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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 4397016, member: 7631"] Thanks to all who have posted answers; y'all have not disappointed. We've gotten correct or partially correct answers for all questions except for #5. 1) Sifaka correctly identified Talking Heads as an anagram of King's Lead Hat. 2) SVC and TCC rang in along with the lemur to tell us that a Trinbagonian hails from Trinidad and Tobago 3) Some rosewoods are reddish, but most are very dark brown to black. SVC is correct that they got their name from the scent they give off when being worked. 4) There are Galicias in Spain and central/eastern Europe. 5) "Floppy flipper disease" in sea turtles is caused by a botulinum infection. 6) SVC has both answers I was looking for -- seeing through dust and further back in time 7) My Nipponophile daughter found a Japanese novel called Tales of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, written around 1000 AD, that's often referred to as the first novel. It is in the Wikipedia entry on novels. However, Sifaka pointed to a work written in the early Common Era that's cited as one of the earliest novels on ITS Wiki page. So I bow to his knowledge of the classics. 8) Sifaka knows that the root for bassett is the same as that for bass -- low 9 and 10) Sifaka and Jibariqua are on the right track. Asafoetida is a substitute for onions (leeks, too, I guess I've never cooked with skunk cabbage LOL), which are the basis for a lot of Indian cooking. It's actually a small fraction of India that consumes asafoetida -- higher-up Jains, who can't eat root vegetables for fear that living things have been harmed in their harvest. 11) This is the other one that I'd not fully appreciated. SVC's answer of Led Zeppelin is a possibly correct answer. I'd heard years ago that it was Motorhead, which made sense since head is in their name. I'd had no idea that it's actually an ancient thing, part of the Sufi tradition. Other bands claim it too, although I'm not sure about Queen. 12) Sifaka has it again. 13) Another country heard from, SoCalCanine has it along with SVC. 14) Oops! Nobody had that one. Shoegaze, or dreampop, involves a lot of changing guitar settings, so the guitarists are always looking down at the foot pedals, so they look like they're gazing at their shoes. 15) SVC knows that iodine turns purple in the presence of starch. 16) Sifaka talks about hopping freight trains. I first heard of riding the blinds in "Walking Blues" by Robert Johnson. 17) Pretty much everyone went with blue, which is correct. 18) Jiba has identified Tom Brady (I assume that's who TB12 is?) as calling Ms. Burton on draft night. Evidently her father is a Boston-area sports writer who knows Brady. 19) Hoopsdiva joins the party in identifying furniture like cobbles and roundabouts 20) Jib rings in with J (more than coincidence?), which used to be sort-of part of g Once again, a great job by all! I hope to have another quiz some time. I can't crank them out as Chief did. I still miss him. [/QUOTE]

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