Anyone interested?

If enough people respond affirmatively, I will appear at 2100 (UK time) on Saturday next, in Live Chat, with 40 music questions.

There will be Classical, Baroque, Punk, Swing, Military, Great War, 60's, Harmonica, Spoons, Comb and Paper. And Ska. Lots of Ska.

Nibbles won't be provided (there's a recession going on), but feel free to bring your own drinks and knitting.

Spot prizes as usual, and rosettes in all classes.

Let me know if there will be enough bodies to make it worth my while. Sponsorship opportunities are available.

Sorry Steven,

We will be 4 hours into a flight and so not in a position to join.

Good luck to everyone else.

I'll try to get some cup cakes made up and sent by way of apology.

Sue

I'll try to be there if friends and family leave me in peace on that night!

Gosh, haven't been to a quiz here for years, wondered if they were still ongoing. There isn't much in that list that musically I have any knowledge of but sometimes in the past I managed to score 1 point!! I'll come along for the craic, bringing my own nibbles, never trust anything left on the bar - full of germs and umentionables
Quizzes here used to be a lot of fun as I remember

Thanks for posting here, I opted out of the other place

Caryl
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I will be there.
I am glad that the strict rules on sponsorship have been relaxed. Not before time!

The Hitachi Hubbard team, co=sponsored by Burgerking Bruce, will take part.

The Sky-ska round, along with the Virgin Trains military music round, will both be keenly contsted!

Bruce

I shall put in an appearance

I have never done this before, but if I remember I may be there to publicly embarrass myself.

Wesley don't forget to log in well before the event and download any updates needed to enable use of the live chat facility

Thanks...but now I'm confused already

Just go and give it a try and see if you can work it - if not come back here and we'll guide you through it!

OK, I went in, it works...now just got to work out how the hell to get out!

Wow and i though i was a biff with computers


Good idea, could try and make it a montly thing?? Cant make this Saturday though.

Andy

I may be a trifle late entering the arena but hope to attend at some stage.
Sponsored by Santander banking group (I wish).

As a shareholder in Santander, I shall be writing to Spain to query this dreadful waste of my money in sponsoring various animals to take part in a quiz!

Bruce

Have you not seen the various animals on thier display material?

Los Ardillas figure very prominently in some of them - and without their consent as well!

I shall endeavour to be there - in Alan's absence, ya never know, eh! I shall be wearing the colours of the Aldi Vitacat™ Quizeteers - Aldi Vitacat™: 9 out of 10 cats who could be bovvered to respond said 'Miaow'.

I too shall be there, barring any last minute hiccups.

Mike

Although we shall sadly be missing the quiz, I am still considering submitting answers in advance. If Prince Buster and Larry Adler don't feature, I shall be very surprised...

2 points to Mr Rat.

Will there be any questions on bagpipe music? if so, I won't attend!

Sadly, few pieces of ska appear to have been written for the bag pipes.
Unless someone can correct me?

Bruce

That would be telling. I can confirm, however, that there will be questions on music of all genres and nationalities...

I am sure that any person competent at playing the pipes could manage Ska - it is only a change in the rythm, time and tempo with adjustments in the notation to suit. Choice of tune might be a problem though.

All nationalities???
Wow!
Now I'm looking forward to the questions about music from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador.......and Tuvalu.



Bruce

Argentinian?

Was ska very popular in the Sudan?

Was much harmonica music written in Bhutan?

Bolivian baroque?

Bruce

Stranger things have happened. The Review March of the Argentine Navy is "St Patrick's Day in the morning". A combination of that well known tune and another Irish tune.
And there is a bagpipe part for when they can get hold of a piper.

Regretfully I think it best to wait until daylight saving come to here and vice versa. 6AM on a Sunday morning Oz time
is a bit too much to bear

What's odd about Bolivian baroque?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IX9W/boliviaweb

I was only joking!

I should have stuck to the New Romantics of Namibia.

Bruce

Snap.

Blame the Jesuit missionaries. Bolivian/ Mexican/ Venezualan baroque can be 'exciting'.

Well, there won't be any questions on it.

Rounds will be:

1 The Yardbirds

2 Composers

3 National

4 Instrumental

5 Opera

6 Next Lines

7 AKA

8 TV, Radio and Cinema

With (obviously) a break between Rounds 4 and 5. Rosettes will be awarded on a special Speech Day, to be held in December. All cups are to be engraved by the winners; biscuits and Tamiflu to be brought with you.

What! No Scottish Baroque Reggae or Ska?

Ah, ye canna beat McBach......

Steven,

Despite driving my Riley for an afternoon Wedding, and attending Grandson Isaac's 1st. Birthday party a little later, I would love to log in at 9 and enjoy my musical knowledge being exposed in all its paucity.

