Topic: AutoPuzzles Math Test - Barbara Ferris / DC5 / "Catch us if You Can"

[Otto Puzzell]

This puzzle is a little different. It requires the ability to add two things together, to identify a third thing. This being AutoPuzzles, that third thing is a car.

However, this being an Otto Puzzell puzzle, a degree of abstract thinking is required, along with some arcane knowledge and/or sleuthing skills.

For 1 point, ID this the car that solves the equasion, and show your work (in other words, identify the lady in the tub, the aircraft, and how they can be combined to help identify the car.

Be sure to answer all parts of the question, if you'd like the point. Only complete answers will earn a point

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[bentleybob]

Shhh

[Otto Puzzell]

I suspect Bob has the answer...

[Otto Puzzell]

Christmas comes early to the professionals

[Allan L]

Well I recognise the aeroplane of course - unusual though it is - but not the lady or what she represents.
Hey ho

[Tom_I]

Well, I know who the lady is, but I'm hopeless on aircraft...

Hey, Allan, we could always cooperate on this. But it wouldn't work, though, would it? You can't share a point.  

[Oguerrerob]

I know both but can't find any connection!

[Tom_I]

Well, I think I might have just got lucky with a Google search on twin engined propeller aircraft where something looking very similar to the puzzle picture turned up about 23 pages down.

The lady in the tub is actress Barbara Ferris. Being of a certain age, and going to the cinema a reasonable amount in the mid 1960s, I remember she appeared in a film called Catch Us If You Can, also starring the pop group the Dave Clark Five. As far as this puzzle goes, she also appeared in a long-forgotten BBC television series about an airline security agent, played by Nigel Patrick, the programme being called Zero One.

So if I'm right and the aircraft is a Douglas DC5, then discarding the non-numeric characters, zero one plus five gives (non-arithmetically) "015", and my guess is that the car is the Tyrrell 015, built for the 1986 Formula One season.

[Otto Puzzell]

Well, I think I might have just got lucky with a Google search on twin engined propeller aircraft where something looking very similar to the puzzle picture turned up about 23 pages down.

The lady in the tub is actress Barbara Ferris. Being of a certain age, and going to the cinema a reasonable amount in the mid 1960s, I remember she appeared in a film called Catch Us If You Can, also starring the pop group the Dave Clark Five. As far as this puzzle goes, she also appeared in a long-forgotten BBC television series about an airline security agent, played by Nigel Patrick, the programme being called Zero One.

So if I'm right and the aircraft is a Douglas DC5, then discarding the non-numeric characters, zero one plus five gives (non-arithmetically) "015", and my guess is that the car is the Tyrrell 015, built for the 1986 Formula One season.

Most of the components of the correct answer are in there, except for the car.

[Tom_I]

I'm being thick, aren't I? I've been looking for a car with DC5 in the name and only come up with the Honda Integra, which has led nowhere. Now I also think that Zero One is irrelevant too.

It's been staring me in the face, but DC5 in this context means the Dave Clark Five, I think. So Barbara Ferris plus the Dave Clark Five equals the Film Catch Us If You Can (released in America as Having a Wild Weekend) in which she and Dave Clark head off together in an E-Type Jaguar. I'm not sure, but I suspect it's the 1964 one which was owned by the group, and which figured on at least two of their record covers.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm being thick, aren't I? I've been looking for a car with DC5 in the name and only come up with the Honda Integra, which has led nowhere. Now I also think that Zero One is irrelevant too.

It's been staring me in the face, but DC5 in this context means the Dave Clark Five, I think. So Barbara Ferris plus the Dave Clark Five equals the Film Catch Us If You Can (released in America as Having a Wild Weekend) in which she and Dave Clark head off together in an E-Type Jaguar. I'm not sure, but I suspect it's the 1964 one which was owned by the group, and which figured on at least two of their record covers.

I would have accepted the E-type (though That's Dave's car, and not the one from the film) or the Moke that features near the end of the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDdL7Bj65s

[Allan L]

Apart from the Douglas DC5  this thread means little to me, so well done Tom!
I think had heard of the Dave Clark Five, but no more than that.
Was Barbara Ferris a big wheel in the cinema of the day? Never heard of her.