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King Williams College Quiz
Posted by chrisf on 20 January 2011 - 9:53am.
I've only just got round to looking at this years King Williams College quiz - that impossibly hard quiz that is published in the Guardian each Christmas.
Anyway, one of the sections this year is on musicians....
Which musician might have been:
1. inSW3?
2. a mongrel?
3. an ottoman?
4. a hurried exit?
5. a plumbous abdomen?
6. more specifically, Atropos?
7. emulsified by bile?
8. a fit of pique?
9. coniferous?
10. lignified?
I've got #5 - Ledbelly (plumbous - lead, abdomen = belly) and I'm thinking #10 may be Woody Guthrie (lignified = make hard like wood).
Struggling on the rest - the Massive are a smart lot, I'm sure we can crack them.....
The whole quiz can be found here...
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Isn't Franz Ferdinand
the Ottoman?
or maybe Lulu
Nope -
He was a Hapsburg. Pay attention at the back!
9. coniferous?
Courtney Pine?
Psychadelic Firs?
.
CarL Douglas
The Kung Fu Fighting hitmaker.
Pinetop Perkins
perhaps?
one for the teenagers
; )
Back of the net!
He shoots he scores!
Number 1
SW3 is Chelsea, which suggests Elvis Costello
Chelsea
But EC didn't want to go to Chelsea so I'm not sure it's him. Maybe it's Leonard Cohen they're looking for, in the Chelsea Hotel?
Courtney Love?
SW3 is Wimbledon isn't it? EDIT - No. I am wrong. Sorry :)
Chelsea
The punk rock band of the same name?
therefore
maybe Gene October who was in Chelsea? Calling him a musician is a bit of a stretch though...
Or Joni mitchell
When she woke up it was a Chelsea Morning
It suggests Oi/Punk's Not Dead! ensemble Chelsea.
7
could be Fat boy slim (bile immulusifies fat I believe) that or another Fat blues mans etc.
Fats Waller
maybe?
chubby checker?
Atropos
was one of the Fates in Greek mythology. She was the one who cut the thread with shears so guessing it could be Scissor Sisters, although a group rather than a musician.
I'd like to think that coniferous was Green, but that is only because I like to crowbar Scritti Politti into every conversation I have if possible.
George Harrison?
The only guess I could come up with was George Harrison, because of his album "Gone Troppo". Your answer sounds more likely though.
4 is possibly Paul
either Simon (50 ways to leave your lover)
McCartney via wings band on the run.
8
Just thought that no 8 could be Tinie Tempah (Tiny temper?)? Perhaps. Grasping at straws?
no that's it
was thinking to be fair to the students they would have included some younger artists as well.
...
1. inSW3? - Nico (Chelsea Girl)
4. a hurried exit? - Flea from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
10. lignified? Woody someone - Guthrie? or the one from the Bay City Rollers ... edit: Woody Woodmansey
double post
apologies
2. I can only
think of Snoop Dogg but that's a bit weak
Hound Dog Taylor
Was my thought on this one, but I'm not too sure...
No. 10
Which musician might have been lignified?
lignify
make rigid and woody by the deposition of lignin in cell walls.
Soft Cell?
or maybe Ron or Roy Wood
Get ready for the answers...
The answers to last years quiz were published in The Guardian on 22 January 2010.
Looks like we've only got a day or two to crack it.
Bet there's someone from the college reading this and pissing themselves.
We used to have
a mongrel called Prince.
Serious attempt at an answer: Backyard Dog?
Mongrel
Didn't some people call them Heinz 57s?
So, Heinz (singing along to Just Like Eddie)
7
Pearl jam?
6, Atropos:
This Mortal Coil?
Atropos
was known as the 'inflexible one'
An inflexible one could be described as adamant. Adam Ant.
My brain hurts now.
Stiff Little Fingers?
A stab at these...
1. Leonard Cohen
2. Christopher Cross
3. Prince
4. Flea
5. Leadbelly
6. George Shearing
7. Fats Waller
8. Sting
9. Al Green
10. Woody Herman
No 2
is a genius answer. Gets my vote.
Think there's agreement on 4.
Suspect we already have the right answer for 8.
genius me
3) Mark Knopfler aka SULTAN of swing
5)Leadbelly
9)Craig/Carl Douglas (Douglas Fir) or Cypress Hill or (Jennifer Juniper) Donovan
I don't read The Guardian
Did they publish the answers yet?
They're not on the school site yet
http://www.kwc.im/quiz.asp
Thanks!
