YOU THE READER part 14

10 more unusual search engine requests which ended up here at VitQ:

1 ring of salmon on jupiter in palmistry
2 soya sauce trivia*
3 fat girls stomachs
4 caveman onomatopoeia
5 hokum or piffle or flim-flam**
6 Gary Barlow underpants***
7 midget cheese moulds
8 roddy lumsden poems - misanthropic****
9 Guatemalan bordello
10 searching for international email address of Mariah Carey and the group that sang always be my baby from america

* also searched for were 'gooseberry trivia', 'yoghurt trivia' and 'custard trivia'!
** certainly sir, how much of that would you like today?
*** it seems the 'boss-eyed polar bear' singer still has his devotees
**** ah, that would be 'The Misanthrope's Afternoon Walk', which is available in my third book, or (poorer version) in 'Dream State - the New Scottish Poets' (Polygon)

Source: my tracker

 
BLOWING IN THE WIND

Marco's list of 10 peurile songs which feature belching and farting:

1 Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges - Iggy nonchalantly belches at the start of this in lieu of a count-in

2 EMI by the Sex Pistols - A distressingly authentic fart as the track concludes

3 Canyons Of Your Mind by The Bonzo Dog Band - Features Vivian Stanshall's belching solo, filtered through early Elvis slapback echo. Arguably the highlight of all popular music since records (and records) began

4 Eugenie Sokolov by Serge Gainsbourg - Reggae flatulence from pop's premier scatologist

5 The Idiot Bastard Son by Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Prolonged belches, lovingly sped-up, slowed down and echoplexed to add extra weight and poignancy to the line 'the idiot BOYYYYYYY'

6 Our Song by Roger Waters & Ron Geesin - Arguably one of the more arresting moments from their 1970 soundtrack to The Body: a collage of giggle-inducing body noises and tack piano. The baby on it is adorable

7 I Love You Mark by Jerry Goldsmith - From the soundtrack of Damien, Omen II, something which sounds remarkably like choral belching. Quite an achievement, if so

8 Phat Like That by The Go-Nuts - Uses a belching sample as a rhythmic device

9 In The Air Tonight by Mr Methane - Oh dear. Phil Collins' magnum opus, only farted. Still an improvement, mind

10 Everything Is Over by Kevin McDermott Orchestra - There's an extremely loud belch during the party that intrudes into the track during the fade. It was me

Source: by Marco Rossi. Wham bam, thank you man.

 
BUT ELIZABETH!

The 10 most 'sensual' girls' names:

1 Madeleine
2 Erin
3 Colleen
4 Hope
5 Beth
6 Charlotte
7 Kitty
8 Ceri
9 Melanie
10 Samantha

Source: I did this by going through a huge list of names and just picking those which leapt out. This list caused much discussion chez Roddy'n'Jo, when Jo met most of these suggestions with gales of laughter, especially Samantha (very council scheme hairdresser apparently) and Ceri, which she doesn't see is so different to Kerry, admittedly, a name best kept for pets.

 
NOT THE SAME AGAIN

Some unusual pub names here where I live in Bristol:

1 The Try Again
2 The Swan With Two Necks
3 The New Found Out
4 Castle of Comfort Inn
5 The Anchor Made Forever
6 The Pit Pony
7 The Artichoke
8 Blackboy Inn
9 Aunties
10 The Scotchman and His Pack

 
QUOTIDIAN CACOPHONY

101 people's most hated words:

bamboozle / whore / soulmate / apoplexy / blurt / kidnap / obfuscate / tracheotomy / haggis / ointment / flaccid / celebrity / heuristic / puppies / barf / chipotle / hyperbole / regimentation / moustache / paperwork / potential / memo / pagination / sewage / webmaster / brouhaha / incent / bitch / progressive / pimp / sofa / slather / usability / taboo / rectum / gauche / haemorrhage / proactive / piss / classical / sucks / cool / musings / moist / flesh / fidget / blagging / couscous / schmuck / chestnut / suckle / deplane / cute / pamphlet / carbuncle / abortion / genre / landlord / shall / exchequer / filthy / clique / stylish / nostrils / ugly / barbarous / classy / gunman / sup / ambient / cathartic / pus / journaling / nausea / showcase / poodle / bald / knickers / nougat / chore / panties / juggler / stinky / cummerbund / gimmick / downsizing / period / commentator / blockade / cretin / lush / flapjack / maestro / squelch / retired / anorak / ladies / soundscape

