Thursday, September 20, 2007

I Mean, Good Manners Don't Cost Nuffink

Hokay.
Well after the first part of Pink Floyd's very own quiz, gleaned from the pages of this prehistoric document that is the programme for their last tour, Vic is WAY in the lead. In fact Vic, you have far more points than if you had answered them all correctly.


Here are the correct answers for yesterday's questions:

1. They were all bands containing one or more members of Pink Floyd.
2. Nick Mason; Roy Harper; Claire Torrey.
3. They are both singing dogs who have recorded with the band.
4. Medicine Head; 1972.
5. Alan Parker ("Fame" and "The Commitments").
6. Absence; physical or mental.
7. David Gilmour for Ozzie Clark's Quorum.
8. The London College of Music.
9 Joe Boyd.
10. (a) Producer of both Piper and Saucerful; (b) also Richard Wright; (c) an English hit record "Oh Babe, What Would You Say".
11. Cambridge slang for "fucking".
12. Paul and Linda Mc.Cartney.
13. (a) Stephane Grapelli; (b) Yehudi Menuhin.
14. South Africa.
15. Jeff Beck, but the band were too in awe of him to ask.
16. (a) Mike Curb (b) Zabriskie Point; (c) Michelangelo Antonioni.
17. (a) Barbet Schoeder. (b) Barfly.
18. (a) There are only six instead of seven colours in the spectrum. (b) Indigo.
19. Roger Keith Barrett.
20. St. Augustine's Road.
21. A newspaper headline.
22. Echoes.
23. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
24. Comfortably Numb.
25. Corporal Clegg.
26. Chapter 24.
27. Time.

And here, for anyone who can be bothered (or has Vic's twisted yet hilarious imagination), are the rest of the questions:

28. Who is the strange figure on the right hand sie of the cover of "Saucer …"?

29. Which ballet company did Pink Floyd play live for?

30. What was DSoM originally called, when played live?

31. What was the previous studio album called?

32. What did the engineer of DSoM go on to write and produce?

33. Who appeared at the recording of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"?

34. What escaped Battersea Power Station (and gave Vic the emblem for this week)?

35. Who else was on the bill when Pink Floyd played the Winterland Ballroom in 1967?

36. What's behind the red veil?

37. Where was Animals recorded?

38. Who was the orchestral arranger on The Wall, and what is his connection with Sherwood Forest?

39. Who was in which studio, recording what album during the making of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn?

40. Which artist animated The Wall? Who is he married to and who was her previous boyfriend? Who is her brother and what is his partner called (Scarily, I know all of these; in fact I got over thirty right when I answered this the first time. How sad is that)?

41. What are the longest and the shortest song titles in the Floyd repertoire?

42. What is the meaning of The Division Bell?

43. What is the building behind the statues on the Division Bell cover?

44. Where were the Games For May held and in which year?

45. Which of Floyd's secretaries later married a pop star?

46. What was Hipgnosis and what names were associated with it?

47. Where is Grantchester Meadows?

48. Who is Gerald?

49. Who supported Floyd on their first Japanese gig and which year was this?

50. Who inspired "One Of These Days" and who inbspired "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"?

I must say, the second batch of questions are so much easier than the first, so I expect a few correct answers to drop into my comments box.
You need only answer the ones you know and the ones you have a very silly alternative for.

Check out Vic's answers in yesterday's comments box for a raucous chortle.

8 comments:

Scout said...

Um, I don't know.

dive said...

Hee hee hee.
Nil points, Robyn.

Katherine said...

Totally off the track, but you were in my dream last night, Dive!

So I'm talking to this guy (that I don't know...still don't know) and he starts talking to someone else. I look away at something (don't know what) and by the time I turn my head back, the other person is gone. So I say to the first guy (the stranger I was with)"Hey...who was that guy?"

He says something that sounded like "Derve."

So I say, "Huh?"

So he starts describing you as some guy from England on Blogger...he describes what you look like in your pic. And I say, "You don't mean DIVE, do you?"

The guy says, "Yeah!"

"I can't believe it! Why didn't you tell me! I blog on his site!!"

The guy says, "I didn't know you knew who he was."

Apparently, Dive, you are THAT famous.

Maria said...

Jaysus. You can't ask even ONE question about America or Paul Simon? Art Garfunkel? Todd Rundgren?

Now, I will have to go find my dunce hat again.

dive said...

Katherine, that's just scary.

And Maria, I can ask lots, but this week has been decreed Floyd Week so Floyd it is.

Neponset River Bridge Dig said...

Good quiz really get me mind thinking.

I know lryics better than trivia

Neponset River Bridge Dig said...

Kind of spooky but while reading this post "Us and Them" came up on my iTunes Radio. No shit dive, I kid you not.

dive said...

That IS spooky, Rich; the very tune I took the post title from!