General Knowledge Quiz

[444045]

Roxy Music?

Sorry not correct

 

[444045]

Clue - Its not a group that you are looking for

 

[MotCO]

Rio by Duran Duran?

Edit: No, I have had a look at the lyrics and it's not that.

 

[444045]

Another clue : This singers mother was a presenter on a well known tv series

 

[perryman]

I have no idea to the song but the presenter/singer parent/child combination that comes to mind is Janet Ellis and daughter Sophie Ellis-Bextor, of that well known French footballer/homicide song 'Murder On Zindane's Floor'.

 

[444045]

I have no idea to the song but the presenter/singer parent/child combination that comes to mind is Janet Ellis and daughter Sophie Ellis-Bextor, of that well known French footballer/homicide song 'Murder On Zindane's Floor'.

You are correct - I wondered if that would give it away

Yes it was Sophie Ellis Bextor and Crying in the Discotheque (Alcazar also recorded the record)

The floor is all yours

 

[perryman]

Thank you and apologies for the delay in responding.

I don't have a question to hand that is worthy of the forum, so keeping on the theme of quoted words, which 1970s cultural body of work references the line:

'...had a funky walk in his little orthopaedic shoes'?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Sounds like the Stylistics to me. (pretty sure it is not Mott the Hoople)

 

[perryman]

Very good @GRALISTAIR, well done. Rockin' Roll Baby is the tune (and the name of the album too).

Don your wide-lapelled jacket and bell trousers, and dance away.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Same theme - what 1970s song were these lyrics from?
Resist, resist
It's from yourself, you have to hide, oh

Bonus for the band, the album taken from and the producer

 

[SuspectUsual]

Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

No idea about the producer or album, but I do know the best cover of it by miles is by the Wedding Present (and Harley said so too)

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

No idea about the producer or album, but I do know the best cover of it by miles is by the Wedding Present (and Harley said so too)

Correct. From the Album Best Years of Our Lives - produced by the one and only Alan Parsons.

Over to you.

 

[SuspectUsual]

The longest serving current MPs are a Tory first elected in 1974, and a Labour MP first elected in 1979

Who are they?

 

[MotCO]

The longest serving current MPs are a Tory first elected in 1974, and a Labour MP first elected in 1979

Who are they?

Labour - Frank Field?

 

[xotGD]

Peter Bottomley and Harriet Harman

 

[SuspectUsual]

Peter Bottomley and Harriet Harman

Bottomley is correct. Harman is the third longest serving, having won a by-election during the 1979 Parliament

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Barry Sherman Huddersfield (Labour) ?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Barry Sherman Huddersfield (Labour) ?

Yep, Sheerman’s our man

So one each for you and xotGD. You can decide amongst yourselves who’s next at the dispatch box

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I can’t think of anything so am more than happy to pass the mace

 

[xotGD]

Thanks.

I'm going to be too busy today to check for answers so I'd better declare Open Floor.

 

[444045]

Which sport would you be watching if you were at Sophia Gardens or New Road ?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Which sport would you be watching if you were at Sophia Gardens or New Road ?

That most noble game which the yanks don't understand cricket?

 

[444045]

That most noble game which the yanks don't understand cricket?

You are correct - it is the home cricket grounds of Glamorgan & Worcestershire

The new ball is ready for you to deliver the next question

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Staying on Cricket- Lancashire County Cricket Club play on 4 grounds - where are they?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Old Trafford
Preston
Lancaster (if that is not right, it jolly well should be, and Robert Robinson used to say)?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Old Trafford
Preston
Lancaster (if that is not right, it jolly well should be, and Robert Robinson used to say)?

Sorry no. Old Trafford of course is correct. I wish they did play at Preston but sadly no.

 

[Marton]

Sorry no. Old Trafford of course is correct. I wish they did play at Preston but sadly no.

Liverpool
Blackpool
Southport
Old Trafford

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Manchester (Old Trafford), Southport (Trafalgar Road), Liverpool (Aigburth) and Blackpool (Stanley Park).

Last year, Lancashire CCC also had a home game at Sedburgh, if I rightly recall. Think this was something of a one-off, though.

 

[Marton]

Last year, Lancashire CCC also had a home game at Sedburgh, if I rightly recall. Not often they play there, though.

Sedburgh is, of course, in Yorkshire

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Sedburgh is, of course, in Yorkshire

Is it? Thought it was Cumbria these days. Certainly not traditional Lancashire, though. Suppose you could call it missionary work!

Which reminds me, how come Glamorgan CCC sometimes play their home games at Colwyn Bay?