Source: various (my own would have to include 'gobsmacked', 'cloaca', 'hubby' and 'spirituality')

 
CATCHY MONKEYS

For the past couple of days, I've been keeping note of the music which has been in my head:

1 Rumble (Link Wray)
2 Yellow (Coldplay)
3 Antiques Roadshow theme tune
4 Kashmir (Led Zep)
5 Empire State Human (Human League)
6 Only I (Mull Historical Society)
7 Innocent (Addis Black Widow)
8 Don't Let Nature Kill You (one of my own songs)
9 The Last Good Day of the Year (Cousteau)
10 Any Major Dude / Dirty Work (both Steely Dan)
11 Sunday (Nick Drake)
12 Things (Bobby Darin)
13 Guts (John Cale)
14 I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison)
15 The Lone Ranger (Quantum Jump)
16 Break My Stride (Matthew Wilder)
17 Tiny Children (Teardrop Explodes)
18 Belfast (Orbital)

What can it all mean?

 
SWIM SWAN SWIM

12 tongue twisters spoiled:

1 Scarlet truck, golden truck, scarlet truck, golden truck
2 Latex fenders for infant carriages
3 She is a vendor of bivalve casings on the beach
4 The sixth Arab potentate's similarly numbered ovine mammal is unwell
5 The Edinburgh port constabulary tell us we can leave
6 The untidily dressed rogue sprinted around the jagged boulder again and again
7 A loud sound irritates a pearl-bearing shellfish
8 It's not usually me who defeathers game birds, it's my father. I'm only doing this until he arrives.
9 In the counties of Hertfordshire and Hampshire, and also in the city of Hereford, a whirlwind is a rare occurrence
10 Elizabeth purchased a quantity of butter, though it turned out to be sour
11 Mr P Piper harvested two gallons of gherkins
12 What quantity of timber might a marmot throw into the air if such a thing were possible?

Source: by RcL

 
SCEPTRED ISLES

I live in the British Isles. Two of these which you may have heard mention of are Great Britain and Ireland. Here are 50 of the many, many other lesser-spotted islands:


Valentia / Green Scar / Wiay / Mousa / Samphrey / Mutton Island / Texa / Haaf Gruney / Guillamon / Ristol / Flodigarry / Dursey / Muckle / Huskeiran / Calf of Man / Floddaybeg / Gorumna / Gigalum / Wart Holm / Inchmickery / Rumble / Coomb / Gugh / Quinish / Longa / Kishorn / Padda / Staffin / Fidra / Viera / Middle Mouse / Swona / Piel / Eorsa / Samson / Cava / Rat Island / Tory / Osea / Gola / Toes / Little Shillay / Eilan a'Bhreitheimh / Soa / Vementry / Inishbofin / Inishark / Carna / Hildasay

 
TEN DON'TS FOR DRINKERS

Recommendations for bar etiquette by Black Bo's barstaff:

1 Do say Please and Thank You. Don't say pal, mate etc
2 Do not attract a barman's attention with the word Oi!
3 Order Guinness first
4 Do not drop your payment on the bar to be picked up
5 Do not moan about the head on your pint
6 Do not refer to drinks by ridiculous nicknames
7 Order all drinks at once when possible
8 Do not offer 'the right change'
9 Do not abuse drinking-up time
10 Do use the bribery trick known as 'and one for yourself'

Source: Black Bo's is a fine hostelry in Edinburgh. All this is explained at more length, and in considerably more colourful language here

 
KIDS IN AMERICA

The basic ingredients of American 'coming of age' films:

* A voiceover by the main character at the start of the film ("That was the summer I was fourteen years old...) as the camera follows them cycling along a street, standing up on the pedals.

