The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Boggin's Dad]

Working backwards from Pajoholic's post - I will have a go at Coldplay,

 

Red Hot Chilli Peppers have been around for ever, so not necessary that contempoary, and Maroon 5 - well there's a guess for someone else.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Coldplay - ding.

[+MartyBartfast]

Calling Boggin's Dad.....

[+Boggin's Dad]

Well, I did not expect that stab in the dark to successful!

 

You have the choice of two questions, I will accept a correct answer for either:

 

Sticking with the music theme:

 

Where was I this weekend? And hence the late posting of this question.

 

Or

 

Which former member of the excellent Fairport Convention died earlier this year in June?

[+RJx2]

We saw a small poster on a lamp post today for Lakefest, so we'll try that.

[+speakers-corner]

a very wild guess - Glastonbury

[+Hellfire1917]

That has to be Dave Swarbrick.

[+Boggin's Dad]

A big DING for Hellfire.

 

It was the great Swarb, who we shall 'meet on the ledge'

 

And of course I was at Fairport's Cropredy Convention.

 

Over to you

[+Hellfire1917]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the forum. Been out all day.

 

My question is;

 

Just a minute or so after midnight, night of December 31st 1984/January 1st 1985, while in Parliament Square, London, what did Michael Harrison do? It was a 'first' for the UK.

[+MartyBartfast]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the forum. Been out all day.

 

My question is;

 

Just a minute or so after midnight, night of December 31st 1984/January 1st 1985, while in Parliament Square, London, what did Michael Harrison do? It was a 'first' for the UK.

 

Phoned someone to wish them Happy New Year? with a mobile phone?

[+Hellfire1917]

That's good enough for me, Marty. He called his father in the first mobile phone call made on a UK network. So that's a *DING* and it's over to you........

[+MartyBartfast]

That's good enough for me, Marty. He called his father in the first mobile phone call made on a UK network. So that's a *DING* and it's over to you........

 

I was given my first mobile a couple of years later to be on call for a bank over New Year, and that's the first thing I did with it

 

Anyway, next question:

 

Why was Maria de Cezar in the news in the last few days?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

That sounds like a Brazilian name.

 

Was she the hockey player whose partner proposed to her after a match?

[+MartyBartfast]

That sounds like a Brazilian name.

 

Was she the hockey player whose partner proposed to her after a match?

 

Part 1, right.

Part 2, wrong. This is not an Olympic competitor.

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Okay.

 

In which case how about the bride to be who gatecrashed Dan Walker live on BBC4?

 

(and who has since invited him to her wedding!)

[+MartyBartfast]

It was indeed, so a big Gold medal to Yorkshire Yellow.

 

If anyone's wondering what this is about then have a look here, I think it was really funny and very well handled on both sides:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37077188

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Thanks for the ding.

 

Thinking ahead to the paralympics...

 

Channel 4's 'Last Leg' first started as a late night show when the 2012 paralympics were on.

 

The theme music is a version of Public Enemy's 'Harder than you think'.

 

Which song does the sample featured heavily in Public Enemy's come from and who is the vocalist?

 

If you're not familiar with the track, then by all means have a listen to it at

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

** bump **

 

(need a clue?)

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

I'm assuming this question is too tricky then...

I'll leave it hanging and offer the following alternative: -

The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by whom for what?

[+Beach_hut]

I'm assuming this question is too tricky then...

I'll leave it hanging and offer the following alternative: -

The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by whom for what?

 

Bump. Can we have a clue?

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

It's awarded for a subject which is classified as a social science.

[Pajaholic]

FWIW, the OP (Simply Paul) implied that the question setter can permit Googling should a question drag:

 

In a post of 25th February 2012, the OP wrote:

 

Questions should be Pub-Quiz level and Internet searches aren't allowed to find the answer... unless things drag-on and the Questioner ok's Googling (or similar).

 

So you can authorise Googling for a question that drags and hence keep the thread moving.

 

HTH

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Noted, thanks P.

Edited September 6, 2016 by Yorkshire Yellow

[+hal-an-tow]

BUMP !

It's weeks since the last question was set, then a second question, neither are apparently going to be answered. We could cheat and google ( and I believe we wouldn't be the first to do so )but we won't, and it would be a shame for the thread to die.

 

So, if there are no sudden answers , no new and do-able question from the last setter, or any objections I'll set a new question after the weekend to get the ball rolling again.

[+Boggin's Dad]

I cannot spell philosiphy, so I cannot use that one,

 

I am going to have a punt at Geography

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Sorry, no.

 

The subject doesn't end in 'phy'.

[+Optimist on the run]

Maths? Physics? Chemistry? History? Biology? English Language? English Literature? French? Music? Religious Education? PE?

 

I must admit, I can't even remember what the question was!

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

None of the above.

 

Nor is it an 'ology'.

