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No, and your original non-guess is the closest anyone has yet got to the answer.

Fresh Fruit?

Lime Street Blues

TLW wrote:Lime Street Blues

Spot on. I love this track almost as much as the A side. Your question.

AHB wrote:

TLW wrote:Lime Street Blues

Spot on. I love this track almost as much as the A side. Your question. V

Oh I see.... Oh what a shame. I so wanted to win...

Who was the Hollywood star that helped develop an anti-jamming system for torpedo guidance systems during WWII, although it was not finally deployed by the US military until much later? The star and co-developer applied for and received the patent during the war.

I know the answer, but will refrain from guessing because I don't have a question ready.

Glenn E. wrote:I know the answer, but will refrain from guessing because I don't have a question ready.

+1

Heddy Lamar.

(The next question if this proves to be the right answer; Find the connection between 'A Madeira Party' and an early piece of American feminist writing.)

LGTrotter wrote:Heddy Lamar.

(The next question if this proves to be the right answer; Find the connection between 'A Madeira Party' and an early piece of American feminist writing.)

Both were initially released in hardback and then immediately discounted by 50% for the Christmas market?

LGTrotter wrote:Heddy Lamar.

Indeed correct. Over to you.

TLW wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:Heddy Lamar.

Indeed correct. Over to you.

I take no credit, Google did it all for me. Great question though, not the answer which would have leapt to mind.

LGTrotter wrote:Heddy Lamar.

(The next question if this proves to be the right answer; Find the connection between 'A Madeira Party' and an early piece of American feminist writing.)

For clarification I would add that this is interpreted as a feminist text rather than the author would have called herself a feminist.

TLW wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:Heddy Lamar.

Indeed correct. Over to you.

I think this may be the first "One quiz at a time" question that I have known the answer to without any research. I'm not entirely sure why I know it, but Hedy Lamarr's work developing frequency hopping is something that somehow stuck in my brain at some point during my schooling.

Who knew that an actor and a musician (she worked with composer George Antheil, whose name I can never remember and always have to look up) could develop critical technology like that?

Glenn E. wrote:I'm not entirely sure why I know it, but Hedy Lamarr's work developing frequency hopping is something that somehow stuck in my brain at some point during my schooling.

Isn't it funny how different things stick in the minds of different people. I googled the question and when I read the answer I immediately thought of Blazing Saddles.

LGTrotter wrote:(The next question if this proves to be the right answer; Find the connection between 'A Madeira Party' and an early piece of American feminist writing.)

Perhaps something to do with Harvard?

PhilW wrote:Perhaps something to do with Harvard?

My knowledge of American history is a little shaky but I am not aware of any Harvard connection.

LGTrotter wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:(The next question if this proves to be the right answer; Find the connection between 'A Madeira Party' and an early piece of American feminist writing.)

For clarification I would add that this is interpreted as a feminist text rather than the author would have called herself a feminist.

Having looked into it she might well have described herself as a feminist, sorry about the bum steer.

The connection is a direct one. And involves insanity.

They were each written by either side of a schizophrenic?

DRT wrote:They were each written by either side of a schizophrenic?

I can't help thinking you are not taking this as seriously as you might.

LGTrotter wrote:

DRT wrote:They were each written by either side of a schizophrenic?

I can't help thinking you are not taking this as seriously as you might.

I think you will find that my guess is entirely consistent with your clue. Was I correct?

Alright

DRT wrote:Both were initially released in hardback and then immediately discounted by 50% for the Christmas market?

No.

DRT wrote:They were each written by either side of a schizophrenic?

No.
The title of the feminist work has a colour in it.

Is the colour one of:

Red
Yellow
Orange
Purple
Blue

or even
Pink?

djewesbury wrote:Is the colour one of:

Red
Yellow
Orange
Purple
Blue

or even
Pink?

Oh Yeah. And to save time I can say it isn't the color purple. And that there are other fruits than orange.

Philadelphia?

Blues

PhilW wrote:Philadelphia?

djewesbury wrote:Blues

No. I see a concerted lack of effort here. Keep it up.

Lime?

DRT wrote:Lime?

No. Sigh...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was a parody of the 'rest cure' invented by Silas Weir Mitchell, author of A Madeira Party.

djewesbury wrote:The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was a parody of the 'rest cure' invented by Silas Weir Mitchell, author of A Madeira Party.

