Welcome back to week 3! Huge thanks for joining me on this journey of quiz revision — I really hope you enjoy it. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend having a quick read of my introductory post ( https://substack.com/home/post/p-161751014?source=queue) where I say something about the philosophy of these weekly quizzes and why I’ve structured them in the way I have.
As with last week, you’ll find the answers to each round immediately after the round in question, rather than all together at the end of the post. And if a question begins “[PICTURE]”, then it relates in some way to the picture included at the beginning of the round: there will be one such question in every round.
Feel free to post your scores in the comments, and especially to share answers you’re proud of, frustrating misses, facts you found interesting, or extra information — I’m keen for this to be an active community so conversation is encouraged, provided you all keep it friendly and respectful.
Round 1 — Warm-Up
[PICTURE] Popular in the late 19th century, what now obsolete type of bicycle had a front wheel far larger than the rear wheel and was accordingly named after two differently-sized British coins?
The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that one can visit today is the “Great Pyramid of …” which temple complex near Cairo?
What is the three-letter name for the main currency of Japan?
The children’s game Red Light, Green Light (known in the UK as Grandmother’s Footsteps) is probably now most associated with which South Korean dystopian thriller series, the most popular Netflix original show in the platform’s history?
The birthplace of Mother Teresa in 1910, the city of Skopje was then part of the Ottoman Empire but is now the capital city of which country in south-eastern Europe?
Which English actor played DCI Jane Tennison in the police procedural series Prime Suspect and won an Oscar for her lead performance in The Queen?
Due to its very dense atmosphere creating a runaway greenhouse effect, which planet has the highest surface temperature of any planet in our Solar System, despite only being the second-closest to the Sun?
The acronym CoD, pronounced like the fish, refers to what best-selling series of military-themed video games?
Vanessa-Mae, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Nicola Benedetti are all well-known virtuoso players of what musical instrument?
Applied with a wand-shaped brush, what type of cosmetic is used to darken and thicken the appearance of the eyelashes?
Which 16th President of the USA was in office throughout the American Civil War and delivered the famous Gettysburg Address of 1863, ending with the resolution that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?
Debbie Harry was the lead singer of which American new wave band who topped the US and UK singles charts in 1979 with the song Heart of Glass?
An essential part of the water cycle, what word beginning with E refers to the process where molecules on the surface of a liquid change into a gas?
Robert de Niro plays Travis Bickle, a mentally disturbed ex-Marine who embarks on a killing spree, in which Martin Scorsese movie named after Travis’s occupation?
The All Blacks and the Black Ferns are the nicknames of the men’s and women’s rugby union teams of which country?
Fresno, Oakland, and Anaheim are among the ten largest cities in which most populous US state?
Which Dutch artist painted his best known work The Starry Night as a depiction of the view from his window at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, which he entered in 1889 following a mental breakdown?
The title establishment in which famous Elvis Presley song is located “down at the end of Lonely Street” and caters to “broken-hearted lovers”?
Purporting to constitute a solid foundation for human knowledge in the face of radical doubt, the Latin dictum “cogito ergo sum” was coined by which 17th-century French philosopher?
Team GB’s Keely Hodgkinson won a gold medal at the 2024 Olympics in which running event, where competitors complete two full laps of an athletics track?
Round 1 — ANSWERS
Penny-farthing
Giza
Yen
Squid Game
North Macedonia (Macedonia is an acceptable answer, although it has officially been called North Macedonia since 2019)
Helen Mirren
Venus (Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, but it doesn’t have a thick atmosphere so there is nothing to trap heat to the planet’s surface)
Call of Duty
Violin
Mascara
Abraham Lincoln
Blondie
Evaporation (distinct from boiling, which occurs throughout the liquid rather than just on the surface)
Taxi Driver
New Zealand
California
Vincent van Gogh
Heartbreak Hotel
René Descartes (translated in English as “I think, therefore I am”)
800 metres
Round 2 — The Fundamentals: Literature
Almost every literature flashcard I write makes me think “that sounds great, I should read that”: a resolution on which I have followed through (at best) four or five times! My years of really voracious reading, between the ages of 14 and 18, still help me out occasionally in quiz, and a smile always comes to my face whenever I can pick up an early buzz on an obscure quote or plot point from ‘Paradise Lost’, ‘Our Man in Havana’, or (as happened very recently) ‘The Remains of the Day’. But I would dearly love to even slightly increase the ratio of books I know from reading and enjoying them against those I’ve acquired a working knowledge of from Wikipedia plot summaries and buzzer-quiz stock clues. Fingers crossed that this Substack series inspires me to get my act together, and that the next time I write a literature round my introductory paragraph will be jam-packed with recent reviews and recommendations!
