And, for posterity -
Martin O'NeillKenny Daglish (caretaker)John BarnesDr Jozef VenglosWim JansenTommy BurnsLou MacariFrank Connor (caretaker, not very long - two games?)Joe Jordan (caretaker, one day)Liam BradyBilly McNeill
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 May 2003 07:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 May 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
We actually got four wrong but the quizmaster gave us an extra point because he is a pervert.
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 May 2003 10:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 25 May 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 May 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― darren (darren), Sunday, 25 May 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
B-but I got the debatable one right, but no-one believed me as everyone else but me misheard the question so I was over-ruled. I like to think it was a carriage of justice (is that the opposite of a miscarriage of justice?)
Me and Ally C are planning back to defend our honour tonight. You up for it N.?
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 25 May 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I hate pub quizzes. I know lots of stuff yet they steadfastly refuse to tailor them around me, thereby making me look foolish (well, they did tonight anyway).
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 May 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
(there's a great picture of the event in my illustrated child's history of england)
(i googled it to check and it says she was a "pavement cabbage seller"!!)
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 25 May 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 May 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
(oh and it was the 17th century as I have now g00gled it too. It gets a fair bit of coverage, and I feel rather foolish for not ever having been aware of this as I like to think I know a fair bit of Scottish history)
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 May 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually I'd volunteer to run one, but I think we have some experts here at running these things, so I'll just volunteer on a contingency basis if e.g. Pete doesn't want to.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 May 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.indietorrents.com/bitbucket/annie.JPG
I wish I could go.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link
also.. she's busy that day! isn't she supposed to be at Trash?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
also annie has long hair now (see pic on barima in london thread)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Senor Embargo (blueski), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
It was out of 60 - I got 57. The only ones wrong were "how many siblings does Celine Dion have", "which act comes first in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles" and "which showtune starts with the lyrics Isn't it rich, are we a pair.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Send In The Clowns
― Simon Green (fatmancunian), Friday, 12 November 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Who, of a certain age in Britain, doesn't remember Brian & Michael? (Plus, as you note, he got the title wrong anyway)
I need to do this quiz next time I'm in Glasgow I think, to subsidise the trip.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― 3underscore (___), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― 3underscore (___), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huey (Huey), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
is there any point in having questions, that no-one knows the answers to (including the quizmaster, if not for his piece of paper)?
I asked PF, to tell me the first line of 'ulysses', from memory, and he did but he wasn't totally SURE, that he'd got it exactly CORRECT and, now, I can't REMEMBER, either. it was definetly RIGHT, though. what a question.
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Of course, that's as far as I ever got with "Ulysses", ha ha
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Possibly not all that interesting coincidence -- when I started going to the first pub quiz in Norway a couple of months after it started (by an Englishman, obv), our team name was "Jedermann sein eigner Fussball"!
― OleM (OleM), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
i went to the Village quiz once but the guy doing it was a complete nonce - forcing us to listen to Spacehog and Warm Jets and telling us how good they were. we won tho. -- Freelance Hiveminder
haha he ALWAYS plays the Warm Jets! Very strange. Huey's right tho, it's a great quiz, and bloody hard too, which is always fun.
I went to the quiz at The Winchester on Archway road last night. I lost our team a round of shots by wrongly convincing all six of them that the most frequently-picked lottery number was one of my regular numbers. They thus swapped the correct answer for one of mine, and we lost.
It all got ugly when one of our team then got the quizmaster to announce that not only did we lose because of me, but also, I own the entire back catalogue of Chris de Burgh. Bastards. Good quiz anyway...
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Argh, this is going to bug me all day now.
― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Gordon Haskell was in Stackridge between leaving King Crimson and releasing his solo album "It Is And It Isn't" - his Stackridge legacy appears only to be "(No-one's More Important Than) The Earthworm". We got no points because I didn't know exactly which months of 1971 that period encompassed.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― 3underscore (___), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Counter-argument: he's been shit since 1980.
("since 1980")
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
they asked for the first four words.
"stately," plump buck milligan... ?
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Did't CdeB got all concepty around the time of "Crusader"?
― Huey (Huey), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link