The Poptimism Pub Quiz
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poptimistsThankyou to everyone who came! Good to see you all!
It was a qualified roaring success (most of the roaring being over the Arctic Monkeys knickers). The qualifier being that yes, I admit I pitched it a bit too hard*. If/when we do another we'll keep most of the fun rounds but the standard questions / bits and pieces etc. will be a lot easier. I think I was overestimating the degree of popnerdiness I was dealing with.
That said it's easier to adjust the difficulty level than it is to have interesting quiz ideas, and I think we had a lot of interesting ideas, so well done us.
A GRAPH will no doubt follow of the teams' progress through the hellish obstacle course that is recognising Thunderbugs intros and Dubstar album tracks.
Also the full horror of the family fortunes rounds will be posted later too.
*I've forgotten what was going to go under this asterisk.**
**Actualy I probably meant 'a lot too hard'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-rotic#Singles = E-Rotic singles discography, MUST FIND ALL THESE TRACKS (or not, the one I do have - "Fred Come To Bed" - is appalling)
It was a qualified roaring success (most of the roaring being over the Arctic Monkeys knickers). The qualifier being that yes, I admit I pitched it a bit too hard*. If/when we do another we'll keep most of the fun rounds but the standard questions / bits and pieces etc. will be a lot easier. I think I was overestimating the degree of popnerdiness I was dealing with.
That said it's easier to adjust the difficulty level than it is to have interesting quiz ideas, and I think we had a lot of interesting ideas, so well done us.
A GRAPH will no doubt follow of the teams' progress through the hellish obstacle course that is recognising Thunderbugs intros and Dubstar album tracks.
Also the full horror of the family fortunes rounds will be posted later too.
*I've forgotten what was going to go under this asterisk.**
**Actualy I probably meant 'a lot too hard'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-rotic#Singles = E-Rotic singles discography, MUST FIND ALL THESE TRACKS (or not, the one I do have - "Fred Come To Bed" - is appalling)
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:00 am (UTC)Sex Affairs (1995)
The Power Of Sex (1996)
Sexual Madness (1997)
and a bit later on the killer
Mambo No. Sex (Germany) (1999)
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-17 10:01 am (UTC)i
passed outfell asleep on the bus home and ended up in clapton, not that i remember getting it or anything.no subject
Date: 2006-03-17 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:04 am (UTC)On the other hand I got points "from them" by insisting that James Blunt fans think he has a good voice, so a) hooray for them and b) fvck em.
On the other other hand I tried to duplicate my success by insisting that they'd pick "drum machine" for the musical instruments round, which my team wisely ignored.
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:07 am (UTC)i) only 2 of them actually work there, the rest are mates of one of the workmates
ii) they were both horrified by James B. too
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-17 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-17 10:34 am (UTC)(although I am dead inna bin this morning)
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Date: 2006-03-17 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-17 02:10 pm (UTC)It is really hard to pitch questions right, and almost impossible first time out. This wasn't so far away from the right level. One of the difficulties is what seems easy to you (who could fail to recognise this Swedish pop intro?)(my version: surely EVERYONE knows the opening notes to Al Green's Love And Happiness, so that's too easy) isn't for everyone else, so it's not just a case of adjusting toughness but in knowing where the expertise lies. I for instance would do miles better with questions on soul, country, reggae, techno, drum & bass - but that was clearly never what last night was about (well, there were a couple of soul numbers in the '70s round).
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Date: 2006-03-17 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-19 07:48 pm (UTC)