Welcome back for a quiz straight from the 3 week old archive. I hope you're ready for it. I'll bet you didn't expect to see that title, but this is nevertheless true. Our ability to recognise the build-up to the chorus in S Club 7's 'Don't Stop Moving' within a few seconds secured us our second Queen's Arms win in a row by the margin of just one point. I don't know whether to be chuffed or not with that, but I suppose if you were young in the early 2000s then the song is probably imprinted on your brain like some sort of reverberating musical tattoo. To paraphrase my partner in quizzing crime, the Teacher - 'It's a classic. I mean, it's shit, but it's a classic'. But if you could have helped us out with any of these other nuggets, please let me know, either by tweeting me (@MPRTaylor) or by commenting below. Let's get on with this.Venue: The Queen's Arms Team: Me + The Teacher
Score: 66/80 Prize: £20
Best Team Name
'Why are there no aspirin in the jungle? Because the parrots ate 'em all'.
I couldn't be happier with this decision, especially because the choice of team names this week was so bad that there is no point running the competition. Hopefully it picks up next time, because it'll be the last Queen's quiz of the year...
Questions
Identify these two famous faces.
1) 2)
These next two news questions are a little out of date thanks to my hiatus, but are still serviceable...
3) A couple were recently fined £100 for posting a bad review on TripAdvisor about a hotel in which English seaside resort?
4) Which Australian actor was recently awarded the title of 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People Magazine?
Identify the artists from their songs. As always, click below for a YouTube video, close your eyes and watch out for adverts.
5) Song 1 6) Song 2
7) Which celebrated songwriter wrote the musicals 'Kiss Me Kate' and 'High Society'?
8) Who has been a member of groups Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure?9) In October 2010, who released the greatest hits compilation 'In and Out of Consciousness'?
These next few general knowledge questions (10-12) contain the words 'pro' or 'con'...
10) In the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' by the Boomtown Rats, what had 'switched to overload'?
11) In golf, what is an alternative name for the 'fringe', which is the slightly longer grass surrounding the green?
12) Which 9-ball pool tournament between Europe and the USA has been compared to the Ryder Cup of pool?
No more pros or cons, but get these next two wrong and you lose 2 points each. You can leave them alone though, if you wish...
13) Which mainline London station was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1854?
14) China is the traditional gift for which wedding anniversary?
Tiebreak) Sports Direct was founded in which year?
Answers
2) Willie Rushton
3) Blackpool
4) Chris Hemsworth
5) Marvin Gaye
6) The Commodores
7) Cole Porter
8) Vince Clarke
9) Robbie Williams
10) Silicon chip (inside her head)
11) Apron
12) The Mosconi Cup
13) Paddington
14) 20
TB) 1982
Post Match Analysis
Moment of genius: Guessing that a 1980s show neither of us had seen before (Knight Rider) was a correct answer just from the tagline - 'A shadowy flight into the world of a man who does not exist'. This even led us down the path to a correct connection between this and other answers (chess pieces), making things a lot easier.
Most embarrassing moment: Correctly answering that certain songs were performed by Rick Astley, S Club 7, the Scissor Sisters and McFly in quick succession on the music round. Where did that burst of inspiration come from?
1) Ms Hepburn is a huge quiz favourite and the Teacher and I both considered her as an option, but for some reason I thought that this photo was of Sophia Loren. I haven't seen a lot of movies from the heydays of either actress, so we didn't waste too much time discussing this one, unfortunately to our cost.Fact File: Audrey Kathleen (Hepburn-)Ruston was born in Brussels in 1929. Regarded as something of a film icon, she gained significant acclaim for her role as the fictional Princess Anne in the 1953 film Roman Holiday, for which she won an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award. She also found fame in her role as flower girl Eliza Doolittle in 1964's My Fair Lady, but she is best known for portraying Holly Golightly in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, in which she notably sang the song 'Moon River'. Towards the end of her life she worked as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She died of cancer in in Switzerland in 1993. She is also one of a select group of individuals to earn an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony), though two of these were awarded after her death.
2) I would never have got Willie Rushton, though the Teacher may have with more time. I don't think I had ever seen a picture of him before. I can't remember what we put, but it was at least a bit better than our first (fairly illogical) guess of Benny Andersson from ABBA...Fact File: William George Rushton was born in Kensington in 1937. Rushton was one of the founders of satirical magazine Private Eye in 1961, and continued with satire by performing on the ground breaking comedy/current affairs programme 'That Was The Week That Was' from 1962-3. Venturing into film and narrating children's classic stories, Rushton is probably best known for his 22 year long stint on the BBC Radio 4 show 'I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue', which he only left upon his death in 1996.
3) This was a bad miss. I had read the news story and insisted that the answer was Whitehaven in Cumbria. ('Why else would I have seen Whitehaven in the news?') It actually turns out that the couple in question are from Whitehaven and were holidaying in the county next door. Oh dear!Fact File: Tony and Jan Jenkinson were met with this news last month when they took to the holiday review website TripAdvisor and described Blackpool's Broadway hotel as a 'filthy, dirty, rotten, stinking hovel'. The hotel added the £100 to their bill under a 'no bad review policy'. The couple have since been reimbursed, though others who have been previously affected were not so lucky.
Fact File: Chris Hemsworth was born in Melbourne in 1983. An alumnus of the cast of Aussie soap Home and Away, Hemsworth is best known for his role as Thor in the recent series of Marvel superhero films, having played the character 3 times to date. People Magazine was first published in 1974 and first ran the 'Sexiest Man Alive' feature in 1985, the first winner being fellow Australian actor Mel Gibson. Hemsworth succeeds Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.
