Author Topic: Pop quiz (Read 175101 times)

Bluebottle · « **Reply #250 on:** 16 January, 2010, 09:22:17 pm »

Aye. Never heard of him myself. Your turn.

Zoidburg · « **Reply #251 on:** 16 January, 2010, 09:24:05 pm »

Heroin.

Shot gun.

Office Building.

Toilet.

Who links the four?

jogler · « **Reply #252 on:** 16 January, 2010, 09:38:59 pm »

George Michael

Bluebottle · « **Reply #253 on:** 16 January, 2010, 09:48:40 pm »

Exit stage left, 1977. The deaths of artists in the 70's?

Zoidburg · « **Reply #254 on:** 16 January, 2010, 10:19:48 pm »

Nope. The last 3 were all involved in one inccident.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #255 on:** 16 January, 2010, 10:49:52 pm »

No idea, but it reads like an updated version of Cluedo.

Zoidburg · « **Reply #256 on:** 16 January, 2010, 11:37:01 pm »

I think that murder may have been one of the few crimes that the singer involved had not been knicked for. Still a towering musical influence though to many.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #257 on:** 17 January, 2010, 01:00:44 am »

James Brown?

SandyV · « **Reply #258 on:** 17 January, 2010, 03:03:19 am »

Phil Spector?

Zoidburg · « **Reply #259 on:** 17 January, 2010, 03:11:01 am »

James Brown indeed. Old James ran his business from an office block in Atlanta. James had his own private toilet, the holy of holy crappers. Convinced that someone had used it he burst into the office next door during a meeting and demanded to know "which of you mother fuckers used my toilet". Then he started blasting holes in things with a pump action.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #260 on:** 17 January, 2010, 09:56:03 am »

Horrible, horrible man

(Brown not Zoidburg)

Saw him live once and I've never seen a backing band look so despondent and bullied.

Zoidburg · « **Reply #261 on:** 17 January, 2010, 06:41:39 pm »

Quote from: VVankhead on 17 January, 2010, 09:56:03 am

Saw him live once and I've never seen a backing band look so despondent and bullied.

Ahhh there's a story to that as well.

When you see James Brown point and then whirl on the spot to face stage left or right you see him make a flashing signal with his hands.

That means he is signaling to a guy with a note pad in the wings that the band member he has just pointed at has missed a cue or chord and will be fined by however many times he flashes his hands.

One hand - fifty dollars

Two hands at once - hundred dollars

Two hands flashed twice - two hundred dollars

And so on...the Godfather Of Soul was a mentalist - and I haven't even got to the part about the police chase through 3 states.

citoyen · « **Reply #262 on:** 18 January, 2010, 02:41:04 pm »

I never did like James Brown.

Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 16 January, 2010, 12:41:36 pm

Whatever happened to... Leon Trotsky?

Obviously a bit late for this one but I just wanted to mention that I couldn't read the question without singing the next line.

d.

Wascally Weasel · « **Reply #263 on:** 18 January, 2010, 02:48:50 pm »

Quote from: citizen smudge on 18 January, 2010, 02:41:04 pm

I never did like James Brown.

Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 16 January, 2010, 12:41:36 pm
Whatever happened to... Leon Trotsky?

Obviously a bit late for this one but I just wanted to mention that I couldn't read the question without singing the next line.

d.

Heh, I can’t read the thread title without thinking of Dennis Hopper.

citoyen · « **Reply #264 on:** 18 January, 2010, 03:09:40 pm »

While Sgt P thinks of a question, excuse me while I jump in with a quick and easy one:

Which member of which 90s indie band went on to form which other band named after a pro cyclist?

d.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #265 on:** 18 January, 2010, 03:49:18 pm »

Quote from: citizen smudge on 18 January, 2010, 03:09:40 pm

Which member of which 90s indie band went on to form which other band named after a pro cyclist?

I reckon band #2 is probably the Delgados but the names of any of their members and/or predecessors are a mystery.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #266 on:** 18 January, 2010, 03:54:10 pm »

Quote from: citizen smudge on 18 January, 2010, 03:09:40 pm

While Sgt P thinks of a question

Oh sorry! Work has got in the way so I'll forgo my turn, do carry on

Deano · « **Reply #267 on:** 18 January, 2010, 03:58:28 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2010, 03:49:18 pm

Quote from: citizen smudge on 18 January, 2010, 03:09:40 pm
Which member of which 90s indie band went on to form which other band named after a pro cyclist?

I reckon band #2 is probably the Delgados but the names of any of their members and/or predecessors are a mystery.

Alun Woodward was in something else before he was in the Delgados, but I only know them as "the badn he was in before the Delgados: $:-\$

bobb · « **Reply #268 on:** 18 January, 2010, 04:05:54 pm »

Carter the unstopable sex machine = Abdoujaparouv

Spelling maybe incorrect.

citoyen · « **Reply #269 on:** 18 January, 2010, 04:23:08 pm »

I guess technically Mr L has given a correct answer, except that he didn't give the name of the earlier band - I'd forgotten that the Delgados were actually named after Pedro. In any case, Carter/Abdoujaparov is the one I was thinking of so Bobb takes it.

According to allmusic.com, Alun Woodward, Stewart Henderson and Paul Savage's band before the Delgados was called Bubblegum. Never heard of them.

d.

bobb · « **Reply #270 on:** 18 January, 2010, 05:17:45 pm »

Quote from: citizen smudge on 18 January, 2010, 04:23:08 pm

Carter/Abdoujaparov is the one I was thinking of so Bobb takes it.

Ooh *thinks of a juicy one*

bobb · « **Reply #271 on:** 18 January, 2010, 05:27:25 pm »

Why did Jimi Hendrix join the US army?

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #272 on:** 18 January, 2010, 05:29:46 pm »

To avoid a 2 year prison sentence for car theft

Basil · « **Reply #273 on:** 18 January, 2010, 05:36:13 pm »

Didn't he then tell them he was gay, to get out again? Or was that someone else?

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #274 on:** 18 January, 2010, 05:38:41 pm »

Dunno... but while we're waiting for Bobb to finish off in the carpark, and confirm my answer I'll set my question:

What was the exact cause of the marital breakdown between Level 42 bass player and extreme gurner, Mark King and his Dutch wife, Pia?