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, what is the nickname of Jean Louise Finch, the novel’s narrator and daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch?
Featuring the repeated line “I think I made you up inside my head”, Sylvia Plath’s Mad Girl’s Love Song is a well-known example of what poetic form, which consists of nineteen lines with two regular refrains and only two rhymes?
The play William Tell, which formed the basis for the Rossini opera of the same name, and the poem Ode to Joy, famously incorporated into Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, were among the notable works of which German literary figure?
Which crime novelist introduced the recurring character of fictional crime novelist Harriet Vane in the 1930 book Strong Poison, which sees Vane falsely accused of murder and ultimately saved from the gallows by the investigations of Lord Peter Wimsey?
Which novel by Anne Brontë is often described as one of the first feminist novels in English literature? Its protagonist, Helen Graham, famously bars her abusive husband from her bedroom and ultimately flees along with their son, taking temporary refuge in the titular deserted mansion.
Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim are popular works by which American humorist and essayist, many of whose essays concern his own middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina?
Largely inspired by the rural landscape of his own childhood in the West Midlands, in contrast to the looming industrial metropolis of Birmingham, what name did J.R.R. Tolkien give to the idyllic region of Middle-Earth which is home to the Hobbits?
Which author’s 1947 novel The Plague, which depicts a disease outbreak and quarantine in the Algerian city of Oran, made an abrupt re-entry into the best-seller charts in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Considered the national epic of Portugal, the 16th-century poem The Lusiads by Luís de Camões features which real-life explorer as its main hero?
[PICTURE] Adapted into an acclaimed BBC series in 2002, the picaresque lesbian coming-of-age novel Tipping the Velvet, set in Victorian London, was the debut novel by which British author?
Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren is most famous for her children’s stories about which iconic character, a playful, red-haired girl who lives with a monkey named Mr Nilsson and possesses superhuman physical strength?
The title of which 1922 novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, also the surname of its main character, entered widespread parlance in mid-20th-century America, referring to “a materialistic, complacent businessman who conforms unthinkingly to the views and standards of his social set” (OED)?
The 1941 novel Hangover Square is considered the masterpiece of which writer, although his most enduring legacy probably derives from his stage thriller Gas Light, the basis of the contemporary term “gaslighting”?
Which popular 2011 children’s picture book by Jon Klassen attracted attention for its drolly macabre ending, which strongly implies that the bear protagonist has eaten the rabbit whom they suspect of stealing a particular item of clothing?
One of the first non-aristocratic women to make a living from writing literature, which 17th-century writer’s works included the bawdy Restoration comedy The Rover and the proto-novel Oronooko about an enslaved African prince in the Dutch colony of Suriname?
Set in the fictional town of Ballybeg in County Donegal, which 1990 play by Brian Friel depicts the five unmarried Mundy sisters, based on Friel’s own mother and aunts, as young women in August 1936 around the time of the titular Celtic festival?
The Conservationist and July’s People are among the novels of what South African writer and anti-apartheid activist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991?
Named after a popular Japanese arcade machine played in namesake gambling parlours which are very often run by ethnic Koreans, which 2017 historical epic by Min Jin Lee tracks the lives of four generations of a Korean family from a fishing village near Busan in 1910 to New York City in 1989?
What biblical location gives its name both to a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson and the theocratic dictatorship which rules the former United States of America in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale?
Written entirely in blank verse, the autobiography Summoned by Bells was the work of which English poet?