Correct. For how long have you known this?
I understand that she was actually a patient of his and based 'the yellow wallpaper' on her experience of 'the rest cure' following an episode of post partum psychosis. She sent him a copy of it. I don't think her sent her anything.

Fly my pretty!

LGTrotter wrote:For how long have you known this?

Oh, you know.. It seemed a shame to cut Derek's guessing short.

I played a number of musical instruments as a boy, but there was only one that I always used to forget on the bus. What instrument did I regularly have to go and collect from the Lost Property Office at West Croydon bus station?

Your trombone, of course.

Glenn E. wrote:Your trombone, of course.

Full marks to Glenn for paying attention!! Very impressive. Your go. (Looking forward to that Seattle trip..)

Double Bass?

djewesbury wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:Your trombone, of course.

Full marks to Glenn for paying attention!! Very impressive. Your go. (Looking forward to that Seattle trip..)

I used to play trombone as well - both bass for concert band and tenor for jazz band. I was apparently quite good at it, but much to the dismay of my instructor and band director in college, I lacked the desire to become a musician.

In addition to trombone, I have been proficient (though not necessarily good) at three other instruments. One of those is quite common, one rather common, and one rather unique.

With what rather unique instrument was I at one time proficient? Bonus points for the others.

Glenn E. wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:Your trombone, of course.

Full marks to Glenn for paying attention!! Very impressive. Your go. (Looking forward to that Seattle trip..)

I used to play trombone as well - both bass for concert band and tenor for jazz band. I was apparently quite good at it, but much to the dismay of my instructor and band director in college, I lacked the desire to become a musician.

In addition to trombone, I have been proficient (though not necessarily good) at three other instruments. One of those is quite common, one rather common, and one rather unique.

With what rather unique instrument was I at one time proficient? Bonus points for the others.

Celesta, violin and kazoo.

The didjeridoo?

Bass viol, liquorice stick and conch.

djewesbury wrote:Bass viol, liquorice stick and conch.

Can you play 'Happy Birthday' on them?

LGTrotter wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Bass viol, liquorice stick and conch.

Can you play 'Happy Birthday' on them?

The Altered images song? Of course. That marimba sound is amazing on the conch.

Vuvuzela?

Shawm, sackbut and Jew's harp

Northumberland pipes?

Sitar?

Bandoneon?

djewesbury wrote:Celesta, violin and kazoo.

One of these is close to the "rather common" instrument that I used to play. In 3rd grade.

jdaw1 wrote:Bandoneon?

No. I'm not even sure what that is... will have to look it up.

DRT wrote:Sitar?

No.

LGTrotter wrote:Northumberland pipes?

No.

djewesbury wrote:Shawm, sackbut and Jew's harp

None of the above.

jdaw1 wrote:Vuvuzela?

One could make a strong case for there being no such thing as "proficient" in Vuvuzela. No.

djewesbury wrote:Bass viol, liquorice stick and conch

Not that unique. Not sure you can "play" a liquorice stick anyway. So no to all 3.

jdaw1 wrote:The didjeridoo?

No. Though I have played one I could hardly be called proficient. Inept would be far more accurate.

Perhaps my estimations of rarity were off.

I'm confident in my estimation of "quite common" for the first.

The second is perhaps somewhat common... or possibly a bit uncommon. Though it would be considered quite common in some circles.

The unique one is a normal instrument, but not one that you would normally think of when asking people what instrument they play. It is unique in that sense.

Viola is the sort of common or sort of not common one.

By liquorice stick I actually meant clarinet. Sorry, terrible joke.

The really 'out there' one is the Lambeg drum.

Glenn E. wrote:The unique one is a normal instrument, but not one that you would normally think of when asking people what instrument they play. It is unique in that sense.

So unique in the sense of not being pedantically unique at all. OK.

Đàn tam thập lục? (No, thought not.)

Glenn E. wrote:The second is perhaps somewhat common... or possibly a bit uncommon. Though it would be considered quite common in some circles.The unique one is a normal instrument, but not one that you would normally think of when asking people what instrument they play. It is unique in that sense.

Do you mean an instrument that goes unoticed, incognito as it were, we are surrounded by them but we never know they are among us?

Ukele.

Do we have to get all three?

Triangle?