Annual stupidly hard quiz

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Quiz is back....roll up for round one!

I'm guessing this one is snooker based

I don't know it would be a bit of a coincidence otherwise.

You could have Grapefruit
But that would still leave yace 🤔

I assume the 48/7 at the top means there should be one letter leftover from each grid of 49

Could it be that we need to find 7 letter words?

so for fruits it could be avocado, apricot, satsuma….

Oops ‘satsuma’ wouldn’t work as no s’s for that grid

Loved this idea, but if we are looking for Presidents in the first one, I think there are only 5 with 7 letters in their name.

48 is 6x8 and there are 6 grids. I'd assume we therefore need an 8th word from each grid and the categorise those somehow (maybe starting letter?)

Second one is single word musicals:
Cabaret
oliver
hamilton
Chicago
hairspray
wicked
Annie
Which leave the letter "I"

Bumping this because I have nothing useful to add and want to know the answer 😂

I've not managed to make any progress on it so far....

This puzzle has me stumped. We must be missing something crucial otherwise how do we know what locations, animals or books to use for those categories?

Seven must be the key….. 7 wonders of the world for PRIME location?

We might be missing something but equally we might not. I think it's just too neat that the musicals one is 7 answers leaving one spare letter.

We have been stuck on a puzzle for days before so it might just be that difficult! Spent ages on the fruit one but still not got there

So which ones are solved.
Presidents
Musicals
Any others?

I think these seven fruits fit with an ‘R’ left over

apricot
banana
blueberry
grapefruit
mango
papaya
peach

Authors with seven books, or seven books in a set? Can only think of Harry Potter, but that would be too many letters for all the books

Two of them contain the letter Z (Giza and Zeus) and there's no Z in that table of letters.

Could it be notable places on the prime meridian?

Ignore that. It's certainly not countries, anyway.

Ooh good idea!

I've been trying on the animals but it is frustrating! The key is to start with the more uncommon letters. But there aren't many animals with a V (vole, dove) or a Q (quail, squirrel) or a K (kangaroo, koala, aardvark, snake).

I don't think they're using rare examples, since the others have been widely known (peach, banana etc for fruit). So this one is likely to use horse, dog, badger, tiger etc, but I can't make it fit.

Could prime location be capital cities, I can see London and Paris…

To use the letters QU you could have:

Squirrel
Squid

V:
Vole
Dove
Vervet (a type of monkey apparently)

I can get "Giraffe" too.

There are a lot more As and Os than Es, which makes things difficult.

I've been looking out for your quiz! I'm always useless but enjoy having a go.

I have looked for words beginning vi and ending r and I get victor…

I also felt like there could be a civet and flamingo in the animals.