags themselves iyswim.....

I was thinking it was the nickname for the flags.

But the USA flag nickname is the Star Spangled Banner, so it didn't fit the letters B G K.

Back to to the drawing board

MarmiteWine · 05/12/2023 11:16

ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:02

League of nations probably just refers to the fact that it's a mix of different countries. I have been googling league of nations and nothing obvious pops out on that front.

Could it relate to sport?

WitcheryDivine · 05/12/2023 11:37

Trying to think on the flags one, why are some of the letters lower case and some upper case?

WitcheryDivine · 05/12/2023 11:39

Could some geographically aware person possibly tell me what all the flags are on the flags one?

MaggieFS · 05/12/2023 11:40

Brazil, China, India, Japan,
Spain, Thailand, USA, USSR

WitcheryDivine · 05/12/2023 11:43

Thanks so much @MaggieFS

WhatWindyWeather · 05/12/2023 11:45

Going back to XX, I thought that was just the year 20.

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ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:46

WitcheryDivine · 05/12/2023 11:37

Trying to think on the flags one, why are some of the letters lower case and some upper case?

I think they're all upper case?

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ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:47

Also 'dance winner' and 'final scores' not working for xx

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MaggieFS · 05/12/2023 11:47

@WitcheryDivine You're welcome. I read all of the letters as capitals. Interesting (and confusing) that they might not be 🤦‍♀️

WitcheryDivine · 05/12/2023 11:49

Oh ok, the v and the z look lower case to me (not V and Z)

MaggieFS · 05/12/2023 11:51

Sport is a great shout, building on the word League, but I'm still stumped (pun intended).

EnglishMenHaveTails · 05/12/2023 11:52

ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:47

Also 'dance winner' and 'final scores' not working for xx

Have you tried Hamza Jowita?

The flags one is hard. I now know more than I could ever need too about those countries involvement in the league of nations, sporting events they have held, assassinated leaders and all sorts of other random things and am no closer. This is all too hard for me

Saisong · 05/12/2023 11:55

The flags are in alphabetical order by country and oddly in adjacent letter pairs (almost)

BC
IJ
ST
UU (which doesn't fit)

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ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:56

Yeah, tried Hamza Jowita and no joy.

Yes I am becoming an expert on all sorts of useless stuff too!

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Mooserp · 05/12/2023 11:57

SaffyWall · 05/12/2023 10:59

That's the part that's annoying me! Zelensky was born in the former USSR - but I can't figure out any other links at the moment....

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Deleted - as it was a load of rubbish

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ApocalypseNowt · 05/12/2023 11:57

Saisong · 05/12/2023 11:55

The flags are in alphabetical order by country and oddly in adjacent letter pairs (almost)

BC
IJ
ST
UU (which doesn't fit)

Oooooh good spot! You might be onto something....

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Saisong · 05/12/2023 11:57

Is it missing letters of the alphabet?

Saisong · 05/12/2023 12:01

Mmm, I think there are too many missing. Maybe barking up the wrong tree.

minou123 · 05/12/2023 12:02

EnglishMenHaveTails · 05/12/2023 11:52

Have you tried Hamza Jowita?

The flags one is hard. I now know more than I could ever need too about those countries involvement in the league of nations, sporting events they have held, assassinated leaders and all sorts of other random things and am no closer. This is all too hard for me

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Yes, me too

I now know the top earning celebrity of each country. 😂

WetBandits · 05/12/2023 12:05

I went down the airports route (there’s a US airport with the code BGK) with the flags and nothing!

Getting my thinking cap back on 🧢

WitcheryDivine · 05/12/2023 12:05

The other weird thing is why are some of the letters on the same line (EH under Japan, CL under China) and others on individual rows.

(Have no hope of getting the answer but I'm hoping to trigger the bigger brains.)

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