16th March - Poptimism Pop Quiz

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We don't have our club night back yet, but we ARE having a pop quiz!

March 16th

The Grouse and Claret, Little Chester Street, London SW1X - nearest tubes Victoria and Hyde Park Corner.

We have the upstairs room from 7, quiz will start at around 7.30. MANY prizes, not all of them desirable.

Expect all yr usual pop quiz shenanigans AND MORE.

See you there, maybe?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I will be running a bonus True Or False quiz!

(This has not been agreed yet - so may in itself be false).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, on local quiz nights, I'd end up being accused of being a 'ringer' on the pop music round.

Somehow, here I guess this would not happen...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Will it be teams?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Will there be lots of questions on 70s rock music? Like who played bass on Tucky Buzzard's penultimate LP?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

"On leaving the Mahavishnu Orchestra, who did Jerry Goodman play with next?"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Teams of up to sex I believe.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is "Your Mama" still the default answer?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

RAA! Yes, I'll definitely be there. I can't wait!

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Any team that can find us a venue for actual poptimism wins bonus points!!!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

that should be the first question!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

boo :( i will be in germany, counting pants for money.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, yay!

i was at a bar this weekend that i thought would be nice for poptimism as a stopgap (only as a stopgap because they don't have beer on draught) because they have it set up for DJs and have a dancefloor and lovely not overpriced cocktails and are new and a little desperate for customers. should i look into this more? i suspect the lack of proper beer means it would never be long-term, but it could be cool for a few times?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Colette that sounds interestin - email one of us or the freakytrigger address and TELL MORE (i.e. where it is!)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

i'd like to count pants for money.

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I wuv quizzes (and drinking with you people in London). However I am not drunk enough to book flights and consider consequences (e.g. accommodation, time off work etc) later. Revive this thread when I have been paid and am drunker, please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be there!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

HI DERE!

we have been talking about the questions (although tom hasn't written them yet, we know some of the "themes")

(i shall be glamourous assistant for the night btw)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 6 March 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

In a sparkly red party dress, I hope.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 6 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

if i didn't know you better...

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 6 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

can i join in late and receive an average score for the rounds i miss? doubt i'll make it before 9, boo. nice pub though!@

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 6 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

One of the answers will be Roxy Music (after Brian Eno left). That is the only clue I am giving.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Is the question anything to do with shooting miners?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Can I arrive after it's all finished and get a solid, respectable score, please?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, how about this answer: They all had siblings in number one chart-topping bands.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's THIS THURSDAY!

There will be free CDs and lots of bonus prizes (few remotely desirable). And we have some grebt rounds. And if nothing else you'll be down the pub won't you? COME ON.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, how about this answer: They all had siblings in number one chart-topping bands.

What connects Michael, Jermaine, Marlon, Jackie, Randy, Tito, Janet and La Toya Jackson?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Well I must come along, even if only to nab a copy of Poptimism vol 7. What's the theme this time?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Chase side shoot-up" by the Brian Bennet band

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bonus round:

Play Your Charts Right!!!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Grout xpost)

Ah, the golf theme. A perfect segue out of Polly Brown's "Up In A Puff Of Smoke" if I remember rightly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Play Your Charts Right!!!

Dare I ask who the 'Dolly Dealers' will be?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Bruce Forsyth is strangely absent from the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, despite sterling efforts such as "I'm Backing Britain" (1968) and "Sandra" (1978).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

As this thursday is my BIRTHDAY can there be a fraggle round plz?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

We will TOTALLY have a special Birthday Mark C question!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

is that a euphamism mark?

play your charts right is likely to contain an element of fraggle...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Markelbday!

Wasn't that last year?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

this kind of scares me, but i'm excited nonetheless.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

why are they always exactly 12 months apart?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Something to do with the MOON, Konal.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mark how old will you be?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I will be 32, the mean age of the ILX core massive as proved by science (when it was 29, 3 years ago).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of older people have joined since then...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

but there is also aja

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

and dante

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

(although he's totally 45 yrs old)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

quite.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

indeed.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I might come along to this, seeing as I'm working in London for a few weeks. How nice are you to first-timers?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

First time we're all sensitive and caring. Second time we just bang away like a jackhammer.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 80 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

E-Rotic are my new favourite band.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks to all who turned up.

A qualified roaring success I thought, the qualifier being that it was a wee bit too hard - I overestimated the depths of popnerdiness I was dealing with. If we do another one I think we'll keep most of the fun rounds (though we'll tone down the random element, fewer points for the eBay round etc.) and make the bits and pieces etc. a bit easier.

It's actually punctuated "Willy Use A Billy...Boy", even more bafflingly.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING! I've still no idea how we managed to come from nowhere to win that. Top stuff though, roll on the next one!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-rotic#Singles

Further highlights from their discography:

- Help Me Dr Dick
- Billy Jive (With Willy's Wife)
- Mambo Number Sex

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

It was great to meet the esteemed Mike T-Diva, I must say. If he'd been able to stay for the last round he would have got E.Rotic, no problem, and we might have won... :-( Still we did manage to finish in the medals, so not too bad an effort.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Don't Make Me Wet!

And they're the same E-rotic from DDR! Of course! I thought they sounded familiar.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT, WE DIDN'T WIN?????!!!!

Gah, wish I'd stayed longer now, but I had a prior engagement. (OK, hot date.) So, like, Pavarotti DID make the Family Fortunes list of great singers after all? I was pushing for him as well.

I wouldn't have got E-Rotic, but I should have got Shellshock.

Marcello, great to meet you. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone else. Room full of strangers, intimidating, arrived too late, left too soon, etc etc.

