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QI - Murder at The Palace!
hygienicdispenser Posted Jun 1, 2010
A length of piping...
Someone maliciously played the bagpipes until their victim lost the will to live.
Someone used a piping bag to make a pretty pattern of poisoned icing on a birthday cake.
Someone was strangled to death with the gold braid off an admirals uniform.
QI - Murder at The Palace!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 1, 2010
>Someone maliciously played the bagpipes until their victim lost the will to live.<
No but the closest so far. DGI +1
QI - Murder at The Palace!
hygienicdispenser Posted Jun 1, 2010
So is it a piping sound rather than a piping ..um...pipe? Killing things with noise?
QI - Murder at The Palace!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 1, 2010
>So is it a piping sound rather than a piping ..um...pipe?<
Yes. +3
>Killing things with noise?<
There's are a few intermediary steps before then.
QI - Murder at The Palace!
hygienicdispenser Posted Jun 1, 2010
So the sound of a pipe/flute/whistle/oboe/ocarina/souzaphone set in action a course of events that led the death of a female victim.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 1, 2010
So the sound of a __________ set in action a course of events that led the death of a female victim.
Yes - but none of those.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 1, 2010
And now I'm going to bed so you can puzzle on that. G'night.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Jun 1, 2010
Goodnight to you to. Sound of a bird? Nightingale? Skylark?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 1, 2010
Nope. 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Jun 2, 2010
Wasn't one of the kings of England killed by having a red-hot poker shoved up his arse? The perpetrators hid the burns by first inserting a bugle or similar? Is that the pipe in question?
RF
QI - Murder at The Palace!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 2, 2010
>>Wasn't one of the kings of England killed by having a red-hot poker shoved up his arse?<<
Well allegedly so, yes: name and number for points.
(but that's not the answer.)
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 2, 2010
>a pipe organ<
Nope.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 2, 2010
>The sound of a train whistle, or a kettle?<
Interesting - I'm tempted to say "nope" - but where are you going with this?
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Jun 2, 2010
One of the early Edwards, but I'm not sure which one...
RF
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bobstafford Posted Jun 2, 2010
Edward (RF should get the Edward Points) number 2 around 1320 ish. Note - the poker was probabaly a sword as the a poker was not sharp enough. Red hot to stop the blood flowing from the wound and proclame the murder, not that it appears they made a good job of keeping the secret...
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Superfrenchie Posted Jun 2, 2010
>>The victim was female, and the perpetrator virginal<<
Could the perpetrator somehow be Elizabeth I ?
or possibly a priest of some kind ?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 2, 2010
I agree.
RF QI Bonus +6
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