The Ultimate Summer Pop Quiz
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9 black cYanmaGentaYellow Section:GDN RR PaGe:8 Edition Date:080801 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 30/7/2008 20:00 The Guardian | Friday August 1 2008 The Guardian | Friday August 1 2008 LEAVE 8 MARGIN BLANK LEAVE MARGIN Music BLANK 9) At the end of their track Burn Hollywood Burn, which Oscar-winning 5) For which Britpop single did Damien Hirst direct the video? fi lm do Public Enemy walk out of? 6) Which Manchester band sang about a woman who “looks like a 10) Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about? painting: Jackson Pollock’s Number 5”? 7) Who sang the lines, “Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers/He must have POLITICS The ultimate summer pop quiz been a pencil squeezer/He didn’t do the Mona Lisa/That was an Italian 1) The name of which rapper entered the lexicon of US politics after being geezer”? criticised by Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign? 8) According to Jonathan Richman, which artist never got called an 2) Which US presidents are the subjects of the following songs: asshole? [a] Neil Young’s Campaigner and Stevie Wonder’s You Haven’t Done 9) Joe Strummer, Sade and MIA all attended which college of art and Nothin’? design? Get your pencils ready, music fans, and prepare for the [b] Gil Scott-Heron’s B-Movie and the Ramones’ My Brain Is Hanging 10) Which artists designed the following record covers: 4) According to the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil, who killed the Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)? [a] [b] [c] grilling of your lives — from question-masterKennedys? Dorian Lynskey [c] The Byrds’ He Was a Friend of Mine and Steinski & the Mass Media’s The Motorcade Sped On? 5) House of Dolls, a Holocaust memoir by Ka-Tzetnik 135633, inspired the name of which band? 3) Which group has devoted a song to Spencer Perceval, the British prime LITERATURE 6) U2’s account of Martin Luther King Jr’s murder in Pride (in the Name of minister who was assassinated in 1812? 1) The title of Joy Division’s Interzone, the lyrics of Bomb the Bass’s Bug Love) contains a major factual error. What is it? 4) How many years elapsed between Powder Dust and the name of the band Steely Dan were all inspired by 7) The 2004 song All For You Sophia describes the assassination of a 20th- the Beat releasing Stand Down which cult novel? century ruler, after whom the band was named. Who was he? Margaret and Margaret 2) The title of the Klaxons album Myths of the Near nal Future line from comes which from a Thatcher actually standing down? MATHS 8) Which REM song features the words of US Army attorney Joseph short story collection by which Chinese-born British writer? 1) Give the value of x in the following equations Welch appearing in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on 3) Dominion by the Sisters of Mercy quotes the fi Investigations in 1954? [a] ? and the Mysterians’ tears = x sonnet of 1818? 9) Joy Division’s hours According to Neil gure: Young, 5) Scottish National Party MP Pete Wishart used to play keyboards for 4) In Streams of Whiskey by the Pogues, Shane MacGowan is encouraged this historical fi [b] √Edwin Starr’s miles + √The Temptations’ cloud = x which folk-rock band? to drink by the spirit of which Irish poet, novelist and dramatist? “came dancing across the water [c] (Nena’s red balloons - Bobby Troup’s route) 6) Which Smiths song did David Cameron choose as one of his Desert = x 5) Rock star Bucky Wunderlick is the protagonist and narrator of which With his galleons and guns Island Discs? De La Soul’s magic number 1973 novel? know nothing Looking for the new world However, I 2) π diseased. In that palace in the sun” 7) Which punk frontman ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979, fi nishing Who recorded a song called in which she sang to 137 decimal places? 6) “ I am a sick man … I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive Who is he? man. I believe my liver is fourth just behind a drag queen called Sister Boom-Boom? 3) Which 2005 single makes the improbable claim that birds fl y at at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what 10) War! Huh! Good God y’all! What is it good for? 9) [a] Who is “the old man” in Scott Walker’s 1969 song The Old Man’s 770mph? ails me.” Back Again? 4) Gene Pitney was 24 hours from Tulsa. If he intended to travel at an LANGUAGES [b] The opening lines of which post-punk song were inspired by the above The song was inspired by events in which European capital the average speed of 60mph without stopping, how far away from home passage from Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky? 1) Which No 1 single from 1987 ends with a Latin passage beginning previous year? was he at the time he committed adultery? teor Deo omnipotenti”? 