E: 24/02 Win a signed Ephiphone Guitar (help needed, get those thinking caps on)

madmonster

Q Music quiz


1. Which member of Queen shares his name with a member of Duran Duran? Roger Taylor
2. Which Madonna video features an appearance by Ali G? Music
3. Which was the first song written by Liam Gallagher to feature on an Oasis album? Little James
4. Which instrument does Bon Scott play on AC/DC's It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll)? Bagpipes
5. Which band is the odd one out? A The Carpenters B The White Stripes C The Magic Numbers D No Doubt B The White Stripes - all the others are brothers and sisters.
6. What is the real name of Ann Coates, who performed backing vocals on The Smiths' Bigmouth Strikes Again? Morrissey (it was him doctored! OH is a bit of a Smiths buff)
7. In which year did Britain first win the Eurovision Song Contest? 1967
8. Multiply Wire's third album by Pearl Jam's debut, then divide by Foreigner's follow-up to Head Games. 385
9. Which Pavement song makes multiple references to R.E.M.? The Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
10. What links Iggy Pop, Paul McCartney and Gordon Brown? 'First name James'
11. Which acolyte of Tony Blair made his money from Alvin Stardust? Lord Levy
12. Who recorded their first Peel Session on 7 November 1981? Pulp
13. What was the first UK Number 1 single not to be by either a British or an American act? Mantovani with Song from Moulin Rouge
14.Which two future chart stars played rehearsals with an outfit calling themselves Moors Murderers in 1978? Chrissie Hynde & Steve Strange
15. Echoing Spinal Tap, in 1992, which US band lost their drummer to a bizarre gardening accident? Toto
16. Which Irish footballer - a former player for Shamrock Rovers, Dundalk and Bohemians, among others - is a relative of a member of U2? Eoin Mullen

17. What does Jim Morrison have in common with Georges Bizet, St!phane Grappelli, Maria Callas, Fr!d!ric Chopin and Edith Piaf? all buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris
18. "You need a !!!! so you head to the loo/You're coming to the bog now what you gonna do?" are lyrics by which erudite German metallers? Helloween
19. Which long-lived US band features an ex-member of !!!!!! Rhythm Tards? sonic youth
20. Which early-'90s UK punk outfit released three EPs, entitled Hardcore, Pop and Metal? Guns 'n' W ankers - without the space obv!





Here are five pictures of the Edge. But from which years?

21.1981
22. 1983
23.
24 1987? or 1993
25 2008



and to cap it all a tiebreaker is needed!

did search honest but can't see it here already..will try and update as answers come in.

fusty

2. Music - i believe
4. Bagpipes !!
18. Walls of Jericho
22. 1983 ere
21. 1987 (looks like from cover of joshua tree)

SoozyJ22

I think 5 might be No Doubt - all the others contain brothers and sisters. Apparently Gwen Stefani's brother was in No Doubt when it started but isn't now.

A The Carpenters B The White Stripes C The Magic Numbers D No Doubt

SoozyJ22

8. Multiply Wire's third album by Pearl Jam's debut, then divide by Foreigner's follow-up to Head Games.

154 x 10 / 4 = 385

SoozyJ22

7. In which year did Britain first win the Eurovision Song Contest?

167

(Sandie Shaw with Puppet on a String)

SoozyJ22

9. Which Pavement song makes multiple references to R.E.M.?

The Unseen Power of the Picket Fence

SoozyJ22

12. Who recorded their first Peel Session on 7 November 1981?

Pulp

SoozyJ22

15. Echoing Spinal Tap, in 1992, which US band lost their drummer to a bizarre gardening accident?

Toto

(he had a heart attack after inhaling pesticide!)

SoozyJ22

17. What does Jim Morrison have in common with Georges Bizet, St!phane Grappelli, Maria Callas, Fr!d!ric Chopin and Edith Piaf?

I'm pretty sure they're all buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. I know Jim and Bizet and Chopin are as I've been to their graves.

ellasmommy

3. Little James
11. Lord Levy
14. Chrissie Hynde & Steve Strange - check spelling of Chrissie as coming up Chrissy too, not sure whats right.
16. Eoin Mullen
20. Guns 'n' W ankers - without the space obv!

El_Snorko

SoozyJ22 wrote: »

17. What does Jim Morrison have in common with Georges Bizet, St!phane Grappelli, Maria Callas, Fr!d!ric Chopin and Edith Piaf?

I'm pretty sure they're all buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. I know Jim and Bizet and Chopin are as I've been to their graves.

Yep. Edith Piaf is definitely there too.