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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Here is ROUND 2 of the great Poptimist quiz - again this is designed for my work so some of the qns are a bit easy (actually this really comes into play on the bits and pieces round which is full of Poptimism touchstones).

Remember, no googling. Comments screened, answers probably up this afternoon sometime.

The theme of this round is CHARITY RECORDS.

1. Which was the first ever Comic Relief single?

2. Complete this lyric: "And the Christmas bells that ring there…"

3. The Crowd's "You'll Never Walk Alone" was released to raise money for the victims of which tragedy?

4. The best-selling UK single ever is "Candle In The Wind '97", the proceeds of which went to the Princess Diana Memorial fund. How many copies did it sell in this country?

A: 2.8m
B: 4.8m
C: 6.8m
D: 8.8m

5. Which US celebrity has written a song "From the Bottom of my Heart" for the victims of Hurricane Katrina?

6. Which current band recorded a version of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" for last month's War Child charity album?

7. The following comedians have had hits for Comic Relief - which is the odd one out?

A: Rowan Atkinson
B: Hale and Pace
C: Mel Smith
D: Peter Kay

8. The first ever charity record is thought to be the Concert for Bangla Desh album from 1971. Which rock star organised this event?

9. "Love Can Build A Bridge" got to No.1 in 1995, yet another Comic Relief effort. Who were its three lead singers? Half point if you get two.

10. Which band released the album Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records in 1985 as a protest against Band Aid and Live Aid?

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

1. Cliff & The Young Ones - Living Doll

2. ARE THEE CLANGING CHIMES OV DOOM

3. Hillsborough

4. 6.8 m

5. Crap I read this on BBC News the other day and now I CANNOT REMEMBER :(

6. The Kaiser Chiefs

7. Peter Kay

8. George Harrison

9. I really do have NO Idea

10. Pass :(

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1. *thinks* was it Livin' Doll by Cliff & The cast of the Young Ones? In my young mind I used to get that one mixed up with the Spitting Image Chicken Song. Because the videos were both shot in a recording studio. Probably the same one.
2. Um I'm not sure what they actually say! It sounds like "In the Chinese Eye Of Doom" but that can't be right. Thank god it's them instead of me! The embarrassing thing is that I actually sang this song for Kooba Radio's Xmas single last year, but not that bit. I did "Where nothing ever grows, no rain nor river flows".
3. Hillsborough?
4. C, at a guess.
5. Urgh isn't it Michael Jackson?
6. Pass. Bloc Party?
7. Peter Kay cos he didn't actually sing on it!
8. Blimey. I have no idea. It probably wasn't Bowie as he was doing lots of coke then, and it probably wasn't Bolan as he wasn't super-famous then. John Lennon's not really a rawk star is he? So I shall say: Mick Jagger.
9. OK I KNO this one cos it was on Now 30. Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and um Cher? And Eric Clapton did twiddly guitar.
10. Dunno. I could look up on the werk database but that would be cheating. Well I am going to get this wrong anyway so I might as well look... OH DEAR LORD has the world really been subjected to them for that long?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

1. Cliff and the young ones - living doll
2. ARE THE CLANGING CHIMES OF DOOM
3. Hillsborough?
4. D
5. Michael Jackson
6. Razorlight (guess)
7. Mel Smith, only one not to get to number one
8. George Harrison
9. Chrissie Hyndes, Cher and Neneh Cherry
10. Chumbawamba

blimey hope that's a bit better than the first round, 31/2, rubbish hewitt!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

1. Bananarama + French & Saunders + Kathy Bates, Help.

2. Are the Clanging Chimes of Doom!

3. Liverpool Ferry Disaster? (sorry)

4. 6.8M

5. Omarion Mariah Carey?

6. Travis?

7. Are Hale & Pace the only ones not to teamed with a popular musical group?

8. Robert Plant?

9. Bollocks was this the three girls or the three guys? I assume it's the girls: Cher, Tina Turner, and er, Celine Dion?

10 and my Joker: Chumbawamba.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

1. "Living Doll".
2. are the CLANGING CHIMES OF DOOM! Well tonight THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF YOU.
3. Would know this if I were British. Am not. Don't.
4. C?
5. Michael Jackson?
6. No idea. Guessing Coldplay.
7. D, because McFly was really the official single.
8. George Harrison
9. Neneh Cherry, Cher, Chrissie Hynde
10. Chumbawumba.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

1. Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are
2. ARE THE SOUND OF DEATH [paraphrase]
3. Hillsborough
4. Either B or C...? I'll say C
5. Michael Jackson
6. Kaiser Chiefs!
7. Mel Smith -- he directed the video[s] or something?
8. George Harrison
9. Ronan Keating? Gabrielle? M-People woman? Nah, I don't know
10. Dead Kennedys?

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Aw man, I am going to do well rub on this one. Well :

1. Cliff Richard / Young Ones ? Earliest I can think of.
2. Are the clanging chimes OF DOOM.
3. I'd guess Hillsborough
4. B: 4.8m
5. Michael Jackson
6. Kaiser Chiefs ?
7. Rowan Atkinson's didn't get to #1 ?
8. George Harrison
9. There was a Cher.... dammit
10.I do not know this