Next one. In the 1990s an accomplished American saxophonist toured Guyana and nearly got stranded there because the promoters didn't pay him the full amount of money previously agreed upon. What's his name?

Ace Cannon

Ace Cannon

Correct!!

Django --- First Prize

Anjali --- Second Prize

Enjoy this Ace Cannon selection and have a great weekend everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G80_gyl1Mvo

That's no excuse Me nah been barn yet but I know that

Nice!

I had forgot about Mehmood

me gat wan feeling some bady a help you with the answer.

All participants are encouraged to phone a friend or relative for answers.

That is my problem, nobody does call Iman back after I leff a message..I does think maybe they forgot but is when It happen like about fifty times, I start worry.

March is ending tomorrow.

Let's round off the month with some real brain teasers.

The young leaves of a certain plant when squashed are used as soap by the Patamona people in Guyana. What's the name of that plant? You can give either the Patamona name or the scientific name.

Carry crow bush

Furcraea Foetida

carrion crow bush

Angali may be the winner i hold back with my

second answer.

That's the scientific name indeed. The Patamona name is karowhakyik.

You're becoming an expert researcher. Congratulations!!

kp and Django are way off mark today. You think I should spank them with a carrion crow whip?

This is what the Patamona plant looks like:

Thank you kindly, Sir.

No, no spanking. Maybe tomorrow they will get the correct answer.

....and I decided to give everyone a chance today too

Ohhh riya, you're sooo sweet!

thanks Django and Riya..(had actually wondered how come you did not answer) that is so nice of you.

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