some body call skeltonman him is a professor 

It could only be the twist by Chubby Checker. But the real guy who came up with it was Hank Ballard. He never got the recognition for it though and it was always credited to Chubby Checker.

Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is full of grace....

Let's see who is full of grace today.

In February 1972 a former Black Power activist turned Muslim arrived in Guyana for Mashramani. While in Georgetown, news broke that police had found shallow graves with dead bodies in his Trinidad backyard. The prominent visitor checked out of his hotel and went mystic. Guyanese police launched a manhunt and found him in the interior. Give the man's birth name, his Black Power name and his Muslim name. [Three names required for first prize.]

Michael de Freitas - birth name.

Michael X - Black Power name.

Michael Abdul Malik - Muslim name.

(1) Michael de Freitas

(2) Michael X

(3) Abdul Malik

Sharper and sharper she comes, this girl named Anjali.

You win! Congratulations!!

Yes, Michael de Freitas made a name for himself in England as a Black Power champion. In the end, he was charged and convicted for the murder of his followers in Trinidad in 1972 and hanged three years later.

I should tell you that I attended the flag-raising ceremony at the National Park on the evening of February 22, 1972, and standing just four feet from me was Michael Abdul Malik looking smart in suit and tie. I took a good look at him because I had just finished reading his memoir From Michael de Freitas to Michael X.

Here he is with the famous John Lennon and Yoko Ono:

I just noticed your answers. You get second prize. Anjali came first.

Yuh slowing down man, wha happening?

I remember some family of his giving us t shirts with "Free Michael X" I never wore it, didn't know the man, didn't know why he was imprisoned.

My day start at 10.00am.

This one should be as easy as cheese.

In the late 1970s the Guyana government acquired Versailles Sugar Factory on West Bank Demerara and used its facilities to manufacture bath soap. That soap was marketed in plastic packets of 4 tablets/cakes throughout the 1980s. Name the brand.

Michael X fled to Guyana a few days later and was captured there. He was charged with the murder of Skerritt and Benson, but was never tried for the latter crime.^[13] A witness at his trial claimed that Skerritt was a member of Malik's "Black Liberation Army" and had been killed by him because he refused to obey orders to attack a local police station. Malik was found guilty and sentenced to death. The Save Malik Committee, whose members included Angela Davis, Dick Gregory, Kate Millet and others, including the well known "radical lawyer" William Kunstler, who was paid by John Lennon,^[12] pleaded for clemency, but he was hanged in 1975.^[13]

Other members of the group were tried for Benson's murder. It was asserted that Benson had been shown an open grave and was then pushed in it and hacked at by Michael X with a machete on her neck.^[14]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_X

LUX soap.  nahhh that was b4 the 80's.

It was imported too. I want the local one.

I left in '73, all I knw is Lux salt soap.

Zex soap

Zex = laundry soap.

Bath soap I'm referring to.

Refresh bath soap

This is a brain tickler i remember when soap

was made there,can't remember the name.

this is a hard one, I am going to guess and say 'ok' soap.

Thanks Sir Gil for my congrats

Sweet Soap

 Life Bouy soap.

all makes of bath soap we does call sweet soap.

and yo rass think you gettin points for dis nuh? I doan know de answer but I postin anyway

nah looking for points bhai,the name i can't remember,

Gil got good memory.

This is what I was trying all day to remember. 

Gilly, it will take me days to read through this thread. I bet I will learn a lot.

Just miss my posts, that should shorten it and u aint missin much.  Howdy Miraver you've been slacking up.

That one was imported, not local.

The answer I was looking for is LILY.

Your answer stumped me. I asked my wife and she said there was a REFRESH soap in the shops but she wasn't sure if it was local. So, last night I called a relative in Guyana who ran a stall in the market in those days. She remembers both Refresh and Lilly. She said she used to get her supplies of Refresh "fram de traders." I asked her where they got it from. She said: "How me goh know? Dem use to bring in ting fram Brazil, Trinidad, Surinam, Venezuela, all ova de world."

In the 1940s British Guiana boasted of an all-round cricketer who represented the colony in regional matches and the West Indies in test cricket. In his debut test match in Barbados, he scored 99 runs. Who was that cricketer and which team was West Indies playing against in that match?

ahhh! I remember Lilly!

Your relative is correct, Refresh was imported. It's funny how you remember stuff

Robert Julian Christiani

Played against England

Robert Christiani and played against England.

oh man I had forgotten Lily soap .

Glad I'm not alone

Hi Anjali

@Riya and Anjali, both of you share the first prize. My computer shows that you clocked in same time with the correct answer.

Yes, in the first test match WI vs England, Robert J. Christiani scored 99 runs. Congratulations!!

You girls hit Django over the ground for 6!

Robert Julian Christiani (July 19, 1920, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Georgetown, Guyana) – January 4, 2005, Toronto, Canada) was a West Indian cricketer who played in 22 Tests from 1947-48 to 1953-54. At domestic level he played first-class cricket for British Guiana.

Christiani played his first Test in January 1948, playing against England; it was the West Indies first match since 1939 due to the interruption of the Second World War and he was one of seven debutantes fielded by the West Indies. Christiani was dismissed on 99,^[1][2] and is one of just three players in the history of Test cricket to have been dismissed one short of a century on debut.

Thank you, Sir Gil.

compliments of wiki.

Hi Riya, I will always remember Lily soap now.

Oh skites ayo had soap we use rakhi fo everything even fo wash pot and so

April Fool's Day came and went. I hope nobody here got fooled.

Quiz now.

She was young and fair and lithe and lively and lovely and merrily danced O mere sona re sona repeatedly and she was bright and wanted to learn how to heal the sick but one breezy sunny day Darkness clobbered her by the sea and stopped her dancing and her dreams forever. Who was she?

hmmmm... I don't know this one but I will take a stab and say Asha Parekh's character Sunita in Teesri Manzil

darn, that must have been rough on....um, certain body parts

She was Guyanese all over.

Dolly Baksh

True. Dolly Baksh was a dancer who performed on stage at many national and international events. She wanted to become a doctor. She passed 9 subjects at the GCE 'O' Level exams and 2 'A' Level subjects. One September day in 1979 she was killed on the Kitty foreshore. I attended her funeral at her Campbell Avenue home.

Congratulations!!

Next quiz.

Bumble and the Saints were:

[1] a Salvation Army band

[2] a Jordanite choir

[3] a Georgetown secret society/lodge

[4] a string band

[5] footballers