Wednesday, March 13, 2002

I couldn't make it to the quiz last week, and our team scored the lowest score they've ever recorded. I did make it last night, and we won! I'd like to say the two things were related, but I didn't contribute much at all last night - it was just an easy quiz. Darren and Jonathan did most of the work. We finished on a score of nineteen-and-a-half out of 21. How would you have done? [Answers in the comments, please.]

1. Name the British soul singer whose current release is "Shoulda Woulda Coulda".

2. Name the grungey band responsible for current single "How You Remind Me".

3. Cartoonish rapper. "Break Ya Neck".

4. The ads for which product contain the following songs: "Space Oddity", "Dance The Night Away" [The Mavericks] and "Who Let The Dogs Out"?

5. Which "Sisters" recorded a song called "Catwoman" off the album "Hormonally Yours"? [And have you noticed it sounds identical to "Spirit In The Sky"? Ripping off Dr And The Medics? That's a new low.]

6. Which "Sisters" recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo"?

7. Which "Sisters" were responsible for ace soul track "I Believe In Miracles"?

8. The brothers who had a hit way back when with "Bye Bye Love" - are they dead or are they alive?

9, 10, 11. Panpipe versions of songs too awful to linger over here. A bonus point for naming all three acts who took "Unchained Melody" to number one in the UK.

12. Give the first 51 words of Abba's "Thank You For The Music". [It starts: "I'm".]

13, 14, 15. Three songs in honour of the Retro Bar's forthcoming refurbishment. The first was by Boney M and was a cover of a song originally recorded by The Creation. The second was called "Walls Come Tumbling Down" - who was it by? And the third was, well, it was "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, which everyone knew.

16. A soul legend performing "Bridge Over Troubled Water". She's going to do her first UK concert in decades soon. Who is she?

17. Disco hit that goes "everybody wants you, everybody wants your love, I'd just like to make you mine all night, Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na". Name the band and the song.

18. "Get in, get out of the rain" are lyrics from which hit by which Scottish band?

19. A song about a relative. Lyrics included " it's the heat and the steam of the city". What was the song? And was it by a band or a solo artist?

20. In which year were 17, 18, and 19 all hits?

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