Round 2 — ANSWERS
Scout
Villanelle (another famous example is Dylan Thomas’s Do not go gentle into that good night)
Friedrich Schiller
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
David Sedaris
The Shire
Albert Camus
Vasco da Gama
Sarah Waters
Pippi Longstocking
Babbitt (harking back to question 7, Tolkien’s coinage of the word “hobbit” and the name of his protagonist Bilbo Baggins have both been suggested to derive from Lewis’s Babbitt)
Patrick Hamilton
I Want My Hat Back
Aphra Behn (she also famously worked as a spy for King Charles II during the Second Anglo-Dutch War)
Dancing at Lughnasa (pronounced “LOO-nah-sah”)
Nadine Gordimer
Pachinko
Gilead
John Betjeman
Round 3 — A Deeper Dive: 2000s Pop Music
Outside of Ken Bruce’s ‘Popmaster’, the metric of notability for pop music in quiz is a bit more complicated that “if it’s ever been in the charts, it’s fair game”. Some big hits have longer afterlives of popularity than others and, when I write a Deeper Dive on e.g. 1970s music, I’ll likely be looking more at recent radio playlists, film/advert soundtracks, and critics’ retrospectives than at the singles charts of the decade. However, given the average age of the UK population, it seems likely that the pop ephemera of the 2000s will be occupying a significant place in the quiz canon for some time to come, and is therefore well worth revising for those too old, (god help us) too young, or (like me) too obsessed with Flanders & Swann and Frank Sinatra to have a front row seat for it at the time. As with every era in music, there’s a lot of great stuff to discover, and also a lot of real twaddle: I’ve tried to lean towards the former in this round. NB: All references to chart positions refer to the UK charts.
Topping the charts in May 2000, Bound 4 da Reload by garage act Oxide & Neutrino prominently sampled the theme tune from which long-running BBC TV show?
[PICTURE] Although he was born in Minsk, Belarus, for which country did the singer/violinist Alexander Rybak win the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 with the song Fairytale?
Andrew Major, aka Maggot, was the leading member of which Welsh comedy hip-hop collective, whose best-selling single was 2004’s Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do?
The violently cheerful 2008 song Fascination provided the only top 10 hit for which Danish pop band?
Which American bubblegum pop duo, known for the cheerleader-esque choruses of their hits Ooh Stick You and U.G.L.Y., were famously bottled by the audience during their appearance at the 2000 Reading Festival?
The title of which Mercury Prize-winning 2008 album by English rock band Elbow completes the opening line from its lead single Grounds for Divorce: “Mondays is for drinking to …”?
An English-language re-interpretation of a song from the film Slumdog Millionaire, the 2009 hit single Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) was a collaboration between Indian composer A. R. Rahman and which girl group?
Amusingly sharing an etymology with the name of Roman emperor Caligula, what stage name was adopted by electro-pop singer Victoria Hesketh, whose 2009 debut album Hands featured the excellent tracks New in Town and Remedy?
As well as performing together as N.E.R.D., under what name did Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo become one of the leading music production teams of the 2000s, producing such era-defining hits as Nelly’s Hot in Herre, Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot, and Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl?
Which of the three original members of the Sugababes left the band in 2005 only to return to the singles charts in 2007 with a critically acclaimed collaboration with Groove Armada titled Song 4 [her forename]?
Although best known as one half of The White Stripes, with which other band did Jack White reach the top 5 in 2006 with the song Steady, As She Goes?
Kylie Minogue’s multi-platinum-selling 2001 single Can’t Get You Out of My Head was co-written by Rob Davis, formerly the guitarist with ’70s glam rock band Mud, and which prolific songwriter who also wrote Toxic for Britney Spears and I Kissed a Girl for Katy Perry?
Which song provided the coronation single for both American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson in 2002 and X Factor winner Leona Lewis in 2006, with the latter version becoming that year’s Christmas number 1?
Formed in Brighton and named after a song from David Bowie’s album Hunky Dory, which archetypal “landfill indie” group recorded such admittedly very catchy hits as Sofa Song, Ooh La, and She Moves in Her Own Way?
Which singer-songwriter released two of the decade’s top ten best-selling albums in the UK, namely 2000’s No Angel and 2003’s Life for Rent?
Featuring a distinctive rockabilly-inspired instrumentation, what 2004 hit by Girls Aloud included the lyric “what will the neighbours say?” which was also the title of their sophomore album?
Which Scottish singer topped the charts in 2003 with Stop Living the Lie following his victory in the first season of BBC talent show Fame Academy?
With a chorus lyrically inspired by the film On the Waterfront and Barry Hines’s novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the song Heavyweight Champion of the World was the biggest hit single for what Sheffield indie band fronted by Jon McClure?
The 2000 Queens of the Stone Age album that included the song Feel Good Hit of the Summer and the 2009 Rihanna album that included the song Russian Roulette both shared what title, reminiscent of the movies (although not a specific movie)?
