Z is for… | Answers

The answers to my earlier post are shown highlighted below.

One

The caption (copied below) for the above photo is missing the name of a port. What port?

Aerial view of the Boudewijnkanaal linking the city of Bruges (middle of image) with the port of … (top).

Answer: Zeebrugge

The Port of Zeebrugge, a major North Sea port in Bruges, Belgium, handles over 50 million tonnes of cargo annually. In 1987, the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized outside the port, killing 193 passengers.

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Two

What six letter word can mean all of the following?

• a soft, gentle breeze
• a personification of the west wind
• a fine cotton gingham
• a very light article of clothing

Answer: Zephyr

late Old English zefferus, denoting a personification of the west wind, via Latin from Greek zephuros ‘(god of the) west wind’. The sense ‘soft, gentle breeze’ dates from the late 17th century.
– Oxford English Dictionary

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Three

The above picture is of the … of Ur. What word is missing?

Answer: Ziggurat

The Ziggurat in Ur, dedicated to Nanna/Sîn, was built by King Ur-Nammu and completed by King Shulgi in the 21st century BC. It served as the centre of a temple complex and a shrine to the moon god.

(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9). 

origin from Akkadian ziqqurratu.

– Oxford English Dictionary

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Four

What river flows over these falls, and on which international border are they situated?

Answer: Zambezi. (Border of) Zimbabwe and Zambia

Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River, is one of the world’s largest waterfalls. It was named after Queen Victoria by David Livingstone in 1855. The Lozi name, Mosi-oa-Tunya, meaning ‘The Smoke That Thunders’, is also commonly used.

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Five

Now … played guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And The Spiders from Mars

The first three lines of a song originally released in 1972 are shown above. What word is missing from the first line?

Answer: Ziggy

Ziggy Stardust is a glam rock song about a bisexual alien rock star. The character, created by David Bowie, symbolised an over-the-top rock star and commented on celebrity worship. The lyrics for Ziggy Stardust are shown below.

Ziggy Sturdust

David Bowie

Now Ziggy played guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And The Spiders from Mars
He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man
Then we were Ziggy’s Band

Ziggy really sang
Screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick ’em by smiling
He could leave ’em to hang
He came on so loaded, man,
Well-hung, snow-white tan

So where were the spiders
While the fly tried to break our balls?
Just the beer light to guide us
So we bitched about his fans
And should we crush his sweet hands?
Oh yeah

Ziggy played for time
Jiving us that we were Voodoo
The kids was just crass
He was the naz
With God-given ass
He took it all too far
But boy, could he play guitar

Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind (ah)
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed a man
I had to break up the band

Ziggy played guitar