General Knowledge Quiz

[MotCO]

B - Blondie - Heart of Glass

Correct

 

[MotCO]

G - Garbage? No idea of the song if so.

Sorry, your answer is garbage

 

[MotCO]

G - Gabrielle, Dreams?

Correct

 

[MotCO]

And A - Adele, Someone Like You?

Correct.

The scores are:
@xotGD 1 point
@Mcr Warrior 1 point
@perryman 2 points
@SteveM70 6 points

I therefore call upon SteveM70 to come up with a better song for the UK for next year's Eurovision song contest.

 

[Neo9320]

If anyone could come up with a better song we might be in with a chance lol

 

[SuspectUsual]

I therefore call upon SteveM70 to come up with a better song for the UK for next year's Eurovision song contest.

Im tone deaf but I’d give it a go

Another music question. What specifically links the following:

Bolton,
Barnsley,
Nelson,
Colne,
Burnley,
Bradford,
Buxton,
Crewe,
Warrington,
Widnes,
Wigan,
Leeds,
Northwich,
Nantwich,
Knutsford,
Hull,
Sale,
Salford,
Southport,
Leigh,
Derby,
Kearsley
Keighley
Maghull,
Harrogate,
Huddersfield,
Oldham,
Grimsby,
Glossop,
Hebden Bridge,
Brighouse,
Bootle,
Featherstone,
Speke,
Runcorn,
Rotherham,
Rochdale,
Barrow,
Morecambe,
Macclesfield,
Lytham St. Annes
Clitheroe,
Cleethorpes,
The M62,
Pendlebury,
Prestwich,
Preston,
York,
Skipton,
Scunthorpe,
Scarborough-on-Sea,
Chester,
Chorley,
Cheedle Hulme,
Ormskirk,
Accrington Stanley,
Leigh,
Ossett,
Otley,
Ikley Moor,
Sheffield,
Manchester,
Castleford,
Skem,
Doncaster,
Dewsbury,
Halifax,
Bingley,
Bramall

 

[perryman]

The Drifters played at least one venue in each location in the 1980s (incl. the Welcome Break at Hartshead Moor on the M62) with at least one of the original band members playing?

They also played Walthamstow Town Hall in a non-northern spin-off gig (I was there).

 

[MotCO]

Im tone deaf but I’d give it a go

I don't think that disqualifies you

 

[SuspectUsual]

The Drifters played at least one venue in each location in the 1980s (incl. the Welcome Break at Hartshead Moor on the M62) with at least one of the original band members playing?

They also played Walthamstow Town Hall in a non-northern spin-off gig (I was there).

Now I’m not knowledgeable about the Drifters, and that may well be true, but it’s not the answer

 

[perryman]

Is it, and I am being a tad more serious this time, the song from the early 2000s/possibly late 90s (I really can't remember the song title or artist) where the singer talks his way through driving on motorways up north, and the towns he goes through? However, I didn't think he went as far 'south' as Derby or indeed as remote as Barrow.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Is it, and I am being a tad more serious this time, the song from the early 2000s/possibly late 90s (I really can't remember the song title or artist) where the singer talks his way through driving on motorways up north, and the towns he goes through? However, I didn't think he went as far 'south' as Derby or indeed as remote as Barrow.

Youre on the right lines. Now what was the song?

 

[Mvann]

Driving away from home.

But it's immaterial to the question

 

[SuspectUsual]

Driving away from home.

But it's immaterial to the question

Very good, but no

 

[millemille]

Are they the lyrics to the KLF's "It's grim up north"?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Are they the lyrics to the KLF's "It's grim up north"?

Pretty much, yes. It was actually by the JAMMs, but that was just a KLF alter ego and another outlet for the warped genius of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty

The freedom of the north of England is yours

 

[millemille]

Pretty much, yes. It was actually by the JAMMs, but that was just a KLF alter ego and another outlet for the warped genius of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty

The freedom of the north of England is yours

I'm just off to get me M16 and strafe the audience....

 

[millemille]

If a Cobra and a Cobra are red, what colour is a Loach and a Cobra?

 

[xotGD]

Black?

 

[millemille]

Black?

No

 

[SuspectUsual]

I'm just off to get me M16 and strafe the audience....

Pop stars these days just don’t have the personality like the old days

 

[MotCO]

Green?

 

[millemille]

Pop stars these days just don’t have the personality like the old days

I don't know, leaving animal carcasses on the steps of music mags and nailing a million quid to a plank and then burning it, that's happening so often these days it barely raises an eyebrow.....

 

[millemille]

Green?

Nope.

 

[xotGD]

Blue?

 

[millemille]

Blue?

No.

 

[xotGD]

Are these the symbols of political parties? Perhaps in India?

Yellow?

 

[SuspectUsual]

I think Loach was the nickname of a US helicopter in one/both of Korea/Vietnam. Is it anything to do with that?

 

[millemille]

I think Loach was the nickname of a US helicopter in one/both of Korea/Vietnam. Is it anything to do with that?

Yes

 

[MotCO]

Cobra is also a helipcopter. Not sure I see a colour connection

 

[millemille]

It's one you either know or you don't. There are many, many books written about the subject and it's common nomenclature used at the time and since....