* Perfect summer weather, bar one terrible storm.

* A massive unrequited crush on someone way, way out of the main character's league, who will look at them with renewed interest ten minutes before the end of the film.

*Two cars full of teenagers pulling up alongside each other at some red lights, and a whole lot of threatening eye contact.

* A dog that is never on a lead, knows loads of tricks and can put its head on one side.

*A bitchy girl who is haughtily beautiful, with a coterie of henchwomen, each uglier than the next, who will at some point all be soaked in some kind of liquid.

* A mom who only ever comes in with groceries and or goes out to dinner, conveniently leaving the house empty for teenage mayhem. Sometimes she will put on make-up, although she is already wearing lots.

*An emotionally absent father, prone to making stilted conversation and talking off his glasses to polish them.

* A crucial sports fixture. One point needed in the final minute. An unlikely hero hoisted on the shoulders of his team-mates.

*A geeky girl who is actually flawless, but has braces like oil rigs on her teeth and large bunches.

*A geeky boy in glasses who walks leaning forwards from the waist and regularly falls over.

*Small stones thrown at a window which is soon escaped from via the branches of a tall tree.

*An improbable gadget wired up by the geeks to soak, trip, or strip clothes from the bully gang.

*Parents looking with concern at a door slamming behind their teenage offspring and then at each other in silence. They will be holding cutlery above an uneaten meal. They just don't understand.

* Social humiliation - like tissue paper falling out of a bra - followed by a sprint down a locker-lined corridor and a shot over the walls of a toilet cubicle down onto sobbing girl.

* Fluffy jumpers, usually accessorised with a pile of books clasped close to budding teenage breasts.

* A dead body. And nobody must know.

*An older tearaway character with a flash motor, James Dean hair, a leather jacket, and a hidden heart of gold.

*A test of friendship, like a bitter row where one of the friends storms off, usually into a dangerous situation like driving towards a canyon with a missing bridge.

*The local cop with mirror shades and thick tash who glowers from beneath his peaked cop-cap. Will later drive into fire hydrant causing it to gush.

*A nasty sibling who is really mean but manages not to get into trouble. Usually seen menacingly thumping a baseball mitt if male or going out to the Prom with a smug expression if female.

*A wise character with an old spirit even if not actually old, often a worn-down waitress or janitor, who watches proceedings and occasionally comments sagely on them while shaking head.

*A soundtrack involving soul staples.

*Cheerleaders and all the complex social hierarchy they imply.

*An embittered sports coach eventually revealed to be a bullying fraud, resulting in school sports star being emotionally crushed by loss of father figure.

* A yearning shot of a smiling girl walking in slo-mo from left to right, her pony tail bobbing in the sunshine, in the company of Butch / Brad / Brawn / Brick, the spunk on the high school football team. She will glance over her shoulder at the star-struck central character.

*A bicycle chase.

* Hilarious dining room incident involving the central character, a sporty jock (if main character is male) or head cheerleader (if main character is female) and a milk carton, swiftly followed by extreme physical pain and / or severe humiliation.

*Milk carton incident duly noted by good-natured and rather shy girl / boy who feels sorry for our hero / heroine.

*Shy person and main character collide coming round a corner, scattering their school books all over the floor; much bending down, apologising and awkward silences ensue, but love is in their eyes.

*A voiceover by the main character at the end of the film as the camera pans up and away from the street where it all began.

