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1. TINKER ...
Shiny cherries, round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet?
One of the most inspiring Christian stories is that of the young blind girl, Mary Bunyan, who loved and cared for her tinker / preacher father, during his most difficult days.
What is the title of her father John's most famous Christian allegory?
2. Tinker, TAILOR ...
Shiny cherries, round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet?
A poor Jewish milkman with five daughters has a proposal for the hand of his daughter Tzeitel from the rich local butcher but she wants to marry her childhood sweetheart, Motel the tailor. She does, when he has saved enough money to buy a sewing machine. The musical is "Fiddler on the Roof"
Who wrote the music?
3. Tinker, Tailor, SOLDIER ...
Shiny cherries,round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet?
In the Victorian novel "The Trumpet-Major", Anne Garland is wooed by three suitors. One is the cowardly, feckless son of the squire. The others are brothers, Bob and John Loveday. Anne unwisely choses the careless, happy-go- lucky sailor, Bob, while the worthy soldier goes off to a very uncertain fate.
Who wrote the novel "The Trumpet Major"?
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SAILOR ...
Shiny cherries, round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet?
In 1793, after meeting a certain young lady for the first time, Horatio, Lord Nelson, England's most famous sailor, wrote to his wife, that she was "a young woman of amiable manners who does honour to the station to which she is raised."
Who was this lady, Nelson's mistress for six years?
5. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor,
RICH MAN ...
Shiny cherries, round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet ?
In the Bible, there is a parable about a rich man who has spent his life caring for nothing but his money. In Hell he envies the poor man who is at peace in Heaven.
Which British composer wrote an orchestral piece "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" based on a folk ballad telling this story? (Hint: he also wrote "The Lark Ascending").
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor.
Rich man, POOR MAN ...
Shiny cherries round and sweet, Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet?
We actually seem to have met Poor Richard - carrying a copy of his Almanac!
Who is the American author of "Poor Richard's Almanac"?
7. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor,
Rich man, Poor man BEGGARMAN (maid!)
Shiny cherries round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Whom will you meet?
Cophetua was an African king who fell in love with the beggar maid Penelophon. They marry and live happily ever after.
Which Victorian Poet Laureate immortalized this legend in verse?
8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor,
Rich man, Poor man, Beggar man, THIEF...
Shiny cherries, round and sweet. Count your cherry stones. Who will you meet?
We meet two thieves in fact. Their names are not known, though some sources have attributed names to them. They are being executed together on a hill outside Jerusalem, alongside a third man who is in fact innocent. One is sorry for what he has done. The other is not.
What is the name of the hill where they are being crucified?
9. Well, you ate your cherries? Were they round, shiny and sweet?
What a lot of people to meet!
Charity Pecksniff in "Martin Chuzzlewit" wasn't, even though she was always known as Cherry. She was skinny and angular and reflected no good humour.She was as sour and bitter as any Oregon cherry.
Who wrote "Martin Chuzzlewit"?
10. Watch those stones don't roll off the plate
Or you'll know your love too late.
Could it be one of these fine fellows: Derek Taylor, Mick Avory, Ricky Fenson, Colin Golding,Tony Chapman or Carlo Little?
Who are these young men?
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