5) Both of the songs we got wrong this week we had the potential to get right. This quiz represented our best ever music round, but we managed to get caught out on the cooler songs. In this case, I pushed for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, as I didn't think that it quite sounded like Marvin. The Teacher called this one so my bad.Fact File: Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr was born in Washington, D.C. in 1939. He is best known for his version of the song 'Heard It Through the Grapevine' in 1969 and the ground breaking albums 'What's Going On' in 1971 and 'Let's Get It On' in 1973. He achieved recognition through a series of duets with Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell. Gaye's unfortunate fate was to be shot dead by his father in 1984 with a gun that Marvin Jr. had given him just months before. 'How Sweet It Is' was written by the famed Holland-Dozier-Holland song writing trio and released by Gaye in 1964. It reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100, but only managed No. 49 in the UK.
Fact File: The Commodores were formed in 1968 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Featuring Richie on the lead vocals, the band's best known hit is probably 1978's 'Three Times a Lady' which top the charts in both the UK and the US. 'Easy' was released the year before, reaching No. 9 in the UK, 4 in the the US and topping the Australian chart. The song deals with the breakup of the protagonist's relationship.
7) We should have gone with our initial guess on this one. It might not surprise you to learn that musicals are not a great strength for us. Fact File: Cole Albert Porter was born in Peru, Indiana in 1891. Pursuing a career in music against the wishes of his family, Porter was unusual in writing his own lyrics as well as musical scores. Despite suffering a disability in 1937, Porter won the first ever Tony Award for Best Musical with Kiss Me Kate in 1949. High Society followed in 1956 as a film starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. These works are based on William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' and Philip Barry's 'The Philadelphia Story' respectively. Porter also wrote the songs 'I've Got You Under My Skin', 'I Get a Kick Out of You' and 'Begin the Beguine'. He died in 1964.
8) The most irritating thing about this question was that all I could dredge up was the Yazoo was made up of Alison Moyet and someone, and that Erasure was made up of Andy Bell and someone. Sorry Vince!Fact File: Vincent John Martin was born in 1960 in South Woodford (then in Essex). He claims that he was inspired to create electronic music after listening to the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song 'Electricity'. He was responsible for the Depeche Mode song 'Just Can't Get Enough' during his short tenure with the band before leaving to form Yazoo with Alison Moyet. After clashing with her, they broke up in 1983 and Clarke finally found permanence in Erasure after 1985.
9) Again, this was a missed opportunity. We suggested Take That, and Robbie was on my mind, but the date seemed wrong for both, and we couldn't link it to anything that would back it up. Fact File: Robert Peter Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1974. He found fame as the youngest member of Take That from 1990 to 1995, when he became the first member to leave the group. He has had an extremely prolific solo career, with 7 UK No 1 singles, and estimated sales of 77 million records worldwide. He married Ayda Field in 2010, with whom he has two children, Theodora and Charlton. Williams rejoined Take That briefly after their revival, but has since left again. He also had the distinction of having won the most BRIT Awards.
Fact File: Written by Bob Geldof, 'I Don't Like Mondays' is the second and final UK No. 1 single for the Boomtown Rats. Released in 1979, it refers to a school shooting in California earlier that year. 'I Don't Like Mondays' was the response of the killer, Brenda Ann Spencer when asked why. The 'Silicon chip' line refers directly to this.
11) Nothing I could have done here. I might have heard the term before but then again, I might not.Fact File: The fringe or 'apron' is the area of the course that separates the green and the rough. Apparently the height of the 'apron' is designed to prevent a golf ball from exiting the green. It is best to use an iron (rather than a putter) to play on this surface - so I am informed...
Fact File: The Mosconi Cup is named for American pool legend Willie Mosconi, who won the World Straight Pool Championship 15 times in the 1940s and 50s and it has been contested every year since 1994, the year after Mosconi's death. The USA has won the most tournaments with 11 to Europe's 9, with Europe winning the 2014 cup with 11 games to 5 in Blackpool.
Fact File: London Paddington station is located in the City of Westminster and Brunel originally intended that it would be possible for an individual to buy a single ticket to travel direct from Paddington to New York. The first London underground journey departed from Paddington in 1863, and the fictional Paddington Bear was found there and named for the station. It caters for roughly 35 million journeys per year and the site borders the Grand Union Canal.
14) The Teacher was right with 20 years, but the need for absolute certainty kept us from writing it down. It was probably the right choice for the sake of the last few minutes of tension. On the bonus side, this question means that I have now more or less learnt the list of UK wedding anniversary gifts.Fact File: China, or porcelain, is the traditional gift for a 20th wedding anniversary in both the UK and the USA. Unlike many quiz facts, china does actually take its name from the country China, which is where it was developed. The earliest china is thought to have been dated back to the Shang Dynasty, but it did not become widely available in the country until approximately the 7th century A.D. It is thought that the prevalence of porcelain contributed to China's shunning of glass making for over 500 years.
TB) We were lucky with this, as we were out by 11 years. We were probably remembering the peak of sporting shops in the high street rather than the genesis.Fact File: Sports Direct International is a sports goods retailer, founded in 1982 in Maidenhead, Berkshire as 'Mike Ashley Sports'. Now headquartered in Shirebrook in Derbyshire, it has been listed on the stock exchange since 2007 and Ashley still retains a majority stake in the company. It's most notable acquisition was probably Dunlop Slazenger, which it has owned since 2004.
That's your lot for now, but hopefully I'll be getting back in the swing of things asap. Until next time everyone!
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