― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
― pete s, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
now let me say this: nick and dom DO NOT want a know-your-place society. they are not out to oppress anyone, but i would wager that they do not want to not be talked down to by someone whose sole reference to the outside world appears to be radio 1. needless to say, this is not healthy.
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
Agweelairier?
Ahgweelara?
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
They looked puzzled, embarassed and said techno to every one.
This was funny and far too much like that episode of The Young Ones.
― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
(time changes: In the program intro montage, J.Rotten and Mick Jagger feature..)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
Last night: music round, who is the lead guitarist:
"Whole lotta love" plays. eight blank faces. Suddenly one beeps:
"Um, Jeff Plant?"
(this is going to be a low scoring round)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, yeah - although I got the subsequent ones completely and embarassingly wrong. Loads of music rounds in last night's one - guess the indie record label was choice. Warp Records on Uni Challenge, who'd have thwanked it?
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
even weirder - the second one was Fierce Panda - wtf? i actually saw the panda logo and thought - "that can't be fierce panda, surely?" and lo...
― jed_, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
How's the UC rules, is last name sufficient for a correct answer?
(Yesyes I know it would still be wrong, but it would be a less laughable answer)
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link
it was good when they had Derrick May's "Strings of Life" on it and were asked what genre it was associated with. Long pause followed by "....synth"
Sadly Paxman didn't shout exasperatedly "it was TECHNO, exactly what were you doing in the late 80s???"
― Ronan, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 08:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"No, no, no, no - it's Factory records you clot!"
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
JPax missed his Roy Walker opportunity there: "Say what you see.."
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"um, Panda up a tree?"
So, they played Patti Smith's "Elegia" from Horses, and said "Who's That?"
York buzz in early and say "PJ Harvey". Lose five points, but yeah, I can see that's not an unreasonable wrong answer.
So, the swot team get the whole song excerpt, and one buzzes in and goes" um, Barbra Streisand?"
"BARBARA BLOODY STREISAND???" says some bloke in our house, oh wait that was me.
(at least they got the eventual bonus round more or less OK, although my kids got the same points between them for Blondie and the Ramones)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
That's Radio 2 programming policy for you - the only 1975 records they're allowed to play are Bo Rhap, Born To Run and I'm Not In Love.
― What a broad smile! It is like a delta! (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Paxman seemed amazed that they got the bonus questions right.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I was quite surprised myself, given their team captain's Streisand gaffe. "X-Offender" wasn't an easy one to throw at them, either. (The theme of the round being "acts who started out at CBGBs".) And then they got "Psycho Killer" within seconds, ditto "Blitzkrieg Bop", with what looked like simultaneous recognition from all four team members. That's the power of the canon for you, I guess...
xpost: The last time I tuned into Radio 2, Chris Evans was indeed playing Born To Run! (They're also allowed to play Make Me Smile, of course...)
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, they'd been clued in by the CBGB's reference by then.
Funnily enough, I'd been playing the Velvets to Voidoids comp in the car on the schoolrun last week.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Last week or the one before, question something like "What controversial record was placed at number 2 on the official singles chart during the 1977 Jubilee week despite widely being reckoned to be that week's number one seller?", blank looks all round and someone says "err... the Bay City Rollers", accompanied by the sound of me smacking my forehead
Mind you, I might've missed some of the ones on this thread already, so...
― ..··¨ rush ~°~ push ~°~ ca$h ¨··.. (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Need to make the questions harder, e.g. which TV soap opera featured guest appearances in 1993 from Gerry Marsden and Them Two Blokes Out Of Swinging Blue Jeans, The?
― What a broad smile! It is like a delta! (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
The (barely) revived Crossroads? Or Brookside?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Array it were Brookie, Frank Rogers and the Scotty Dogs like.
― What a broad smile! It is like a delta! (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha. Man i miss Brookside. 'The Magic Rabbits' theme was great too.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yesterday, JPax played "A Hard rain's a gonna fall" Bob Dylan to the two teams, but they failed to recognise it. Although one team member eventualy offered "Bob Dylan, um, Times they are a changing?"
So after some normal starters three cover versions of "Hard Rain", but blank faces all round for Barbara Dixon and Bryan Ferry, and one guess of Karen Carpenter for Joan Baez.
So, no students listen to old Bob anymore.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
That Bryan Ferry one was hard to get, though, as it didn't really sound like him until the end of the sound clip when he went to the next verse, and my ears immediately clicked 'Roxy'.
They should have got Joan Baez simply by process of elimination -- it was clearly a '70s folky singer who wasn't Joni Mitchell, so there's only one other person it could have been.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
My favourite was: jazz musician, born in Belgium in 1910, famous as the founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Answer given: Adolphe Sax. I suppose at least they knew Adolphe Sax was Belgian.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
at trivia last week there was a question about which singer was previously known as Elston Gunnn. Nobody got it.
― skip, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't what singer was previously known as Elston Gunn
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
had to wiki it
― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know that either!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
There was once one were they had to identify different genres of dance music, made deeply unfair by the fact that Paxman didn't have the faintest clue about any of it, but acted as if he did. Contestant: "That's jungle" Paxo: "No, it's obviously drum n bass" (withering stare).