Source: by Jo, Marco, Lee, Miranda, Chris and Roddy (thanks folks)

 
WOULD LIKE TO MEET

What those terms used in dating ads really mean:

youthful - bitter at the world
blue-eyed - self-obsessed
semi-retired - arch meddler
cheerful - small talk only
amicable - whistling misfit
confident - hellbound
affectionate - needy, grasping
genuine - in deep despair
sincere - tea-towel dull
self-employed - church mouse, shorn of style
many interests - but none that come to mind
loves socialising - loud, booze-guzzling
enjoys adventures - career fantasist
down to earth - owner of a dishwater soul
vivacious - psychotic
no ties - has criminal record
bubbly - must be centre of attention
likes nights in - ever up for an argument
shy - personality missing in action
sultry - wrath-nursing
gentle - bovine
easy-going - passive-aggressive
positive - stuck in the vicious circle
caring - domineering
loves salsa dancing - sheepishly faddish
loving - broody
outgoing - unfathomable lusts
sporty- lacking a sense of self
own home - neighbours say he was a loner
sophisticated - dreary and middle class
for good times - for an extramarital affair
must be tall - hi, I'm superficial
solvent - misanthropic workaholic
curvy - egglike
impulsive - mercurial, weepy
likes cinema - easily bored, escapist
slim / fit - gangly / balding
home-loving - couch tattie
charming - predatory
witty - can parrot comedy catchphrases
literate - wannabe know-all
distinguished - ancient and bonkers

Source: by RcL

 
Okay

Normal service will resume this week after two trips north - one pleasure (York), the other (monkey) business (Newcastle). Here are some of the things I will (might) put up here in the next week or so, just in case you thought I was slacking:

*my favourite things about NYC
*underwear jargon explained
*people's 50 least favourite words
*what personal ad lingo really means
*songs which climb into myhead
*sitcom theme songs
*10 best things about the Wong Kei restaurant
*10 bad 'body-fashion' moves
*strange saints' names (is there really a Saint Tropez?)
*soups of the world
*'midget cheese moulds' and other odd recent search requests
*12 bands which started off hip and then went elbow
*longlonglongGermanwords

Roddy

 
LIST POEMS No. 45

Easter Parade

Monday: herringbone cashmere blend ankle-length coat, charcoal cotton / elastane bodyshaper, sloe-blue bias cut camisole, loose-fit fleshtone funnel-neck sweater, sapphire silk-mix flat-front trousers, beaded fabric bar shoes in solferino red, fake zorino fur neckfiller and fingerless gloves.

Tuesday: alabaster scrunchie, INXS World Tour Official T-shirt, navy three-stripe woven sweat-pants, white Lycra bra top and bike shorts, peacock scoop socks, pearl and lilac padded collar two-lace trail trainers.

Wednesday: inside-zip platform high-leg boots in biscuit, mini-kilt with stag-skin sporran, heather mixture stretch V-neck jersey top, pomegranate plunge bra and tanga set with Swiss embroidery and boning effect, Missoni, printed microfibre clover casual jacket, wood-soot wool trilby.

Thursday: mulberry cropped mohair cardigan, shrimp stretch jacquard bustier with square neckline and invisible zip, cinnabar thong, pistachio crèpe palazzo trousers with stretch velour trimmed waistband, burgundy ballerina shoes.

Friday: tar-black crushed fake-fur coat, dramatic longline cowl-neck fuchsia angora dress, siren-red satin balconette and briefs, kid-suede leopard print mules, dayglo pink pop-socks, Eternity, tangerine Alice band.

Saturday: logwood brown calf leather loafers with touch fastening straps, sheer midnight black pantyhose, fitted hobble bistre polyester pencil skirt with side-slits, hide-leather belt with Popeye motif buckle, walnut needle cord western style jerkin top, seamfree chocolate criss-cross bra and hi-cut lemon polka-dot tap pants.

Sunday: bunny rabbit motif winceyette pyjamas, The Crown of Thorns.


