Shall we dance????

Our regular quizmaster Neville Mizen and his team had everyone on their toes with this year’s Christmas Quiz ‘Shall We Dance?’. A total of 243 entries were received and Neville and friends were able to donate a further £1600 to our funds. This brings the total sum donated as a result of our Christmas brainteasers to £11,000 – a fantastic achievement and the result of a lot of hard work on behalf of Neville and the team.

Congratulations to all of you who scored full marks but most importantly thank you to everyone who took the time to send in their completed entries.

Solutions:

Cha[r]-Cha
Boss/a/ Nova [Ch: Style of Brazilian dance and the music for it]
Ap/a/ch/e [A fast, violet dance in French vaudeville]
Highland fling
Li/m/bo [Anag of “boil”; ‘m’: top letter of “medic”]
Charleston [Anag of “Let anchors”]
Tango [NATO phoenetic alphabet: Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform …]
Bolero…[it appears in the clue]
Gay Gordons [General Gordon, Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Brown]
J/iv/e
Black Bottom [Bottom was the weaver in A Midsummer Night’s Dream]
Boston [Ch: a game of cards; a kind of waltz]
Break/dance [‘Hidden’ anagram]
Gav/ott/e [OTT: over the top: excessive]
Cakewalk [Ch: a dance; something accomplished with supreme ease]
Beguine [Clue is from the lyric of the song, Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter]
Lambeth Walk [Ch: tramp: walk]
Gal/op [Ch: a lively dance in double time]
Bunny hug [Ch: a 20C American dance]
Floral dance [Anag of ‘fell road can’]
Tarante/lla [Anag of ‘a natter’, “all” came back]
Marine/ra [Ch: a Peruvian folk dance; marine: a seascape]
J/itterb/ug anag of ‘bitter; Ch: jug: prison]
F/and/an/go[on]
Sailor’s hornpipe [Anag of ‘a Polish prisoner’].

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