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Mr Polite 9:41 Wed Oct 29
Pub Quiz - Music Round
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Further to my first two brilliant threads about the amazing charity work i'm doing (not that i want to talk about it), you have been very helpful in offering suggestions for questions to be used in the first two rounds of the pub quiz i have been asked to organise.
I will use some and even those that I don't, I still appreciate the effort and you can still take away pride from the fact you are curing Cancer by helping raise money for the chairty i am parton of... I mean they don't use the word patron, but i know that is what they meant when they asked me to help.
I am now after suggestions for Music questions. I won't be playing any music, do just music related trivia. Please be aware that the age of the participants will vary from 9 - 90 so music for the young and old need to be covered.
Furnish me with your best.
Shalom
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.`·.Mr Polite ♥
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MancIron
10:35 Wed Oct 29
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Who recorded the original version of "The tide is high".
Most of them will plump for Blondie but it is, of course, The Paragons.
Sorts the wheat from the chaff that one.
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Mr. Burns
10:37 Wed Oct 29
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What was the last single Elvis released before his death on August 16, 1977?
Answer: Way Down
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riosleftsock
10:38 Wed Oct 29
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I'd make every question lead to an answer as follows
Mike Read, Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter, Jonathan King, Pete Townshend, cliff Richard - and throw a few others in for fun.
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wrighty
10:38 Wed Oct 29
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Do a lyric round where you read lyrics out like buzzcocks, gets people scratching their heads.
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Monk~koknee
10:39 Wed Oct 29
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How many Beatles are there on the Abbey Road album cover?
5 - John, Paul, George, Ringo and Volkswagen
* Doesn't really work in a written quiz
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Ashy
10:46 Wed Oct 29
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Which British artist appeared on the front cover of the 1st edition of Rolling Stone magazine (in 1967?) ?
John Lennon
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Big Dave
10:47 Wed Oct 29
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Who did Joe Dolce keep off of the number one spot with 'Shaddap You Face'?
Ultravox - Vienna
If you have a wide range of people playing how about first singles of each decade?
1960s - Emile Ford and the Checkmates "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"
1970s - Rolf Harris "Two Little Boys"
1980s - Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)"
1990s - Band Aid II "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
2000s - Westlife "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun"
2010s - Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name"
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Kelly Smunt
11:36 Wed Oct 29
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Musicians real names, guess who they're better known as
1. Vincent Furnier - Alice Cooper
2. William Broad - Billy Idol
3. Lester Charles - Billy Ocean
4. Gaynor Hopkins - Bonnie Tyler
5. Peter Hernandez - Bruno Mars
6. James Osterberg Jr - Iggy Pop
7. Frances Gumm - Judy Garland
8. Stefani Germanotta - Lady Gaga
9. Marvin Aday - Meatloaf
10. John Ritchie (later John Beverly) - Sid Vicious
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Billy Blagg
11:37 Wed Oct 29
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Lyric rounds are a great music pub quiz favourite as most people have them on the tip of their tongue and then have to mentally sing them. I think I have an available lyric sheet from the Blagg Quiz I used to do here in Colchester if you want .
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lukie
11:41 Wed Oct 29
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Bob Marley's first ever release was on the Island Records label and called, "One Cup of Coffee." It was also credited to Robert Marley.
However it was a B side, what was the A side?
Answer - Exodus by Ernest Ranglin
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DANNY66
11:50 Wed Oct 29
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Lyrics
Which Police song has the lyrics,'it's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet?
Every little thing she does is magic
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Mr Polite
12:21 Wed Oct 29
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question i had last time i liked was something like: Bohemian Rhapsody was knocked off the number one spot by a song whose title is mentioned in Bohemian Rhapsody. What was the song?
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WHU(Exeter)
12:32 Wed Oct 29
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Mama mia?
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Westside
12:32 Wed Oct 29
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Mr Polite, I note you are not playing music, fine. Have you considered a "work out the song from the lyric" round. Just speak the lyrics (or hand them out on a sheet), without any inflection or hint of a tune. The quizzers then have to work out the song.You could do a round of say 10 songs, which could be themed, linked in some way. I've knocked up a quiz like this with a dozen such themed rounds. The songs are spread over a wide number of years, so not to favour any age group.
Not wishing to clutter up this post with 120 questions, here are a couple of rounds, you could use. If you want more, please whomail me.
Theme "love" in the song title.
1.Why do you hurt me so bad? It would help me to know. Do I stand in your way, or am I the best thing you've had?
Love is a battlefield
2.Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made.
Tunnel of Love
3.Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
What's Love Got to do with it?
4.Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied.
Can't Buy Me Love
5.I'm going over to the other side, I'm happy to have and not to have not
Big business is very wise, I'm inside free enterprise.
This Is Not a Love Song.
6. Baby, baby, I get down on my knees for you. If you would only love me like you used to do.
You've Lost That Loving Feeling.
7.So if I call you, don't make a fuss
Don't tell your friends about the two of us
I'm Not In Love.
8. Once I ran to you ( I ran), now I'll run from you.
Tainted Love
9. Don't need money, don't take fame, don't need no credit card to ride this train.
Power of Love
10. I catch a paper boy, but things don't really change. I'm standing in the wind but never wave bye - bye.
Modern Love
Towns Cities and Places.
1. Just listen to the rhythm of gentle bossanova you'll be dancing with 'em too, before the night is over.
Downtown.
2 A fortune won and lost on every deal
All you needs a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva Las Vegas
3. I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps.
New York, New York.
4 He's got this dream about buyin' some land. He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
Baker Street.
5. There's a church bell ringing, hear the song of joy that it's singing.
Is This The way to Amarillo?
6. All across the nation such a strange vibration .
If You're Going to San Francisco.
7.Fame and fortune is a magnet, it can pull you far away from home. With a dream in your heart you're never alone
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
8.Time flies - doesn't seem a minute since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in it. All change - don't you know that when you play at this level there's no ordinary venue.
One Night In Bangkok.
9. Take a look where you're livin, you got the army on the street. And the RUC dog of repression, is barking at your feet.
Alternative Ulster.
10.You Scumbag you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot.
Fairy tale of New York
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Iron Duke
12:40 Wed Oct 29
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You could do a match the real name to the artist quiz. To make it a bit easier, you coukld include all the names and make them match the names up. Here are a few:
Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam)
Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien)
Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)
Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook)
Freddie Mercury (Faroukh Bulsara)
Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.)
Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta)
Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner))
Slash (Saul Hudson)
Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)
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Mr Polite
1:19 Wed Oct 29
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Westside
I've done the lyric thing previously - it goes down well so may well do the same thing. like the theme idea
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malmöhammer
1:26 Wed Oct 29
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If you have access to a printer you couöd print up lyric Word clouds. I run a weekly quiz here and when i have these They go down really well. Here is an examples .
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/strags11/lyricscould2
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WHU(Exeter)
1:52 Wed Oct 29
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What was the answer to that Bohemian Rhapsody thing then?
Mama mia was just a guess.
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Eerie Descent
2:03 Wed Oct 29
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Who had a number 2 hit with the single Wonderwall in December1995?
Mike Flowers
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malmöhammer
2:09 Wed Oct 29
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In 1984 and 1985 three groups or singers had a hit with songs called the power of love. Which three?
Frankie goes to Hollywood, Jennifer Rush, Huey Lewis and the News
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