This was from my third book Roddy Lumsden is Dead

 
SHOPPING FOR SAND CATS

The 12 most expensive creatures to 'adopt' at Bristol Zoo:

1 gorilla (£2500)
2 lion (£2000)
3 okapi (£1000)
4 pygmy hippo (£1000)
5 fur seal (£500)
6 tapir (£500)
7 aye aye (£250)
8 giant tortoise (£250)
9 red panda (£250)
10 dwarf crocodile (£250)
11 gentoo penguin (£250)
12 otter (£250)

Bargains include:
- a giant millipede - your adopted pet kid for only £50!
- a bleeding heart dove for £150 (these always play dead, looking like they've been shot in the chest)
- poison dart frog for £50 (could come in handy)

Source: zoo leaflet (with reluctant yet cute red panda photo on front)

 
STARTER FOR TEN

British readers of Vitamin Q might be interested to know that VitQ maven Roddy Lumsden (that's me) is appearing on the quiz show University Challenge - the Professionals tomorrow evening (Monday) at 8.30pm, as part of the Poets' Team. Please remember that being on TV adds a stone in weight. I'll put up a list about the experience on Tuesday.

 
FRUIT SHOP

Some unusual fruit variety names:

apple - American Mother / Peasgood’s Nonesuch / Suntan / Catshead / Norfolk Beefing / Bess Pool / Foxwhelp / Brown Jersey / Sheep’s Nose / Fillbarrel
cherry - X Stella / Van / Frogmore
pear - Beth / Clapp’s Favourite / Ovid / Vicar of Winkfield / Hendre Huffcap / Green Horse
plum - Czar / Oullin’s Gage / Pershore Egg / Ontario / Drooper / Quetsche
gooseberry - Careless / Whitesmith / Leveller / Invicta
blackcurrant - Malling Jet / Boskoop Giant / Ben Sarek / Wellington XXX
raspberry - Zeva / Allgold / Leo / Lloyd George / Delight
strawberry - Pantagruella / Sophie / Hampshire Maid / Cambridge Vigour / Red Gauntlet
redcurrant - Red Lake / Rovada / Junifer
rhubarb - Cawood Castle / Timperley Early

 
BEDSIDE MANNERS

32 medical names for various ailments and body parts:

1 epistaxis (nosebleed)
2 niphablepsia (snow blindness)
3 syncope (fainting)
4 paronychia (whitlow)
5 candidiasis (thrush)
6 hallux (the big toe)
7 allergic rhinitis (hay fever)
8 cholelithiasis (gallstones)
9 pityriasis capitis (dandruff)
10 genu valgum (knock knees)
11 genu varum (bow legs)
12 mammaryptosis (breast sag)
13 tympanum (eardrum)
14 comedo (blackhead)
15 paroniria (morbid dreaming)
16 parotitis (mumps)
17 lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
18 enuresis (bed wetting)
19 encopresis (bed soiling)
20 naevus (birthmark or mole)
21 prepatellar bursitis (housemaid's knee)
22 talipes (club foot)
23 dyspepsia (indigestion)
24 lentigo (freckles or liver spots)
25 varicella (chicken pox)
26 amblyopia (lazy eye)
27 urticaria (hives)
28 tinea pedis (athlete's foot)
29 pertussis (whooping cough)
30 ptosis (eyelid droop)
31 onchocerciasis (river blindness)
32 striae (stretch marks)

Source: various

 
APPLE HAMS

60 actors born in New York City:

Alan Alda / Woody Allen / Ben Gazzara / June Allyson / Rosanna Arquette / Lauren Bacall / Anne Bancroft / Ellen Barkin / Angela Bassett / Bonnie Bedelia / Humphrey Bogart / Clara Bow / Matthew Broderick / Adrien Brody / Mel Brooks / James Caan / James Cagney / John Carradine / John Cassavetes / Chevy Chase / Lee J Cobb / Tony Curtis / Robert De Niro / Vin Diesel / Robert Downey Jr / Richard Dreyfus / David Duchovny / Emilio Estavez / Douglas Fairbanks Jr / Peter Falk / Jane Fonda / Jodie Foster / Sarah Michelle Gellar / Melanie Griffith / Fred Gwynne / Rita Hayworth / Danny Kaye / Christophe Lambert / Burt Lancaster / Jennifer Lopez / Andrew McCarthy / Lee Marvin / Walter Matthau / Viggo Mortensen / Carroll O'Connor / Al Pacino / Anthony Perkins / Christopher Reeve / Mickey Rooney / Susan Sarandon / George Segal / Brooke Shields / Christian Slater / Sylvester Stallone / Barbara Stanwyck / Barbra Streisand / Gene Tierney / Sigourney Weaver / Tuesday Weld / Mae West

