From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Educated bags" Neilski)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: THE SLIGHTLY MORE SENSIBLE, BUT DISTINCTLY CURVED QUIZ - ANSWERS!
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:17:34 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading


Here are the answers and results to this rather stupidly-named quiz.

1: Dave Robinson <dhr@uk.co.icl.dsbc> (A) 10/40
2= James Smith <ENGJS@au.edu.newcastle.wombat> (B) 7/40
2= Laurie 8 <hears@au.edu.utas.cc.franklin> (C) 7/40
2= Adri Verhoef, The Dutch Official <Adri.Verhoef@nl.rivm> (D) 7/40
5: David "A." Mattingly <damatt01@edu.louisville.spd.starbase> (E) 4/40
6: Stanley <sdub@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> (F) 1/40
7: Dimitri Laurence II <d2lau@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> (G) 0/40

Thanks for entering, everyone; and look out for another quiz coming soon.
WHICH WILL BE EASIER!  (I hope)

Anyway, here's the answers.

>1) Somebody I never met but in a way I know
>Never said that you could get so much from a picture show
>BONUS: Obscure link between this and Sam Cooke?

Big Audio Dynamite / E = mc^2
BONUS: Mick Jones of BAD was also in the Clash. Both they and Sam Cooke had
records used to advertise Levi's 501's.

[No, they didn't love restaurants or get shot dead in a hotel.]

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>2) I, I set my sights on you (and no-one else will do)
>If I could get to move in just a little bit closer
>BONUS: Link between Michael Jackson and an album by this artist(s)?

Dead Or Alive / You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (E/E)
BONUS: Dead Or Alive made an album called Mad, Bad & Dangerous to know.
Michael Jackson has recorded Bad and Dangerous. (E)

[Actually, E only got MJ's "Bad" album but I was feeling generous.]

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>3) Young hearts are foolish
>They make such mistakes
>BONUS: How many kisses?

Fairground Attraction / Perfect (BD/BD)
BONUS: First Of A Million Kisses was their debut album. (B)

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>4) The romance goes when the promises break
>My mistake was to love you a little too much
>BONUS: Searching for McCartney?

Hue & Cry / Labour Of Love
BONUS: They also recorded Looking For Linda.

[F got one point for saying Linda McCartney.]

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>5) Been a long time been a long time
>Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely time
>BONUS: Where did the picture come from?

Led Zeppelin / Rock & Roll (ABC/ABC)
BONUS: A junk shop in Reading.

[2 points to A for saying "David Mellor's holiday snaps".  No points to E
for saying this was also Dead Or Alive with "Been A Long Time".]

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>6) If you get a flu attack
>For thirty days you're on your back
>BONUS: Where has everyone gone?

One Hundred Ton & A Feather / It Only Takes A Minute
BONUS: Jonathan King invented OHT&AF and also recorded Everyone's Gone To
The Moon. (D)

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>7) There's a city in my mind
>And it's growing all the time
>And it's alright baby it's alright
>BONUS: Link to Anthony Perkins?

Talking Heads / Road To Nowhere (/A)
BONUS: They also recorded a song called Psycho Killer. (A)

[A got two points for the link being "Psycho".  He put Psycho Killer for
the song title which swung it.  One point to C, who guessed Eurythmics, for
suggesting that Dave Stewart once slept with Anthony Perkins.]

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>8) You can't sue Buddha for libel
>You can't rewrite the Bible
>BONUS: Who replaced who?

Was (Not Was) feat. Kim Basinger & Ozzy Osbourne / Shake Your Head
BONUS: Kim Basinger replaced Madonna.

[No points to D for suggesting that Keith Moon had to be replaced after
dying.]

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>9) Turn a bright spark into a flame
>My beats per minute never been the same
>BONUS: What was the solo album by the beardless one?

Wham! / Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go) (A/A)
BONUS: Andrew Ridgley recorded Son Of Albert.

[One point to A for suggesting "Crap".  (Somebody had to!)  Also one point
to D for suggesting "Enjoyable, worthwhile listening to, and available in
many, but not all, record stores" to balance things out.]

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>10) You haven't even touched your tuna casserole
>You'd better chow down or it's gonna get cold
>BONUS: Who was told "They're not here for you" after getting off a plane?

"Weird Al" Yankovic / Eat It (BC/BC)
BONUS: Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) in The Naked Gun (C)

[One point to D for suggesting Paul McCartney who "came one day early, so
there were no fans waiting for him.  Let along paparazzi/photographers."]


So there we have it.  Unfair, biased marking of course but that's what I'm
all about.  I'll make up another quiz later this week which I'll try and
make easier!

Comments are very welcome.  Flames to /dev/null.

-- neilski

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