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

A word of warning - Gnomon usually solves these within 10 seconds of me posting them, so don't scroll down if you want to solve it yourself.


1. Votive Offering
2. Condition Denoted By Low Concentrations Of Melanin In The Stroma Of The Iris.
3. Hill With Streams
4. Tack Dance Expert
5. Soft Cheese Licence
6. Young Lady By Free-Standing Kitchen Unit
7. Bejewelled Celestial 3.2-Million-Year-Old Fossilised Woman
8. Ga-light-le
9. November 5th Tune
10 Line of Schoolchildren With Peppermint Sticks


Icy

2. Blue Eyes
6. Island Girl

Don't know what the theme is, though

7. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Ah, it's Elton John!

9. Song for Guy

I've worked them all out now except for #1

1 - Sacrifice

<BB<

Well, that was a short quiz.

Don't say I didn't warn you

Some things can't be helped, Icy. The U.K. is about five time zones ahead of me, and I regrettably get up late in the morning. I didn't mind in the case of this quiz. I'm still pondering answers for the musicals quiz. Don't know if that will do any good.

I didn't say the answers to most of them, so they are still up for grabs.

Although I claim that I know the answers to these, I haven't said them, so you can still amuse yourselves by seeing who gets them first:

3. Hill With Streams
4. Tack Dance Expert
5. Soft Cheese Licence
8. Ga-light-le
10 Line of Schoolchildren With Peppermint Sticks

10. Crocodile rock

8. Step into Christmas?

4. I'm still standing?

I concur with 10. Crocodile Rock, but I had different songs in mind for 4 and 8.

So my ????? were justified.

8 is candle in the wind!

I did get another one but I did it by cheating and googling a list of EJ songs. So I won't claim that one here.

Remembering an Elton John concert I went to a good while back, I've been trying to squeeze "Bennie and the Jets" in somewhere. Many hills are named "Ben" and a stream and a jet are both a flow of water, so at a very long shot, I shall try:

3. Bennie and the Jets