Source: various

 
AULD REEKIE GRAFEETIE

4 pieces of graffiti I remember from my years living in Edinburgh:

1 Those steps going up towards the car park at Castle Terrace, last time I looked, still had a nameplate which contained seemingly authentic 'we love the Beatles ' style scratchings from the 60s. Gear!

2 One evening in south Marchmont Road circa '94, little kids wrote stuff all over the pavement in chalk. Outside my window, they had written 'A/B/lots of things'. Very deep.

3 All over Edinburgh, in the late 80s and early 90s, you could find derogatory graffiti about 'Marilyn Clark fae the Jewel' (ie from 'the Jewel', a city suburb). It seems that a scorned friend or lover spent years chalking and painting slurs on this poor woman.

4 Way down Causewayside, almost into J K Rowling-owned territory, on a red-brick wall near the Old Bell, someone had celebrated Reed, Cale, Tucker and Morrison in huge letters, probably while sulphed-up. It read 'VELVET UNDERERGROUND'. Was there for years and years until the late 90s.

Source: by RcL

 
WELL HELLO

Welcome to Vitamin Q, good new people sent by the naughty but nice popbitch (thanks!). Here are a few 'best of' bits to get you going:

10 fairly random Vitamin Q highlights:

1 What does my name mean in old Scots?
2 Nothing rhymes with orange, eh? Just watch me go...
3 The worst thing metal dudes have ever tasted:
4 A load of gay similes:
5 Weird 'strawberries in the arts' list:
6 The best My Little Pony names:
7 Forty two really odd plant names (my personal favourite):
8 Bands which made it despite a member named Colin:
9 Songs children shouldn't have been allowed to sing:
10 Sweets that you used to get in jars when you were a kid:
(check out the kids' games and bad smells triv below this if you're still feeling nostalgic)

...and lots more 'stuff, but in a good way'. Bookmark and return when you're bored.

popbitch are the UK's specialists in outrageous celebrity news and pop gossip.

Vitamin Q - the flea circus which the fleas in the flea circus are dreaming of, since August '02.

 
MINORITY REPORT

21 situations where I am apparently in the minority among my fellow Britons:

1 I've never spent a night in hospital
2 I can say the alphabet backwards without mistakes
3 I've never painted a room
4 I've never broken up a fight
5 I prefer bitter to lager
6 I've never tried to kick a pigeon
7 I make our bed every day
8 I'd prefer a sausage sandwich to a bacon one
9 I do pluck my eyebrows
10 I've never ridden a horse
11 I'd rather read the book than watch the film
12 I have smoked a cigar
13 I do not own a DVD player
14 I prefer coffee to tea
15 I have attended a donkey derby
16 I prefer Pepsi to Coke
17 I can wiggle my ears
18 I can use chopsticks comfortably
19 I have never haggled
20 I have broken a bone*
21 I don't have a credit card
22 I prefer Chinese to Indian food

*Don't send cards, it was only a toe. Fourteen years ago.

Sinisterly, it appears that whereas most British men have seen a combine harvester, few women have seen one!