Mmmmm......Yardbirds......Zeppelin......WW1.....Love the link!

Phil.

Steven,

Where is the Ska Round? Are you sneakily hiding it in Round 7 hoping no-one will notice the
"subtle" likeness of the title of the Round?

My typing finger will have Round Five off!

Bruce

Steven,

Will you also impose a rule that all members of the audience have to stay until Elvis leaves the building?

aah thank ya verrah much

Unfortunately Mr Costello is unable to be with us.

My card carrying member of the latest generation of Disaffected Youth is someone else's problem tonight.

Therefore, I'm game.

Des the ever-so slightly buzzing (on legit substances) ...

Well Steve.
Yorkshire Day here, white roses and remembering.
Bon chance to all!
Kindest regards.
Chris.

Excellent quiz Steve. Finely balanced between music and 'music'. If only me broadband hadn't been playing up.....

Thanks everyone for a very enjoyable hour...and I can assure you that it was only beginners luck!

Thanks for the entertainment, Steven. Loved the variety.

Cheers for now,

Phil and Annette.

That was great fun. Bet you're glad you didn't leave Wesley. ' The boy done good '

Thanks Steven

Cheers Mike

A good mix of quiz questions and great fun. Thanks Mr B. Well done to all the musical geniuses (grrrrrrr)

Caryl

PS I will send an SAE for my special prize

Cheers folks, I enjoyed that although it's clearly evident that I should stop listening to Lady Ga Ga, Lilly Allen and Take That

Jon

Questions, for those who missed it:

Round One (The Yardbirds)

1. Charting at No. 3, what was the group's highest UK chart hit?
2. In 1968, Robert Plant changed the 'birds to ....
3. For Your Love was written by Graham Gouldman, who went on to chart success with which group?
4. Before joing Cream, which group did Clapton join?
5. In September '63, the 'birds took over from which group as house band at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond?

Round two (Composres, etc)

6. Who composed the 1917 US flag waver, Over There?
7, Whose symphony Number 8 is known (to his chagrin at the time) as "The Symphony of a Thousand"?
8. Whose War Requiem contains settings of owen's war poetry?
9. Who composed the music (and played it0 for the 1953 movie, Genevieve
10. One of J S Bach's sons was known as "London Bach". What were his Christian names?

Round Three (National)

11. Which country's anthem is The Soldier's Song?
12. The English translation of which country's anthem includes the lines: "O world, look up and listen/The enemy's army is coming..."?
13. Next line: "We've boundless plains to share/With courage let us all combine/To...."
14. Which country has the oldest national anthem?
15. Die Kaiserhymne was anthem of which Great War combatant?

Round Four (Instrumental)

16. Which band had a UK number 1 in 1969 with the instrumental number Albatross?
17. A hautbois is the ancestor to which modern instrument?
18. In 1968 The Cats had a ska number based on which ballet?
19. How would you play a Rebec?
20. Dinant in Belgium has a statue of the inventor of which instrument?

Break

Round Five (Opera)

21. Who sang an excerpt from a teenaged opera?
22. What are the owrds of an opera known as?
23. What is Opera Buffa?
24. The nemae of Venice's Opera House
25. What was the last opera completed by Mozart?

Round Six (Next lines)

26. "Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir/....."
27. "If you say that you are mine/I'll be here till the end of time/So you've got to let me know/,,,"
28. "Now we gotta run mmm mmm/No more time for fun mmm mmm/When we're getting angry mmm mmm/We will yell with all of our might/....."
29. "Oooo ooo ooo ooo/Comme un indien dans son igloo/...."
30. "It's a long way to Tipperary/It's a long way to go/It's a long way to Tipperary/....."

Round Seven (AKA) (Names or nicknames of the following people)

31. Mike Skinner
32. Robert Zimmerman
33. Douglas Trendle
34. Graham McPherson
35. Antonio Vivaldi

Round Eight (Cinema, TV & Radio)

36. Who wrote the musical play for Oh What a Lovely War?
37. The theme to Van der Valk became an instrumental number 1. What was its name?
38. The folk tune, Johnny Todd, became the theme to which cop show?
39. Barwick Green is the theme to which radio programme?
40. Shirley Bassey has sung three Bond themes. Which three films?

As there was a dead heat in first place, a tie-break was required:

Who was lead singer of Jefferson Airplane?

Congrats to all who took part, and well done to new boy Wesley for being runner-up, despite having threatened to leave at one point. And congratulations to LS (followed by a set of numbers) for winning. Sterling work.

And the cakes sent in by listeners were great, especially the chocolate sponge in the shape of Kathy Kirby's beehive. Yum yum indeed.

Which category are the Yardbirds in?

MUSIC

Ian is one of those classical music coves. He sees himself as an island of civilization surrounded by teeming, ignorant barbarians.