A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[citoyen]

It's a Norfolk piano.

 

[hellymedic]

WHAT sort of piano is THIS?

It's a Norfolk piano.

 

[Wowbagger]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year

I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.

[T42]

WHAT sort of piano is THIS?

It's a Norfolk piano.

Or, with a nod to that racehorse, a Norfolk King Piano.

[Cudzoziemiec]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year

I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.
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12, but I probably only knew 9. 

[Jaded]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year

I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.

12, but I probably only knew 9. 

I got 12 too.

[hellymedic]

WHAT sort of piano is THIS?

It's a Norfolk piano.

Or, with a nod to that racehorse, a Norfolk King Piano.

 

[T42]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year

I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.

12, but I probably only knew 9. 

I got 12 too.

Yeah, ditto. I mean, questions about fecking football and Kim Kardsharpian? Bloody hell.

[citoyen]

I got 20, with a couple of educated guesses. 

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Educated guesses were:
4 - had to be Banville himself
6 - correct answer is the most ridiculous option
11 - correct answer is by far the biggest option
13 - process of deduction - I knew for sure that he had done the other three
18 - such a brilliant bad pun, it had to be that one
22 - again, the rule of the biggest number applies
23 - something computer related, so had to be the American teenager

The ones I got wrong were 7, 19, 20. I knew all the others.
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[L CC]

8.
Who'd want to be paying attention this year.

Heads back to ostrich pose.

[MattH]

After Christmas lunch, we normally play a trivia game of some sort. This time, MrsH had one based on TV and Films. One question was along the lines of "What phrase completes these film titles - Doctor, Up the Kyhber, Screaming, Camping", with choices "Keep Going", "Don't Stop", "Carry On" etc. It became evident that our two kids (both in their 20s) had never seen or heard of the Carry on Films.

I'm trying to decide now if that makes us good parents or not.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Or simply that the Carry On films were of their time, and their time is quite a long while ago. Just like in 30-40 years time, kids might be confused as to the theme linking Buffy, Twilight, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Teen Wolf, Supernatural... (and equally wonder "why?")

[Kim]

Or simply that the Carry On films were of their time, and their time is quite a long while ago.

I thought their time was about 1am on New Year's Day?

[Tim Hall]

Watching a Festive Special of Richard Osman's House of Games, the first round has rhyming answers.

Who is this? (a picture of a Home Secretary appears) and what is this? (A song by Australian rock darlings AC/DC is played)

Answer: Priti Patel/Highway to Hell

I did snigger.

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's the end of the year, so there's a quiz on... Glasto. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife/glastonbury-festival-2020-anniversary-quiz-4177352

[Mr Larrington]

Gave up on that after the page reloaded for the third time.  Note to local news webshites: if your pages include so many shitverts that they don’t load properly on a fondleslab you're doing something WRONG.

[Jaded]

I got 10 out of 25. I’ve never been and have watched little.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Gave up on that after the page reloaded for the third time.  Note to local news webshites: if your pages include so many shitverts that they don’t load properly on a fondleslab you're doing something WRONG.

The Bristol Post website is shit, even on the rare occasion they write something worth reading.

[rogerzilla]

I just found out that Susannah Hoffs recorded her vocal for "Eternal Flame" naked, and my life will never be the same again.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Petula Clark is not happy that the Nashville bomber played ‘Downtown’ before he blew up his RVblew up Nashville while he played 'Downtown'.

[Mr Larrington]

Onoz!  She should sue him.  Oh, wait…

[Steph]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year

I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.

13, including two wild guesses

[rafletcher]

We’ve been catching up with series 2 of His Dark Materials. It struck me just how good the title sequence and theme music jibed with the subject matter.

[Wowbagger]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/03/the-vagina-dialogues-33-metre-artwork-draws-far-rights-ire-in-brazil

Well  well! Maybe Bolsonaro isn't the biggest in Brazil...

[Mr Larrington]

During some random wanderings around Wikinaccurate this a.m. I learned that Larry Wallis – former guitarist with The Entire Sioux Nation, UFO, the Pink Fairies, Motörhead, latter-day reincarnations of The Deviants, The Donut Dunkers Of Death and numerous other beat combos – died back in 2019.  Bah!