Source: from answers given here - warning, oddly addictive and has a few pop-ups for shoddy, doomed dotcom shopping sites

 
YOU THE READER part 70

More search engine oddities which led to this site:

1 arabs garlic temple
2 maori nicknamed pine tree
3 hot rods godess
4 brocolli history + meaning in Italian*
5 pheasant trivia
6 Dr Who eating sweets
7 wild wicked nudist
8 pearl scale goldfich picture
9 skinhead underpants
10 naked yodelling**

* from what I recall, broccoli takes its name from an Italian surname (as in Cubby Broccoli of Bond movie fame)
** I presume this is an attempt to find that clothes-very-much-optional lesbian singing group (The Yodeladies?) which I saw on Eurotrash once

Source: tracker

 
Hello and welcome to Vitamin Q, a sideshow of small beer, bric-à-brac and bagatelles

Just to remind you: this sort-of-blog belongs to Roddy Lumsden, a puzzle writer and poet from Scotland now living in Bristol in England. I post lists, curiosities and fragments which please me as a lover of trivia and reference. They tend to reflect my interests which include pop, nature, words, Scotland, TV, food, folklore and literature. I post a few items most weeks, so do bookmark* and return.

*If you forget to do this, and want to get back here, just type vitaminq (no space before q) into Google - you'll find me.

 
MOUNTAIN BEASTS

The Waltons' pets:

Reckless - The Waltons' dog
Myrtle - The Waltons' goat
Daisy - Mary Ellen's newborn lamb
Chance - name of two milk cows
Bullet - calf of first Chance
Dynamite - calf of second Chance
Pete - Elizabeth's sick raccoon
Jim Bob Junior - Jim Bob's duckling
Blue - a mule given to John Boy by Granny Ketchum
Lancelot - Erin's fawn which she released into the woods
Cindy - Elizabeth's rabbit
Gingerbread - Myrtle's baby goat
Calico - Elizabeth's cat
Chirpee - Grandma's canary
Rover - Jim Bob's peacock
Ruby - the peahen
Harold - Jeffrey's cat which turns out to be female
Apollo and Aphrodite - Harold's kittens
Betsy - the Waltons' hen
Nick - Jeffrey's dog, named after Saint Nicholas
Porthos - Jim Bob's guinea pig
Isabella - a pet turkey for which Jim Bob swaps an inner tube

Source: various Waltons' fansites (some of which claim to promote traditional values, which evidently don't include grammar and spelling)


VITAMIN IQ

Here are the answers to the Vitamin IQ test:

1 a mountain in S America
2 the evil doctor in Sonic the Hedgehog games
3 a guitar effects pedal
4 one who dislikes China or the Chinese
5 a city in Alabama, USA
6 a red colour
7 surgical removal of a testicle
8 a football sweeper, or any sports player who can play in various positions
9 a Brazilian soccer legend
10 rubbing for sexual pleasure
11 a large rodent
12 founder of the Sikh religion
13 slang, standing for 'situation normal, all f*d up'
14 a Broadway and film musical
15 to intricately carve wood or bone
16 the pursuit of cave exploration
17 a dice game
18 a combination skirt / trouser garment
19 a simple musical instrument
20 a famous American naturalist and artist
21 a type of cigar
22 an area of NYC
23 one of Noah's sons
24 an old name for the letter Z
25 a wild flower
26 a character from 'Macbeth'
27 a soul record label
28 clay soil
29 a book of the Old Testament
30 the Indian word for India
31 a book by French writer Rabelais
32 the 'Oscars' for bad films
33 an Israeli actor / singer
34 a spicy sausage
35 a Norse God
36 a chemical element
37 a heavy rock group
38 a type of cake
39 the carcase of a large sea creature
40 a small bird
41 a typeface
42 a mucous-like bodily fluid
43 a Cubist painter
44 a type of cheese
45 a city in Hungary
46 a fictitious animal, a large rabbit with horns
47 a back complaint
48 a type of candy
49 a port in W Australia
50 the area in front of a music stage where wild dancing happens


Sports and Games Answers (missing letters in CAPS)

1 ruGby
2 curLing
3 Shooting
4 Bowls
5 hoCkey
6 poLo
7 quOits
8 tripLe jump
9 boXing
10 Darts
11 Squash