Tom, I didn't think it was too hard at all. Pitched just right, I thought. Apols for not introducing myself. Thought I'd just slip out quietly into the night, and was quite surprised you knew who I was...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

hehe, it was a bit of a process of elimination mike, we did kind of know the rest of the room (except for some of the goths in the corner).

well done everyone i say :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

we must stop not meeting like this

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly, a quick persual of Amazon etc. reveals that there is an E-Rotic best of CD in existence, but only on Japanese import double gah!

*cue genuinely sad spectacle of educated middle-aged man running around Soho and environs at teatime tonight like a thirsty gadfly vainly trying to bag a copy of this clearly indispensable document*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the e-Bay rounds were perfect to add that degree of randomness to the quiz.

Play Your Charts Right was not quite as exciting as it might have been due to having contestants who have memorised the charts! Still, it was great to see some of those nineties 12" single designs again.

But well done. It was fun.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh they're great to add a degree of randomness but 5 points each way was a bit hefty given the low-scoring nature of the quiz in general.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I missed this, I was watching Davy Graham trying to remember how to play guitar at the time - I'd have been as well taking my £12 and flushing it down the lavvy

― Dadaismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

― Memory Man MC (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Though if you had followed, say, "The Saint" with "Hey Boy Hey Girl" it would have afforded you the opportunity of saying "You don't get anything for a pair - NOT IN THIS GAME!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://pics.livejournal.com/freakytigger/pic/00006gzq

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

jimD's team only won because i wasn't there

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed, part of me was hoping that would happen, but obviously that would have been unfortuantely. Not taking anything away from your victory of course - that is the nature of random games.

To be fair I should have said "You get nothing for a pair (of cunts) not in this game" when I pulled out Hey Boy, Hey Girl anyway.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Props to us I think for being the only team to end up with a minus score in a round. Also, does anyone want to offer us £45 (ono) for a pair of Arctic Monkeys knickers?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, ME! ME! ME!

― the lex (honest) (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

i'm bummed but not utterly surprised to hear that abt davy graham

congrats to the winners, i hope to attend a future event, i'll be a cinch for the 'identify keiji haino songtitles - w/ brackets - round"

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 17 March 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

the pop improv round i must have accidentally slept through.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

On leaving the Mahavishnu Orchestra, who did Jerry Goodman play with next?"
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), February 14th, 2006.

Did anyone get this question right?

― Dadaismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 17 March 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

I love the idea of Pete Doherty being able to reduce the value of a £50 note by £48.

Fantastic evening all. Even if I left my Pop World Cup CD in the pub*. Can someone upload the Pele/Lion picture so I can make a t-shirt with it on? Also tracklisting please.

*I also lost the copy of Star by Primal Scream. I'm less bothered about that.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I foolishly gave away all the PWC CDs so I don't know the exact tracklisting, I can put it up tomorrow though when I'm home.

Unless I find the PWC CD Matt abandoned when I go to pick up the PA.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

was the Baltimora nationality question a trick question? cos The Good Book says Ireland iirc but it seems daft to ask the nationality of an act if they actually are British, unless it's a trick.

not that I'm bitter or anything...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

The Batlimora nationality question may have been an error. It was kind of a trick in that I always thought he was Italian for some reason, and he definitely sounds 'euro'.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

"What's the story with Baltimora, wouldn't you like to know?"

http://www.screenbiz.co.uk/screenpics/balamory.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

matt, i think i stole your cds, at least they're in my bag now. i'll give you back the primal scream.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Baltimora was defo Irish. I remember an article in the Sun's Bizarre column about him in 1985 where this mentioned.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

i think we ended up giving "irish" as an answer anyway, even though tom said "british" (also it does say irish in the good book ;))

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yes the British thing I believe came from W1k1p3d14, a source of many quiz facts but it must be admitted not as authoritative as the Good Book.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

we weren't a single point behind anyone in the end so no matter ;)

Pete's 'Stevie Wonder is colour blind - True or Pete?' question caused minor controversy.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes the British thing I believe came from W1k1p3d14, a source of many quiz facts but it must be admitted not as authoritative as the Good Book.

It's one of those 'the producer/singer is British but the guy prancing about in the video is Irish' things I think. Don't know exact details but def. confusing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

he can't see anything, therefore he can't see colours, therefore he is colourblind.

alternatively, he's not blind, but he is colourblind.

no matter who you "believe" it's still "true"

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am very glad that the Good Book backed me up on Humanoid.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

He can't see no kolorz. He said so in Ebony & Ivory.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

That classic song about black and white people living in a piano. I suppose it's one step up from Living In A Box.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Noisier. Some people would say that was more of a disincentive.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention the risk of being pummelled by hammers, as much as McCartney sometimes asks for it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Wonder is shapeblind.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Wonder once said something in an interview around the time of Secret Life Of Plants that he was able to "sense" colours.

This in itself does not mean that the question was Pete insofar as (a) "sensing" colours is biologically not strictly the same thing as "seeing" them; and (b) Secret Life Of Plants.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention the risk of being pummelled by hammers, as much as McCartney sometimes asks for it.

Silver hammers shurely?

― Dadaismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Quite.

I don't believe the Jerry Goodman question came up last night. Was it the Dixie Dregs?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have a spare PWC CD if you don't find Matt's, Tom.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone have the full stats for the evening?! i'm curious to say exactly how the great victory was achieved...

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

You mean per-question? The per-round is all available in Tom's perky graph (of our RUIN)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

ah, i see, i'd forgotten to look there. duh.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 18 March 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Baltimora was definitely Irish. That bit of 1985 was a bit strange chartwise iirc.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 18 March 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Tom, can we have the PWCCD tracklisting please?

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

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