The Outstanding Comeback



After two weeks in a row of not being able to report our Thursday quiz feats, we decided that it would be third time lucky this week. What we didn't realise was quite how fortunate we would turn out to be. After coming joint 4th after the first half, we managed to pull out all the stops and squeak a win by a margin of 1 point. There were only 9 pitfalls this week and to be honest, when allowing for mistakes, it doesn't get much better than that. We now where we'll be going next week! Don't worry, I will still be going through all of our incorrect answers, so don't forget to comment below or tweet me at @MPRTaylor and let me know how you did.

Venue: The Queens Arms                                                                 Team: Me + The Teacher
Score: 72/81 - Win                                                                             Prize: £20

Best Team Name

Here's the return everybody's favourite competition. We have 6 candidates excluding our last minute 'Seasiders' name. Get voting, again by commenting or tweeting, and I'll announce the result next week.

- I'm Not a Gynaecologist, But I'll Take a Look

- Birdfest

-Les Quizerables

- Quizzly Bears

- Quizlamic State

- I Have Ebola and You Are Screwed 

 

 

 

Questions

 

Identify these well known faces.

 

1)                                                                                2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Who sings the opening line in the recent BBC music video of the Beach Boys' hit 'God Only Knows'? 

 

4) Which sport at the 2012 London Olympics was played at the Riverbank Arena?

 

5) Which footballer is the only player to have won the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United?

 

6) In the song 'My Favourite Things', what colour are the ponies? 

 

7) Combine your answers to 4), 5) and 6) with 'Cap', 'Age Discrimination', 'Cube', 'Rat Pack', 'The Bucket List' and 'Bath'. Which word links all of these?

 

8) Identify the artist behind this song (Click this link and close your eyes - watch out for adverts)

 

9) Which actor played Mr. Freeze in the 1997 film Batman and Robin?

 

 

Answers

 

 

1) Timothy West

2) Peter Snow

3) Pharrell Williams

4) Hockey

5) Henning Berg

6) Cream

7) Ice

8) Alphaville

9) Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

Post Match Analysis
 

 

1) We knew we had seen Timothy West before, but we weren't really sure where from. It was decided very early on that we should cut our losses and focus on the other questions, which were generally more in keeping with our capabilities. We were so stumped on this one that we didn't even put down an answer.

Fact File: Timothy Lancaster West was born in Bradford in 1934. He began his acting career on the stage, and became known for his Shakespearean roles. His first major television role was in the series Edward the Seventh in 1975, but he is currently best known for his recent role as Eric Babbage in Coronation Street and for currently playing Stan Carter in Eastenders. West is married to actress Prunella Scales and is the father of Samuel West. He is the President of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

 

2) This was particularly annoying as I committed one of quizzing's most common errors - mixing up the Snows. This was really me being too hasty, I was fully aware of who Peter Snow was and have seen him on many TV programmes. If I had bothered to go over this question as much as some of the others I would have avoided this all too frequent mind trap. Naturally, I opted for the Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow, who is Peter's cousin. 

Fact File: Peter Snow was born in Dublin in 1938. He is best known for his work at ITN (Independent Television News) during the 1960s and 70s, and for presenting Newsnight and later Tomorrow's World. He is noted for his long standing general election coverage (in one form or another) spanning 11 elections from 1966 to 2005, where he helped to popularise the 'Swingometer'. He has also hosted a number of history shows with his son, the historian Dan Snow, notably Battlefield Britain in 2004. 

 

3) We had both seen this video more than once over the last few weeks, and we knew more or less all the talent involved, but the order in which they performed was beyond us. The Teacher suggested Florence Welch (of Florence + the Machine fame), who is in the video, but sings the 7th line ('My life would still go on, believe me'). Pharrell's line is 'I may not always love you'.
Fact File: Pharrell Williams was born in Virginia Beach in 1973. One half of the Neptunes record production company and lead singer of the band N*E*R*D, in 2013, Pharrell appeared on 3 songs selling over 1 million copies in the UK (Get Lucky, Blurred Lines and Happy), propelling him to stardom. The 1966 Beach Boys' hit has been recently released on the BBC channels to promote the new BBC music website, and the video also features co-author Brian Wilson, among many others.  

 

4) We were able to rule out a few sports, but hockey didn't even cross our minds. The best we could come up with was 'Wrestling', in that 'Mud' could be the common link, but this was quickly disproven. Had we known this crucial answer we could have got the connection, and then possibly worked out the others in time.

Fact File: Costing £19 million, the Riverbank Arena opened in Hackney Wick, contained two venues for hockey and was also used to host 5 and 7-a-side football matches during the Paralympics. The arena has since been dismantled and moved to Eton Manor, where it is now known as the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre. It is the home of Wapping Hockey Club and will host the EuroHockey Nations Championships in 2015.   

 

5) I was only about as much use as a chocolate fireguard for this one, so it was really down to the Teacher to remember every member of Blackburn Rovers' winning squad in 1995. Unsurprisingly, this was a pretty big ask and our eventual answer of Andy Cole didn't cut the mustard (plus it made things more difficult for our connection). Massive plaudits if you got Henning Berg.

Fact File: Henning Stille Berg was born in 1969 in Eidsvoll, Norway and played from 1988 to 2004. He played for Blackburn Rovers from 1993-97 and for Manchester United 1997-2000, before returning to Blackburn until 2003, In doing so he became the first player to win the Premier League with two different clubs. A defender, Berg scored 7 goals for Blackburn and 2 for Manchester United, and later returned to Blackburn as a manager (though only for 57 days) in 2012. 

 

6) We clearly had plenty of ideas, but we couldn't improve upon 'White', which essentially assured our doom in trying to guess the connection.

Fact File: The song was written by Richard Rogers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein (lyrics) for the 1959 musical the Sound of Music. It was later immortalised in the 1965 film of the same name which starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), though the song's order is repositioned for the movie, taking the place of 'The Lonely Goatherd'. You can hear the full song here.  

 

7) Our wrong answers were critical in this unfortunately. We may have been able to get the connection with time, but we spent about 10 minutes on it and nothing was coming. Disappointed, we opted for 'House'. As soon as the Teacher googled the football answer during the half time break, we had that simultaneous wave of realisation. It was after this that we were announced to have been in joint 4th place, and set out with all guns blazing on the second half.

Fact File: You know what ice is.

 

8) We assumed that the artist must be very obvious, but to our immense relief it seemed that most of the pub didn't know, and unusually for us, we stormed the rest of the music round. Special plaudits to the Teacher for his 'David Gray' answer'.

Fact File: Alphaville are a new wave band that were formed in Munster, West Germany in 1982 and are still performing. They were originally called 'Forever Young', which is also the name of one of their hits.

 

9) I assumed that it would be someone very well known (correct) and who had received high critical acclaim (debatable). Having very little idea, and possibly inspired by Samuel L Jackson playing the part of Frozone in the Incredibles, we went for Morgan Freeman.

Fact File: Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria in 1947 and first found fame as a body builder, winning the titles of 'Mr. Universe', 'Mr. Olympia' and International Powerlifting Champion. 'Arnie' is probably best known for his franchise roles as 'The Terminator' and as 'Conan the Barbarian' and for starring opposite Danny DeVito in 'Twins' in 1988. When Gray Davis was recalled as Governor of California in 2003, Schwarzenegger won the election to replace him. He served until 2011, and has since returned to the world of film. 

 

 That's it folks. Did you beat us on those? Don't hesitate to comment or tweet. Until next time then...