Named among the best songs of the decade by numerous critics, although it was her only song to reach the top 10 on either side of the Atlantic, 2005’s 1 Thing was the signature hit by which mononymous American R&B singer?
Round 3 — ANSWERS
Casualty
Norway
Goldie Looking Chain
Alphabeat
Daphne & Celeste
The Seldom Seen Kid
Pussycat Dolls
Little Boots (“caligula” also means “little boot” in Latin)
The Neptunes
Mutya Buena
The Raconteurs
Cathy Dennis
A Moment Like This
The Kooks
Dido
Love Machine
David Sneddon
Reverend and the Makers
Rated R
Amerie
Round 4 — Themes and Trends: A–Z
Part of the reason why I decided to launch this Substack is that at the start of this year I started writing questions for my local village pub quiz and, after years of writing tens of thousands of flashcards for myself, rediscovered how much more fun it is to write questions for other people. So in tribute, this week my round 4 borrows a regular conceit from that very pub quiz (introduced by my splendid co-writer Davie). The A–Z round is simple: you have twenty regular general knowledge questions to which the answers form an alphabetical sequence. However, that sequence may begin at any point in the alphabet, so you will only know what initial letters to expect for subsequent questions once you have got a question correct, at which point you can then back-fill the sequence and make guesses for any unanswered earlier questions. If you reach the letter Z, then the following question will begin with an A. And to make things nice and easy, all the answers consist of a single word. It’s always particularly enjoyable to watch teams in the pub puzzling this round out, and I hope you all have fun with it. And if any of you ever find yourself in Cellardyke in the future, I’d thoroughly recommend a pint of Guinness and a steak pie at The Haven — if you’re lucky, it’ll be a quiz night!
Probably deriving from the same root as the word “scaffold”, what ten-letter word describes a moveable platform, usually ornately decorated, for displaying or carrying a coffin during a funeral?
What surname is shared by Ethiopian sisters Ejegayehu, Tirunesh, and Genzebe who have all won numerous Olympic and World Championship medals in middle- and long-distance running? Tirunesh held the women’s world record for the 5000 metres until 2020, while Genzebe is the reigning indoor record-holder for the same distance.
What Greek pre-Socratic philosopher is credited with originating the theory of the four classical elements (earth, water, air, and fire), although he might be most famous for supposedly dying after jumping into Mount Etna in an effort to make himself immortal?
Which 1972 film by Alfred Hitchcock, the first he directed in his native England since 1950, featured a spectacularly nasty performance by Barry Foster as a Covent Garden greengrocer who moonlights as the notorious serial killer dubbed “the Necktie Murderer”?
The parent company of other popular blogs including Jezebel and Kotaku, which controversial American celebrity gossip blog ceased operations in 2016 after being sued into bankruptcy by Hulk Hogan for publishing a sex tape in which he featured?
Named after a 19th-century Irish physicist, what function describes the total energy of a system, generally thought of as the sum of its kinetic and potential energies?
The Greek architect and urban planner C. A. Doxiadis is best known for designing with Asian city, which became its country’s capital in 1967?
Originally composed of enslaved Christian children, what name was given to the elite corps of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire, often cited as the world’s first modern standing army? They were finally disbanded in 1826 after revolting against the Sultan in a crisis known as the Auspicious Incident.
Named after a region in the Dinaric Alps of Slovenia, what kind of geological landscape is formed by the erosion of limestone bedrock by surface water, and is characterised by numerous sinkholes and caverns?
Co-founded by chef Allegra McEvedy and food writer Henry Dimbleby, what UK fast-food chain is known for such products as the vegan LOVE Burger, the Smoky Paprika Chicken wrap, and the Brazilian Black Bean rice-box?
His first solo number 1 single in the UK, which 1998 song by Robbie Williams prominently sampled John Barry’s score from the Bond film You Only Live Twice?
C. elegans, the first multicellular organism to have its entire genome sequenced, is an example of what animal phylum, also known as roundworms?
Generally contrasted with the rival Populares, what name is given to the political faction in the latter days of the ancient Roman Republic which broadly supported the power of the aristocratic Senate over the popular assemblies? In the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey, Pompey was aligned with this group.
Portrayed by Ian McDiarmid in the original trilogy, in which he is known only as The Emperor, which villainous character from the Star Wars franchise is the leader of the Galactic Empire who, in the prequels, manipulates Anakin Skywalker into becoming his apprentice, Darth Vader?