:)
My stabs
2. Nigel Blacknell (AKA Half Man, Half Biscuit)
4. Phil Collins (Hello, I must be going!)?
5. (definitely) Leadbelly
6. Ana Matronic (Atropos was the sister with the scissors, ergo...)
The sheer number of spot on yet
contradictory answers here has me worried about a 3-2-1 scenario*.
(*Ted Rogers' extraordinary ability to conjour an unexpected answer from an obvious clue - as brilliantly sent up recently by a contributor on another thread: The clue says "drive away" - well that could be the car
Then it says "you'll be moving up a gear" - that could be the car
Finally it says "this is the car". What is it? Oh, how unlucky it's Dusty Bin!
Answers !
The answers have just been published.......
1. Chelsea Quealey
2. Mutt Carey
3. Turk Murphy
4. Bunk Johnson
5. Huddie Ledbetter – 'Lead Belly'
6. Fate Marable
7. Fats Waller (or Fats Sardi)
8. Miff Mole
9. Pinetop Smith or Pinetop Perkins
10. Woody Herman
With the exception of the Leadbelly one, I'm not sure I'm any wiser after seeing the answer...
Full answers here....
http://www.kwc.im/documents/2-GKPA2010-11.pdf
Four
I have heard of four of those people.
Although we were rubbish, my life is enhanced knowing that someone called Miff Mole exists/existed.
It really is 3-2-1 land this as STD said, isn't it?
Indeed
I think I managed 5 that I'd heard of....
I looked up Miff Mole on Wikipedia - generally considered one of the greatest Jazz trombonists. Died in 1961. We learn something everyday....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miff_Mole
I got 3...
Miff Mole (1898-1961) was a jazz trombonist and band leader. Never heard of him until now. I am an ignoramus and must learn more.
Boo! Rubbish!
The compiler is obviously into New Orleans Jazz from 80-odd years ago.
Perhaps the kids at the college know this fact and can bone up accordingly.
Remember, the KWQ isn't an unseen
The kids are given it before the Christmas holidays and can research the answers before taking the test in the New Year.
When I was at school (through the 60s) we used to have a master who liked to test us with selections from the KWQ when it was published in the Grauniad.
The missing clue: answers are a bit genre specific
The poster who guessed Tinie Tempah must feel particularly shortchanged. Can we check whether Ted Rogers was involved in any way?
Spods!
Blimey, the kids at that school must be a bit spoddy...
Whoever said...
... Flea for number 4 provided a better answer than the real one. And surely any 'Woody' would be acceptable for no. 10? And for that matter Fats Domino would work for no. 7.
Well the so called real answer are
frankly bollocks and don't fit the clues any better than our answers and could only be found by chance. I always thought this quiz was designed to flatter the vanity of the setter(s) rather than enlighten the quizees.
It's not the winning, it's the taking part...
Grapes. Sour. Bunch. For the use of.
Our mistake was thinking this a modern, forward-looking quiz rather than the old-fashioned thing it turned out to be. I wonder how many of the kids at that school have actually listened to any of these artists. They probably think Woody Herman played for the Bay City Rollers (and they are, I expect, just as relevant to the kids as Miff Mole)
After 40 years
of listening to and reading voraciously about music, I've heard of precisely four of those musicians. Well, that's me put in my place. As the young people would no doubt write, ROFLMAO.
Five here...
Three here.
Leadbelly, Fats and Woody. That's "heard of", not "got the answers". I obviously didn't get a single one of them. Seriously, that quiz is shit: as Chris says, it's clearly providing the setters with a smug chuckle or two, but no-one has a realistic shot at getting it right.
We should institute a Massive Standard for pop music quizzes: if it can't realistically be answered, in full, on this blog, it's unnecessarily obscure. We could have a kitemark or something.
The answers to our quiz would probably look something like...
1. Fat Mattress
2. 200 Motels
3. Dumpy's Rusty Nuts
4. 1956
5. The Number Of The Beast
6. Electric Eden
7. Mabel Greer's Toyshop
8. a)Bob Dylan; (b)The Band
9. Dr. Feelgood
10. Pyongyang.
Maybe someone can now come up with the questions?
No1:
Experiencing good sleep
No2:
Crossroads goes global
2 Guesses
1 - Blue ??
4 - Rush ??
Bag o' S****
those real answers are total BS.Who set the quiz ? Steve Race on My Music. Those answers seem to be from the Musical equvilant of "Ask the Family".
Brilliant observation on Ted Rodgers though. The massive never disappoint.