Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Feeble first attempt follows:

What N connects
a trio member's breakthrough
John's wandering eye
the stage-struck sister of genius?

Hope that helps, Ammie! (It's the "feeble" that gets me!)

[amateur51]

Hope that helps, Ammie! (It's the "feeble" that gets me!)

Agreed, fhg - especially when scb uses it!

So ... we're still in the starting blocks with this one, issit?

[antongould]

yes but now you are here to save us Am!

[amateur51]

yes but now you are here to save us Am!

As someone once observed, "if men are the answer, what the [phucque] is the question?"

[Anna]

Shall we send a semaphore message to greenilex? I've tried nod, plots involving Noddy & Big Ears, nudge, (both to a horse and a bat) and Noddy Holder and got nowhere. As an aside, I wonder how much money Noddy H. made out of his Christmas record? What is the statuesque nod that mercia refers to?

[mercia]

What is the statuesque nod that mercia refers to?

well I admit Mozart's Don Giovanni (John) isn't my expertise, but the synopsis says a statue nods its head (end of Act 2 scene 3)

I was also wondering if Mozart was the genius with the sister in that part of the question.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was also wondering if Mozart was the genius with the sister in that part of the question.

She was nicknamed "Nannerl", but is this a "gesture", and was she "stage-struck"?

[Anna]

There is a film it seems Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart and she was a talented violnist. So, violins, neck? Actually, that doesn't make any sense either, as to gesture, does it

[mercia]

She was nicknamed "Nannerl", but is this a "gesture", and was she "stage-struck"?

indeed she was thus nicknamed. No and probably not.

[Nick Armstrong]

Nannerl was the first N I thought of when I read the question but I couldn't make that particular sister of a genius link with anything else (including the stage-struck requirement) esp. the gestural aspect, so I forgot about her...

Where is our question-setter I wonder!

[Norfolk Born]

Well...(s)he's not on line at the moment. Is it just me, or has 'AA' become slightly dysfunctional of late?

[Nick Armstrong]

Well...(s)he's not on line at the moment. Is it just me, or has 'AA' become slightly dysfunctional of late?

There have been some big speedings up and slowings down of late, but I guess it's inevitable - and I quite like the mix of quick fire questions and more convoluted testing ones, especially from new visitors!

[greenilex]

Sorry for dysfunctionality - explained by videochat with new granddaughter.

Nannerl is good. So is the nod idea, although incorrect.

I said it was a bit feeble, so don't expect perfection straight away, will you?

[Anna]

Any chance of a teeny clue greenilex, so we can ponder overnight?

[Nick Armstrong]

Any chance of a teeny clue greenilex, so we can ponder overnight?

That would be great. The surname of John perhaps? and the kind of trio we're dealing with.

But we now know that the sister concerned is Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829)