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Recently, they had a round where they played brief snips of the intro for all the tracks off an album. Kinda easy, and the team got them all except for:
"tinklytinkly/BAMBAMBAMBAM/skirrrrskirrrr"
Stude: "Um, The Velvet Underground?"Paxo: "No, that's the third album, this was the Velvet Underground and Nico.."
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
that's totally unfair.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Well that depends on whether the question was to name the artist or the title. If he was after the title then I think Paxo was within his rights.
― margana (anagram), Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
It was for the title, yes.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Posts, yes if its something like knowing the lineup of One Direction or some such, but genuine annoyance if its something they 'should' know, (see the 'Velvet Underground AND NICO' up thread)
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 August 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link
I think the relative importance of 1D or the VU is your opinion, not a historical truth, and to a 19-20 year-old that's an even more arbitrary distinction.
― Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 August 2016 07:53 (seven years ago) link
Sure, but then that's what this quiz is about: Knowing the year of accession of King Henry III vs the year Ringo joined the Beatles. In 1972 only one of these facts were deemed important.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 August 2016 08:49 (seven years ago) link
Something about pop music questions not being tied into canonicity - it's a different kind of question/knowledge, just as akin to current affairs or sociology as it is to catalogues of dates. By kinder's argument upthread I see no difference between the likelihood of knowing about the Beatles or Drake or fluid dynamics or etc
― Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 August 2016 09:04 (seven years ago) link
Or in shorter words, thinking one pop question should be more obvious than another is nothing but a product of age and upbringing.
― Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 August 2016 09:06 (seven years ago) link
The idea that out of 1D and VU, only one would be in a library.
(Not an actual library obv, one of those fusty old ones that politicians like to stand in front of to look important)
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 August 2016 09:28 (seven years ago) link
Most 19 year-olds not hugely interested in 20-30 year-old pop music feels reasonable
Pretty sure some have been more contemporary though. I wasn't making the argument that one pop question should be more obvious than another, not at all, in fact that's what astonishes me is that as a rule they hardly ever get them right whether it's VU or Elton John.Plus I disagree, I don't set out to listen to Katy Perry or w/ever but somehow it just gets absorbed by my brain somewhere while I'm doing other things, or some info on pop culture will be thrust in my face while I'm online or standing in a shop - this doesn't happen with physics facts.
I would love to see a list of past music questions.
― kinder, Friday, 12 August 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
http://play.bbc.co.uk/play/pen/g9bwm75d4q
Well, here's a BBC quiz that ties in with this quiz, so hey its Friday so as the great Hans Keller obce said, 'after all, why not?'
― Mark G, Friday, 4 November 2016 08:12 (seven years ago) link
Nice, thanks. 8/10 on my first attempt. Not good enough :/
― willem, Friday, 4 November 2016 08:37 (seven years ago) link
9/10
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 4 November 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
8/10 which is a lot higher than I though since my answers were about 50/50 complete guesses or slightly educated guesses
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 4 November 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Well, here's a BBC quiz that ties in with this thread, so hey its Friday so as the great Hans Keller once said, 'after all, why not?'
fixed. my typing is worse than my score on that test (hey, how could it not be?)
― Mark G, Friday, 4 November 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
7/10
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Friday, 4 November 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
(I'll admit: I got them all)
― Mark G, Friday, 4 November 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
8/10
(I should have got the Bowie one right. Manc bands? Who gives a flying one?)
― Jeff W, Friday, 4 November 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
I remember that Bowie one on the show : It threw them too.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 November 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
9. Was guessing on the Salieri one
― Number None, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
9. Unlike Hans, I didn't grow up with string quartets sucka
― MaresNest, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
9, but mostly guesses
― niels, Friday, 4 November 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Awwww..
I mean, Johnny Cash and June Carter as a wrong guess (actually Nick Cave and Kylie) is fair enough, but the discussion was nearly Kate Bush and Vic Reeves!
― Mark G, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
First time for a long time, a music round with rock bands that want naming.
So, they got U2, missed Bruce in favour of Jeff Beck, and thought the 'not the best band in the world, they're better than that' review referred to Oasis.
But, hey.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
Oh and they did get AC/DC to be fair
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
"Outkast! Correct. Four more examples of Alabama based rap, name the artist...."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
I’ll be honest I got OutKast and Ludo but couldn’t name the other two...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
And today, The Who get a play-on.
Team gets it plus all the bonus round thanks to the Rob Newman lookalike.
At which, Paxo goes "not such a wasted youth then!"
I guess he is a Who fan, like Pete s said, upthread.
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 December 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi5SJKI6RpU
― xzanfar, Thursday, 31 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
I think Jeremy Seller deserves better than being written off as a Rob Newman lookalike. Amongst other things he's the guy behind acid brass - https://www.jeremydeller.org/AcidBrass/AcidBrassMusic.php - and got Leftfield like a shot in the last round so he's not just a Who fan either.
― ledge, Thursday, 31 December 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
Deller, thx autocorrect.
Oh I didn't realise it was he.
Still, though...
(wasn't dismissing him, just noting his stylistic difference)
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 December 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
Ok, so “Stiff Records” I could probably pick as my specialist subject on Mastermind..
I’ll allow the Dead Kennedys as a decent guess..
But, The Overtones is about as far away from “New Rose” by The Damned as you could get!
― Mark G, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
Plummet Airlines would have foxed me, but probably nothing else.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
Nah, no bother even there
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link