10) 7) Which authors have recorded with the following musicians: “Confi Which Brazilian musician currently holds the post of minister of culture 5) How far from Earth is Major Tom in David Bowie’s Space Oddity? [a] Bomb the Bass? under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva? 2) Blur recorded a French version of their 1994 hit erent To the languages, End with including which 6) Fill in the missing geometric shapes in the following song titles: [b] Chris Coco? French singer and actress? 11) According to Jarvis Cocker in 2006, who are still running the world? [a] Bizarre Love __ (New Order) [c] Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy? 3) Which Madonna song features lines in 10 diff [b] The __ Game (Joni Mitchell) 8) Which US band based their name Lithuanian, Hindi and Hebrew? RELIGIOUS STUDIES [c] Dr __ (Dr __ ) on the subtitle of Irvine Welsh’s [d] Port __ (Squarepusher) 4) Which 2001 hip-hop single opens with lines spoken in Japanese, which 1) Pixies’ Gouge Away and PJ Harvey’s Hair refer to which Biblical short story collection Ecstasy? roughly translate as: “From this point, everyone’s going to be dancing character? 8) Which band contended in the title of a 2003 single that 2+2=5? recklessly/Let’s make some noise, let’s make some noise”? 2) Which Portishead song takes its chorus from Jude 1:13? 9) The Beatles’ White Album contains 30 songs. If you play the album on shuffl e, what is the probability that the fi rst song you hear will be by: 5) The opening words of Portishead’s album Third are spoken in which 3) What belief system connects Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Chick Corea and [a] George Harrison? European language? Doug E Fresh? [b] Ringo Starr? 6) Translated into English, Kraftwerk’s name is shared by which 80s 4) Which British band opened their 1978 debut single with the words: 11) [a] Take That claim to have sung a million love songs. If each song has 9) What is the name of Bob Dylan’s only novel, published in 1971? supergroup? “Listen to the voice of Buddha”? an average length of three minutes, how many days would it take to 10) When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were y on convicted a wheel?” of Which drug 18th 7) Which British record label is named after the informal Japanese word 5) Who claimed that Jesus … sing them all? possession in 1967, Times editor William Rees-Mogg penned an for hello? [a] died for somebody’s sins but not mine? [b] What is the probability that Take That are exaggerating? editorial asking, “Who breaks a butterfl 8) Which French band has recorded songs with titles that translate as The [b] was a crossmaker? 12) What percentage of Jay-Z’s problems are “bitch-related”? century poet originally wrote those words? Sun Is Near Me, I Slept Under the Water and Silver Woman? [c] is God’s atomic bomb? erent languages does Ian Dury use in Hit Me With Your [d] 9) How many diff don’t want me for a sunbeam? [e] SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY Rhythm Stick? built my hotrod? 1) 6) 1) According to Zager & Evans, in which year will mankind be able to Nick Drake was born in which southeast Asian country? 10) Puis-je le donner un coup de pied? Which classic reggae album contains references to Biblical books “pick your son, pick your daughter too/ 2) At exactly which Harlem junction does Lou Reed attempt to score including Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Daniel and the gospels? From the bottom of a long glass tube?” drugs in I’m Waiting for the Man? FILM STUDIES lms, 7) 2) Who recorded songs named after the full names of the following 3) In Charlene’s only hit single, she claims to have been to “Nice and the 1) [a] Nick Cave was commissioned to write the sequel (the screenplay Erykah Badu, Rakim and Busta Rhymes all follow which Nation of Islam elements? (The years of release are given in parentheses) isle of Greece”, among other places, but where, according to the title, was subsequently rejected) to which Ridley Scott movie? off shoot, founded by Clarence 13X in 1964? [a] O (2004) has she not been? [b] Cave wrote successful screenplays for which two Australian fi 8) Which Biblical location connects Talk Talk and Everything But the Girl? [b] Li (1991) released in 1988 and 2005? lm was drawn from Leonard Cohen’s 4) Which 1973 album contains songs named after Paris, France, Wales, 9) Who sang the lines “The Christians and the Jews were having a [c] Au (1983) Antarctica and Andalucia? 2) Jamboree/The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV”? The soundtrack to which 1971 fi 3) In Pulp’s The Trees, Jarvis Cocker album The Songs of Leonard Cohen? 5) The famous Hansa studios used by such artists as U2, Depeche Mode 10) Where is heaven, according to: describes how trees “produce the and Iggy Pop are in which European capital? 3) [a] Randy Newman won his only Oscar to date for a song in which [a] [b] air that I am breathing”.