h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As I’m not around on Friday, here’s the Friday Quiz a day early:


Below you'll find a number of words taken from song titles - all were top 5 singles in the UK. But I've removed a word from each song (the removed words are all different, and do not appear elsewhere in the list).

You need to rearrange this list into six song titles, adding a new word to make each.

Then take the words you've added, and rearrange them to make another song title.


Finally, here’s a clue which will help and hinder you in equal measure: “The Beatles”.


Good luck!

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baby
be
carnival
Christmas
dancing
do
hang
in
it's
on
over
survive
the
they
will
you

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I'm sure it must be Friday *somewhere*. it's a big world, after all.

Now I will watch the blizzicane dump snow on my yard while I wait for others to solve this. After I see the answers, I will say, "why didn't I think of that?"

Probably a wise move. This one's a bit sneaky, and you may not know all the songs in the US (but you'll know most)

This is my first attempt at this, although I've followed the others, but wasn't quick enough off the mark.

I have come up with:

the carnival IS over
dancing QUEEN
Do they KNOW it's Christmas
I will survive
Hang on SNOOPY
Be MY baby

Which gives me the nonsensical solution: I KNOW SNOOPY IS MY QUEEN

and leaves an IN and a YOU out.

So it's back to the drawing board.

Parts of that aren’t wrong

I figured ABBA would be included.

Shouldn't it be Hang on *SloopY*?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuw8GJbqx94


[I can't resist kibbitzing. ]

Is my memory wrong, or was it 'Hang On, Sloopy?' I didn't think Snoopy had anything to do with that song.

Great minds think alike, Dmitri. Your mind is probably greater than mine, but I'm not shy about basking in reflected glory.

But consider the rules of the quiz: You're supposed to add *one* extra word, no more and no less. That extra word will be combined with extra words from other song titles to form another song title.

There's the rub. "hang on Sloppy" has *three* words. So adding only one word to "hang" doesn't give you the complete song title. Then you face having "Sloopy" as the extra word that combines with five other words for a new song title. How many other great songs have "sloopy" in their title?

Not likely.

Impeccable is that logic. I'd say, avoid 'Sloopy'.

Peccable logic is for when my dark side emerges. Some day I may overcome my sloth and get a cell phone capable of taking a picture. Until then, you'll just have to imagine the mother of all sloths.

Or get hold of an "ice Age" video.

I'd totally listen to a song with the title "Snoopy Is My Queen"...

I think "You should be Dancing" is one of the songs.

But I can't place "hang" in any song except "Hang On Sloopy" and that's not the answer because "Sloopy" isn't in any other song title.

Icy said the answer was sneaky. Could "Hang" be part of a Chinese or Korean word? Or a nonsense word like 'Ning tong iddle I po' ?

No, the sneaky bit is that none of the words given form part of the sixth song title - it's just one word long and we need to find that word. The only clue is that it is something to do with the Beatles...

Not correct, but on the right lines.

Actually, I misread your posting. Yes, that is correct. < ok>

I'm surprised to see we don't have a beetle smiley.

You mean it's just one long word like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

Another song with "Hang" in the title is "Hang down your head Tom Dooley" but, apart from the fact that it contains too many unlisted words, I doubt it was ever in the UK top 5.

Out of my amateurish attempt which, according to Icy, wasn't completely wrong, I am hoping that the following are correct,

The carnival IS over
I will survive


Leaving key words

Christmas
baby
dancing
hang

And the remainder are:

be
do
in
it's
on
they
you


And the answer contains the words "I" and "IS". And could be a song by the Beatles, or not.