[dodgydaved]

I have googled it - talk about niche knowledge - I wonder if the setter could reconsider the rule about the questions being at a level that would be normally asked in your local pub quiz! :) :)

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

It's a subject one can take a GCSE in.

 

It's been mentioned a few times on a Radio 4 program I listen to

[+Boggin's Dad]

The only other GCSE I can think of that fits the social science theme is Economics.

 

Other than that I am drawing a blank

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Boggin's Dad, seeing as my question has been adjudged to be too niche, I'll give you the 'ding!' for economics.

 

The prize is awarded for "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".

 

Over to you...

[+Boggin's Dad]

Boggin's Dad, seeing as my question has been adjudged to be too niche, I'll give you the 'ding!' for economics.

 

The prize is awarded for "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".

 

Over to you...

 

Thanks for the Ding

 

I have a question along similar lines, hopefully one or two people might know this one....

 

What is the name of the prize given to mathematicians under the age of Forty by the International Mathematical Union? It is awarded to up to four winners, every four years. The most recent meeting being held in Soeul in 2014.

 

Good Luck

[+Beach_hut]

Is it the Fields Medal?

[+hal-an-tow]

Yep, two people (at least) knew the answer to your question, but this one was too slow

[+Boggin's Dad]

Spot on, there is a DING to Mr (or Mrs) Beach Hut

 

Well done

[+Beach_hut]

Sorry I missed the Ding.

 

It's Mr & Mrs (both generally cache together but Mr BH that posts on forums)

 

Question to continue with: Mamma Mia was #1 in the U.K. at the beginning of 1976. What was unusual about the song that preceded it at #1?

[+Optimist on the run]

So - end of 1975. Was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody a Christmas number one around then? A ground-breaking single, though I don't know what was specifically unusual about it.

[+Beach_hut]

So - end of 1975. Was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody a Christmas number one around then? A ground-breaking single, though I don't know what was specifically unusual about it.

That's the song. Think about the connection to the song in the question....

[Pajaholic]

The lyrics contain the title of its successor? (Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go ...)

[+Optimist on the run]

The lyrics contain the title of its successor? (Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go ...)

Also the lyrics don't include the song title itself.

[+Beach_hut]

The lyrics contain the title of its successor? (Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go ...)

 

That's what I was after. Ding for you. (and a bonus virtual point for Optimist on the Run)

[Pajaholic]

Thanks. FWIW, other unusual things about "Bohemian Rhapsody" are that, at about six minutes long, it's about twice the length that was considered normal for a single at the time and it's one of the few 'pop chart' singles not to fit into a single genre.

 

Staying with music, and hoping that this isn't too niche! What is the standard tuning of a 5-string violin (i.e. to which notes are the strings tuned?)

[Pajaholic]

I guess that a clue's in order. A 5-string violin combines the ranges of standard viola and violin. That is, the fifth string is tuned the same as the lowest string on a viola.

[+hal-an-tow]

I guess that a clue's in order. A 5-string violin combines the ranges of standard viola and violin. That is, the fifth string is tuned the same as the lowest string on a viola.

 

Right.

Music is not a poular round in this pub quiz is it ? We all go off to the bar for a refill ...

 

I know nothing whatsoever about the tuning of any string instrument apart from the guitar (EADGBE if I recall my long off teenage years correctly). But with 8 notes and 5 strings, ( as with the guitar there may be repetition though ... but not two leetrs the same next to each other I guess, and always a sequence ) Let's try some random guesses starting with the above for no good reason ...

EADGB , ADGBE , DGBEA GBEDA , BEADG , ABCDE , BCDEF , DEFGA , EFGHA , FGHAB , GABCD , ACEFG , CEFAG , ABCDE , BCDEF , CDEFGA , DEFGA, EFGAB, FGABC, ooh, I want to put GAGB something GAGBA , GAGBC, GAGBD , GAGBE, GAGBF ... or is it some 5 letter word made of those 8 letters perhaps ? FADED, FACED, DECAF ,BADGE, CADGE, CAGED ?

[Pajaholic]

To keep the thread going I'll give you the ding as both CADGE and CAGED have the right notes, but in the wrong order. Starting at C an octave below middle C, it's tuned in fifths CGDAE. Over to you ...

[+hal-an-tow]

Well, thank you,

I don't think I so much answered the question as bludgeoned it into surrender ...

 

Which immediately suggests the next question:

Who said

"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."

And to whom ?

 

Bonus smart alec points for giving the questioners version of the questioned persons name as well as the proper one.

[Pajaholic]

That sounds like Eric Morecambe to Andre Previn (aka Andrew Previous?!)

[+hal-an-tow]

That sounds like Eric Morecambe to Andre Previn (aka Andrew Previous?!)

 

'Mr Preview' actually as I recall, but the rest is correct.

I'm glad to have got the quiz moving again .

[Pajaholic]

Thanks. Hopefully a musical question the answer to which more than a few will know: What was Morecambe and Wise's signature tune?