What surname is shared by the English actor best known as Sharon Theodopolopodous in the sitcom Birds of a Feather and the detective created by novelist John Banville in a series of the same name set in 1950s Dublin?
From the Italian for “stolen” what term is used in music for a style of performance where, rather than sticking to a rigid tempo, the musician exercises rhythmic flexibility to add expression?
Named after its inventor, in what alternative scoring system for golf are a fixed number of points awarded for each hole based on the number of strokes taken, with the objective being to accumulate the highest score? It was designed for amateur games, to make it less likely for players to fall completely out of contention thanks to huge stroke totals on one or two holes.
What was the surname of the Dutch surgeon who (fun fact) was the first European to publish a description of an orangutan, but is best known as the eponymous subject of one of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt, where he is shown dissecting a human corpse in an anatomy lesson?
[PICTURE] Created by Toby Fox, what acclaimed 2015 indie role-playing game sees players explore a subterranean realm inhabited by eccentric monsters whom they can choose either to fight, flee, or attempt to befriend? The title of this game’s sequel Deltarune is an anagram of the original’s title.
Which Swiss brand is globally famous as the original and (since acquiring rival brand Wenger in 2005) sole licensed manufacturer of the iconic Swiss Army knife?
Round 4 — ANSWERS
Catafalque
Dibaba
Empedocles
Frenzy
Gawker
Hamiltonian
Islamabad (capital of Pakistan)
Janissaries
Karst
Leon
Millennium
Nematodes (or Nematoda)
Optimates
Palpatine
Quirke (Pauline Quirke is the actor)
Rubato
Stableford
Tulp (The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp)
Undertale
Victorinox
Round 5 — No Pain, No Gain
The beloved and very trippy 1970s children’s TV show Bod, which combined radically simple cutout animation with ideas from Taoist philosophy, featured narration from which British actor, best known for his role in a classic sitcom?
The king protea, considered South Africa’s national flower, and the rooibos shrub, famous for its red tea, are both associated with what small belt of heathland near Table Mountain, known for its extraordinary biodiversity?
Which Indian-born Austrian executive made history in 2012 by becoming the first ever female Team Principal of a Formula 1 team, taking the reins at Sauber after the retirement of the team’s founder Peter Sauber?
What kind of specialised cells, responsible for secreting the protein lubricin that reduces friction in joints, are the only cells found in healthy cartilage?
Which French Socialist politician, the founder of the still-active left-wing newspaper L’Humanité, tried to organise general strikes in both France and Germany on the eve of World War One in order to force the two governments to negotiate a peace? The campaign led to his assassination by a French ultra-nationalist in July 1914, who scandalously was later acquitted of the murder.
[PICTURE] Associated with the Mandinka ethnic group of West Africa, what xylophone-like instrument traditionally incorporates calabash gourds as sound resonators under its keys? A magical example of one of these instruments plays an important role in the Epic of Sundiata, the oral foundation legend of the Mali Empire.
Directed by Terence Young, who is probably better known for his work on the Sean Connery-era Bond films, what 1967 psychological thriller starred Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman whose apartment is broken into by a gang of drug traffickers?
What caramelised Breton pastry, comparable to a much sweeter croissant, consists of several layers of dough laminated between layers of butter and incorporated sugar?
Which current Liberal Democrat MP for South Cotswolds, elected at the 2024 General Election, holds multiple Guinness World Records in ocean rowing and was the first woman to row solo across the “Big Three” oceans?
2023’s Snow Angel was the debut album by which American singer and actor who first came to public attention with her starring role as Regina George in the Broadway musical Mean Girls, reprising the role in the 2024 film version?
The Daily van (sold as the Fiat Daily until 1983) and the EuroCargo lorry are among the models produced by which Italian-based multinational manufacturer of commercial vehicles, formed by a merger of five companies in 1975?
What ancient ruler, the queen of the nomadic Massagetae tribe of the Eurasian steppes, is credited by Herodotus with defeating and killing the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great around 530 BCE? In Herodotus’s account, she personally decapitated Cyrus’s corpse and symbolically bathed his head in a vessel of blood.
What Mexican-American novelist is best known for portraying the gay street-hustler culture of Los Angeles in the 1963 stream-of-consciousness novel City of Night, which was a major influence on Gus van Sant’s film My Own Private Idaho and (very obviously) on the lyrics to LA Woman by The Doors?
Which British jazz saxophonist, who made her acclaimed BBC Proms debut in 2021, released her second studio album Odyssey in 2024, prominently featuring string accompaniment from the Chineke! Orchestra?
With a shape resembling an inverted letter T, what large-ish island in Hampshire lies immediately east of the similarly sized but much more populous Portsea Island where Portsmouth is located, and is claimed (perhaps spuriously) to be the birthplace of windsurfing?
The best known creation of Baroque sculptor Pietro Bernini, the father of the much more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini, what recognisable fountain lies at the foot of Rome’s Spanish Steps and takes the form of a half-sunken boat? John Keats is said to have come up with his own epitaph (“Here lies one whose name was writ in water”) while listening to this fountain’s waters from his deathbed.
What tragicomic animated Christmas film of 2003, directed by Japanese auteur Satoshi Kon, follows three homeless people — a middle-aged alcoholic, a transgender woman, and a teenage runaway — who discover an abandoned baby in a rubbish pile and set out on a mission to reunite it with its mother?
What common volcanic rock with an intermediate mineral composition — a higher silica content than basalt but lower than rhyolite — is characteristic of tectonic plate boundaries and is named after a major mountain range?
Which striker, who played a season in the Premier League for Sunderland, is the all-time leading goal-scorer for the Ghanaian national football team? In Ghana’s quarter-final against Uruguay at the 2010 World Cup, he missed an all-important extra-time penalty kick following Luis Suárez’s infamous handball.
Founded in 2011 by three sisters, Arum, Dawoon, and Soo Kang, what San Francisco-based dating app bills itself as “the original anti-swiping app” and presents users with a small curated selection of potential matches every day at noon, hence its name connoting a friendly mid-day brunch?
Round 5 — ANSWERS
John Le Mesurier (best known as Sergeant Wilson from Dad’s Army)
Fynbos
Monisha Kaltenborn
Chondrocytes
Jean Jaurès
Balafon (also known as a gyil)
Wait Until Dark
Kouign-amann (pronounced “KWEEN a-MAHN”)
Roz Savage
Renée Rapp
Iveco
Queen Tomyris
John Rechy
Nubya Garcia
Hayling Island
Barcaccia fountain (in English “Fountain of the Boat”, although I’ve already told you it’s shaped like a boat so you need the Italian name for the point)
Tokyo Godfathers
Andesite (after the Andes mountains)
Asamoah Gyan (pronounced “JAN”)
Coffee Meets Bagel (or CMB)
And that’s your lot. Hope you had fun. Feel free to share your best gets and most annoying misses in the comments. I’ll see you next Saturday, but for now I’ll leave you with a charming/mind-expanding/nightmarish (your mileage may vary) five minutes of classic children’s television, narrated by Sergeant Wilson from Dad’s Army.
Great set again - decided to do this after the WQC because I clearly like torturing myself with the inevitable Baader-Meinhofs that come up.
R1: 20
R2: 19 (I Want My Hat Back)
R3. 9
R4. 16 (Catafalque, Gawker, Rubato, Victorinox)
R5. 5 (got balafon, Wait Until Dark, Tomyris, Alan Rechy and Asamoah Gyan; like Frances, I also guessed Jess Gillam for the saxophonist)
Great stuff! See you next week :P
Fun quiz, as with the previous two. Literature is far better for me than Geog or Sport, but then the pop music I am terrible at so swings and roundabouts.
R1: 19 (Just didn’t know the Elvis song)
R2: 13 (Definitely a couple of misses I should have known but couldn’t quite remember, namely Sayers, but glad to have pulled Dancing at Lughnasa)
R3: 2 (I more or less live under a rock when it comes to pop music so honestly I can’t complain about getting 2. Pussycat Dolls as a complete guess, and then I just knew Caligula came from Little Boots)
R4: 12 (Some misses I should have got - Hamiltonian in particular, but this was a very fun round)
R5: 3 (Dredged Balafon from old GCSE Music knowledge, got Rapp as a complete guess, and then I’ve seen Tokyo Godfathers so knew that. I guessed Jess Gillam for the saxophonist, so clearly this is a sign I need to keep up with newer musicians more than I do! I should really have remembered Tomyris but oh well)